In Soviet USA your new Zil limousine is stuck in slow traffic, your car phone codec is of low quality and you only have one over subscribed cell network to subscribe to.
The good news is now know your know calls are been transcribed by more than one country.
re is a bit hard right now though? Really?
The US gov got the plain text, video and sound from US brands over years, why would they not expect the same from *any* of the brands next gen products too?
What has changed? The brands are still selling products, the US laws are different now? The brands legal departments are still tame, offering nice PR reports on aspects of better backhaul encryption and numbers of requests by domestic police court orders.
The ~Loongson ~CPU exits, the OS and surround application code exists. People have a place to start, they can build on and give back.
Where did growth get average users via the big trusted global brands? The ability to generate plain text for govs after a user selects/wants to encrypt.
After all the years of 'growth' 'passion' 'art' 'fun' 'funding' 'wealth' and all the other generational buzzwords of closed brand name software, free software still shines with the simple reality of been: fit for purpose.
Re The collateral damage? Not sharing a codebase with purveyors of fine DRM? Not helping the big brands who decrypt for govs without a court order, users bulk plain text just given out.
People will be looking into ideas like the Loongson processor, the quality of OS code and software they select to use. Not seeing much "collateral damage", just good quality code on well understood CPU's.
A unique subset of phones will give you 'freedom' to code on but in the end your still trusting plain text before encryption on 'their' hardware again.
Sure the NSA would help seal up DES issues. The other aspect was to ensure NSA and GCHQ plain text as needed.
So you can have your ideally resistant selling points and easy plaintext in the same commercial grade standard.
The US military might not be all that "trusted" and the NSA likes keep tabs on.mil too?
Like the domestic and international codes sold and made weak, why would the US military staff get a free pass to real crypto?
As long as it kept the Russians out- what is at the base/camp/fort is fair game:)
Would US political leaders not want some insights into the mind sets of their top generals (or emerging top staff) using US gov networks?
They could be under the influence of a charismatic leader/"spy" or new faith, staff could be setting up blocks of time to sneak off for romantic reasons ~honeytrap.
At a later date top mil people just resign when confronted with their pasts - clean and simple, never aware that their codes where junk too.
They have your basic "consumer" OS tamed too. Your hardware keyboard use as enter your message as plain text to be converted.
If your clever and use a non networked computer to create your message you may still have googled versions of "Crime and Punishment" providing a hint for a later home search.
In the Land of America where the Contractors lie.
One Letter to surveil them all, One Letter to find them,
One Letter to bring them all and in the black site bind them
That one special NSL covers everybody in the USA for the duration of the war of terror:).
The published stats are just local law enforcement "faxing" in requests with real court warrants.
The denied ones are just law enforcement hoping a letter head will work as court warrant and then having to go back to get a real court warrant.
Thanks to Snowden the world now understands hardware, software, networking, brands and crypto been sold as "certified" to be useless junk.
Air gaps, a return to one time pads or a deeper understanding of networking crypto will hopefully follow.
Your more basic, less electronic car still faces one road in/out licence plate, driver and passenger facial recognition camera arrays while driving in constitution free zones.
With some States keeping and cross referencing all data gathered - its going to get hard to escape all encompassing regional data gathering task forces.
Very true udachny. It will be interesting to see the command and control networks needed long term.
Autonomous to a sat.
Autonomous to a local van.
Direct control from a local van, site or building with a short lived power supply.
The other question is the ability to hide the control signals from been taken over or triangulated back to their masters.
Before this tech makes it to court rooms expect a lot of countermeasures in place.
Yes the "sacrifice considerable amounts of operational secrecy" only works well with state funding, the protection of perfect papers, on going weapons support.
That would be a real press story:)
Yes the 1960-70's gave the world the a few agents provocateurs and false flag terrorist attacks to up the publicity for more protective governments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
Yes if that metadata 'lock box' passes, thats your average productive 'phone/net' lifespan (60 years++) saved for any 'connection' any political party wants to track down "legally". Very police state chilling.
So we all get to live in Stasiland with a 'freedom' wall and 'happy' guards due to an understanding of 1683 politics and appeasement? How ever did we make it out of the Cold War when facing the Soviets and all their complex hardware and endless spies......?
