The people with the skills have day jobs and want to enjoy time off with other projects.
The people with the skills have no jobs and want to write the code but the hardware is too expensive.
Processing is what was always done, listening to a call for keywords, known numbers used, voice print - the resulting file size kept was not huge per call, person.
The flow of data in was vast but not hard for the US and UK to balance for fast processing over a few sites around the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering really shows the end game - decades of calls reduced to a usable size under just one simple program. The next trick will be to have it made legal in US domestic courts, no more magical parallel construction needed:)
The US public understands the role of the Fourth Amendment, the role of supporting 'freedom fighters' and woke up to the rush for war in Syria before it was too late.
Thanks to Snowden the US courts are able to understand what was going on domestically and there is less cover for tame press and well funded sock puppets. http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
There is no open court "route" left in the US for cleared staff. You face the people you work for with your cleared lawyer selected from a short list of lawyers in a sealed court. He's smarter as in he saw the many who have tried before him and saw the color of law results - even with political support in sealed courts - nothing gets done or out to the tame US press. The rest is history, for academics, the press, lawyers and courts to work out in the US and around the world over time.
Better crypto for all the internet and less junk software is always a good thing:)
Its great thanks to Snowden and many others that the world can now see past terms like "metadata" and understand that they are under constant domestic watch.
In the past you had to join a political party, be near a protest, have your car licence plate seen near a protest, be found to be writing letters on political topics...have the wrong friends, family, reading the wrong material...
Now your entire digital life awaits US domestic storage, indexing, sorting and cross referencing. The next step will be domestic US legal use beyond the Parallel construction methods i.e. the vision of a generational (life long) US court friendly digital "lockbox". http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml
Any mobile phone is trackable due to the vast interest in keeping and tracking voice prints. Colombia in the early 1990's was the first real very 'public' use.
Cloning, hardware changes did not offer any protection from total telco surveillance.
That same tech is now cheap and global.
Nice talking points AC.
RE: 2. How much can you trust Snowden
Most of that would have been picked up on by http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm and many others with gov document/tech skills known/trusted by to the press around the world.
The press know they cannot publish 'junk' again and again.
The press goto people with document skills and get some background re the dates and content - too old, new, wrong format, layout, names, locations, style, fonts - something stands out if its spiked, sorted, faked, pre packaged as 'junk'.
Snowden like material has also passed an open US court thanks to the great work by http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
Thats a lot of work done by the press, in court and by diverse US political/legal viewpoints.
We are top officials of the Federal Institution for Standards Review panel who are interested in the testing of cryptography in our country with academics which are presently working in the USA. In order to commence this business, we solicit your assistance to enable us to sell into your company, the said fully tested cryptography standard.
The following represents the source of the cryptography . During the last regime in the USA, the Government officials set up departments and awarded themselves private contracts which were grossly over invoiced in various Federal grants which informed the setting up of the Conflict Records Research Agency by the present Government to advice on the aforementioned. We have identified a lot of inflated contract sums which are presently floating in the Central Bank of the USA ready for payment, amongst which is the said sum of US$10,000,000 (Ten Million United States Dollars) that we solicit your assistance for the export. As we are unable to manage the export all by ourselves by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of the Panel, I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues on the Panel to solicit for an overseas partner into whose hardware we would run the said code.
Be your generations http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote you don't have to 'trust' just understand and test.
Take your cash, skills and efforts away from the tame junk "compromised" brands and build with more interesting products, projects.
When your dystopian underlings or royal space subjects comment on aspects of a "mission" a smile, propaganda and lies can go down well.
A one way mission becomes exploration.
Creating a some new weapons system from an alien becomes productive medical research.
Staying in the USA was not an option. The security clearance US legal system would have sealed out the press, left Snowden with a perhaps some security cleared political interest and a short list of expensive cleared legal teams. Over time all his efforts would have been lost and nothing would have been public but for some note in the US press over some security case.
