Re What will change with any of this?
Life can go both ways in the USA as it enters its East German phase.
People may select to play into the system and attend meetings, courses and make all the right political and work place moves to ensure they are never noticed.
The problem with that is the state based "Fusion" centers and a vast illegal domestic surveillance network is kind of hard to out pace the domestic dragnet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Sooner or later the deeper internal border checkpoints, other internal federally funded checkpoints, been seen near a protest, parking near a protest, been asked to show ID near a protest will catch up with many people.
The other option is to use your remaining Constitutional rights - support the press, write to the press, support 3rd parties, blog, speak out at community events.
The Stasi paperwork 'fail' is the real lesson from history. At a point even with all the NSA database power and local Fusion centers help real people have to read "digital" files.
All that work to support the press, write to the press, support 3rd parties, blog, speak out at community events starts to expand a digital file that has to be understood by a bureaucrat or contractor over years.
Thanks to Snowden all the sockpuppets no longer have the benefit of the doubt as to data tracking, storage, usage in domestic courts, global tracking, weak codes, junk hardware, junk software, tame political leaders and unaware corporate legal teams... http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
So yes it will get worse but now people around the world can see the new digital Berlin wall and understand just how how trapped all data is for decades.
Yes the list of some of the past people who tired to work in the US system can be found on sites like: http://cryptome.org/2013-info/...
The Drake case really showed even with political support and a legal team that been a whistleblower facing own bosses in the US gov in any court is not viable anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Yes the NSA, GCHQ and friends have to low count of optical from nation to nation to thank for their easy global surveillance.
Even if you get a great TOR connection, sent that message around the world, your message in and out can always be re joined no matter the entry or exit point.
The low count of all exit nodes per month as an average is telling, chilling and unexpected.
The problem with "investigation" is the domestic the protections offered under the First Amendment.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber was well understood wrt the Fifth Amendment.
It was seven district judges from seven circuits named by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve a maximum of 7 years.
The U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) changed it to eleven and added "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia"
Yes it was just oversight and review of "Foreign" intelligence to protect US rights as the NSA gathered the worlds data back in the mid 1970's.
Now we are seeing a concerted sock puppet effort to turn what was never more than cleared oversight and review into some domestic US legal justification for endless domestic surveillance.
It came out of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee be the one place to ensure US "Foreign" intelligence collection would never give US political cover for a vast domestic surveillance program again.
There was to be oversight and reviews... but that just turned into a sealed show and tell show on any politicians 'hot' topics.
Now we have the sock puppets needing many new color of law paragraphs to try to legally fake past The Fourth Amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
SIGABA was weak... The US quickly stepped away from SIGABA around the end of the Typex era talks with the UK.
The fun part of that time is really the US Navy and Army crypto tensions - could they share with the UK.
"Purple" was a diplomatic cryptographic machine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_(cipher_machine) shows some of the thinking in Japan and why their Navy and Army codes where interesting to the US and UK.
The interesting part is where does subvert really get any gov? The gov becomes addicted to a huge raw flow of data from people unaware of the total domestic surveillance network.
Once the public sees the reality of having a domestic surveillance network, their political use of the telcos and computers might change.
People contacting the press take on an East German like feel, they know they will be tracked down, but turn up to protest anyway.
Any new tool that allows people to use a network to chat with the press is great.
The first hop might be low powered, e.g. out of the building, later local small devices might boost, store, use common background wireless methods to send the data on.
In the world of signals it was Cold. US signals where underfunded in the 1920's and 1930's, a lot of help was sent from the UK in WW2.
Post WW2 the US lost a lot of its new skills again just in time for Korea:)
The USA had no Korean experts, typewriters or related skill sets. The US only had tactical signals and had a huge rush of new staff to hire - many uncleared.
Direction and traffic radio work again had to be re introduced via the UK in the early 1950's.
Now thanks to Snowden we can fill in the 1990's to 2000's history too:)
It really depends on how the word distance is measured and presented. The distance covered by a few self networking, powered hidden devices near the complex, building of interest could get a weak signal out and then back to a friendly embassy roof over 12km via 'hops'.
The tech has a range of "12km", the hops, boosting, re encoding, bursts, storage, time shifting via linked devices could be just as creative to ensure any signal is really tricky to find with most known scanners.