The NSA system is automatic too... http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/gmail-judge-holds-internet-accountable-wiretap-laws-key-consumer-victory
Long term the US legal system seems to be returning to the "neither instrumental to the provision of email services, nor are they an incidental effect of providing these services" side.
Another aspect is the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/supreme-court-holds-warrantless-gps-tracking-unconstitutional/ near the end under "Sotomayor attacks the third-party doctrine"
"ill-suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks. People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers."
The public wants their "persons, houses, papers, and effects" back ie to be protected from a gov in cahoots with a.com.
Re NSA is going to obey the laws in first place, which is the actual problem.
The next legal move is what people may want to avoid. Facing a life long legal domestic metadata 'lock box' for use state or federal court at any time for any reason.
Giving the domestically illegal enough color of law cover to present in a courtroom is the next chilling step.
Re: Also who trusts FISA again?
That was the debate the NSA and GCHQ always warned about historically and tried to stay out of books, politics, the press, courts for as long as they could in the ~1950-80's.
Once any target population knows they are under active, long term domestic surveillance programs their telco/isp use changes.
The classified programs and the brands are out now in public. How people interact and consume via the brands will be interesting to see.
Trials with the domestic metadata 'lock box' could also prove legally interesting as skilled defence teams ask to see more and present more to open courts.
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In Soviet USA your new Zil limousine is stuck in slow traffic, your car phone codec is of low quality and you only have one over subscribed cell network to subscribe to.
The good news is now know your know calls are been transcribed by more than one country.
re is a bit hard right now though? Really?
The US gov got the plain text, video and sound from US brands over years, why would they not expect the same from *any* of the brands next gen products too?
What has changed? The brands are still selling products, the US laws are different now? The brands legal departments are still tame, offering nice PR reports on aspects of better backhaul encryption and numbers of requests by domestic police court orders.
The ~Loongson ~CPU exits, the OS and surround application code exists. People have a place to start, they can build on and give back.
Where did growth get average users via the big trusted global brands? The ability to generate plain text for govs after a user selects/wants to encrypt.
After all the years of 'growth' 'passion' 'art' 'fun' 'funding' 'wealth' and all the other generational buzzwords of closed brand name software, free software still shines with the simple reality of been: fit for purpose.
Re The collateral damage?
Not sharing a codebase with purveyors of fine DRM? Not helping the big brands who decrypt for govs without a court order, users bulk plain text just given out.
People will be looking into ideas like the Loongson processor, the quality of OS code and software they select to use. Not seeing much "collateral damage", just good quality code on well understood CPU's.
A unique subset of phones will give you 'freedom' to code on but in the end your still trusting plain text before encryption on 'their' hardware again.
Sure the NSA would help seal up DES issues. The other aspect was to ensure NSA and GCHQ plain text as needed.
So you can have your ideally resistant selling points and easy plaintext in the same commercial grade standard.
The US military might not be all that "trusted" and the NSA likes keep tabs on .mil too? :)
Like the domestic and international codes sold and made weak, why would the US military staff get a free pass to real crypto?
As long as it kept the Russians out- what is at the base/camp/fort is fair game
Would US political leaders not want some insights into the mind sets of their top generals (or emerging top staff) using US gov networks?
They could be under the influence of a charismatic leader/"spy" or new faith, staff could be setting up blocks of time to sneak off for romantic reasons ~honeytrap.
At a later date top mil people just resign when confronted with their pasts - clean and simple, never aware that their codes where junk too.
They have your basic "consumer" OS tamed too. Your hardware keyboard use as enter your message as plain text to be converted.
If your clever and use a non networked computer to create your message you may still have googled versions of "Crime and Punishment" providing a hint for a later home search.
NGOs with law enforcement like powers?
In the Land of America where the Contractors lie.
One Letter to surveil them all, One Letter to find them,
One Letter to bring them all and in the black site bind them
That one special NSL covers everybody in the USA for the duration of the war of terror :).
The published stats are just local law enforcement "faxing" in requests with real court warrants.
The denied ones are just law enforcement hoping a letter head will work as court warrant and then having to go back to get a real court warrant.
