Re GPS and cell jammers:
Guess the cops will have to buy into larger frequency hopping beacons that try a few different types of triangulation - gps, cell and other gov or private tracking networks.
With that comes a larger battery too i.e. the bullet might have to grow to be a bigger beacon?
In the end laws will be altered for a new car to have http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-28/big-brother-coming-your-car with an encrypted ignition override.
The cops will network into the car and stop it.
Try and remove the blackbox and the car of interest will be more tricky to start.
Guess its back to using a truck to "recover" the car.
It may go back to the days of film, music (physical, expensive and had to be copied).
So you had the heavy lifting of regional languages, fonts, packaging, censorship and media distribution done by locals - say in Canada or UK or Australia or Spain.
e.g. select groups and individuals got very, very rich getting "used" US cinema "film" months later and showing it months later in their region.
They thought this dreamy captured market would go on forever with neat digital legal deals for their regions.
The Australian pay tv vs digital downloads was one example. http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/14/foxtel-locks-up-game-of-thrones-no-more-fast-tracked-itunes-downloads/
I was thinking back to the US/Japan chip and OS trade 'deals'/war in the mid to late 1980's to early 1990's. Wondering if the UK got the same special US political treatments? Recall how Japan was emerging with RAM, CPU and even some OS export options and then 'nothing'.
Yes MI6 and SAS teams on the ground world wide "hunting" the free press with help from the GCHQ? Did that work out well for the East Germans and KGB vs their dissents in the free West?
Did the truth just stop with each successful mission from the Soviet Union?
Any day in open court will be a joke as the UK gov is forced to admit the material is 100% real and very admissible.
A closed UK court is even more of a joke - then the legal reform starts and more material leaks in protest.
One member of the UK press is legally disappered for 20 years as a warning? Sealed court case, all the UK court staff have clearances:) Its a real powerful win until the Hollywood movie and new leaks
Did the truth just stop with each court case in 1960's South Africa?
Soviet option...closed court or show trial...
What can the US do? Send a "crew" into Russia and hand Russia a PR victory if successful or if caught?
Its win win for Russia and they know not to touch any of the 'gifted' material too.
Mostly POW issues from Iraq, the legality of wars, the use of the SAS, black sites and select not so legal weapons sales going back decades.
There is also a lot of MI6/MI5/SAS/FBI views on weapons shipments via the USA old news from the Ireland years.
Domestic surveillance is well understood by the UK press so the 'block' would be over much more interesting stories.
The UK could not stop the US press in the 1930's on UK domestic news. In 2013 the UK gov wants to try again?
With the BASIC, BBC computer literacy project hardware and software. So many where been offered that once in a generation access to emerging tech.
It seems the US did *something* to ensure an uptake of their educational brands at a competitive price.
The UK computing is now the plaything of expensive US brands, the NSA and junk encryption.
With UK end users simply tapping, pressing and consuming US products and apps.
Higher education teaching UK generations how to use junk US encryption and been locked into a life of expensive US programming software.
The exceptionally dull weirdos could have saved many in the UK from global snooping with more secure domestic code.
The UK had a vibrant cassette and code magazine marketplace with very skilled computer entrepreneurs.
My advice for any UK IT press story is to look into who activily slowed/sold out the UK computer market and let the US in for free.
Whats interesting:
Germany selected a German firm to keep the voice part secure (after 2007 till 2009?).
Later the text part was secured by the same German firm (2010?)
Finally the e-mail and sensitive data aspect was also closed up in 2012?
Beyond that was the public key method for key agreement via dedicated landline phone for the real chats classified as top secret.
So the NSA got in very easy to text and data until a more complete German solution was ready for the lower level restricted phone.
Why did Germany take a 3 part upgrade cycle for the one/only phone they really had to get sort of secure?
The selection of a German firm founded in 2007 is telling too. They did not go with a gov solution or a big German brand..for the one/only phone they really had to get secure first time and do it in one step?.
The interface? Power usage? Or the Germans recall Enigma and will never full trust US/UK tech again and played a game?
This is also very telling of the NSA skill set and what is reflected back to the US gov - WOW the top secret super German phone was 'hacked'.
vs Germany took its time in trying to get any working encryption over 2 phone over a few years for text, data and emails.
i.e. with the correct number and the US having a total understanding of the EU phone network it was more "celebrity' vs 'press' hacking?
