Yes the East German protesters had a nice hint about that "require violating a constitutional rule" aspect.
Stand in front of an East German Church with a protest sign quoting the East German constitution.
You would go to jail and face the full force of the system but the need for the State to act was seen in public.
Fun vid AC
Group talking about keeping the best pic "forever". 1970's building, not listed on the Austrian official 'embassy property' list ie private but ~guarded by the Austrian gov?
Interesting how photography was treated around a ~'private' building - ie from public property by the Austrian gov.
2006 a police presence was noted - antenna, CCTV activity, sat dishes....
Interesting story about a cold war front group "sting" site near the building for people collecting reading material interested in Soviet PR/science is also mentioned near the end of the clip.
Cold very few countries of the world could have global reach for their international signals intelligence efforts.
So they have their own citizens, dual citizens or trusted people spy for them.
The list for the cash, computing power, skill, geographic location and ongoing data storage was not easy even with cold war budgets.
Why do you think the UK had to trade some of bases to the US for international signals intelligence efforts if they could go it alone?
The list was tiny. Now every small rich nation runs all it can internally and tries the best it can with any signal that their embassies and mil bases can find.
The tech is now cheap, storage is now very cheap but what most are missing is that global telco reach - only the US ever had that.
The rest of the world has to make do with gossip, sales by contractors needing cash, blackmail or ideology, addiction, dual citizens, people of the same faith over generations been trusted by their new country finding their homeland again and totally selling out.
People get caught, spies get caught, swapped, embassy staff are set up... every year... the spy game is known.... US/UK signals intelligence news is at another level.
Cold for most post ww2 West Germany had a constant hunt for anyone who was a threat to their new democracy.
Too communist, fascist, spreading a cult faith and the West German gov would get interested as noted in West German law.
East Germany had their own special role to play for their Russian liberators.
West Germany was expected to understand its role as a trusted third party in the wider NSA networks.
Unlike some parts of the world this aspect was known rather than having to be exposed by whistelblowers in the face of years of domestic legal reform.
No more cool running, cheap, low power chip projects as the digital 'branding' of the UK to the world?
Welcome to a sealed digital Berlin (Hadrian's) wall? To be seen to put that up is very telling about the political mindset.
The filter would be sold to the public for 'evil' content been opt-in.
Long term expect web 2.0 posts that disagree, US web based private sector news sites, political blogs to just stop working.
Local UK issues are going international and been debated at a national level in the UK.
A good UK web filter might slow this interactive web 2.0 problem just enough for gov spin to work again.
VPN was good, easy, fast, cheap, a set and forget method that would have kept UK news flowing.
Yes the legal step of you been your 'ip' is getting more political and legal traction.
No more finding your VPN provider, getting the legal paperwork and tracking you back to your ISP for long term logging.
The vision seems to be of local gov workers/contractors well below any court, police or security services getting direct details from any UK ip.
An automated realtime or historic lookup would give your details and the option to "request" net use logging.
Wonderful if your staff have gone to the press about expenses and you need to track them down.
Cold most of the big projects where air gapped... if contractors have public global supply networks and are leaking details, the CIA and MI6 will discover that fault over time.
People dont "just" make mistakes in writing software - backdoors and weakness are been coded in by default over the life of the projects.
People dont want their internet to work reasonably well - they pay for quality hardware and software or work very hard to make it the best they can.
Resources are not limited anymore due to computing power and most understand the ability to just keep everything of use now. "Limited" was the data storage in the 1960~70.
Opens source software should be looked at all the time - thats one of the many useful aspects of the open source.
Politics is expensive and risky. Deals done, groups supported and experts have pasts. Over time you have a lot of exstaff who just know too much and might be tempted to talk to the press or write a book without that expected 30-50 year gap.
That ability to get to the publisher in time existed till the early 1980's
Its really just a keyword hunt for past and existing projects to save embarrassment and legal issues.
Better to find the press/staff/political activism/conscience before it is published and do a deal or have your spin ready.