Thanks to Snowden the world now understands hardware, software, networking, brands and crypto been sold as "certified" to be useless junk.
Air gaps, a return to one time pads or a deeper understanding of networking crypto will hopefully follow.
Your more basic, less electronic car still faces one road in/out licence plate, driver and passenger facial recognition camera arrays while driving in constitution free zones.
With some States keeping and cross referencing all data gathered - its going to get hard to escape all encompassing regional data gathering task forces.
Very true udachny. It will be interesting to see the command and control networks needed long term.
Autonomous to a sat.
Autonomous to a local van.
Direct control from a local van, site or building with a short lived power supply.
The other question is the ability to hide the control signals from been taken over or triangulated back to their masters.
Before this tech makes it to court rooms expect a lot of countermeasures in place.
Yes the "sacrifice considerable amounts of operational secrecy" only works well with state funding, the protection of perfect papers, on going weapons support. :)
That would be a real press story
Re terrorists, some other side is calling them freedom fighters. :)
Look how useful they are as freedom fighters in Syria
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10311007/Syria-nearly-half-rebel-fighters-are-jihadists-or-hardline-Islamists-says-IHS-Janes-report.html
Great for use against Iran and bringing freedoms to Libya as freedom fighters too. Kept the media rating up in Afghanistan and Iraq as terrorists.
Yes the 1960-70's gave the world the a few agents provocateurs and false flag terrorist attacks to up the publicity for more protective governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
Yes if that metadata 'lock box' passes, thats your average productive 'phone/net' lifespan (60 years++) saved for any 'connection' any political party wants to track down "legally". Very police state chilling.
So we all get to live in Stasiland with a 'freedom' wall and 'happy' guards due to an understanding of 1683 politics and appeasement? How ever did we make it out of the Cold War when facing the Soviets and all their complex hardware and endless spies......?
The NSA system is automatic too... .com.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/gmail-judge-holds-internet-accountable-wiretap-laws-key-consumer-victory
Long term the US legal system seems to be returning to the "neither instrumental to the provision of email services, nor are they an incidental effect of providing these services" side.
Another aspect is the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/supreme-court-holds-warrantless-gps-tracking-unconstitutional/
near the end under "Sotomayor attacks the third-party doctrine"
"ill-suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks. People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers."
The public wants their "persons, houses, papers, and effects" back ie to be protected from a gov in cahoots with a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_math
See how that goes and think about using Logo, Basic or Pascal when the time is right and if interested.
Re NSA is going to obey the laws in first place, which is the actual problem.
The next legal move is what people may want to avoid. Facing a life long legal domestic metadata 'lock box' for use state or federal court at any time for any reason.
Giving the domestically illegal enough color of law cover to present in a courtroom is the next chilling step.
Re: Also who trusts FISA again?
That was the debate the NSA and GCHQ always warned about historically and tried to stay out of books, politics, the press, courts for as long as they could in the ~1950-80's.
Once any target population knows they are under active, long term domestic surveillance programs their telco/isp use changes.
The classified programs and the brands are out now in public. How people interact and consume via the brands will be interesting to see.
Trials with the domestic metadata 'lock box' could also prove legally interesting as skilled defence teams ask to see more and present more to open courts.
As the NSA said in the 1970's ~NSA (“Wood Study”) "SIGINT sites were generally acceptable as long as they were invisible to the local population" page 393
from http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/docs/doc%201%202008-021%20Burr%20Release%20Document%201%20-%20Part%20A2.pdf
Welcome to the gift of free ENIGMA encoding with another rotor?
So we are back to the "third party doctrine" legal cover. You dial out to the phone company and your rights are gone as you entered the "phone number". :)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/supreme-court-holds-warrantless-gps-tracking-unconstitutional/ has some emerging insights on long term US legal thought surround ongoing metadata use.
The public, press and political leaders and gov spy staff now have a clear understanding of what "metadata" is in 2013.
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-continues-to-press-intelligence-officials-on-needed-domestic-surveillance-reforms
They also understand that its domestic vs the old line about only from a foreign country to the USA.
Recall the great quotes form 2006 and reflect where the privacy debate is thanks to Snowden and many others
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm