India had the tech at a ready to build stage in this own labs by 1990 but seeing as they had the tech untested, they thought why not buy in a tested, launch ready system from Russia at the same time.
They could then build their own over time while still getting a tested, known system from Russia.
Cryogenics for missiles was just PR spin, a cover story to block Russian Indian sales. India had all the missiles tech done by the mid to late 1980's.
India wanted to get its own the INSAT-II (2500KG) geostationary launch vehicle at a new low cost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_satellites
In the early 1990's the tech trade would have been considered as Russia needed loans, US/Russian space funding and the US would have hinted at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regime
India already had Agni, Prithvi missile systems making the Missile Technology Control Regime aspect a strange reason to block the deal with Russia.
Basically lucrative US satellite launches would have faced price cuts with India entering the market with Russia help.
India lost some time via the Russian block, but already had the cryogenic tech and skills ready by 1990.
The insight and expert leadership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisation#Goals_and_objectives really seems to have worked out very well long term.
From early testing to advancing skills within India seems to have been the key. So many other nations try to buy in, but end up with expensive, limited export grade tech transfers.
Re Plenty of lawyers would be happy to work for him due to the high-profile nature of the case.
They would have to be cleared by the US gov. Thats a short list of US lawyers. The court would be sealed.
The Ellsberg days are over, There is no open court for cleared material. You face the same people you are wanting the press to know about with your cleared lawyer... in a sealed court. Nothing will ever get out and you still face a US court.
Many good people in the US have tried the US court path, some with political protection. After the Ellsberg generation nothing much ever gets out to the tame press anymore. http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm
Getting out was the only way to get to the press. Now the press is releasing the material in its own way and the wider public can understand what they are getting when they use crypto. http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
Russia just has to wait and see if the info has been pre sorted, is bait, a trap or has unique internal errors to track Russian spies within the USA.
Russia would be very careful with any free press material vs a person they understand working for them deep with in the US gov over years.
Russian historic efforts in Cuba and with spy ships show that few nations can do much without many bases/shared sites world wide. You just cant get the local loops, satellites and later optical without some national telco/mil help per nation.
Every country with their own little sets of 'freedom fighters' or revolitionaries would tell their groups not to trust email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions by default.
As for cyber-operations, every country has known since the late 1960's that their telco, crypto, banking, legal, embassy networks where under constant surveillance and could not to be trusted.
By the 1980's encrypted embassy plain text was finding its way into the Western press...
Some nations crypto staff seem to be not working for their nations best interests when passing junk encryption... the German efforts to protect their political communications seem very slow...
As for Russian or China will they really be baited by an ex CIA source who got to work for the NSA via a contractor?
Thankfully what has changed is a deeper understanding of software, hardware and crypto been junk as sold, delivered, reviewed or upgraded.
The NSA would like to see your friends, friends of friends and track submitted photographs. Within 1-2-3 hops they hope to map out entire support structures, fellow travellers and even detect self radicalisation early.
The public, private, contractor web 2.0 tracking partnership is more a long term boondoggle over generations of contacted indicators.
Its now really a thought experiment between the NSA and GCHQ. Are people so honest with web 2.0 that the info they submit is NSA useful or will the older wiser UK view of knowing your been watched spoil the gathering of indicators?
Over time people understand how much of what they put down on web 2.0 will be searchable when job seeking. Knowing you will be searched for might make many people present a bland profile?
Take some advice from US branded big business then:)
Set up a company in a more start up friendly part of the world and see how that works out in the digital age.
With todays faster broadband - art, music, design, code, languages, support and unique skills can be pulled together from around the world at lower prices.
Why not just create not the entire project in a more understand area of the world?
Yes roc, depending on your country and laws, thats the neat way set up:)
Great software on fast a i5 or i7 cpu with 24/7 server quality HDs and a way to get the data when alerted to another external system.
No use having the person walk out with the only recording:)
Another tip would be to read up on any HD cameras - some have more unique password and port settings for their HD stream, others just work:)
Read up on test sites about night use, not all are great at night for the price.
Thats some interesting take on everyday legal gov use vs a vast domestic surveillance network.
People are happy too or have to interact with "central government organisations, such as HM Revenue & Customs and the NHS"
Kind of hard not to pay your tax, collect a pension, apply for benefits (e.g. help with heating bills), enjoy the benefits of the National Health Service.
