Cold he was GCHQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams press mentions he was seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service ~MI6.
The press hinted at NSA, FBI past work too, with the GCHQ part been a bit more 'left' out of some news reports:)
To be trusted by the US is interesting too.
The inquest seems like that of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
For all the fun of a security clearance, contractor or permeant staff I wonder how many people who rushed to join in the past 15 years really understand what they signed up for.
I guess it depends on the terms "establish" and "train" and the name/branding/flag of the 'freedom fighters" at the time CF:) http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development
"The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook (Foreign Secretary in the UK from 1997–2001)
ie..." literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."
Yes expect to see a lot of front organisations offering US legal and press advice.
Security cleared, stay in the USA, talk to the press and congress will 'protect you'.
Security cleared just means your trial will be in a closed court.
Staying in the USA subjects you to color of law.
The tame press will re work your interview into strange soundbites.
Congress will 'protect you' all the way to your closed court with a short list of security cleared lawyers to select from.
Fake leads seem harder after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_forgery... the press now knows to look into docs a bit more now:)
Like East Germany the US will allow its press total freedoms but over time the press will get the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters message.
Yes teams where trained to fight the Soviet Union with very old SAM tech like Blow Pipe in the UK.
Thats why it all fits back together again in Syria with arms shipments and supporting external 'freedom fighters'.
DSD swapped to been the Australian Signals Directorate ASD, guess they made the press too much under DSD?
Historically Sweden's FRA liked helping the GCHQ but they where also aware that NATO was watching their crypto exports, staff and brands.
Long term Sweden wants to trade its cold war help (like Germany) for NSA/GCHQ consideration just under the 5 eyes.
Revolutionary and dangerous might fit past quotes:).
With todays: files of people to be droned, indefinite detention, domestic warrantless surveillance, no lawyers, double tap drone tactics, extraordinary rendition, torture....a tame press and junk cryptography on mainstream OS..
Treason seems fitting:)
Cold you do understand that any regime in power can label any activity it likes disruptive and ensure the full force of the UK is focused on the person.
You may recall US political sympathy of the IRA or is that forgetting already? Where one gov is 'looking for terrorists' in your terms another side of politics sees classic freedom fighters.
The FSB is already running too many GCHQ, MI6, MI5, CIA, ASIO and NSA full term employes with real long term career advancement opportunities.
Where the NSA and CIA went for signals intelligence contractors, FSB stayed with the skilled gov staff.
MI6 knows from the Russians to look after the tame US press. A good MI6 press asset can subject the entire US population to creative UK propaganda over a life of quality work.
Where the CIA has to publicly get the US to befriend a world of juntas and dictators, MI6 just has to befriend a few in the press to shape nations.
Step 1 Use an NSA contracter leak to establish credentials using older operations and long suspected systems.
Step 2 Create a new centre of leaking excellence.
Step 3 Request any new leakers give identity and full encrypted data dump first.
Step 4 Round up majority of new leakers on average but know to keep up appearances with via outraged sock puppets, MI5,6, NSA and congresscritters.
Step 5 Work with govs on any 'show' releases over many tens of years, questioning all encryption, spreading doubt.
Step 6 Profit for all.
Depends on the part of the world. Buy a ticket from a driver, costly.
Swipe a pre paid card, less costly.
Pension and its much reduced. Some countries even have travel free times for eligible seniors.
AC that small bus could be an export winner. More fun than looking up at domestic surveillance drones, blimps while stuck in traffic and counting the mpg.
Even booking aspect and the flow of busses could be useful for set transport networks.
Weapons systems, contractors, aerospace, telco, medical equipment, computer software (with free NSA inside).
The USA has basically settled into a top 10% doing engineering work for top $ and having it "made in China" or Laos or Indonesia.
Great if you have a double degree paid off or generational trust fund. So the products are been created, just not from the USA beyond design.
The US has the software, talent and creativity to rule the world but the world is moving on to more fun things:)
The world dreams of small busses not another export shipment of boondoggled small US tanks for their generals to park at a base.
People faced down the KGB and Stasi. Confidence and laughter seems to be the traits most gov agents are profiled around and react to.
Total domestic surveillance by agencies tasked to watch codes and distant lands is now a fact.
Whats left for most govs at the end?
Pepper spray? Water cannon? Baton charges and police hiding their badge numbers waring masks? Small tanks with LRAD running? Rubber bullets in suburbia?
The optics in a video streaming world quickly add up. The days of capturing the one camera (film or video) at a protest are over.
An enraged officer has a bad day during the later interview and the recording is 'lost'?
Then the deaths in custody, sealed coffins, free cremations and lack of pathologist reports start to add up with the middle class.
It really depends who is in power and what they retrospectively term 'illegal".
Your too faith based or left leaning community efforts? That charity you gave to is now an ongoing tax related investigation. The anti war protest you drove by on the way to work and 'stopped' to support - your in the system.
Why dont you support the freedom fighters?
Very powerful and vindictive political parties often reach out when in power. Thats why you dont want them reading your "mail", just as in the US Constitution
AC the next step is the 'locked box' and a vision of using data in open US courts. No more having to hide Hemisphere like efforts. http://rt.com/usa/at&t-phone-surveillance-dea-325/
The complexity of parallel construction, underfunded legal teams and courts that convict at lot would get around most of the in public court 'dragged off' comments.
If not a NSL solves your "show me one example" sock puppet question.
Thanks to Snowden the world can see the project names, term, software and hardware to enable a domestic surveillance state.
Where the US legal profession stands or can comment could be based on chilling NSL efforts.
You also have a layer of security cleared lawyers who guide US whistleblowers to US politicians and closed security cleared courts.
The soothing trap of been told to stay in the USA, you will be protected - the cases just vanish into the bureaucracy.
LOL AC. Really, read how the press and govs go over the docs sometime. http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm
Its been pre sorted before release.
The authorities in the UK and US make a very public fuss but the printing presses and website still publish.
Recall how the upper and middle class faced a real risk of their young men been drafted?
The escape was eduction, faith or leaving the US vs death, been wounded or returning damaged in some other way.
They protested and changed the domestic optics to a point where the US mil had to rethink its many options.
The draft risk is lower and a lot more people feel the middle class is no longer in the 'war' mix.
So now the protesters are watched, tracked and infiltrated, turned before they can gain traction.
Its the same with the NSA, people are looking at code, academics, brands and trying to find the junk gov code.
So the public is outraged, just at every expression of their anger they confront sockpupptes, police, gov and agents provocateurs.
The public is quickly persuaded not to risk been seen protesting.
The USA is at the 1970 East Germany, 1975 South Africa moment, the power of the gov can still isolate you.
The NSA grew and shaped digital thinking on US domestic telco networks and world wide interconnects. There are no historical usage "bumps" for the NSA inside its own network - the USA.
The only unhappy time for the US and UK was a very short period in the 1950's when the Soviet Union strangely used onetime pads and kept its communications chatter down.
Apart of the odd break down or political issues with NZ or the UK the US has always seemed to keep pace by setting telco standards before bandwidth issues became an issue.
Its easy when the world has to catch up with your systems years later.
The trunk lines are limited in number and the telcos, software and hardware makers tame.
As sudden break downs in bad weather or flooding shows, US public telcos dont really overbuild or diversify their networks much. Just massive local branding duplication in some profitable regions and long isolated interconnect spans. The dream of any surveillance state.
The classic hardened military lines and NSA regional centres would be massively overbuilt with bandwidth wrt the basic public networks they log.
The problem is the US domestic drag net and lack of Constitutional protections. The weak telco laws of other countries are internal issues. If they collect all their telco data at one point and gift to the NSA, thats not a reflection on US Constitutional protections. Other counties give their citizens data away to the USA for many reasons.
They might get better rates on US military upgrades. Their troops get to take part in more advanced projects.
Their experts get something back over the years on unrelated areas of interest.
Their general staff like the travel, US tax payer funded equipment and meetings.
Australia and New Zealand both were signed on early and are addicted to the US data streams. Germany hopes to get something back if they just offer all their data for a few more decades.
The other aspect is the trade deals. With the US gov pushing the privacy and security of buying into US cloud products. Its hard to legally say no.
The NSA could have had it all if they just stayed away from domestic US surveillance as they always trained their staff to.
As a Foreigner, load up your IM with US citizens. 100's of them:) Sit back, be politically active and as you make watch lists, your IM list follows you.
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Cold he was GCHQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams press mentions he was seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service ~MI6. :)
The press hinted at NSA, FBI past work too, with the GCHQ part been a bit more 'left' out of some news reports
To be trusted by the US is interesting too.
The inquest seems like that of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
For all the fun of a security clearance, contractor or permeant staff I wonder how many people who rushed to join in the past 15 years really understand what they signed up for.