Similar access would be Russia and China. The CIA and MI6 would bait that side and wait. The codes along the international pipes has always been good. If not the Soviet Union would have understood the US a lot better and not needed to resort to so many risky/failed human/hardware efforts.
Nothing allowed to be sold or free over time is secure from govs but the products/projects will on average let you buy/sell/trade with commercial confidence.
Yes it will be fun as diplomats spin up their international story telling skills on their embassy equipment and create believable plots.
Their intelligence services will sit back waiting for the first hint of their work to drop into the press.
Re anything in your life that would get them to focus on you....
Thats very trusting. Work like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core should hint to the average person that the tracking is not restrained over many years.
As color of law reshapes basic legal protections data about your can be shared with huge numbers of cleared staff/contractors, locally and very politically.
Much data when compressed, filed has never been the problem. Too little time and too few people to regulate the activity ?????.... They can keep and use your phone usage data for life by default with no court needed. Re "too few people" - computers via firms and contractors sort public and private data every day and sell it in bulk.
The number of cleared workers, contractors and expert staff is up over the past 10 years.
The only issue was a legal one and that can now be understood.
Re and that would destroy the reputation of the subsystem leader
The world tried trust via the PR/branding/stock price/legal issues/failed international sales wrt to the closed source/private sector code/OS/telcos.
That was the mixing of old and new efforts. In the distant past the US/UK could set a product for say NATO, embassy use by friendly nations or banking.
Over time most understood what they had been sold was junk at a price point to keep safer private sector crypto competitors, hackers and the Soviet Union out.
Transmission was safe, plain text was always leaking.
The next step seems to be to offer great encryption to a global PR standard. As we now seem to understand most of the surrounding telco, networking and the OS where weakened/worked with to ensure the end product was something they never needed to break. The plain text was always accessible and networking trackable at over the useful life of products use.
Recall the cell phone 'testing' layer that was able to look at every key press/data input before the "open" OS apps could https?
Also recall the hardware and software networking products used too.
Yes its like the targeting of the big brand commercial OS and hardware makers. The idea that Linux would be too small or more hard work to keep hidden seems a mistake. Why let one very powerful OS escape the same efforts?
The main aspect to consider is one person or front group getting into networking or encryption. That would be the classic way in over the life of a project. Just keep producing quality work that has a known hidden weakness but is still passable.
Re: They strengthened the DES algorithm by substituting a new set of S-boxes which protected against an attack that wasn't publicly known at the time.
Banks and businesses where to get a stronger DES cold. The final product shipped was weaker. The only aspect that was protected was the ability of the NSA and GCHQ to get in but still keep out hackers and others. Re: DES was never approved for protecting classified data as it was for commercial use.....
Once you know the bars are been watch and you can expect to be arrested you drink cheap store bought alcoholic beverages at home with friends.
Once you turn your mil grade tech onto internal crime - corrupt cops/lawyers/press find out and sell/pass the details on. Changes are made to lessen the use of telco and the tracking risk.
Large scale fraud and tax cheating, drug sales, smuggling and prostitution always seem once step ahead (protected) or fail long term.
Cryptography PhDs get hired to secure new products by large and small firms. Get that one person early and they have decades of insights per firm/brand over a productive career to report back on.
The ability to set up front companies is also wonderful. The ability to set international standards used for years - basic vote count or a presented paper is also wonderful...
Attacking systems and hiding their tracks works a bit better if another team had a history creating the same systems...
Vulnerabilities last a products life or much less, to create/shape new systems over generations/decades was always the key.
It worked just great with tech exports from the 1950's till now:)
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Yes the East German protesters had a nice hint about that "require violating a constitutional rule" aspect.
Stand in front of an East German Church with a protest sign quoting the East German constitution.
You would go to jail and face the full force of the system but the need for the State to act was seen in public.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/09/shifting_shadow_stormbrew_flying_pig_new_snowden_documents_show_nsa_deemed.html
Why just watch, track or redirected targeted traffic?
Your site might just have a slight pause in updating as a new crew takes over for a few years.
If they have been watching your 'style' for a few years your internet persona might just become a contractor and your site a front.
Drop or add the message every April Fools' Day?
It would be a good PR event, some form of a privacy education day?
Recalling the online protests against SOPA and PIPA?
The spy bosses hoped to get within bluetooth dongle and wifi range?
Fun vid AC ....
Group talking about keeping the best pic "forever". 1970's building, not listed on the Austrian official 'embassy property' list ie private but ~guarded by the Austrian gov?
Interesting how photography was treated around a ~'private' building - ie from public property by the Austrian gov.
2006 a police presence was noted - antenna, CCTV activity, sat dishes
Interesting story about a cold war front group "sting" site near the building for people collecting reading material interested in Soviet PR/science is also mentioned near the end of the clip.
Cold very few countries of the world could have global reach for their international signals intelligence efforts. ... every year... the spy game is known.... US/UK signals intelligence news is at another level.
So they have their own citizens, dual citizens or trusted people spy for them.
The list for the cash, computing power, skill, geographic location and ongoing data storage was not easy even with cold war budgets.
Why do you think the UK had to trade some of bases to the US for international signals intelligence efforts if they could go it alone?
The list was tiny. Now every small rich nation runs all it can internally and tries the best it can with any signal that their embassies and mil bases can find.
The tech is now cheap, storage is now very cheap but what most are missing is that global telco reach - only the US ever had that.
The rest of the world has to make do with gossip, sales by contractors needing cash, blackmail or ideology, addiction, dual citizens, people of the same faith over generations been trusted by their new country finding their homeland again and totally selling out.
People get caught, spies get caught, swapped, embassy staff are set up
http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/sw_underground1/embassy.html some pics.
Try a google image search for embassy antennas for the more public pics over many years.
The more interesting work was done inside taking up a lot of space.
Cold for most post ww2 West Germany had a constant hunt for anyone who was a threat to their new democracy.
Too communist, fascist, spreading a cult faith and the West German gov would get interested as noted in West German law.
East Germany had their own special role to play for their Russian liberators.
West Germany was expected to understand its role as a trusted third party in the wider NSA networks.
Unlike some parts of the world this aspect was known rather than having to be exposed by whistelblowers in the face of years of domestic legal reform.
Every gov knows what Russia, the UK and US do with their "Consulate" floors or just put a T2FD outside.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/rubig/rubig-eyeball.htm
60 metres to photograph the site sounds a strange cover story? What could a normal sized helicopter carry in Germany at this point in time wrt quality sigint collecting?
~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Support_Activity made in Germany? Why the low distance?
No more cool running, cheap, low power chip projects as the digital 'branding' of the UK to the world?
Welcome to a sealed digital Berlin (Hadrian's) wall? To be seen to put that up is very telling about the political mindset.
The filter would be sold to the public for 'evil' content been opt-in.
Long term expect web 2.0 posts that disagree, US web based private sector news sites, political blogs to just stop working.
Local UK issues are going international and been debated at a national level in the UK.
A good UK web filter might slow this interactive web 2.0 problem just enough for gov spin to work again.
VPN was good, easy, fast, cheap, a set and forget method that would have kept UK news flowing.
Yes the legal step of you been your 'ip' is getting more political and legal traction.
No more finding your VPN provider, getting the legal paperwork and tracking you back to your ISP for long term logging.
The vision seems to be of local gov workers/contractors well below any court, police or security services getting direct details from any UK ip.
An automated realtime or historic lookup would give your details and the option to "request" net use logging.
Wonderful if your staff have gone to the press about expenses and you need to track them down.
Cold most of the big projects where air gapped... if contractors have public global supply networks and are leaking details, the CIA and MI6 will discover that fault over time.
People dont "just" make mistakes in writing software - backdoors and weakness are been coded in by default over the life of the projects.
People dont want their internet to work reasonably well - they pay for quality hardware and software or work very hard to make it the best they can.
Resources are not limited anymore due to computing power and most understand the ability to just keep everything of use now. "Limited" was the data storage in the 1960~70.