Energy provider - again kind of hard not to pay your bill, seek a better rate.
Supermarkets - people do enjoy their rewards, discounts.
Thanks to Snowden and many other whistleblowers like him the UK can now more fully understand how their everyday net usage and other databases can be combined under sigint development.
Sigint development seems new from around 1994 via Ripa for 'targeted surveillance" now moving on as Tempora and Prism. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/legal-loopholes-gchq-spy-world
We do recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora ?
The UK is now waking up to the reality of the "five eyes" sharing, along with a few nations who are extra good friends of the US, contractors, ex and former UK staff, ex and former UK contractors, ex and former five eyes staff and contractors...
Thats a lot of people with insight into junk GCHQ/NSA encryption standards, the telco systems and national databases...
So enjoy your http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/leaked-memos-gchq-mass-surveillance-secret-snowden
"GCHQ lobbied furiously to keep secret the fact that telecoms firms had gone "well beyond" what they were legally required to do to help intelligence agencies"
"GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to privacy in the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods became admissible in court."
"GCHQ assisted the Home Office in lining up sympathetic people to help with "press handling"" - nice to have skilled sock puppets - just like we see on slashdot:)
The physical access to the device has now been cleared up.
"The way that the NSA and GCHQ compromise devices with QUANTUMNATION does not require physical access - that is merely one way to compromise an iPhone."
http://cryptome.org/2014/01/appelbaum-der-spiegel.htm
Hi dec, re snooping through my bedroom office http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime"
"Each member of the computer crime squad is given a list of local businesses, Laanui said, with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."
The snooping aspect may cover many local people who have the ability to 'walk' around a wide selection of suburban homes and commercial areas at "random" and report back.
It could depend on where the tech ended up. Ex staff, former staff, ex contractors, former contractors could have created their own 'lite' deniable offering for sale to state and federal law enforcement?
Why just log from an isp/telco level when you can get much closer?
Where, how and who would this help?
You would need to get between then 'house' and the exchange or telco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_loop_carrier
With this method you would be free of any skilled unique ethernet packet logging after the 'modem' in the home network.
The main win for this would be the speed offered locally. While your real packets are still finding that best effort or dedicated loop out of your state, country the "wiretap" has won the networking race.
A cheap version of MINERALIZE and RADON. http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
Carrying a phone is all a person needs to do - you have a classic location beacon, they have your microphone, they have your camera, "text" as entered (great for passwords), the ability to update the software in use... all the vulnerabilities have been document and know for years. Now you have more names and historical documents.
In the early 1990's this would have been interesting. Much of the tech is now cheap and in the hands of national and state law enforcement.
The main problem is the lost, unlatched, version drift or upgrade cycle is allowing a lot of hardware to stay in use with gov entry options that 'others' or ex gov staff can use/find/buy/sell.
Snowden went to the press with the documents. i.e. whistleblowing.
The verification options are very simple - a large group of people exist in the private sector and academia who once worked for different govs around the world.
They would be happy to offer their expert verification services to the press per "document" or over years.
Think of it as great computer history filling in the ~1970-80 to 00 gaps. No use by date on history, books and other publishing:)
Confirmation of private sector security malware can be found by skilled people e.g. 30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarisation of the Internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZYo9TPyNko and part two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA
Slashdot Mirror
The timeline surround US gov interest in political groups seemed to then move to the right.
What COINTELPRO did to the anti war and law reform groups PATCON (~Patriot-conspiracy) did on the US 'right'.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/18/patriot_games
Snowden's whistleblowing helped people understand https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering i.e. "Parallel construction" via a vast long term domestic spying program.
Finally thanks to Snowden you have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora - the UK showing it can do the "entire" internet.
re All of those things have always been a part of war, except the social media thing, but that is just an instance of propaganda.
Yes think back to the black sites, double tap drone strikes, the surge..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html
Really its just back to the old colonial wars under a new brand and better spin via happy 24/7 media sock puppets.
Its the wrong tech AC, India already had all the "launching nukes" options ready by mid to late 1980's.
India had the tech at a ready to build stage in this own labs by 1990 but seeing as they had the tech untested, they thought why not buy in a tested, launch ready system from Russia at the same time.
They could then build their own over time while still getting a tested, known system from Russia.
Cryogenics for missiles was just PR spin, a cover story to block Russian Indian sales. India had all the missiles tech done by the mid to late 1980's.
India wanted to get its own the INSAT-II (2500KG) geostationary launch vehicle at a new low cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_satellites
In the early 1990's the tech trade would have been considered as Russia needed loans, US/Russian space funding and the US would have hinted at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regime
India already had Agni, Prithvi missile systems making the Missile Technology Control Regime aspect a strange reason to block the deal with Russia.
Basically lucrative US satellite launches would have faced price cuts with India entering the market with Russia help.
India lost some time via the Russian block, but already had the cryogenic tech and skills ready by 1990.
The insight and expert leadership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisation#Goals_and_objectives really seems to have worked out very well long term.
From early testing to advancing skills within India seems to have been the key. So many other nations try to buy in, but end up with expensive, limited export grade tech transfers.
Public knowledge is not declassified.. the US gov in court would be reviewing classified material.
http://www.whistleblower.org/action-center/save-tom-drake shows some of what can happen.
Re Plenty of lawyers would be happy to work for him due to the high-profile nature of the case.
They would have to be cleared by the US gov. Thats a short list of US lawyers. The court would be sealed.
The Ellsberg days are over, There is no open court for cleared material. You face the same people you are wanting the press to know about with your cleared lawyer... in a sealed court. Nothing will ever get out and you still face a US court.
Many good people in the US have tried the US court path, some with political protection. After the Ellsberg generation nothing much ever gets out to the tame press anymore.
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm
Getting out was the only way to get to the press. Now the press is releasing the material in its own way and the wider public can understand what they are getting when they use crypto.
http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm
http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
Russia just has to wait and see if the info has been pre sorted, is bait, a trap or has unique internal errors to track Russian spies within the USA.
Russia would be very careful with any free press material vs a person they understand working for them deep with in the US gov over years.
Russian historic efforts in Cuba and with spy ships show that few nations can do much without many bases/shared sites world wide. You just cant get the local loops, satellites and later optical without some national telco/mil help per nation.
Every country with their own little sets of 'freedom fighters' or revolitionaries would tell their groups not to trust email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions by default.
As for cyber-operations, every country has known since the late 1960's that their telco, crypto, banking, legal, embassy networks where under constant surveillance and could not to be trusted.
By the 1980's encrypted embassy plain text was finding its way into the Western press...
Some nations crypto staff seem to be not working for their nations best interests when passing junk encryption... the German efforts to protect their political communications seem very slow...
As for Russian or China will they really be baited by an ex CIA source who got to work for the NSA via a contractor?
Thankfully what has changed is a deeper understanding of software, hardware and crypto been junk as sold, delivered, reviewed or upgraded.
The NSA would like to see your friends, friends of friends and track submitted photographs. Within 1-2-3 hops they hope to map out entire support structures, fellow travellers and even detect self radicalisation early.
The public, private, contractor web 2.0 tracking partnership is more a long term boondoggle over generations of contacted indicators.
Its now really a thought experiment between the NSA and GCHQ. Are people so honest with web 2.0 that the info they submit is NSA useful or will the older wiser UK view of knowing your been watched spoil the gathering of indicators?
Over time people understand how much of what they put down on web 2.0 will be searchable when job seeking. Knowing you will be searched for might make many people present a bland profile?
Take some advice from US branded big business then :)
Set up a company in a more start up friendly part of the world and see how that works out in the digital age.
With todays faster broadband - art, music, design, code, languages, support and unique skills can be pulled together from around the world at lower prices.
Why not just create not the entire project in a more understand area of the world?
Yes roc, depending on your country and laws, thats the neat way set up :) :) :)
Great software on fast a i5 or i7 cpu with 24/7 server quality HDs and a way to get the data when alerted to another external system.
No use having the person walk out with the only recording
Another tip would be to read up on any HD cameras - some have more unique password and port settings for their HD stream, others just work
Read up on test sites about night use, not all are great at night for the price.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/02/dell-ultrasharp-4k-monitors/
3,840 x 2,160 resolution, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB 3.0, US$1,399 for the UltraSharp 24?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7563/dell-24-uhd-up2414q-gets-a-price-28-uhd-4k-3840x2160-announced
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/20/union-to-sue-construction-firms-blacklisting-allegations
Undercover police had children with activists
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists
"Derry interrogation centre hidden from torture inquiry"
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/derry-interrogation-centre-hidden-from-torture-inquiry-1.1486059
The results of UK public, private, police, military, signals intelligence work can make for interesting reading over the years. In the past you had to take part in protests, be seen or be informed on. In a more digital age a lot more sections of the UK gov and private sector are been invited to look over files and submit reports or will have expanded information 'logging' powers. Recall what powers the UK gov wanted see used on the internet?
"Changes to council surveillance powers"
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/66244.article
A lot of councils, government departments and various quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) where to get new telco related powers
Thats some interesting take on everyday legal gov use vs a vast domestic surveillance network. :)
People are happy too or have to interact with "central government organisations, such as HM Revenue & Customs and the NHS"
Kind of hard not to pay your tax, collect a pension, apply for benefits (e.g. help with heating bills), enjoy the benefits of the National Health Service.
Energy provider - again kind of hard not to pay your bill, seek a better rate.
Supermarkets - people do enjoy their rewards, discounts.
Thanks to Snowden and many other whistleblowers like him the UK can now more fully understand how their everyday net usage and other databases can be combined under sigint development.
Sigint development seems new from around 1994 via Ripa for 'targeted surveillance" now moving on as Tempora and Prism.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/legal-loopholes-gchq-spy-world
We do recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora ?
The UK is now waking up to the reality of the "five eyes" sharing, along with a few nations who are extra good friends of the US, contractors, ex and former UK staff, ex and former UK contractors, ex and former five eyes staff and contractors...
Thats a lot of people with insight into junk GCHQ/NSA encryption standards, the telco systems and national databases...
So enjoy your http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/leaked-memos-gchq-mass-surveillance-secret-snowden
"GCHQ lobbied furiously to keep secret the fact that telecoms firms had gone "well beyond" what they were legally required to do to help intelligence agencies"
"GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to privacy in the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods became admissible in court."
"GCHQ assisted the Home Office in lining up sympathetic people to help with "press handling"" - nice to have skilled sock puppets - just like we see on slashdot
Re 4. Searching for Prescient Search Queries
Would be fun for the http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm lists
2. Types of Sock puppets vs Time Travelers?
The physical access to the device has now been cleared up.
"The way that the NSA and GCHQ compromise devices with QUANTUMNATION does not require physical access - that is merely one way to compromise an iPhone." http://cryptome.org/2014/01/appelbaum-der-spiegel.htm
Hi dec, re snooping through my bedroom office
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime"
"Each member of the computer crime squad is given a list of local businesses, Laanui said, with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."
The snooping aspect may cover many local people who have the ability to 'walk' around a wide selection of suburban homes and commercial areas at "random" and report back.
It could depend on where the tech ended up. Ex staff, former staff, ex contractors, former contractors could have created their own 'lite' deniable offering for sale to state and federal law enforcement?
Why just log from an isp/telco level when you can get much closer?
Where, how and who would this help?
You would need to get between then 'house' and the exchange or telco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_loop_carrier
With this method you would be free of any skilled unique ethernet packet logging after the 'modem' in the home network.
The main win for this would be the speed offered locally. While your real packets are still finding that best effort or dedicated loop out of your state, country the "wiretap" has won the networking race.
A cheap version of MINERALIZE and RADON. http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
Carrying a phone is all a person needs to do - you have a classic location beacon, they have your microphone, they have your camera, "text" as entered (great for passwords), the ability to update the software in use... all the vulnerabilities have been document and know for years. Now you have more names and historical documents.
In the early 1990's this would have been interesting. Much of the tech is now cheap and in the hands of national and state law enforcement.
The main problem is the lost, unlatched, version drift or upgrade cycle is allowing a lot of hardware to stay in use with gov entry options that 'others' or ex gov staff can use/find/buy/sell.
Snowden went to the press with the documents. i.e. whistleblowing. :)
The verification options are very simple - a large group of people exist in the private sector and academia who once worked for different govs around the world.
They would be happy to offer their expert verification services to the press per "document" or over years.
Think of it as great computer history filling in the ~1970-80 to 00 gaps. No use by date on history, books and other publishing
Confirmation of private sector security malware can be found by skilled people e.g. 30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarisation of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZYo9TPyNko and part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA