Re They can't lock us all up right?
For now it seems like they are still building fancy lists. ie longer, bigger, better versions of concepts like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
Be your own number station. Create youtube videos of realistic (length and count) list of numbers.
A voice, black screen, numbers in white. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Lists where tried in the 1990's and seem to be filtered. http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/08/quantum-leap/ seems to hint at the "exploiting open sources of information, particularly social media"
"utility of social media in exploiting human networks, including networks in which individual members actively seek to limit their exposure to the internet and social media"
Go to your local library and search for a few good local political journalists emails.
Spend a few days looking at real, local political scandals, deals, foreign intrigue or any interesting issues.
Note as many names as you can, brands, firms, lawyers names, journalists.
Create a new draft email and account with one of the big US technology giants that the NSA likes.
Start shaping your draft message. Be as creative as you can about new information, a family member willing to talk.
Anonymity, hint at a bank, a document, past low level political access that 'helped'.
Pad out the intro and local aspect with a time line, what was in the press, how a journalist was on the right track, regional terms.
Save the draft.
Read and save your message from the account via clean computer (MAC and wifi unused) in the state capitol days later.
Keep a camera near your door if you ever get a 'unrelated' visit.
Speak loud and ask the person at the door to speak up too:)
i.e. make your message flow like a real whistelblower might. Great practice for a work of fiction.
Think of all the marketing data that will drift up a US network.
Your face, your friends faces, your family faces, video clips, locations, times, what you pass on the way to work, what you do on weekends..parties..hobbies
No more taking the card out.
They want "the NSA cloud" to become the new normal.
Whats to "willfully misunderstand" about "the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be pursued" question vs president's authorization?
The press asked a great question.
Re: "own beliefs" - most of that was just from reading the pages as linked.
What "bigger picture"? That India, Brazil, China, Canada, Germany, South Africa or France might not want to 'rent' blurred limited images from commercial firms?
Space is not the Soviet/German/US club it was in the 1950-70's - other nations will try building "space vehicles".
Top of page 3 and mid of page 2 of http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/secrets-are-hard-to-keep-in-the-whole-wired-world/
Its like reaching out to a Nixon like silent majority of the contracting tech world.
The GCHQ did it with better pay, conditions, academic support and lots of expensive US tech in the 1970-80's. A real living wage and advancement.
The US gov seems to want to change the message back to a more positive debate vs the bitter people who cling to a 4th amendment subculture.
From: http://www.afr.com/p/national/transcript_interview_with_former_KnS7JDIrw73GWlljxA7vdK
"I personally think Snowden is a very troubled, narcissistic young man who has done a very, very bad thing."
"ideological embrace of transparency as a virtue."
"Likewise, at what point does a cultural tendency towards transparency flip-over to become a deep threat inside your system?" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/secrets-are-hard-to-keep-in-the-whole-wired-world/
"“a romantic, absolute attachment to transparency; [a belief] that secrecy in any form is wrong.” https://www.fas.org/irp/news/2006/01/hayden012306.html
"The great urban legend out there then was something called "Echelon""
"It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about."
"If FISA worked just as well, why wouldn't I use FISA? To save typing? No. There is an operational impact here, and I have two paths in front of me, both of them lawful, one FISA, one the presidential -- the president's authorization. And we go down this path because our operational judgment is it is much more effective."
Interesting how the press picks up on the "FISA statute itself says that it will be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be pursued" and is then told : "I'm not asserting anything. I'm asserting that NSA is doing its job." http://freebeacon.com/china-military-preparing-for-peoples-war-in-cyberspace-space/
"Cyber warfare may truly be called a people’s warfare" ...cyber reconnaissance, jamming, and attack”—from space vehicles.
Wait for the alerts when http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-director-cyber-terrorism-snowden and the US gov has to "grab" and "bring" in all the: ..."nihilists, anarchists, activists,..., twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years".
"Police Alert. Wanted: Hacker in city. Has committed cyberterrorism and crimes against the State. Name:..... Occupation: Activist. Last seen . .."
"... watch for a man running... watch for the running man . . . watch for a man alone, on foot . . . watch..." (welcome to Fahrenheit 451)
resign without repercussions?
Your clearance level does not magically go away. They keep it for you so you can contract at a later date or if you are ever needed again.
Your obligations stay the same:)
What are you going to tell your next potential private sector boss? "I worked for the last 5-10-20 years...at... " "I know math, CS, crypto like I listed for my university years..."
What can you resign to? A front company? A trusted contractor? The "assignments" will be the same just more of an ‘on call’ arrangement work feel or short contract anywhere at short notice.
Where do you think all the loud, cold, hot, dusty, distant hardware jobs went in the new image of "academic with top pay" world of gov work?
One time pad to your family, tribe, gang, cult, freedom fighters, friends, new friends or fellow travellers.
Geolocation and electronic chatter seems to be the focus of the surveillance structure that was build up... ie you have to keep feeding the machines, phones or mail.
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm a long list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm way back to 1972.
The general public cant do much, they have to be on web 2.0 and US social media as all their friends are and now work contacts too.
As for the smarter people who write code...
From diplomatic communications between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin in the press in 1986..
to Clipper chips to Room 641A - looking back what can we say?
Software was always in beta with encryption to follow with next years better CPU's?
Congress would save us? It would be to hard to track/tap/store? Think of the press if a US brand was ever exposed? Never used for domestic..
The people who could have said something got security clearances, NDA's or their own stock or had loans....
Was the GCHQ right in that if people know they are been watched they self-censor ? Or the NSA - if you get everything you can shape any change.
The problem for the DEA is the CIA and US mil trains all of South America.
To avoid the Cubans, Russians. Nationalists leftists... all wanting to escape the bad national loans....
People know what a cell signal is, voice prints, calls made to the USA, tracking of everything entering US airspace...
Strange that it all works, the bank accounts stay open and shipments arrive... year after year after year, flight after flight, ship after ship... trucks... small subs...
RE: What could China, North Korea, the USSR vs the NSA?
Float a few really good quality spy ships off the coast of the USA, UK?
Some great trackable satellites passing over the US/UK and friends?
Dedicate a few embassy floors to signals? Build a huge complex in Cuba to listen in?
The Soviets went for weak people in the US/UK in areas that where interesting or shaped liked minded peoples careers very long term.
East Germany tried to put young agents into West German firms hoping some might get to middle management much later in life...
They went for the press, academics, spies, scientists, engineers, mil and gov technicians.
Only the NSA/GCHQ had the power and vision to shape the worlds telecommunications standards long term to be NSA usable.
The West has other issues - drug for cash for freedom fighters to buy arms. The banks to ensure the cash flowed.
China seems happy just to buy and educate its way along with any help it can get from Russia, the USA.
What can the USA do if the signals intelligence ever stops again;)
The Russians can return to typewriters. Can the CIA buy their way in again?
The establishment needs to be out in front of any issues with a new gov, the celebrities, press with sources, inventors with disruptive technology, arms dealers talking to the press, diplomatic blackmail (both sides), dissidents, protesters, disarmament/peace protesters near bases, police corruption stories, local elections, trade unions - anything and anyone that could get traction in the press.
Add in the classics - generational wealth protection, arms dealers who can keep "freedom fighters" in weapons and ammo at short notice long term.
Lawyers and bankers talking to the press eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/
"some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war" - too expensive for training and useless around the world.
What most sites do is pick any "purchase order" number and then quote it was ever just that total low amount.
If you add up the US gov contracts to buy over the months, you get ongoing larger numbers until new order details where less public on gov sites.
Lets do the math:
FTTN will need power and optical rolled out into suburbia.
Each node will be ejecting fancy new vectoring or better tech into existing final very old copper runs of 200~2000m.
Australia will have have to look hard at each adsl user. That long run of existing adsl copper from the 500m-4 km exchange/rim (~digital loop carrier) will have fight with the new nodes.
What will a new 300m-2km run of vectoring copper do to existing adel 1/2 users?
Hint - every user will have to get a node connection for internet if vectoring is used near existing adsl connections:)
Thats a lot of nodes to build out in suburbia per 500-2000m suburban copper loops.
The short runs of copper are corroded, crushed or have a few too many joins and will need ongoing care.