I guess it depends on the terms "establish" and "train" and the name/branding/flag of the 'freedom fighters" at the time CF :) ..." literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development
"The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook (Foreign Secretary in the UK from 1997–2001)
ie
Yes expect to see a lot of front organisations offering US legal and press advice. ... the press now knows to look into docs a bit more now :)
Security cleared, stay in the USA, talk to the press and congress will 'protect you'.
Security cleared just means your trial will be in a closed court.
Staying in the USA subjects you to color of law.
The tame press will re work your interview into strange soundbites.
Congress will 'protect you' all the way to your closed court with a short list of security cleared lawyers to select from.
Fake leads seem harder after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_forgery
Like East Germany the US will allow its press total freedoms but over time the press will get the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters message.
Depends how you relate the issue to past people with unique information facing governments.
Costas Tsalikidis, the Greek telco whistleblower was found hanged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Tsalikidis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004-2005
Adamo Bove head of security at Telecom Italia who exposed the CIA renditions via cell phones ‘fell’ to his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the D.C. Madam was found hanged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey
Yes teams where trained to fight the Soviet Union with very old SAM tech like Blow Pipe in the UK.
Thats why it all fits back together again in Syria with arms shipments and supporting external 'freedom fighters'.
DSD swapped to been the Australian Signals Directorate ASD, guess they made the press too much under DSD?
Historically Sweden's FRA liked helping the GCHQ but they where also aware that NATO was watching their crypto exports, staff and brands.
Long term Sweden wants to trade its cold war help (like Germany) for NSA/GCHQ consideration just under the 5 eyes.
Revolutionary and dangerous might fit past quotes :). :)
With todays: files of people to be droned, indefinite detention, domestic warrantless surveillance, no lawyers, double tap drone tactics, extraordinary rendition, torture....a tame press and junk cryptography on mainstream OS..
Treason seems fitting
Cold you do understand that any regime in power can label any activity it likes disruptive and ensure the full force of the UK is focused on the person.
You may recall US political sympathy of the IRA or is that forgetting already? Where one gov is 'looking for terrorists' in your terms another side of politics sees classic freedom fighters.
The FSB is already running too many GCHQ, MI6, MI5, CIA, ASIO and NSA full term employes with real long term career advancement opportunities.
Where the NSA and CIA went for signals intelligence contractors, FSB stayed with the skilled gov staff.
Expensive, unique, proprietary, complex software is going to seek out traces of the military industrial complex and its best software contractors.
MI6 knows from the Russians to look after the tame US press. A good MI6 press asset can subject the entire US population to creative UK propaganda over a life of quality work.
Where the CIA has to publicly get the US to befriend a world of juntas and dictators, MI6 just has to befriend a few in the press to shape nations.
Step 1 Use an NSA contracter leak to establish credentials using older operations and long suspected systems.
Step 2 Create a new centre of leaking excellence.
Step 3 Request any new leakers give identity and full encrypted data dump first.
Step 4 Round up majority of new leakers on average but know to keep up appearances with via outraged sock puppets, MI5,6, NSA and congresscritters.
Step 5 Work with govs on any 'show' releases over many tens of years, questioning all encryption, spreading doubt.
Step 6 Profit for all.
Depends on the part of the world. Buy a ticket from a driver, costly.
Swipe a pre paid card, less costly.
Pension and its much reduced. Some countries even have travel free times for eligible seniors.
AC that small bus could be an export winner. More fun than looking up at domestic surveillance drones, blimps while stuck in traffic and counting the mpg.
Even booking aspect and the flow of busses could be useful for set transport networks.
Weapons systems, contractors, aerospace, telco, medical equipment, computer software (with free NSA inside). :)
The USA has basically settled into a top 10% doing engineering work for top $ and having it "made in China" or Laos or Indonesia.
Great if you have a double degree paid off or generational trust fund. So the products are been created, just not from the USA beyond design.
The US has the software, talent and creativity to rule the world but the world is moving on to more fun things
The world dreams of small busses not another export shipment of boondoggled small US tanks for their generals to park at a base.
People faced down the KGB and Stasi. Confidence and laughter seems to be the traits most gov agents are profiled around and react to.
Total domestic surveillance by agencies tasked to watch codes and distant lands is now a fact.
Whats left for most govs at the end? Pepper spray? Water cannon? Baton charges and police hiding their badge numbers waring masks? Small tanks with LRAD running? Rubber bullets in suburbia? The optics in a video streaming world quickly add up. The days of capturing the one camera (film or video) at a protest are over.
An enraged officer has a bad day during the later interview and the recording is 'lost'?