Its the "bus" and way back into the computer hardware. Not all electronics is a one way 'push' of data down to a port, printer. Some of the end user "interfaces" are nice and complex and can really talk back up into the OS, CPU, wireless hardware.
e.g. 'Hardening hardware and choosing a #goodBIOS" at 30c3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VvR-vsdMlQ at ~ 29 mins in
A company or gov buys a part for an air gapped network.
The NSA sends hardware with a new tiny circuit boards or altered USB hardware via the post.
Staff install and run the hardware, noting their system works as normal and no new changes to any of their OS.
From that one infection the 'huge' hidden 'network' might get infected later and report back just like any time delayed malware expect its a hop via an unexpected radio network.
Impress the US gov staff and oversight committees with impressive "software" and "computer networks" infected numbers vs a lower physical radio device shipped count.
Re A collaborator would be needed to install the device.
That could just be a shipment of normal looking computer parts, spares, upgrades that spent a few extra hours at a 'regional' hub during postage.
Re There are means to avoid such devices working, if an IT department is security-conscious and takes steps to disable USB ports and plug-n-play services.
You can close up the port so no usb device can be plugged in but the port will still 'send' via radio.
Re simple frequency scanner.. mb the NSA ensures the device is "off' for the first weeks, months and only updates for short bursts at unique times much later.
The payload might be adjusted after the first few messages in/out depending on the system encountered and data wanted.
The whistleblowing aspect is over, the press is now releasing the news at a rate they seem fit after sorting, clearing. http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
As for Snowden what are the options - freedom in Russia beyond the ~ one year point.
Options:
Find another nations embassy in Russia and stay? Doing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Mindszenty for many years?
The US seemed to have hinted at its intent with the EU airspace issue so getting to another country will be interesting.
Try the Russian legal system and get long term papers?
The US needs to show what they will do to any whistleblowing but still seem to want to reduced the optics of any capture.
How can the EU undo its telco system? Capitalism has already looped the new national calls and data to select areas in nations making US/UK+ data collection trivial.
Where capitalism was not an option, post WW2 reconstruction or NATO military considerations, the ability to wiretap would have shaped new telco infrastructure over decades.
Generations of senior staff, engineers, political leaders, academics must have understood how and why their regional/national telco system was been rebuilt or upgraded in certain costly ways, looping to select national sites regardless of cost, time, material, waste.
How many understood their own secure crypto to be expensive junk and their countries democratic political use to be open to the US, a few other nations, contractors, ex staff and former staff?
Now with Snowden at least the academics and historians will understand what was built and how a few nations can tap, decrypt so many for so long.
Thats a lot of telco hardware not to notice, to keep running, a lot of EU political deals to have shared, EU trade deals been willing lost... expensive EU science been given away...
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Re What will change with any of this?
Life can go both ways in the USA as it enters its East German phase.
People may select to play into the system and attend meetings, courses and make all the right political and work place moves to ensure they are never noticed.
The problem with that is the state based "Fusion" centers and a vast illegal domestic surveillance network is kind of hard to out pace the domestic dragnet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Sooner or later the deeper internal border checkpoints, other internal federally funded checkpoints, been seen near a protest, parking near a protest, been asked to show ID near a protest will catch up with many people.
The other option is to use your remaining Constitutional rights - support the press, write to the press, support 3rd parties, blog, speak out at community events.
The Stasi paperwork 'fail' is the real lesson from history. At a point even with all the NSA database power and local Fusion centers help real people have to read "digital" files.
All that work to support the press, write to the press, support 3rd parties, blog, speak out at community events starts to expand a digital file that has to be understood by a bureaucrat or contractor over years.
Thanks to Snowden all the sockpuppets no longer have the benefit of the doubt as to data tracking, storage, usage in domestic courts, global tracking, weak codes, junk hardware, junk software, tame political leaders and unaware corporate legal teams...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
So yes it will get worse but now people around the world can see the new digital Berlin wall and understand just how how trapped all data is for decades.
Yes the list of some of the past people who tired to work in the US system can be found on sites like :
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/...
The Drake case really showed even with political support and a legal team that been a whistleblower facing own bosses in the US gov in any court is not viable anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Re provide aid to our enemies in the process... mb you missed the "Manning acquitted of aiding enemy" aspect...