Australia did over provision copper, but that was a long time ago ~100% redundancy (~2.5 pairs per home) is now very low. What is left is over used or of unknown quality re low number of working pairs. http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/11/27/3642266.htm
Our solder joints are old, oxidisation is ongoing, alien crosstalk (ATX)....copper diameter (in Australia 0.4mm is common)... the list of copper issues in the ground is Australia is not like some 'new' lab network. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/products/network/vdslwp.pdf has some numbers over longer runs on page 32. http://delimiter.com.au/2012/04/30/fttn-a-huge-mistake-says-ex-bt-cto/
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Re They can't lock us all up right?
For now it seems like they are still building fancy lists. ie longer, bigger, better versions of concepts like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
Be your own number station. Create youtube videos of realistic (length and count) list of numbers.
A voice, black screen, numbers in white.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Lists where tried in the 1990's and seem to be filtered. :)
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/08/quantum-leap/ seems to hint at the "exploiting open sources of information, particularly social media"
"utility of social media in exploiting human networks, including networks in which individual members actively seek to limit their exposure to the internet and social media"
Go to your local library and search for a few good local political journalists emails.
Spend a few days looking at real, local political scandals, deals, foreign intrigue or any interesting issues.
Note as many names as you can, brands, firms, lawyers names, journalists. Create a new draft email and account with one of the big US technology giants that the NSA likes.
Start shaping your draft message. Be as creative as you can about new information, a family member willing to talk.
Anonymity, hint at a bank, a document, past low level political access that 'helped'.
Pad out the intro and local aspect with a time line, what was in the press, how a journalist was on the right track, regional terms.
Save the draft.
Read and save your message from the account via clean computer (MAC and wifi unused) in the state capitol days later.
Keep a camera near your door if you ever get a 'unrelated' visit.
Speak loud and ask the person at the door to speak up too
i.e. make your message flow like a real whistelblower might. Great practice for a work of fiction.
Think of all the marketing data that will drift up a US network.
Your face, your friends faces, your family faces, video clips, locations, times, what you pass on the way to work, what you do on weekends..parties..hobbies
No more taking the card out.
They want "the NSA cloud" to become the new normal.
Whats to "willfully misunderstand" about "the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be pursued" question vs president's authorization?
The press asked a great question.
Re: "own beliefs" - most of that was just from reading the pages as linked.
What "bigger picture"? That India, Brazil, China, Canada, Germany, South Africa or France might not want to 'rent' blurred limited images from commercial firms?
Space is not the Soviet/German/US club it was in the 1950-70's - other nations will try building "space vehicles".
Top of page 3 and mid of page 2 of http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/secrets-are-hard-to-keep-in-the-whole-wired-world/ Its like reaching out to a Nixon like silent majority of the contracting tech world.
The GCHQ did it with better pay, conditions, academic support and lots of expensive US tech in the 1970-80's. A real living wage and advancement.
The US gov seems to want to change the message back to a more positive debate vs the bitter people who cling to a 4th amendment subculture.
From:
...cyber reconnaissance, jamming, and attack”—from space vehicles.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/transcript_interview_with_former_KnS7JDIrw73GWlljxA7vdK
"I personally think Snowden is a very troubled, narcissistic young man who has done a very, very bad thing."
"ideological embrace of transparency as a virtue."
"Likewise, at what point does a cultural tendency towards transparency flip-over to become a deep threat inside your system?"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/secrets-are-hard-to-keep-in-the-whole-wired-world/
"“a romantic, absolute attachment to transparency; [a belief] that secrecy in any form is wrong.”
https://www.fas.org/irp/news/2006/01/hayden012306.html
"The great urban legend out there then was something called "Echelon""
"It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about."
"If FISA worked just as well, why wouldn't I use FISA? To save typing?
No. There is an operational impact here, and I have two paths in front of me, both of them lawful, one FISA, one the presidential -- the president's authorization.
And we go down this path because our operational judgment is it is much more effective."
Interesting how the press picks up on the "FISA statute itself says that it will be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be pursued"
and is then told : "I'm not asserting anything. I'm asserting that NSA is doing its job."
http://freebeacon.com/china-military-preparing-for-peoples-war-in-cyberspace-space/
"Cyber warfare may truly be called a people’s warfare"
The costs of hiring 2x the admins, consultants and experts to clean up after all the cyber action.