Then the deaths in custody, sealed coffins, free cremations and lack of pathologist reports start to add up with the middle class.
It really depends who is in power and what they retrospectively term 'illegal".
Your too faith based or left leaning community efforts? That charity you gave to is now an ongoing tax related investigation. The anti war protest you drove by on the way to work and 'stopped' to support - your in the system.
Why dont you support the freedom fighters?
Very powerful and vindictive political parties often reach out when in power. Thats why you dont want them reading your "mail", just as in the US Constitution
AC the next step is the 'locked box' and a vision of using data in open US courts. No more having to hide Hemisphere like efforts.
http://rt.com/usa/at&t-phone-surveillance-dea-325/
The complexity of parallel construction, underfunded legal teams and courts that convict at lot would get around most of the in public court 'dragged off' comments.
If not a NSL solves your "show me one example" sock puppet question.
Thanks to Snowden the world can see the project names, term, software and hardware to enable a domestic surveillance state.
Where the US legal profession stands or can comment could be based on chilling NSL efforts.
You also have a layer of security cleared lawyers who guide US whistleblowers to US politicians and closed security cleared courts.
The soothing trap of been told to stay in the USA, you will be protected - the cases just vanish into the bureaucracy.
LOL AC. Really, read how the press and govs go over the docs sometime.
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm
Its been pre sorted before release.
The authorities in the UK and US make a very public fuss but the printing presses and website still publish.
Recall how the upper and middle class faced a real risk of their young men been drafted?
The escape was eduction, faith or leaving the US vs death, been wounded or returning damaged in some other way.
They protested and changed the domestic optics to a point where the US mil had to rethink its many options.
The draft risk is lower and a lot more people feel the middle class is no longer in the 'war' mix.
So now the protesters are watched, tracked and infiltrated, turned before they can gain traction.
Its the same with the NSA, people are looking at code, academics, brands and trying to find the junk gov code.
So the public is outraged, just at every expression of their anger they confront sockpupptes, police, gov and agents provocateurs.
The public is quickly persuaded not to risk been seen protesting.
The USA is at the 1970 East Germany, 1975 South Africa moment, the power of the gov can still isolate you.
The NSA grew and shaped digital thinking on US domestic telco networks and world wide interconnects. There are no historical usage "bumps" for the NSA inside its own network - the USA.
The only unhappy time for the US and UK was a very short period in the 1950's when the Soviet Union strangely used onetime pads and kept its communications chatter down.
Apart of the odd break down or political issues with NZ or the UK the US has always seemed to keep pace by setting telco standards before bandwidth issues became an issue.
Its easy when the world has to catch up with your systems years later.
The trunk lines are limited in number and the telcos, software and hardware makers tame.
As sudden break downs in bad weather or flooding shows, US public telcos dont really overbuild or diversify their networks much. Just massive local branding duplication in some profitable regions and long isolated interconnect spans. The dream of any surveillance state.
The classic hardened military lines and NSA regional centres would be massively overbuilt with bandwidth wrt the basic public networks they log.
The leadership of NATO will never let their governments escape the NSA. The best that will happen is a very public telco rebuild. From one hub 'known' (Frankfurt) to link to the NSA, new domestic only hubs will open as national 'data' protecting loops. The contractors will have any new systems wired back to the NSA from day one.
"Comms giant pushes anti-spy network"
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20131014-52385.html
http://www.dw.de/telekom-hopes-to-stave-off-nsa-snoops-by-keeping-internet-traffic-in-germany/a-17154274
http://rt.com/news/deutsche-telekom-internet-spies-176/
The problem is the US domestic drag net and lack of Constitutional protections. The weak telco laws of other countries are internal issues. If they collect all their telco data at one point and gift to the NSA, thats not a reflection on US Constitutional protections. Other counties give their citizens data away to the USA for many reasons.
They might get better rates on US military upgrades. Their troops get to take part in more advanced projects.
Their experts get something back over the years on unrelated areas of interest.
Their general staff like the travel, US tax payer funded equipment and meetings.
Australia and New Zealand both were signed on early and are addicted to the US data streams. Germany hopes to get something back if they just offer all their data for a few more decades.
The other aspect is the trade deals. With the US gov pushing the privacy and security of buying into US cloud products. Its hard to legally say no.
The NSA could have had it all if they just stayed away from domestic US surveillance as they always trained their staff to.
As a Foreigner, load up your IM with US citizens. 100's of them :) Sit back, be politically active and as you make watch lists, your IM list follows you.