Snowden has helped expose junk encryption products been sold around the world and induced US law reform to slowly look into Constitutional rights:)
LOL Brazil can buy whatever it feels it can afford on the international market. The upfront price and ongoing software, hardware maintenance costs are about all Brazil has to worry about.
The Brazilian nuclear work and advanced aerospace efforts are well known and very well understood by the USA - no nuclear weapons system but the US "let" Brazil keep working on nuclear subs and aerospace:)
As for links with China, Russia most countries will buy up any mil systems for sale gov to gov at any good price and with ongoing tech support, upgrades.
So no reason at all to be interested there, Brazil like any nation can buy into what ever it feels like unless bound by some international treaty e.g. nuclear.
LOL your Forth Amendment is reduced to been cost-effective and your rights might only be statistically protected as "civil
liberties" ? So only one frame from your webcam was kept on file?
Yes recall how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office once exposed just drifted back into the shadows under new names, teams....
"However, several IAO projects continued to be funded and merely run under different names, as revealed by Edward Snowden during the course of the 2013..."
The expected "behaviour" was that the led would shine when the camera was working i.e. hardware function not software.
Some smart code would show the malware results of allowing a camera to be on with no visual feedback.
This was unexpected as the many people seem to think a US brand would have kept the hardware to camera working light link - suggested in an early external firewire model. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
"...overtly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years"
Tempest started in for real in the early 1950's by the CIA. The UK discovered the same method via a cypher machine allowing plain text. The early use by the UK was against keyboard using a microphone - e.g. Egyptian Embassy in London under an ~1956 operation called "Engulf". http://cryptome.org/tempest-time.htm
The US and UK later targeted the French embassy cypher machines in London and Washington until the early 1960's. France finally installed copper shielding in the early 1960's:)
The real trick with tempest was allowing US/UK and NATO allies to have a system safe from Soviet man in the middle attacks along a telco/radio like network but allow plain text to be totally captured as entered/printed by the NSA/GCHQ and others.
The range was a problem- acoustic, electromagnetic fields, type of power supply - a few hundred yards.
The use of microwave or laser beam systems could also be used to get some neat reverberations from a room of interest e.g. as the plain text message was typed on the keyboard.
In the 1960's the UK did their best to ensure that NATO was safe from tempest via Soviet efforts but always held back just enough information to ensure its own efforts where still usable:)
Sell junk kit to NATO allies, neutrals - get all the plain text - just like todays perfect "academic, gov and.com" passed internet junk crypto standards:)
As for the CPU and sound ?? Your US "OS", your US/UK encryption, malware all seems to be waiting for 'free' or on expensive systems:)
Slashdot Mirror
Most of the trolls and sock puppets seem to be reading from :)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-31/document-reveals-official-nsa-talking-points-use-911-attacks-sound-bite
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-02/nsas-mission-great-value-nation-complete-authorized-nsa-thanksgiving-dinner-talking-
As more Snowden docs where released their usual straw man, topic changing, the crypto is still good, 'other countries', its all legal, "its only metadata" sock puppet talking points became more and more of a joke over the weeks.
The world now knows of the junk internet encryption, the useless telco encryption, the tame US firms, the tame US staff, the tame US legal teams, the tame staff in other countries ensuring all data flows back the UK/US and many other 'friends', the lack of any real political oversight, the lack of basic crypto skill around top political leaders.
Better software, hardware, air gaps and law reform will slowly correct many of the issues
The reality of https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering is now for good lawyers to understand and consider.
LOL whistleblowing is not espionage and computer crime.
His material is working its way into the open US court system with very positive results http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
The people with the skills have day jobs and want to enjoy time off with other projects.
The people with the skills have no jobs and want to write the code but the hardware is too expensive.
Processing is what was always done, listening to a call for keywords, known numbers used, voice print - the resulting file size kept was not huge per call, person. :)
The flow of data in was vast but not hard for the US and UK to balance for fast processing over a few sites around the world.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering really shows the end game - decades of calls reduced to a usable size under just one simple program.
The next trick will be to have it made legal in US domestic courts, no more magical parallel construction needed
The GCHQ found time for Slashdot http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue-quantum-insert-attack-via-linkedin-slashdot-pages/
The US public understands the role of the Fourth Amendment, the role of supporting 'freedom fighters' and woke up to the rush for war in Syria before it was too late.
Thanks to Snowden the US courts are able to understand what was going on domestically and there is less cover for tame press and well funded sock puppets.
http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
There is no open court "route" left in the US for cleared staff. You face the people you work for with your cleared lawyer selected from a short list of lawyers in a sealed court. He's smarter as in he saw the many who have tried before him and saw the color of law results - even with political support in sealed courts - nothing gets done or out to the tame US press. The rest is history, for academics, the press, lawyers and courts to work out in the US and around the world over time. :)
Better crypto for all the internet and less junk software is always a good thing
Yes bh :) Made me recall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Loving from 1970 with the computer "dating agency".
Professor Simon Peach: Are they big? I like 'em big!
The 1985 UK TV series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness showed an interesting use of networked computers in the "Breakthrough" episode. :)
The usual modem expert at home plot to connect, break codes and download sequence often used in movies/tv was replaced by a more interesting terminal sequence.
A building with newly installed rows of networked computers was used to search files in a short time during a break in.
Another good use was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_(film) made in 1977 showing database work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldiers_(film) from ~2001 was fun too with its base personal computer files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground:_The_Julian_Assange_Story showed some innovative moments in police level computer forensics with the saving of entire modem connection session for later examination. The German movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film) had some a sequence with buying the wrong new fast computer vs the domestic power supply
The US 1975 movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor showed what could be done with limited space in an older building.
Its great thanks to Snowden and many others that the world can now see past terms like "metadata" and understand that they are under constant domestic watch.
In the past you had to join a political party, be near a protest, have your car licence plate seen near a protest, be found to be writing letters on political topics...have the wrong friends, family, reading the wrong material...
Now your entire digital life awaits US domestic storage, indexing, sorting and cross referencing. The next step will be domestic US legal use beyond the Parallel construction methods i.e. the vision of a generational (life long) US court friendly digital "lockbox".
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml
Any mobile phone is trackable due to the vast interest in keeping and tracking voice prints. Colombia in the early 1990's was the first real very 'public' use.
Cloning, hardware changes did not offer any protection from total telco surveillance.
That same tech is now cheap and global.
Metadata provided color of law cover in the USA for the NSA to try and offer parallel construction under a vast domestic surveillance. :)
Once before an open US court, ideas like collection of phone metadata become legally difficult.
http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
http://rt.com/usa/at&t-phone-surveillance-dea-325/ Hemisphere was also interesting reading
Nice talking points AC.
RE: 2. How much can you trust Snowden
Most of that would have been picked up on by http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm and many others with gov document/tech skills known/trusted by to the press around the world.
The press know they cannot publish 'junk' again and again.
The press goto people with document skills and get some background re the dates and content - too old, new, wrong format, layout, names, locations, style, fonts - something stands out if its spiked, sorted, faked, pre packaged as 'junk'.
Snowden like material has also passed an open US court thanks to the great work by http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa
Thats a lot of work done by the press, in court and by diverse US political/legal viewpoints.
We are top officials of the Federal Institution for Standards Review panel who are interested in the testing of cryptography in our country with academics which are
presently working in the USA. In order to commence this business, we solicit your assistance to enable us to sell into your company, the said fully tested cryptography standard.
The following represents the source of the cryptography . During the last regime in the USA, the Government officials set up departments and awarded themselves
private contracts which were grossly over invoiced in various Federal grants which informed the setting up of the Conflict Records Research Agency by the present Government to advice on the aforementioned.
We have identified a lot of inflated contract sums which are presently floating in the Central Bank of the USA ready for payment, amongst which is the said sum of US$10,000,000 (Ten Million United States Dollars) that we solicit your assistance for the export.
As we are unable to manage the export all by ourselves by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of the Panel, I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues on the Panel to solicit for an overseas partner into whose hardware we would run the said code.
Be your generations http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote you don't have to 'trust' just understand and test.
Take your cash, skills and efforts away from the tame junk "compromised" brands and build with more interesting products, projects.
When your dystopian underlings or royal space subjects comment on aspects of a "mission" a smile, propaganda and lies can go down well.
A one way mission becomes exploration.
Creating a some new weapons system from an alien becomes productive medical research.
Could also be for a new set of ISP users?
Staying in the USA was not an option. The security clearance US legal system would have sealed out the press, left Snowden with a perhaps some security cleared political interest and a short list of expensive cleared legal teams. :)
Over time all his efforts would have been lost and nothing would have been public but for some note in the US press over some security case.
Snowden has helped expose junk encryption products been sold around the world and induced US law reform to slowly look into Constitutional rights
LOL Brazil can buy whatever it feels it can afford on the international market. The upfront price and ongoing software, hardware maintenance costs are about all Brazil has to worry about. :)
The Brazilian nuclear work and advanced aerospace efforts are well known and very well understood by the USA - no nuclear weapons system but the US "let" Brazil keep working on nuclear subs and aerospace
As for links with China, Russia most countries will buy up any mil systems for sale gov to gov at any good price and with ongoing tech support, upgrades.
So no reason at all to be interested there, Brazil like any nation can buy into what ever it feels like unless bound by some international treaty e.g. nuclear.
LOL your Forth Amendment is reduced to been cost-effective and your rights might only be statistically protected as "civil liberties" ? So only one frame from your webcam was kept on file?
Yes recall how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office once exposed just drifted back into the shadows under new names, teams.... ..."
"However, several IAO projects continued to be funded and merely run under different names, as revealed by Edward Snowden during the course of the 2013
Yes Thanks to Snowden we have an understanding for the ~"3" now known ways into some tame US .coms: .com trunk lines (unencrypted). .com internet service. .com
1. Muscular: to collect data from US
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables/
2. Collecting from between your browser to the US
3. Prism: Asking for the data from the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Expect to see the usual sock puppets trying to avoid the "making clear that it will not in any way subvert, undermine, weaken, or make vulnerable generally available commercial encryption" aspect on page 22 of the linked pdf or the http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-phone-surveillance-likely-unconstitutional-judge ongoing US law ref or aspects.
A huge PR stunt to show one part of the collection side is now 'over' and can be quoted as been legally 'fixed'.
The expected "behaviour" was that the led would shine when the camera was working i.e. hardware function not software.
Some smart code would show the malware results of allowing a camera to be on with no visual feedback.
This was unexpected as the many people seem to think a US brand would have kept the hardware to camera working light link - suggested in an early external firewire model.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
"...overtly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years"
Tempest started in for real in the early 1950's by the CIA. The UK discovered the same method via a cypher machine allowing plain text. The early use by the UK was against keyboard using a microphone - e.g. Egyptian Embassy in London under an ~1956 operation called "Engulf". :) :) .com" passed internet junk crypto standards :) :)
http://cryptome.org/tempest-time.htm
The US and UK later targeted the French embassy cypher machines in London and Washington until the early 1960's. France finally installed copper shielding in the early 1960's
The real trick with tempest was allowing US/UK and NATO allies to have a system safe from Soviet man in the middle attacks along a telco/radio like network but allow plain text to be totally captured as entered/printed by the NSA/GCHQ and others.
The range was a problem- acoustic, electromagnetic fields, type of power supply - a few hundred yards.
The use of microwave or laser beam systems could also be used to get some neat reverberations from a room of interest e.g. as the plain text message was typed on the keyboard.
In the 1960's the UK did their best to ensure that NATO was safe from tempest via Soviet efforts but always held back just enough information to ensure its own efforts where still usable
Sell junk kit to NATO allies, neutrals - get all the plain text - just like todays perfect "academic, gov and
As for the CPU and sound ?? Your US "OS", your US/UK encryption, malware all seems to be waiting for 'free' or on expensive systems