But wait http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/spionage/obama-billigt-lauschangriff-auf-merkel-33140378.bild.html talks of the NSA having real skills.
The US broke the encrypted phone too:) http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/spionage/obama-billigt-lauschangriff-auf-merkel-33140378.bild.html
"Die Amerikaner knackten den Informationen zufolge auch das neue, angeblich abhörsichere Handy"
So Germany has top tech staff handing out 'generations' of encryption and even when encryption is offered its junk.
How good is Germany feeling about its cute looking, approved secure landline telephone (unit does telephone, fax, data and video communication)? Same staff look after that too? US/UK trained staff?
So did the German high command sell out to the US seeing its own political leaders as untrustworthy?
Did the German high command not understand what the USA will always do with any encryption it can find?
Did the German high command sell out to the US, tell the German political leaders and feed the US digital junk that the NSA/CIA reported back as 100% pure fact?
Would Germany be that silly? Would the CIA be that trusting with such a win?
The contractor count with new clearances in the past 10 years is up a lot. "1000" "in surveillance" analysts at NSA would be the inner core of crypto experts, the people who shape global telco standards with mil experts and language people too.
i.e. if the US gov wants to give out a small number they class "in surveillance" as the smallest set of full time top staff.
The tracking is bought on the open market in bulk, fed in vis the states or federal gov or foreign helper nations. http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/clear-2012.pdf page 4 has some numbers in both gov and contractor on table 2.
Page 6 gives some pending security clearance investigations FBI and NSA numbers.
Add in public private partnerships, state "staff", former staff who can be re activated in hours, a contractor with the ability to help "clear" all staff under them. - thats hundred of thousands of US workers
Once you ratio that out by overall political active members of the US population the numbers start getting East German like.
If you don't have a security clearance post and educate people all you can. If you do have a security clearance welcome to the new digital East Germany:)
Yes expect to see a lot more past generation patched up white box solutions with open source software on 'more' cheap prosumer hardware vs low power, fast, new bespoke US solutions.
The GCHQ always held the view that letting people know they are been watched changes everything and went to great lengths never to be seen in the press or courts too much.
Better to get info out as to ensure a flow of intel was always safe for much larger issues.
The UK political class wanted action - over Soviet embassy staff before WW2, in WW2, with spies in the cold war, in Ireland. The GCHQ always seemed able to keep from been seen too much until the 1980/90's with new crime fighting efforts. The UK police, press and courts noted something amazing - EU wide tracking, complex computer logs and strange new 'experts' with no pasts.
The people been watched quickly found out thanks to 'friends' in the police/gov/press and the GCHQ was proven right - don't use the data in such a direct way.
The political class is addicted to the ~"GCHQ" like files they read as they have been since the 1930's. The real mystery is the feelings of the big telcos 'brands".
The big telcos are no longer just UK exchanges owned by the UK public with technicians helping with a phone or a duplicate new UK/US telco satellite system.
If the long term top telco staff have two hats - on for the UK gov and one with the 'brand' as a day job - what else was reported on internal to the 'brand'?
Cold I think the Snowden news has put the 'limited by time, space, and resources" aspect to rest.
The 'limited number of staff" seems to have been fixed by many quickly cleared outside contractors over the past 10 years or so:)
Re "all knowing, all seeing, all powerful, super competent" - that would be a billing database of all calls for life. Something we know about too.
As for the Affordable Care Act and the GCHQ... ask the CIA?
Yes ex gov staff, private contractors and telco officials will on the open market with the codes, skills and tech. The offers will be lucrative and never ending.
What will the EU admins be able to do against hardware NSA backdoors in the EU telco systems been repurposed by any interest party?
The UK and Uk conducted many overflights, from Turbulent Turtle in 1950, to the idea of using Canberra aircraft, later the ship Eger was fitted out by the NSA (and a front company as cover), i.e. Norway and Sweden where active but cautious in their permission. Ferret flights where common as well as many unique submarine missions. In the 1950's GCHQ and the NSA hoped the Soviet Union would never have airborne radar ready i.e. darkness would be all that was needed but the created ground alerts would allow for the mapping for air defences as activated. The UK lost Avro Lincolns in the early 1950's in Germany just inside the the Soviet Zone. By 1955 Soviet airborne radar existed but was discovered in flight. As for subs the UK really went for Murmansk, i.e. getting into Soviet harbours.. by the mid 1950s the US was trying too. Later the well known U2 flights.
All very brave people using ~end of ww2 equipment extended for new roles and very underfunded. It builds a picture for the generation mil links between the NSA, GCHQ and EU/NATO cleared staff.
It all sounds very Soviet focused and mil. Thanks to Snowden the reality of the domestic telco deals become part of that history too:) The price for help was domestic telco access.
The UK had an electronics intelligence agreement with Sweden - a swap of airborne electronics intelligence collection for ground station work i.e. third party.
Re But in every other country, your spies are criminals.
What about the local staff helping with maintenance or contract work at very secure telco sites in the EU? If they sold out the US and UK - who next for the right price?
Where the USA/UK got in, so will Russia, China, then banks, big pharma, agribusiness, oil, a few foreign princes and then drugs and organised crime.
Thanks to the junk US export crypto you will have a lot of groups buying into the same EU telco networks and software.
The problem for the EU is they now know their NATO generals are more loyal to the USA and seem to have taken segments of the EU telecommunications industry with them.
The EU now has their own EU generational telco staff reconnecting the EU communications networks for a few foreign governments.
Who can EU courts trust as expert witnesses? Who can EU political leaders trust during hearings to provide any form of a truthful statements?
Who can a right/right wing or centre EU political leader trust in their own office not to be helping a foreign government if they call for an investigation?
Can they trust their security detail to look after their phones? Who selected and worked with the security staff?
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for Russia? Russia might offer a better gas deal for information on just a few escaped business oligarchs.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for China? China might offer a better export deals for information on a few separatists or cult members.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for a multinational? A multinational might offer a larger amount of export jobs for information on trade unions, environmentalists or peace groups.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for a bank? A bank might offer some top regional jobs for information on any embarrassing tax investigations.
Once the rot in the mil/private/public telecommunications sets in - haggling about the price is the only real question.
Yes even with all the new easy low cost (price and power usage) cpu's for https, cheap bandwidth and less time per encrypted page its still not totally 'free in cost' for a host.
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Re GPS and cell jammers:
Guess the cops will have to buy into larger frequency hopping beacons that try a few different types of triangulation - gps, cell and other gov or private tracking networks.
With that comes a larger battery too i.e. the bullet might have to grow to be a bigger beacon?
In the end laws will be altered for a new car to have http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-28/big-brother-coming-your-car with an encrypted ignition override.
The cops will network into the car and stop it.
Try and remove the blackbox and the car of interest will be more tricky to start.
Guess its back to using a truck to "recover" the car.
It may go back to the days of film, music (physical, expensive and had to be copied) .
So you had the heavy lifting of regional languages, fonts, packaging, censorship and media distribution done by locals - say in Canada or UK or Australia or Spain.
e.g. select groups and individuals got very, very rich getting "used" US cinema "film" months later and showing it months later in their region.
They thought this dreamy captured market would go on forever with neat digital legal deals for their regions.
The Australian pay tv vs digital downloads was one example.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/14/foxtel-locks-up-game-of-thrones-no-more-fast-tracked-itunes-downloads/
I was thinking back to the US/Japan chip and OS trade 'deals'/war in the mid to late 1980's to early 1990's. Wondering if the UK got the same special US political treatments? Recall how Japan was emerging with RAM, CPU and even some OS export options and then 'nothing'.
Yes MI6 and SAS teams on the ground world wide "hunting" the free press with help from the GCHQ? Did that work out well for the East Germans and KGB vs their dissents in the free West? :) Its a real powerful win until the Hollywood movie and new leaks ...
Did the truth just stop with each successful mission from the Soviet Union?
Any day in open court will be a joke as the UK gov is forced to admit the material is 100% real and very admissible.
A closed UK court is even more of a joke - then the legal reform starts and more material leaks in protest.
One member of the UK press is legally disappered for 20 years as a warning? Sealed court case, all the UK court staff have clearances
Did the truth just stop with each court case in 1960's South Africa?
Soviet option...closed court or show trial
What can the US do? Send a "crew" into Russia and hand Russia a PR victory if successful or if caught?
Its win win for Russia and they know not to touch any of the 'gifted' material too.
Mostly POW issues from Iraq, the legality of wars, the use of the SAS, black sites and select not so legal weapons sales going back decades.
There is also a lot of MI6/MI5/SAS/FBI views on weapons shipments via the USA old news from the Ireland years.
Domestic surveillance is well understood by the UK press so the 'block' would be over much more interesting stories.
