So we are down to exploits vs backdoors? A mix of US manufacturers and non-US manufacturers makes it all 'fine' in some way?
Malware that gets programs past firewalls and then work after reboots and software upgrades... to BIOS, to USB plug news
Think back to how the US plain old telephone service and other unique US data networks where hardened for nuclear issues during the cold war- super good funding for thick walls, no windows, deep sites, lots of new sites, lots of extra local redundant power supply options, redundancy, costly fault "rebuild" vs economical basic service restoration.
Well paid, unionized staff for generations for at many sites that could have been cheaply automated over time.
The gov cash flow is back:)
China has the entrepreneurial skill and cash to:
Buy the site, bring it up to state and federal standards and correctly spread the costs and lucrative profits over years of local usage.
Teams of commandos are usually tracked by the DIA, CIA and many others:)
The FBI has fully infiltrated all domestic groups...
The main fear is that there is federal and state security cash on the table and new/old domestic/"US" created foreign owned front companies/security firms fear missing out.
Its an interesting change from past issues under "self-assessment". In the past a few lobbying efforts against the need for 'extra' security due to rising costs of having to pay for a federally set quota of skilled security professionals on site over all shifts.
Over the lifetime of any site that cost adds up.
Now it seems the lobbying efforts for a federally set quota of skilled security professionals on 'all' sites has gained more cashed up political traction.
Think of the cash for background investigations of all the staff via the private sector.
New psychological testing of all the staff via the private sector.
Long term observation of all the staff via the private sector:)
Testing of all the new security staff... then the cash for longterm 'courses'
Thats the wonderful prospect for the higher US court:)
Its a bit like ruling on a digital "Berlin Wall" - after that everybody fully understands what a gov is really all about.
Once your nations legal: foreign, cyber offensive capable, surveillance network is turned inward and becomes a vast legal domestic surveillance network - the courts have to change in a very public way.
If the vast illegal domestic surveillance network is found to be not illegal the US Fourth Amendment is reduced to "nice" words on a living document.
Welcome to your new legal system with all the protections of any junta, banana republic, communist, fascist, royal or theocratic countries court system.
If the vast illegal domestic surveillance network is found to be illegal the US Fourth Amendment works as it should and skilled lawyers return to the courts.
Re public profiles
The GCHQ thought of that aspect a long time ago with the political push for a massive new legal role in domestic UK law enforcement. The GCHQ correctly understood people would change their usage if they knew the private sector was a direct link to a life long UK gov database with real time legal use.
It seems the NSA now understands the US population is more stuck in web 2.0 and the users will not change usage in any way.
Its a bit like building a "Berlin Wall" - after that everybody fully understands what a gov is really all about.
Once your nations legal: foreign, cyber offensive capable, surveillance network is turned inward and becomes a vast legal domestic surveillance network - the courts have to change in a very public way.
The collection magic stops and all you have left is fear.
Its win win.
If the constitutional aspect is found be correct: good US legal teams can go to work wrt to a vast unconstitutional domestic surveillance program.
Win as quality law reform starts via expert US lawyers and diverse political leaders:)
If the constitutional aspect allows a legal, vast domestic surveillance program, the US legal system is reduced to status of a common 'living document' and joins many juntas, banana republics, Soviet revolutions, royal courts or your basic theocracy.
Win: the wider population understands their real rights are now reduced to a paper joke. People can adjust their own network use and ongoing use of the networks as the reality of the new legal system is rolled out.
Your defence team will be reduced to ensuring the US gov have the right person, that they have 'seen' the hidden evidence and your consecutive years sentenced add up correctly.
Thats the problem when you move beyond the CIA or FBI skills. One person can write to the press, question political leaders, turn up and be tracked at any/many local protests.
Have an interesting book buying list, travel: sooner or later a database will sort a lot of people's files for human security review.
The Stasi moment - that flood of new files, limit cleared staff and the political demands to find something to show the tame press.
The what can the gov do? A sneak and peak? More logging of web 2.0 use? A chat at the door hinting that a person was "seen" at a protest?
What can a gov afford to do with the files? Go to open court and face real lawyers? Form sealed courts and win every time? Sooner or later the lawyers will start asking questions.....
The nature of the leak before Snowden was a bit different. Many wrote books from open material, some added 'new' cleared material, some faced complex court cases or had to wait for chapter reviews.
To stay in their countries and be free, they had to play the review/court/cleared game. Snowden understood the total chilling option of any US court even with US political protection and good cleared lawyers.
The real long term struggle seems to have been between the NSA, GCHQ and political leaders over allowing people in their own countries to understand that the full collection system was domestic, over all data flows and ready for court use.
The UK seemed to hold the view that some PR spin of looking to the Soviet Union/Russia/emerging distant issues would be better to keep the flow pure.
If people did not know they where been watched, they would talk in a more free way. A wise long term view that did not fail.
The US seems to be floating the locked box idea for domestic US courts. A rewind of a life of calls with no escape as life is now very digital.
If people know they are been watched, they still have to keep using the junk US networks. Results driven for extra share of a mil budget?
Thanks to Snowden we can now fill in the 1980~2010 crypto telco/computer band history.
Two large PR experiments - to hide it or to use it. Why the sudden change? The large Elephant could just be that the digital "Berlin wall" is up and the govs feel safe that every connection in or out is tracked, logged, decoded.....
Cold "the NSA strengthened the DES algorithm against attacks not publicly known" but kept the ability to decrypt. Good PR on one side, back to plain text as always.
Again LOL.
Trade deals, banking, political parties, political leaders around the world, NGO's, anti war protesters, law reform groups, environmentalists... commercial and scientific developments...end users are all at risk.
As the video you posted stats bulk collection of data is now cheap and easy. At the 43 min and 46 min point in -
"we have made surveillance too cheap"
So long term, where the NSA and GCHQ got in thanks to junk encryption standards, so can ex staff, former staff and any group that can hire them. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/nov/28/war-on-democracy-corporations-spy-profit-activism
Bad encryption is useless at any level or price - too many people have the keys now:)
LOL The world now understands tame US crypto as used, sold and tested is junk. Encryption works when it is not weakened during development. So a lot of very skilled people can now thanks to Snowden can review and fix where needed.
Every US citizen could be calling the press, contacting a political leader, becoming a local activist, working with a trade unionist, helping an author, talking to a federal agency, helping a state agency, sending HD recordings to internal affairs, funding a political foundation, questioning more wars,
Any of the above could be politically sensitive to current or former political leaders, their backers and top staff.
If only you can be found before your story is published, open court work or protest starts...
We are back to the pre Snowden classic - too much information.
This has never been a problem due to fast sorting, keywords, voice prints, numbers called and cheap storage.
GCHQ and the NSA could get every call from Intelsat back the late 1960's for sorting and indexing. Once you have the total 'in' and 'out' points of any nation as its telco networks is constructed:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering shows how easy a lifetime of collection can be and looks like under one small program:)
You could create a great cross platform game by coding with the big OS in mind from the start.
As the OS developers updates, dropped support for hardware or changed code *should* be able to be fixed with good game code planning.
You could find a good 'free' 2D/3D engine that has wide OS support and the fine print for you to make a profit.
Or find a good 'free' 2D/3D engine that can allow you to make a profit and work long and hard to recode it for more OS options.
The main issues are great artists, good level design, developers insight into updated cross platform support.
Other issues are the 'wait' for sound, graphics or control code to be 'fixed' after huge OS changes from open or closed developers.
The crazy rates are great for profit taking and the basic physics of too many users and the limits of any mobile network.
The consumers are trained to pay more, the bandwidth use is controlled and sold in tiny fractions at great profit. The older hardware in place can still function under the load.
The options are to free up more spectrum, build out more expensive hardware vs limit the number of users or their bandwidth.
Slashdot Mirror
The summary had: "companies including"
So we are down to exploits vs backdoors? A mix of US manufacturers and non-US manufacturers makes it all 'fine' in some way?
Malware that gets programs past firewalls and then work after reboots and software upgrades... to BIOS, to USB plug news
Think back to how the US plain old telephone service and other unique US data networks where hardened for nuclear issues during the cold war- super good funding for thick walls, no windows, deep sites, lots of new sites, lots of extra local redundant power supply options, redundancy, costly fault "rebuild" vs economical basic service restoration. :)
Well paid, unionized staff for generations for at many sites that could have been cheaply automated over time.
The gov cash flow is back
China has the entrepreneurial skill and cash to: :)
Buy the site, bring it up to state and federal standards and correctly spread the costs and lucrative profits over years of local usage.
Teams of commandos are usually tracked by the DIA, CIA and many others
The FBI has fully infiltrated all domestic groups...
The main fear is that there is federal and state security cash on the table and new/old domestic/"US" created foreign owned front companies/security firms fear missing out.
Its an interesting change from past issues under "self-assessment". In the past a few lobbying efforts against the need for 'extra' security due to rising costs of having to pay for a federally set quota of skilled security professionals on site over all shifts. :)
Over the lifetime of any site that cost adds up.
Now it seems the lobbying efforts for a federally set quota of skilled security professionals on 'all' sites has gained more cashed up political traction.
Think of the cash for background investigations of all the staff via the private sector.
New psychological testing of all the staff via the private sector.
Long term observation of all the staff via the private sector
Testing of all the new security staff... then the cash for longterm 'courses'
Thats the wonderful prospect for the higher US court :)
Its a bit like ruling on a digital "Berlin Wall" - after that everybody fully understands what a gov is really all about.
Once your nations legal: foreign, cyber offensive capable, surveillance network is turned inward and becomes a vast legal domestic surveillance network - the courts have to change in a very public way.
If the vast illegal domestic surveillance network is found to be not illegal the US Fourth Amendment is reduced to "nice" words on a living document.
Welcome to your new legal system with all the protections of any junta, banana republic, communist, fascist, royal or theocratic countries court system.
If the vast illegal domestic surveillance network is found to be illegal the US Fourth Amendment works as it should and skilled lawyers return to the courts.
The US gov wants to keep it all for a legal, court usable replay over your lifetime.
...."gotten together with the DOD where we've put together this technology database where I can go in, and I can, with one query, I can get all past and all future e-mails from a person,"
Every call, email contact, a book buying list, travel arrangement, banking detail, friends, friends of friends, family, credit card use...
So if you become political, take up some issue in your State or federally, protest "the" next war, write to the press, write to political leaders, use your income for political issues, support charity events, support faith based groups - you end up on lists.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/06/surveillance_lockbox_why_can_the_nsa_search_your_phone_records_without_a.html
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/18/nsa-whistleblowers-obama-administration-misleading-on-surveillance-programs/
From testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 30, 2011:
Parallel construction: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering
The tracking seems to be keyword and new contacts to know people, organizations, voice prints, call data, email, postage use, internet logging.... been seen at a protest or been linked to one.
With 2 -3 hops from any person been considered - the numbers of people been looked from one individuals positive identification: 1 person to 10-100 friends/contacts and all their 100's of friends/contacts and beyond with any their issues been linked back down that one person...
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/you-may-already-be-a-winner-in-nsas-three-degrees-surveillance-sweepstakes/
"The Pentagon’s strengthening grip on Hollywood"
http://www.salon.com/2011/08/29/sirota_military_movies/
"The U.S. military's Hollywood connection"
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/entertainment/la-ca-military-movies-20110821
http://movieline.com/2013/02/06/military-entertainment-complex-hollywood-pentagon-relationship-battleship-zero-dark-thirty/
Operation Hollywood
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/operation-hollywood
A script often self corrected until the use of mil equipment works out.
The UK, Australia, Germany, France all have their funding mixes for their own culture. The US mil movie/script 'corrections' aspect is well known, has been reported for years.
Re public profiles
The GCHQ thought of that aspect a long time ago with the political push for a massive new legal role in domestic UK law enforcement. The GCHQ correctly understood people would change their usage if they knew the private sector was a direct link to a life long UK gov database with real time legal use.
It seems the NSA now understands the US population is more stuck in web 2.0 and the users will not change usage in any way.
Its a bit like building a "Berlin Wall" - after that everybody fully understands what a gov is really all about.
Once your nations legal: foreign, cyber offensive capable, surveillance network is turned inward and becomes a vast legal domestic surveillance network - the courts have to change in a very public way.
The collection magic stops and all you have left is fear.
Its win win. :)
If the constitutional aspect is found be correct: good US legal teams can go to work wrt to a vast unconstitutional domestic surveillance program.
Win as quality law reform starts via expert US lawyers and diverse political leaders
If the constitutional aspect allows a legal, vast domestic surveillance program, the US legal system is reduced to status of a common 'living document' and joins many juntas, banana republics, Soviet revolutions, royal courts or your basic theocracy.
Win: the wider population understands their real rights are now reduced to a paper joke. People can adjust their own network use and ongoing use of the networks as the reality of the new legal system is rolled out.
Your defence team will be reduced to ensuring the US gov have the right person, that they have 'seen' the hidden evidence and your consecutive years sentenced add up correctly.
The entire transaction with a request for a postcode noted with the transaction might provide real quality marketing data?
Yes the users cards would have some long numbers in the mix when used with the pin to send back to the bank...
Depends on your part of the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)
You country may have a marketing backend, a store or other loyalty points system, at the checkout you may be asked for your postcode... thats a lot of unique data with your card use in many countries.
Thats the problem when you move beyond the CIA or FBI skills. One person can write to the press, question political leaders, turn up and be tracked at any/many local protests.
Have an interesting book buying list, travel: sooner or later a database will sort a lot of people's files for human security review.
The Stasi moment - that flood of new files, limit cleared staff and the political demands to find something to show the tame press.
The what can the gov do? A sneak and peak? More logging of web 2.0 use? A chat at the door hinting that a person was "seen" at a protest?
What can a gov afford to do with the files? Go to open court and face real lawyers? Form sealed courts and win every time? Sooner or later the lawyers will start asking questions.....
The nature of the leak before Snowden was a bit different. Many wrote books from open material, some added 'new' cleared material, some faced complex court cases or had to wait for chapter reviews. .....
To stay in their countries and be free, they had to play the review/court/cleared game. Snowden understood the total chilling option of any US court even with US political protection and good cleared lawyers.
The real long term struggle seems to have been between the NSA, GCHQ and political leaders over allowing people in their own countries to understand that the full collection system was domestic, over all data flows and ready for court use.
The UK seemed to hold the view that some PR spin of looking to the Soviet Union/Russia/emerging distant issues would be better to keep the flow pure.
If people did not know they where been watched, they would talk in a more free way. A wise long term view that did not fail.
The US seems to be floating the locked box idea for domestic US courts. A rewind of a life of calls with no escape as life is now very digital.
If people know they are been watched, they still have to keep using the junk US networks. Results driven for extra share of a mil budget?
Thanks to Snowden we can now fill in the 1980~2010 crypto telco/computer band history.
Two large PR experiments - to hide it or to use it. Why the sudden change? The large Elephant could just be that the digital "Berlin wall" is up and the govs feel safe that every connection in or out is tracked, logged, decoded
Cold "the NSA strengthened the DES algorithm against attacks not publicly known" but kept the ability to decrypt. Good PR on one side, back to plain text as always.
With advice on air gaps, help people find/write better code, cpu and networking http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/28/0136202/richard-stallman-speaks-about-back-doors-after-nsa-documents-leak :) :)
That would help some physical sites. Get people thinking about crypto - the historical ways in during pre ww2, ww2, the cold war, 1990's and via the good news from Snowden.
Re conscientious objection - support mainstream and alternative media, legal rights groups and educators all over the political spectrum.
Learn from work done in US courts like: http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/court-declares-nsa-spying-program-unconstitutional-and-grant
Parallel construction https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering
The domestic legal vision of a life long box for all your phone calls
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/06/surveillance_lockbox_why_can_the_nsa_search_your_phone_records_without_a.html
Start *any* discussion is the best thing you can do. Long worded emails to the press about material they covered with all the terms they used and your insights
Like in East Germany, standing in front of the Church with a sign, you will be *noted* by a powerful State but a lot of people will read your wise words.
Read all you can: http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm is not new
We all recall how DES ended up long term Cold: weakened http://cryptome.org/jya/cracking-des/cracking-des.htm
Again LOL. :)
Trade deals, banking, political parties, political leaders around the world, NGO's, anti war protesters, law reform groups, environmentalists... commercial and scientific developments...end users are all at risk.
As the video you posted stats bulk collection of data is now cheap and easy. At the 43 min and 46 min point in - "we have made surveillance too cheap"
So long term, where the NSA and GCHQ got in thanks to junk encryption standards, so can ex staff, former staff and any group that can hire them.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/nov/28/war-on-democracy-corporations-spy-profit-activism
Bad encryption is useless at any level or price - too many people have the keys now
LOL The world now understands tame US crypto as used, sold and tested is junk. Encryption works when it is not weakened during development. So a lot of very skilled people can now thanks to Snowden can review and fix where needed.
Every US citizen could be calling the press, contacting a political leader, becoming a local activist, working with a trade unionist, helping an author, talking to a federal agency, helping a state agency, sending HD recordings to internal affairs, funding a political foundation, questioning more wars, ...
Any of the above could be politically sensitive to current or former political leaders, their backers and top staff.
If only you can be found before your story is published, open court work or protest starts
We are back to the pre Snowden classic - too much information. :)
This has never been a problem due to fast sorting, keywords, voice prints, numbers called and cheap storage.
GCHQ and the NSA could get every call from Intelsat back the late 1960's for sorting and indexing. Once you have the total 'in' and 'out' points of any nation as its telco networks is constructed: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering shows how easy a lifetime of collection can be and looks like under one small program
The fun the US and UK govs had was setting global standards and then passing them as 'tested' back to a tame private sector to offer in its product mix. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/16/nsa-gchq-undermine-internet-security
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/how-we-know-the-nsa-had-access-to-internal-google-and-yahoo-cloud-data/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_(NSA)
You could create a great cross platform game by coding with the big OS in mind from the start.
As the OS developers updates, dropped support for hardware or changed code *should* be able to be fixed with good game code planning.
You could find a good 'free' 2D/3D engine that has wide OS support and the fine print for you to make a profit.
Or find a good 'free' 2D/3D engine that can allow you to make a profit and work long and hard to recode it for more OS options.
The main issues are great artists, good level design, developers insight into updated cross platform support.
Other issues are the 'wait' for sound, graphics or control code to be 'fixed' after huge OS changes from open or closed developers.
The crazy rates are great for profit taking and the basic physics of too many users and the limits of any mobile network.
The consumers are trained to pay more, the bandwidth use is controlled and sold in tiny fractions at great profit. The older hardware in place can still function under the load.
The options are to free up more spectrum, build out more expensive hardware vs limit the number of users or their bandwidth.