No mobile phone or plate number to track deep into known high crime areas, just the hoodie copter flying out to your car with gang roundel.
The FSB one for the starving US ex-gov workers who got out with a database retirement package.
In Capitalist West Russian embassy drone is lucrative for you.
Better than been a tourist mistaken for Snowden by the US embassy drone.
The NSA and GCHQ did all they could to stay out of the press from the 1960-80's. In the 1990's they thought they had the best cover ever: the internet is just too "big" and crypto offered for export too complex and open.
Add in law reform, projected data storage costs and wise sock puppets - everything was looking great for ongoing domestic surveillance infrastructure. The political leadership, color of law, telcos, software brands, press, academics, hardware brands, lawyers where all tamed as needed.
The problem with the headlines is the lack of fear by the public at this point in time.
People are LOL, interested, creative, getting involved, rethinking their education, thinking about code, looking back at their pasts for that moment of total crypto failure.
An East German view would be: coders are out front of a Church with source code lines, talking, compiling, sharing, fixing and educating in public.
They can see the cameras, know they will be in a domestic database.
They dont care about academic 'trouble', no flight lists, that anyone of them could be a corporate or gov "agent provocateur" - they are getting on with fixing code and examining hardware, line by line this time.
See the reaction of the AC sockpuppets vs years ago. The trance of citation needed no longer works. The AC sockpuppets have to show their true traits, personal attacks, anger, the right to rule and the classic "I saw something" and now I want a police state.
Thanks for your insights into US crypto, the use of open hardware and software AC.
Again the world needs open CPU's, open source software, file system options and quality encryption - topics average big brand software and hardware developers 'should' have been aware of for years.
The sock puppet/s really came out in force for this topic. Some individual, agency or brand must really fear wider traction on open hardware, open source software, an understanding of encryption and wider public comment.
Hi AC, try and understand RMS has been on message for many years now. The Snowden material and many others have shown US encryption and hardware/software at US commercial level to be plain text/tracking/junk or offer weak crypto.
Reading past some very busy sock puppets lets try for some basic solutions:
We know the internet as a whole is watched domestically. The encryption offered by many top US brands is junk, the legal/commercial protections offered by US brands is junk. The coding skills of some US staff is very surveillance friendlily by design or lack of academic interest.
So what can people do:
Use a chip thats well understood: http://guiodic.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/richard-stallman-interview/ ~Lemote machine.
Use an open OS thats well understood. Think about the file system, OS, the connection hardware, encryption and other networking. Most of the intrusion options have been talked about since the 1980's thanks to the press, law reform, political efforts or political boasting been more informative than was expected.
Thanks to Snowden good developers everywhere can now face their design teams, bosses with real options about the kinds of US hardware and software they import.
Think of the internet as an intranet and your computer having aroused the skilled admins on 24/7 duty.
Air gap, self designed white box, face to face meetings, physical security, better crypto will make the internet more safe. Where one gov got in, so can ex gov staff, people/groups able to afford ex gov staff and a long list of other "friendly" countries... later any person with time and skills.
The way many countries will be looking to get around out dated notions of "evidence", "collected", "embarrassing" or "potentially exculpatory evidence" is to have a short list of cleared legal defence teams.
In your name they will view evidence (at their limited clearance levels) with the gov and judge in a secure area. Your lawyer will get back to you and give you the gist of your case in 'public' terms.
You are now fully aware of any exculpatory evidence in a public court room setting and all your rights have been fully protected.
One generation sees "something" and all the rights get weakened to the point of been useless. Color of law, giving more weight to the domestic surveillance findings, a NSL, our allies use the same methods, they where going to protest without the city paperwork and telling the police first.
Now the legal rights after arrest are been hurriedly closed off. No basic rights to protest, no basic rights during the investigation and interrogation, no legal secrecy standing before the court, no public trial with fully presented evidence, make a fuss and other medical options become available.
So you will be facing the full force of a domestic surveillance state. All your calls get logged and put in a nice 'locked box'. A computer and bureaucrat decides your 'free speech' or 'freedom to assemble' or 'grievances' or 'joke' reaches a where court investigation becomes allowable.
Your funds are frozen, you are transported around the USA a few times away from your family, friends and your legal team.
You face court. You have a lawyer of sorts and your going to demand to see what evidence? Expecting you will be read into the inner working of the "locked box" in public court?
See how the gov first found you, worked on an on going wider profile, watched your home and finally arrested you?