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...
Yes the NSA, GCHQ and friends have to low count of optical from nation to nation to thank for their easy global surveillance.
Even if you get a great TOR connection, sent that message around the world, your message in and out can always be re joined no matter the entry or exit point.
The low count of all exit nodes per month as an average is telling, chilling and unexpected.
All the powerful countries played this game. Students from around the world found their way to the US, Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK for total access to top quality education.
They where to return home with expert skills (linked to the host nations brands), a glowing personal account of their academic and new lifelong friendships.
Over time it was hoped the once young students would move up in their nations public or private power structures reflecting fondly recalling their education and years abroad.
This would give exports from US, Soviet Union, France, UK an edge or direct contact via friends, academics during trade negations, loans, weapons sales, imports, shaping the left or right wing of an emerging country.
The real issue is the total leaking of expensive emerging science and engineering technology over time for 'free' to emerging countries.
"Bob" or "Sally" return home with much more than a degree - long term contacts and sensitive technology finds its way out of top US, Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK institutions over time due to 'funding' pressure.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-08/american-universities-infected-by-foreign-spies-detected-by-fbi.html
Peter the Great is the warning from history - don't let your trade become a flood of raw materials out and have overpriced fashionable trinkets as imports. http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/the-romanov-dynasty/peter-i/
The Cold War was is littered with efforts like/under, funding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Committee_on_United_Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Policy_Coordination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Student_Association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Friendship_University_of_Russia
Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html via International Organisations Division (IOD)
The problem with "investigation" is the domestic the protections offered under the First Amendment.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber was well understood wrt the Fifth Amendment.
That was to try and protect the other freedoms enjoyed in the USA Cold i.e. the activities under the First Amendment for a "U.S. person".
It was seven district judges from seven circuits named by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve a maximum of 7 years.
The U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) changed it to eleven and added "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia"
Yes it was just oversight and review of "Foreign" intelligence to protect US rights as the NSA gathered the worlds data back in the mid 1970's.
Now we are seeing a concerted sock puppet effort to turn what was never more than cleared oversight and review into some domestic US legal justification for endless domestic surveillance.
It came out of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee be the one place to ensure US "Foreign" intelligence collection would never give US political cover for a vast domestic surveillance program again.
There was to be oversight and reviews... but that just turned into a sealed show and tell show on any politicians 'hot' topics.
Now we have the sock puppets needing many new color of law paragraphs to try to legally fake past The Fourth Amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/19/21975158-nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-member?lite
"“...there has been no instance in which NSA could say with confidence that the outcome [of a terror investigation] would have been any different” without the program."
Welcome to a world where a vast domestic surveillance system is rubber stamped and oversight is tame.
SIGABA was weak... The US quickly stepped away from SIGABA around the end of the Typex era talks with the UK.
The fun part of that time is really the US Navy and Army crypto tensions - could they share with the UK.
"Purple" was a diplomatic cryptographic machine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_(cipher_machine) shows some of the thinking in Japan and why their Navy and Army codes where interesting to the US and UK.
The interesting part is where does subvert really get any gov? The gov becomes addicted to a huge raw flow of data from people unaware of the total domestic surveillance network.
Once the public sees the reality of having a domestic surveillance network, their political use of the telcos and computers might change.
People contacting the press take on an East German like feel, they know they will be tracked down, but turn up to protest anyway.
Any new tool that allows people to use a network to chat with the press is great.
The first hop might be low powered, e.g. out of the building, later local small devices might boost, store, use common background wireless methods to send the data on.
Yes the power use needed for the VGA reading device is interesting too.
In the world of signals it was Cold. US signals where underfunded in the 1920's and 1930's, a lot of help was sent from the UK in WW2. :) :)
Post WW2 the US lost a lot of its new skills again just in time for Korea
The USA had no Korean experts, typewriters or related skill sets. The US only had tactical signals and had a huge rush of new staff to hire - many uncleared.
Direction and traffic radio work again had to be re introduced via the UK in the early 1950's.
Now thanks to Snowden we can fill in the 1990's to 2000's history too
It really depends on how the word distance is measured and presented. The distance covered by a few self networking, powered hidden devices near the complex, building of interest could get a weak signal out and then back to a friendly embassy roof over 12km via 'hops'.