The costs of hiring 2x the new vetting staff after http://rt.com/usa/probe-company-cleared-snowden-022/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/18/nsa_buddy_system_director_keith_alexander_tells_congress_how_the_nsa_will.html
~a costly new No Contractor Left Behind Act.
With todays fast adsl, adsl2+ modems and some having friends with hybrid fibre coax or even optical, twentysomethings are way more effective than the 56k users of the past.
With a better understanding of Perl on the upgraded Windows Vista and 7 units, todays activists might see more than just the airbrushed NASA PR images - they might ftp out that moon flag fluttering clip this time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4977134.stm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Part_3:_Burning_Bright
The movie has the line "Calling all citizens" and then "Let each one stand at his front door.... Look and listen."
Wait for the alerts when http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-director-cyber-terrorism-snowden and the US gov has to "grab" and "bring" in all the:
..."nihilists, anarchists, activists, ..., twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years". ..... Occupation: Activist. Last seen . . ." ... watch for the running man . . . watch for a man alone, on foot . . . watch..."
"Police Alert. Wanted: Hacker in city. Has committed cyberterrorism and crimes against the State. Name:
"... watch for a man running
(welcome to Fahrenheit 451)
resign without repercussions? :) ... " "I know math, CS, crypto like I listed for my university years..."
Your clearance level does not magically go away. They keep it for you so you can contract at a later date or if you are ever needed again.
Your obligations stay the same
What are you going to tell your next potential private sector boss? "I worked for the last 5-10-20 years...at
What can you resign to? A front company? A trusted contractor? The "assignments" will be the same just more of an ‘on call’ arrangement work feel or short contract anywhere at short notice.
Where do you think all the loud, cold, hot, dusty, distant hardware jobs went in the new image of "academic with top pay" world of gov work?
One time pad to your family, tribe, gang, cult, freedom fighters, friends, new friends or fellow travellers.
Geolocation and electronic chatter seems to be the focus of the surveillance structure that was build up... ie you have to keep feeding the machines, phones or mail.
If they helped get your plain text http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data and
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593339-38/nsa-docs-boast-now-we-can-wiretap-skype-video-calls/
to Android software and..."remotely activate the microphones in phones"..
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323997004578641993388259674-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html
The tame, low cost, US OS are they way in.
Tor exit nodes and colluding fun back in the day:
http://themostboringblogintheworld.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/what-the-invisible-wahington-dc-tor-nodes-mean-to-you/
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm a long list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm way back to 1972.
The general public cant do much, they have to be on web 2.0 and US social media as all their friends are and now work contacts too.
As for the smarter people who write code...
From diplomatic communications between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin in the press in 1986..
to Clipper chips to Room 641A - looking back what can we say?
Software was always in beta with encryption to follow with next years better CPU's?
Congress would save us? It would be to hard to track/tap/store? Think of the press if a US brand was ever exposed? Never used for domestic..
The people who could have said something got security clearances, NDA's or their own stock or had loans....
Was the GCHQ right in that if people know they are been watched they self-censor ? Or the NSA - if you get everything you can shape any change.
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vs the ~10 Gb bandwidth, 2 Gb Disk space other parts of the world offer at the low end.
The mid and high end will start to think about air gap, no cloud, encryption and trusted local staff.
The real fun is in bilateral agreements, trade deals and telcos just helping so the paperwork is signed.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/12/telstras-deal-with-the-devil-fbi-access-to-its-undersea-cables/
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/telecoms-bt-vodafone-cables-gchq
yes dark its getting interesting http://rt.com/usa/probe-company-cleared-snowden-022/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management
Re so many get access. - seems there was a real rush in the past 10 years.
The problem for the DEA is the CIA and US mil trains all of South America.
To avoid the Cubans, Russians. Nationalists leftists... all wanting to escape the bad national loans....
People know what a cell signal is, voice prints, calls made to the USA, tracking of everything entering US airspace...
Strange that it all works, the bank accounts stay open and shipments arrive... year after year after year, flight after flight, ship after ship... trucks... small subs...