All the other lawyers, press and law reform types will be all over your case. Your funds will be limited, your legal clearance to examine any evidence limited. The courts almost always convict. The fact you made it to court means the gov felt your important - "substantial support", "belligerent act" "associated forces" will make it to the tame press before your lawyer can even mention "inaccurate".
What must the self excuse list be like?
It was a rushed job.
It was another department.
It was outsourced.
So many product lines. So much work.
The supervisor wants features for a global market, other product lines are for security.....
Re The NSA may need better oversight for some of its operations, but it plays a vital role in the defence of the US and its allies.
Cold its called Constitutional rights, they dont get removed by oversight, operations, color of law, findings, letters, the whispers of allies or get weakened the desire for a domestic surveillance agency to exist. The only folly is having to re visit the same basic issues with the NSA and domestic surveillance.
The Constitutional rights are nice and clear on how to maintained freedom - no domestic surveillance needed. Go to a real court, then build a real case. Tame courts will convict almost every time.
It was on file with one very secret obsessed agency and passed to another agency who had a mission to keep secrets. The UK at least has the excuse of internal vetting and needing to keep skilled gov staff. This was a contractor moving between US gov agencies:)
Lawmakers been "aware" and "justified" is not legal. The US Constitution is very clear on any attempts to try the color of law trick with domestic surveillance been "authorized".
The US gov cannot undo what is now out and been "quality" reading for so many.
Yes that "effective mass surveillance" and file "change" is going to be the key:)
If its totally wiped at the CIA end 'now' you know its an on going operation.
If the change was logged and the work group who did it is found but gets promoted/contract extended - you know its an on going operation.
Or they find a staff member who was on duty and question them?
Some digital version of the "took a phone call and left her foot on a pedal that may have caused the erasure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods
Richard Nixon's Last Secret: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/nixon_pr.html
Blame the political leaders who allowed any contracting agency to perform background checks.
This should have been done like it always was: by the US gov for the US gov. No clearance bulk packs for trusted bosses and any of their new staff.
You look at all public and private databases, subscriptions and other sate/federal/banking.... data.
You drive out and talk to the primary school teachers, high school teachers, university staff, mil staff, past bosses, friends, extended family, family, lovers until the life story holds in the real world along with any records found or presented.
In the past conduct like this at the CIA would have been understood, internal hiring/vetting informed and other gov agencies kept informed.
Thanks to a rushed, privatized, mostly digital system - the USA allowed contractors to pass a person with work habits from one agency to another.
Was the file cleaned at the CIA? At some contractor level between the CIA and NSA or later?
The CIA has a long history of Soviet and other "friendly" nations penetrating the totality of its work. The idea that some person was "passed" to another US secure position without comment is generationally telling. Its not the 1980's anymore.
The US staff vetting is only a "bit" broken, privatized and rushed over the past 10 years? Nothing the Russians other nations can work around?
This would point to the NSA and CIA keeping its contractor staff so distant from quality gov databases it becomes a real risk.
The contractors arranged have a political 'clearance' so internally fixed that the CIA, FBI? and NSA contractor staff doing vetting seem unaware of file changes?
Clear the brand, boss, education and the staff are by default all 'good'- the US is now the UK all over again?
Or the CIA and its tame friends in the press are playing long term with limited hangout and the NSA was the tool used. http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-disinfo.htm
Contractor considerations, a CIA set up or a different layer of contractor clearances?
The US is left to ponder rogue contractors running private clearances, rogue agencies or a brilliant grand plan in the making, the NSA out in the cold.
Political parties, their families, supporters, the tame press and lots of tax exempt NGO's.
Sort of like the Soviet apparatchik, nomenklatura watching over all of us:)
They will grind your rights and bank account down to camp dust:)
A farm analogy: They have the sheep using the devices but the more lucrative critters have escaped to the forests. Something about the NSA truck pulling up one too many times.
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No mobile phone or plate number to track deep into known high crime areas, just the hoodie copter flying out to your car with gang roundel.
The FSB one for the starving US ex-gov workers who got out with a database retirement package.
In Capitalist West Russian embassy drone is lucrative for you.
Better than been a tourist mistaken for Snowden by the US embassy drone.
Yes ELF and VLF stations make for interesting reading world wide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines
Somewhere deep in China there is an unexpected rush order for desktop lava lamps and well understood open CPU products.