The tech has a range of "12km", the hops, boosting, re encoding, bursts, storage, time shifting via linked devices could be just as creative to ensure any signal is really tricky to find with most known scanners.
Its the "bus" and way back into the computer hardware. Not all electronics is a one way 'push' of data down to a port, printer. Some of the end user "interfaces" are nice and complex and can really talk back up into the OS, CPU, wireless hardware.
e.g. 'Hardening hardware and choosing a #goodBIOS" at 30c3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VvR-vsdMlQ at ~ 29 mins in
A company or gov buys a part for an air gapped network.
The NSA sends hardware with a new tiny circuit boards or altered USB hardware via the post.
Staff install and run the hardware, noting their system works as normal and no new changes to any of their OS.
From that one infection the 'huge' hidden 'network' might get infected later and report back just like any time delayed malware expect its a hop via an unexpected radio network.
Impress the US gov staff and oversight committees with impressive "software" and "computer networks" infected numbers vs a lower physical radio device shipped count.
Re A collaborator would be needed to install the device.
That could just be a shipment of normal looking computer parts, spares, upgrades that spent a few extra hours at a 'regional' hub during postage.
Re There are means to avoid such devices working, if an IT department is security-conscious and takes steps to disable USB ports and plug-n-play services.
You can close up the port so no usb device can be plugged in but the port will still 'send' via radio.
Re simple frequency scanner.. mb the NSA ensures the device is "off' for the first weeks, months and only updates for short bursts at unique times much later.
The payload might be adjusted after the first few messages in/out depending on the system encountered and data wanted.
The device as a layer of physical hardware in a USB device has been posted as a pic as part of the COTTONMOUTH I and II effort.
http://www.dailytech.com/Tax+and+Spy+How+the+NSA+Can+Hack+Any+American+Stores+Data+15+Years/article34010.htm (scroll down for the slide)
What it sends out to?
The usual new spy "rocks" or some other "network"
http://rt.com/usa/spy-rocks-lockheed-usa-771/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians
The whistleblowing aspect is over, the press is now releasing the news at a rate they seem fit after sorting, clearing.
http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm
http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
As for Snowden what are the options - freedom in Russia beyond the ~ one year point.
Options:
Find another nations embassy in Russia and stay? Doing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Mindszenty for many years?
The US seemed to have hinted at its intent with the EU airspace issue so getting to another country will be interesting.
Try the Russian legal system and get long term papers?
The US needs to show what they will do to any whistleblowing but still seem to want to reduced the optics of any capture.
How can the EU undo its telco system? Capitalism has already looped the new national calls and data to select areas in nations making US/UK+ data collection trivial.
Where capitalism was not an option, post WW2 reconstruction or NATO military considerations, the ability to wiretap would have shaped new telco infrastructure over decades.
Generations of senior staff, engineers, political leaders, academics must have understood how and why their regional/national telco system was been rebuilt or upgraded in certain costly ways, looping to select national sites regardless of cost, time, material, waste.
How many understood their own secure crypto to be expensive junk and their countries democratic political use to be open to the US, a few other nations, contractors, ex staff and former staff?
Now with Snowden at least the academics and historians will understand what was built and how a few nations can tap, decrypt so many for so long.
Thats a lot of telco hardware not to notice, to keep running, a lot of EU political deals to have shared, EU trade deals been willing lost... expensive EU science been given away...
You can read more via the pdf at http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121392 or a mirror at http://publicintelligence.net/dod-unmanned-systems-2013/
The US gov wants to try pre-programmed tasks, new algorithms, more sensors, and complex machine learning to remove the need for constant expensive, skilled teams to be working with the 'drone' 24/7.
Expect to see a drone swarm been released or more than 1 drone converging on a target area with less human guidance.
The other aspect is need to shape "cultural hurdles" after double tap drown strikes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html
Facial recognition is still http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/drones-never-forget-a-face/ been worked on at great distances.
What is left is a 'group' or 'person' in the wrong place at the wrong time doing wrong things or a 'helpful' local has placed a tracking chip on a person to be removed.
Walking alone - well-disciplined target.
Running alone - target.
Walking together - well-disciplined commander with bodyguards.
Running together - targets.