RE: What could China, North Korea, the USSR vs the NSA? ;)
Float a few really good quality spy ships off the coast of the USA, UK?
Some great trackable satellites passing over the US/UK and friends?
Dedicate a few embassy floors to signals? Build a huge complex in Cuba to listen in?
The Soviets went for weak people in the US/UK in areas that where interesting or shaped liked minded peoples careers very long term.
East Germany tried to put young agents into West German firms hoping some might get to middle management much later in life...
They went for the press, academics, spies, scientists, engineers, mil and gov technicians.
Only the NSA/GCHQ had the power and vision to shape the worlds telecommunications standards long term to be NSA usable.
The West has other issues - drug for cash for freedom fighters to buy arms. The banks to ensure the cash flowed.
China seems happy just to buy and educate its way along with any help it can get from Russia, the USA.
What can the USA do if the signals intelligence ever stops again
The Russians can return to typewriters. Can the CIA buy their way in again?
The establishment needs to be out in front of any issues with a new gov, the celebrities, press with sources, inventors with disruptive technology, arms dealers talking to the press, diplomatic blackmail (both sides), dissidents, protesters, disarmament/peace protesters near bases, police corruption stories, local elections, trade unions - anything and anyone that could get traction in the press.
Add in the classics - generational wealth protection, arms dealers who can keep "freedom fighters" in weapons and ammo at short notice long term.
Lawyers and bankers talking to the press eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal.
Ebno another good site is http://stevej-on-nbn.blogspot.com.au/ "NBN Issues, Commentary & Opinion. 30 yrs in I.T. and Telecomms"
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/hacker-builds-tracking-system-to-nab-tor-pedophiles/114 hinted
"custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html from 2008
"unique serial numbers" from the person's computer and keeps a tally.."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/
"some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war" - too expensive for training and useless around the world.
What most sites do is pick any "purchase order" number and then quote it was ever just that total low amount.
If you add up the US gov contracts to buy over the months, you get ongoing larger numbers until new order details where less public on gov sites.
Hi ebno http://www.nbnco.com.au/nbn-for-home/how-it-works/how-it-works.html might help a bit
If you have a tech question have a text/google search of the NBN section at http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/142
Lets do the math:
FTTN will need power and optical rolled out into suburbia.
Each node will be ejecting fancy new vectoring or better tech into existing final very old copper runs of 200~2000m.
Australia will have have to look hard at each adsl user. That long run of existing adsl copper from the 500m-4 km exchange/rim (~digital loop carrier) will have fight with the new nodes.
What will a new 300m-2km run of vectoring copper do to existing adel 1/2 users?
Hint - every user will have to get a node connection for internet if vectoring is used near existing adsl connections:)
Thats a lot of nodes to build out in suburbia per 500-2000m suburban copper loops.
The short runs of copper are corroded, crushed or have a few too many joins and will need ongoing care.
Australia did over provision copper, but that was a long time ago ~100% redundancy (~2.5 pairs per home) is now very low.
What is left is over used or of unknown quality re low number of working pairs.
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/11/27/3642266.htm
Our solder joints are old, oxidisation is ongoing, alien crosstalk (ATX)....copper diameter (in Australia 0.4mm is common)... the list of copper issues in the ground is Australia is not like some 'new' lab network.
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/products/network/vdslwp.pdf has some numbers over longer runs on page 32.
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/04/30/fttn-a-huge-mistake-says-ex-bt-cto/
Running a weapons warehouse and shipping Libyan weapons to 'freedom fighters' is Syria is a bit more than a "mess"....
Who is getting the flow of arms in Syria? The best friends the USA ever had: Al-CIA-da.
The black flags, battlefield bbq, one faith only types.
"CIA moved missiles out of Libya to Syria's rebels"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4413289,00.html
"CIA 'clamping down on Benghazi operatives'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10219347/CIA-clamping-down-on-Benghazi-operatives.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383654/Congressman-cries-cover-claims-Obama-administration-hiding-Benghazi-witnesses-relocating-giving-new-identities.html
http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/we-will-slaughter-all-of-them-an-interview-with-the-man-behind-the-syrian-atrocity-video/