The NSA and GCHQ did all they could to stay out of the press from the 1960-80's. In the 1990's they thought they had the best cover ever: the internet is just too "big" and crypto offered for export too complex and open.
Add in law reform, projected data storage costs and wise sock puppets - everything was looking great for ongoing domestic surveillance infrastructure.
The political leadership, color of law, telcos, software brands, press, academics, hardware brands, lawyers where all tamed as needed.
The problem with the headlines is the lack of fear by the public at this point in time.
People are LOL, interested, creative, getting involved, rethinking their education, thinking about code, looking back at their pasts for that moment of total crypto failure.
An East German view would be: coders are out front of a Church with source code lines, talking, compiling, sharing, fixing and educating in public.
They can see the cameras, know they will be in a domestic database.
They dont care about academic 'trouble', no flight lists, that anyone of them could be a corporate or gov "agent provocateur" - they are getting on with fixing code and examining hardware, line by line this time.
See the reaction of the AC sockpuppets vs years ago. The trance of citation needed no longer works.
The AC sockpuppets have to show their true traits, personal attacks, anger, the right to rule and the classic "I saw something" and now I want a police state.
Thanks for your insights into US crypto, the use of open hardware and software AC.
Again the world needs open CPU's, open source software, file system options and quality encryption - topics average big brand software and hardware developers 'should' have been aware of for years.
The sock puppet/s really came out in force for this topic. Some individual, agency or brand must really fear wider traction on open hardware, open source software, an understanding of encryption and wider public comment.
Hi AC, try and understand RMS has been on message for many years now. The Snowden material and many others have shown US encryption and hardware/software at US commercial level to be plain text/tracking/junk or offer weak crypto.
Reading past some very busy sock puppets lets try for some basic solutions: ... later any person with time and skills.
We know the internet as a whole is watched domestically. The encryption offered by many top US brands is junk, the legal/commercial protections offered by US brands is junk. The coding skills of some US staff is very surveillance friendlily by design or lack of academic interest.
So what can people do:
Use a chip thats well understood: http://guiodic.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/richard-stallman-interview/ ~Lemote machine.
Use an open OS thats well understood. Think about the file system, OS, the connection hardware, encryption and other networking. Most of the intrusion options have been talked about since the 1980's thanks to the press, law reform, political efforts or political boasting been more informative than was expected.
Thanks to Snowden good developers everywhere can now face their design teams, bosses with real options about the kinds of US hardware and software they import. Think of the internet as an intranet and your computer having aroused the skilled admins on 24/7 duty.
Air gap, self designed white box, face to face meetings, physical security, better crypto will make the internet more safe. Where one gov got in, so can ex gov staff, people/groups able to afford ex gov staff and a long list of other "friendly" countries
The way many countries will be looking to get around out dated notions of "evidence", "collected", "embarrassing" or "potentially exculpatory evidence" is to have a short list of cleared legal defence teams.
In your name they will view evidence (at their limited clearance levels) with the gov and judge in a secure area. Your lawyer will get back to you and give you the gist of your case in 'public' terms.
You are now fully aware of any exculpatory evidence in a public court room setting and all your rights have been fully protected.
One generation sees "something" and all the rights get weakened to the point of been useless. Color of law, giving more weight to the domestic surveillance findings, a NSL, our allies use the same methods, they where going to protest without the city paperwork and telling the police first.
Now the legal rights after arrest are been hurriedly closed off.
No basic rights to protest, no basic rights during the investigation and interrogation, no legal secrecy standing before the court, no public trial with fully presented evidence, make a fuss and other medical options become available.
So you will be facing the full force of a domestic surveillance state. All your calls get logged and put in a nice 'locked box'. A computer and bureaucrat decides your 'free speech' or 'freedom to assemble' or 'grievances' or 'joke' reaches a where court investigation becomes allowable.
Your funds are frozen, you are transported around the USA a few times away from your family, friends and your legal team.
You face court. You have a lawyer of sorts and your going to demand to see what evidence? Expecting you will be read into the inner working of the "locked box" in public court?
See how the gov first found you, worked on an on going wider profile, watched your home and finally arrested you?
All the other lawyers, press and law reform types will be all over your case. Your funds will be limited, your legal clearance to examine any evidence limited. The courts almost always convict. The fact you made it to court means the gov felt your important - "substantial support", "belligerent act" "associated forces" will make it to the tame press before your lawyer can even mention "inaccurate".
What must the self excuse list be like?
It was a rushed job.
It was another department.
It was outsourced.
So many product lines. So much work.
The supervisor wants features for a global market, other product lines are for security.....
Re The NSA may need better oversight for some of its operations, but it plays a vital role in the defence of the US and its allies.
Cold its called Constitutional rights, they dont get removed by oversight, operations, color of law, findings, letters, the whispers of allies or get weakened the desire for a domestic surveillance agency to exist. The only folly is having to re visit the same basic issues with the NSA and domestic surveillance.
The Constitutional rights are nice and clear on how to maintained freedom - no domestic surveillance needed. Go to a real court, then build a real case. Tame courts will convict almost every time.
It was on file with one very secret obsessed agency and passed to another agency who had a mission to keep secrets. The UK at least has the excuse of internal vetting and needing to keep skilled gov staff. This was a contractor moving between US gov agencies :)
Lawmakers been "aware" and "justified" is not legal. The US Constitution is very clear on any attempts to try the color of law trick with domestic surveillance been "authorized".
The information is out, people around the world can match up the files and talk about the release process.
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-disinfo.htm
What can the USA do after the fact?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov
Now we might be seeing the start of part two of a big NSA/CIA game.
The US gov cannot undo what is now out and been "quality" reading for so many. :)
Yes that "effective mass surveillance" and file "change" is going to be the key
If its totally wiped at the CIA end 'now' you know its an on going operation.
If the change was logged and the work group who did it is found but gets promoted/contract extended - you know its an on going operation.
Or they find a staff member who was on duty and question them?
Some digital version of the "took a phone call and left her foot on a pedal that may have caused the erasure"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods
Richard Nixon's Last Secret: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/nixon_pr.html
Blame the political leaders who allowed any contracting agency to perform background checks.
This should have been done like it always was: by the US gov for the US gov. No clearance bulk packs for trusted bosses and any of their new staff.
You look at all public and private databases, subscriptions and other sate/federal/banking.... data.
You drive out and talk to the primary school teachers, high school teachers, university staff, mil staff, past bosses, friends, extended family, family, lovers until the life story holds in the real world along with any records found or presented.
In the past conduct like this at the CIA would have been understood, internal hiring/vetting informed and other gov agencies kept informed.
Thanks to a rushed, privatized, mostly digital system - the USA allowed contractors to pass a person with work habits from one agency to another.
Was the file cleaned at the CIA? At some contractor level between the CIA and NSA or later?
The CIA has a long history of Soviet and other "friendly" nations penetrating the totality of its work. The idea that some person was "passed" to another US secure position without comment is generationally telling. Its not the 1980's anymore.
The US staff vetting is only a "bit" broken, privatized and rushed over the past 10 years? Nothing the Russians other nations can work around?
This would point to the NSA and CIA keeping its contractor staff so distant from quality gov databases it becomes a real risk.
The contractors arranged have a political 'clearance' so internally fixed that the CIA, FBI? and NSA contractor staff doing vetting seem unaware of file changes?
Clear the brand, boss, education and the staff are by default all 'good'- the US is now the UK all over again?
Or the CIA and its tame friends in the press are playing long term with limited hangout and the NSA was the tool used.
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-disinfo.htm
Contractor considerations, a CIA set up or a different layer of contractor clearances?
The US is left to ponder rogue contractors running private clearances, rogue agencies or a brilliant grand plan in the making, the NSA out in the cold.
The same people who worked with the NSA?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-11/bulgaria-closes-probe-in-umbrella-assassination-after-35-years/4952448 Interesting how the case never made a court in any real way.
Or: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7965100/Murdered-British-spy-mystery-over-how-GCHQ-worker-was-killed.html
Get your thoughts into paper and contact/join a party like UKIP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party in your part of the EU.
Political parties, their families, supporters, the tame press and lots of tax exempt NGO's. :) :)
Sort of like the Soviet apparatchik, nomenklatura watching over all of us
They will grind your rights and bank account down to camp dust
End up in a gym bag? Or small truck collision?
Yes I better rethink my comments about MI5, MI6, BND and GCHQ.
All organs of the State are doing glorious work.
I will not longer recall http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spy-scandal-german-intelligence-officers-detained-in-kosovo-a-592298.html
and have already forgotten http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434435/Ministry-Defence-urged-make-repatriation-ceremonies-low-key-reduce-body-bag-syndrome.html
A farm analogy: They have the sheep using the devices but the more lucrative critters have escaped to the forests. Something about the NSA truck pulling up one too many times.