Opens source software should be looked at all the time - thats one of the many useful aspects of the open source.
Politics is expensive and risky. Deals done, groups supported and experts have pasts. Over time you have a lot of exstaff who just know too much and might be tempted to talk to the press or write a book without that expected 30-50 year gap.
That ability to get to the publisher in time existed till the early 1980's
Its really just a keyword hunt for past and existing projects to save embarrassment and legal issues.
Better to find the press/staff/political activism/conscience before it is published and do a deal or have your spin ready.
Similar access would be Russia and China. The CIA and MI6 would bait that side and wait. The codes along the international pipes has always been good. If not the Soviet Union would have understood the US a lot better and not needed to resort to so many risky/failed human/hardware efforts.
Nothing allowed to be sold or free over time is secure from govs but the products/projects will on average let you buy/sell/trade with commercial confidence.
Yes it will be fun as diplomats spin up their international story telling skills on their embassy equipment and create believable plots.
Their intelligence services will sit back waiting for the first hint of their work to drop into the press.
Re anything in your life that would get them to focus on you....
Thats very trusting. Work like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core should hint to the average person that the tracking is not restrained over many years.
As color of law reshapes basic legal protections data about your can be shared with huge numbers of cleared staff/contractors, locally and very politically.
Much data when compressed, filed has never been the problem. Too little time and too few people to regulate the activity ?????.... They can keep and use your phone usage data for life by default with no court needed. Re "too few people" - computers via firms and contractors sort public and private data every day and sell it in bulk.
The number of cleared workers, contractors and expert staff is up over the past 10 years.
The only issue was a legal one and that can now be understood.
Re and that would destroy the reputation of the subsystem leader
The world tried trust via the PR/branding/stock price/legal issues/failed international sales wrt to the closed source/private sector code/OS/telcos.
That was the mixing of old and new efforts. In the distant past the US/UK could set a product for say NATO, embassy use by friendly nations or banking.
Over time most understood what they had been sold was junk at a price point to keep safer private sector crypto competitors, hackers and the Soviet Union out.
Transmission was safe, plain text was always leaking.
The next step seems to be to offer great encryption to a global PR standard. As we now seem to understand most of the surrounding telco, networking and the OS where weakened/worked with to ensure the end product was something they never needed to break. The plain text was always accessible and networking trackable at over the useful life of products use.
Recall the cell phone 'testing' layer that was able to look at every key press/data input before the "open" OS apps could https?
Also recall the hardware and software networking products used too.
Yes its like the targeting of the big brand commercial OS and hardware makers. The idea that Linux would be too small or more hard work to keep hidden seems a mistake. Why let one very powerful OS escape the same efforts?
The main aspect to consider is one person or front group getting into networking or encryption. That would be the classic way in over the life of a project. Just keep producing quality work that has a known hidden weakness but is still passable.
Re: They strengthened the DES algorithm by substituting a new set of S-boxes which protected against an attack that wasn't publicly known at the time.
Banks and businesses where to get a stronger DES cold. The final product shipped was weaker. The only aspect that was protected was the ability of the NSA and GCHQ to get in but still keep out hackers and others. Re: DES was never approved for protecting classified data as it was for commercial use.....
Once you know the bars are been watch and you can expect to be arrested you drink cheap store bought alcoholic beverages at home with friends.
Once you turn your mil grade tech onto internal crime - corrupt cops/lawyers/press find out and sell/pass the details on. Changes are made to lessen the use of telco and the tracking risk.
Large scale fraud and tax cheating, drug sales, smuggling and prostitution always seem once step ahead (protected) or fail long term.
Cryptography PhDs get hired to secure new products by large and small firms. Get that one person early and they have decades of insights per firm/brand over a productive career to report back on. :)
The ability to set up front companies is also wonderful. The ability to set international standards used for years - basic vote count or a presented paper is also wonderful...
Attacking systems and hiding their tracks works a bit better if another team had a history creating the same systems...
Vulnerabilities last a products life or much less, to create/shape new systems over generations/decades was always the key.
It worked just great with tech exports from the 1950's till now