The UK could not stop the US press in the 1930's on UK domestic news. In 2013 the UK gov wants to try again?
With the BASIC, BBC computer literacy project hardware and software. So many where been offered that once in a generation access to emerging tech.
It seems the US did *something* to ensure an uptake of their educational brands at a competitive price.
The UK computing is now the plaything of expensive US brands, the NSA and junk encryption.
With UK end users simply tapping, pressing and consuming US products and apps.
Higher education teaching UK generations how to use junk US encryption and been locked into a life of expensive US programming software.
The exceptionally dull weirdos could have saved many in the UK from global snooping with more secure domestic code.
The UK had a vibrant cassette and code magazine marketplace with very skilled computer entrepreneurs.
My advice for any UK IT press story is to look into who activily slowed/sold out the UK computer market and let the US in for free.
Germany will just treat the USA like it did East Germany - route around it.
Thats the way out. Vote for any other party/person outside the 2 main parties.
Whats interesting: :)
Germany selected a German firm to keep the voice part secure (after 2007 till 2009?).
Later the text part was secured by the same German firm (2010?)
Finally the e-mail and sensitive data aspect was also closed up in 2012?
Beyond that was the public key method for key agreement via dedicated landline phone for the real chats classified as top secret.
So the NSA got in very easy to text and data until a more complete German solution was ready for the lower level restricted phone.
Why did Germany take a 3 part upgrade cycle for the one/only phone they really had to get sort of secure?
The selection of a German firm founded in 2007 is telling too. They did not go with a gov solution or a big German brand..for the one/only phone they really had to get secure first time and do it in one step?.
The interface? Power usage? Or the Germans recall Enigma and will never full trust US/UK tech again and played a game?
This is also very telling of the NSA skill set and what is reflected back to the US gov - WOW the top secret super German phone was 'hacked'.
vs Germany took its time in trying to get any working encryption over 2 phone over a few years for text, data and emails.
i.e. with the correct number and the US having a total understanding of the EU phone network it was more "celebrity' vs 'press' hacking?
But wait http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/spionage/obama-billigt-lauschangriff-auf-merkel-33140378.bild.html talks of the NSA having real skills.
The US broke the encrypted phone too
http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/spionage/obama-billigt-lauschangriff-auf-merkel-33140378.bild.html
"Die Amerikaner knackten den Informationen zufolge auch das neue, angeblich abhörsichere Handy"
So Germany has top tech staff handing out 'generations' of encryption and even when encryption is offered its junk.
How good is Germany feeling about its cute looking, approved secure landline telephone (unit does telephone, fax, data and video communication)? Same staff look after that too? US/UK trained staff?
So did the German high command sell out to the US seeing its own political leaders as untrustworthy?
Did the German high command not understand what the USA will always do with any encryption it can find?
Did the German high command sell out to the US, tell the German political leaders and feed the US digital junk that the NSA/CIA reported back as 100% pure fact?
Would Germany be that silly? Would the CIA be that trusting with such a win?
The contractor count with new clearances in the past 10 years is up a lot. "1000" "in surveillance" analysts at NSA would be the inner core of crypto experts, the people who shape global telco standards with mil experts and language people too.
i.e. if the US gov wants to give out a small number they class "in surveillance" as the smallest set of full time top staff.
The tracking is bought on the open market in bulk, fed in vis the states or federal gov or foreign helper nations.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/clear-2012.pdf page 4 has some numbers in both gov and contractor on table 2.
Page 6 gives some pending security clearance investigations FBI and NSA numbers.
Add in public private partnerships, state "staff", former staff who can be re activated in hours, a contractor with the ability to help "clear" all staff under them. - thats hundred of thousands of US workers
Once you ratio that out by overall political active members of the US population the numbers start getting East German like.
Make sure you have full messenger contact lists and use the terms NSA and GCHQ a lot :)
If you don't have a security clearance post and educate people all you can. If you do have a security clearance welcome to the new digital East Germany :)
Yes expect to see a lot more past generation patched up white box solutions with open source software on 'more' cheap prosumer hardware vs low power, fast, new bespoke US solutions.
The US gov is still at the exchange/isp level with your first and last ip hop. Encryption is just a glowing sign to the NSA to 'look' and track'.
Yes some very complex front companies where used for staff - and Russia is littered with the wrecks of the airframes.
The GCHQ always held the view that letting people know they are been watched changes everything and went to great lengths never to be seen in the press or courts too much.
Better to get info out as to ensure a flow of intel was always safe for much larger issues.
The UK political class wanted action - over Soviet embassy staff before WW2, in WW2, with spies in the cold war, in Ireland. The GCHQ always seemed able to keep from been seen too much until the 1980/90's with new crime fighting efforts. The UK police, press and courts noted something amazing - EU wide tracking, complex computer logs and strange new 'experts' with no pasts.
The people been watched quickly found out thanks to 'friends' in the police/gov/press and the GCHQ was proven right - don't use the data in such a direct way.
The political class is addicted to the ~"GCHQ" like files they read as they have been since the 1930's. The real mystery is the feelings of the big telcos 'brands".
The big telcos are no longer just UK exchanges owned by the UK public with technicians helping with a phone or a duplicate new UK/US telco satellite system.
If the long term top telco staff have two hats - on for the UK gov and one with the 'brand' as a day job - what else was reported on internal to the 'brand'?
Cold I think the Snowden news has put the 'limited by time, space, and resources" aspect to rest. :) ... ask the CIA?
The 'limited number of staff" seems to have been fixed by many quickly cleared outside contractors over the past 10 years or so
Re "all knowing, all seeing, all powerful, super competent" - that would be a billing database of all calls for life. Something we know about too.
As for the Affordable Care Act and the GCHQ
Yes ex gov staff, private contractors and telco officials will on the open market with the codes, skills and tech. The offers will be lucrative and never ending.
What will the EU admins be able to do against hardware NSA backdoors in the EU telco systems been repurposed by any interest party?
The UK and Uk conducted many overflights, from Turbulent Turtle in 1950, to the idea of using Canberra aircraft, later the ship Eger was fitted out by the NSA (and a front company as cover), i.e. Norway and Sweden where active but cautious in their permission. Ferret flights where common as well as many unique submarine missions. In the 1950's GCHQ and the NSA hoped the Soviet Union would never have airborne radar ready i.e. darkness would be all that was needed but the created ground alerts would allow for the mapping for air defences as activated. The UK lost Avro Lincolns in the early 1950's in Germany just inside the the Soviet Zone. By 1955 Soviet airborne radar existed but was discovered in flight. As for subs the UK really went for Murmansk, i.e. getting into Soviet harbours.. by the mid 1950s the US was trying too. Later the well known U2 flights. :) The price for help was domestic telco access.
All very brave people using ~end of ww2 equipment extended for new roles and very underfunded. It builds a picture for the generation mil links between the NSA, GCHQ and EU/NATO cleared staff.
It all sounds very Soviet focused and mil. Thanks to Snowden the reality of the domestic telco deals become part of that history too
The UK had an electronics intelligence agreement with Sweden - a swap of airborne electronics intelligence collection for ground station work i.e. third party.
Re But in every other country, your spies are criminals.
What about the local staff helping with maintenance or contract work at very secure telco sites in the EU? If they sold out the US and UK - who next for the right price?
Where the USA/UK got in, so will Russia, China, then banks, big pharma, agribusiness, oil, a few foreign princes and then drugs and organised crime.
Thanks to the junk US export crypto you will have a lot of groups buying into the same EU telco networks and software.
The problem for the EU is they now know their NATO generals are more loyal to the USA and seem to have taken segments of the EU telecommunications industry with them.
The EU now has their own EU generational telco staff reconnecting the EU communications networks for a few foreign governments.
Who can EU courts trust as expert witnesses? Who can EU political leaders trust during hearings to provide any form of a truthful statements?
Who can a right/right wing or centre EU political leader trust in their own office not to be helping a foreign government if they call for an investigation?
Can they trust their security detail to look after their phones? Who selected and worked with the security staff?
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for Russia? Russia might offer a better gas deal for information on just a few escaped business oligarchs.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for China? China might offer a better export deals for information on a few separatists or cult members.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for a multinational? A multinational might offer a larger amount of export jobs for information on trade unions, environmentalists or peace groups.
If top EU staff did this for the USA at one point in time, would they do it for a bank? A bank might offer some top regional jobs for information on any embarrassing tax investigations.
Once the rot in the mil/private/public telecommunications sets in - haggling about the price is the only real question.
Yes even with all the new easy low cost (price and power usage) cpu's for https, cheap bandwidth and less time per encrypted page its still not totally 'free in cost' for a host.