Agent: We're from the US government and we're here to help ourselves to your users data.
Admin: Their servers dead, that's what's wrong with it?
Agent: So it is. 'Ere's some money and a couple of holiday vouchers.
Admin:... Do you want to ftp back to my sever?
Agent: I thought you'd never ask.
Re: "Why are critical systems on the 'net?"
So one lower cost, union free, engineer can be contracted to look over many subsystems from a great distance.
vs having local technical staff who need paying and pensions. Local staff over time may get to know their legal rights and fight for their wages - state and federal.
You also had heavy commercial lobby efforts to update State control systems to 'save' cash long term. Products using industrial "solutions" created for secure site networks where spread over vast state or regional networks via the 'internet' or 'wireless'.
ie States trying to get rid of on site long term union staff and great sales reps moving around cities and states with networks to sell.
China is doing nothing the old Colonial powers did not do Cold - just way more smart.
The difference is China and Vietnam started long along in the 1960's with basic food aid, farming help, infrastructure and reaching out to the local postcolonial leadership.
The West was very busy with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Africa
Africa can recall that part of their history, the small wars the US and Soviets played.
Most in Africa recall the support for Apartheid (until the near end), the death of Patrice Lumumba, NGO's, missionaries, arms deals and endless easy US $ loans.
China is working long term on its "cooperation ventures", real engineering, medical experts, roads for minerals, oil, gems, timber, food - not just arms deals, faith, more loans and super safe bank accounts.
Libya was going to offer cheap, African telco options with its cash help for a Pan-African satellite.
Less EU cash flow per call and the tracking options via the EU for African calls would have been less easy.
Now other firms are going to re connect Africa away from the USA and EU.....
Wont someone think of the need to track the digital generations, they might learn about the market value of their mineral exports.
Resources need deals signed with local leaders. Smart local experts will chatter about the quality of the deal, some been more into nationalism and patriotism than any bribe can alter.
They will do the math with the local press - the cost of a university, hospital, roads, new mines, power, rail vs the true long term total export value.
Such experts and their press contacts need to be found and shown the error of their ways.
Any African country doing huge deals with a France, UK, USA, Russia knows the part they have to play. Empty ships arrive, full ships depart, the local leadership is looked after and a few locals get jobs.
You had South Africa, Cuba, East Germany all playing the aid/spy card too.
Vietnam, China mostly went for long term farm aid and very long term friendship.
The visions of Moscow, London and Washington have usually been the same, influence, shared mil bases, listening stations, blocking China/France/Japan.
What can leaders in Africa do?
Sell out to mines/oil backed by US banks and loans with a few nice people from MI6/CIA to ensure its stays good.
Sell out to mines/oil backed by Russian loans with a few nice people from FSB/KGB to ensure its all good.
Sell out to mines/oil backed by China with a lots of nice new experts, workers and useful infrastructure ensure its all good.
Add in arms dealers, political and faith based groups who feel timber, oil, gems and strategic minerals are much better looked after in Paris, London, Washington.
So you have a lot of groups who dont want the locals getting too vocal.
3D printing will build up steam in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents.
I wonder if a 3D scanner can fit in a back pack for hours of battery powered urban scanning on the move?
Thinking about http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/3d-printed-aston-martin/
I wonder how small the 3d scanning tech could go?
Could a fake bulky dslr battery pack fit a 3d scanner under a camera?
Bring a tethered laptop and a friend for the day at the show and scan away?
The U.S. Constitution is sort of clear that the US public is not some ZiL with a car phone in 1980's Moscow.
The "evidence" is now all on the net, help with domestic decryption, "business records" from US hardware and software brands.
You dont need to go "installing key loggers" when the tame US OS and software maker gives you plain text.
Data from your ips to a site over a national telco is now a "public network"??
"...persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." seems pretty clear to most in the USA.
"damage"? Most of the news was in books and magazines from the 1970~2000's Cold.
The Soviet Union and Russia had many top spies in the UK and US for years.
The US and its allies are upset the big US global brands where embarrassed.
The US public has a better understanding of their 4th Amendment in 2013.
Bradley Manning shows what "beacons of freedom and respect for civil rights" is reduced to in 2013.
Jozsef Mindszenty got to the United States embassy in 1956 Budapest. Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave.
Now people protected in Russia for 1 year.
The classics: Big Russian truck with very poor breaks?
Would make the mystery files find their way onto the net.
After Assange and Mordechai Vanunu, the world should be wise to any friendly new people.
Wait the year out and try for a transit grab again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair should give the press some idea about what the FSB would be facing.
Depends who has the sway in the USA: the soft, smart MI6/GCHQ 'optics and character' ideas or the CIA "German" results team....
And recall the slashdot names pushing the Metadata myth and 'size' of the Utah Data Centre:)
The telco system always belonged to ~ NSA, GCHQ (as different.mil/.gov groups) over time and now all your data 'layers' do too.
All this was hinted at in books, magazines over the 1960,70,80,90's.
What I always found interesting was the public/press rush for a 'gov key' to any US net encryption back in the early 1990's and then much less chatter/detail/press/.edu.
Now we know why:)
The best and brightest at Apple, MS, BeOS, Linux did learn from "the great masters" - thank you to all of them.
They faced the limits of the data on a floppy and cd.
They had to think of updates over dial up, isdn, adsl.
Their art had to look amazing and be responsive on first gen cpu/gpu's.
They had to work around the quality and quantity of consumer RAM.
They where stuck with early sound output.
You got a generation of GUI's that worked, file systems that looked after your data, over time better graphics and sound.
You got a generation of programming options that let you shape your 3d car on screen rather than write your own gui and then have to think about the basics of 3d art for every project.
They also got the internet working at home.
Its like an East German boarder guard getting the cash for a motorcycle.
The nice story about working hard and helping find contraband....
ie nobody in the West is going to let an East Germany forget about what happens on the Wall.
We now all know the truth about the US brands and their legal positions wrt your plaintext.
Refreshing that old quote: You implement Cloud, the new network structure, where they pay dollars an hour, have no health care, no retirement, no pollution controls, etc., and you're going to hear a giant sucking sound of US admin jobs being pulled out of this country. We have great telco agreements across the world.
Do US admins, technical staff, CS graduates, staff with double degrees really think US multinationals will let you work overtime with Seattle civilian aircraft engineers like wages for generations?
The "creativity and innovation" will be in security/privacy cleared front companies based in the USA to offer legal cover for huge out sourced backhaul.
Agility will be more in finding a "self-service model" faster based on ever cheaper staff in say a Vietnam or Laos.
Will the US end user see any price savings? The cost per core, per seat, per VM will be rental and with their 24/7 'local' hardware support for your software rental: cost will chart in one direction: Up:)
If you got into an Apple store, its rows of the same generation of products. If you have not bought into the cult or are on the upgrade cycle, its a hard sell to convert a new user at the price point with the same old OS/look/feel/range.
Samsung has products ranging from:
low cost glossy colour clamshell phones with the basic functionality a user needs at the local price point.
mid range tablet like products
larger size tablets
Buying Samsung feels good at any price and has a new feel about it.
Now you also have the NSA "inside" branding.
Apple cannot go too cheap, no can it clutter up its product lines again, some may recall the Performa years.
Better, longer local ads? Or learn from a UK drugmaker on how to "grow sales volume" with a nice bump to 'prices" in China?
So when top US brands help with decryption, video, sound, plain text - just for legal foreign "metadata"?
Time to rethink the 4th Amendment?
A UK or Australian style "Telecommunications Interception and Access Act" would be better then?
A more happy updated living document that understands the need for changes?
The employees could then sit, listen, watch and read with less of the
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." to distract them? http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm shows a few did speak out:)
Welcome to a world where " "severe pain" must necessarily be pain associated with "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions"" is top quality legal jargon.
"Prolonged mental harm" is months or years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
A new gen of public–private partnerships, faith based groups, business, foreign diplomats, multinationals, legal teams, NGO's... contractors.. see endless tax payer contracts to add the worst sites and keep the tech updated.
MI5/6 and the GCHQ will also see it as one big lab experiment as to who and why people buy into VPN or other methods of circumvention.
Slashdot Mirror
Agent: We're from the US government and we're here to help ourselves to your users data. ... Do you want to ftp back to my sever?
Admin: Their servers dead, that's what's wrong with it?
Agent: So it is. 'Ere's some money and a couple of holiday vouchers.
Admin:
Agent: I thought you'd never ask.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/30/198097/for-congress-its-classified-is.html :)
~ weapons to the "freedom fighters" in Syria.
Welcome to the "It’s classified" world
Interesting if it is after https goes back to plain text at the server or search engine or search engine proxy service on any .com (US) provider?
You missed the "a foreign government" part ~ using UK to sidestep US laws/protections.
Cold the UK can go the 'private' way:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/03/police-blacklist-link-construction-workers
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/20/police-spies-crossed-line-macdonald
or just fly you to another part of the world where UK laws 'stop'
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/aug/04/uk-allowed-interrogate-tortured-prisoners
Re: "Why are critical systems on the 'net?"
So one lower cost, union free, engineer can be contracted to look over many subsystems from a great distance.
vs having local technical staff who need paying and pensions. Local staff over time may get to know their legal rights and fight for their wages - state and federal.
You also had heavy commercial lobby efforts to update State control systems to 'save' cash long term.
Products using industrial "solutions" created for secure site networks where spread over vast state or regional networks via the 'internet' or 'wireless'.
ie States trying to get rid of on site long term union staff and great sales reps moving around cities and states with networks to sell.
Re: So why is nobody suspecting surveillance when a US or European company is building communication infrastructure somewhere?
US hardware and software needs for telco support under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_For_Law_Enforcement_Act
Most of the telco kit from the EU/USA is loaded with police 'help' by default from the 1990's.
Making things like this not too hard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
China is doing nothing the old Colonial powers did not do Cold - just way more smart.
The difference is China and Vietnam started long along in the 1960's with basic food aid, farming help, infrastructure and reaching out to the local postcolonial leadership.
The West was very busy with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Africa
Africa can recall that part of their history, the small wars the US and Soviets played.
Most in Africa recall the support for Apartheid (until the near end), the death of Patrice Lumumba, NGO's, missionaries, arms deals and endless easy US $ loans.
China is working long term on its "cooperation ventures", real engineering, medical experts, roads for minerals, oil, gems, timber, food - not just arms deals, faith, more loans and super safe bank accounts.
Libya was going to offer cheap, African telco options with its cash help for a Pan-African satellite.
Less EU cash flow per call and the tracking options via the EU for African calls would have been less easy.
Now other firms are going to re connect Africa away from the USA and EU.....
Wont someone think of the need to track the digital generations, they might learn about the market value of their mineral exports.
Resources need deals signed with local leaders. Smart local experts will chatter about the quality of the deal, some been more into nationalism and patriotism than any bribe can alter.
They will do the math with the local press - the cost of a university, hospital, roads, new mines, power, rail vs the true long term total export value.
Such experts and their press contacts need to be found and shown the error of their ways.
Any African country doing huge deals with a France, UK, USA, Russia knows the part they have to play. Empty ships arrive, full ships depart, the local leadership is looked after and a few locals get jobs.
You had South Africa, Cuba, East Germany all playing the aid/spy card too.
Vietnam, China mostly went for long term farm aid and very long term friendship.
The visions of Moscow, London and Washington have usually been the same, influence, shared mil bases, listening stations, blocking China/France/Japan.
What can leaders in Africa do?
Sell out to mines/oil backed by US banks and loans with a few nice people from MI6/CIA to ensure its stays good.
Sell out to mines/oil backed by Russian loans with a few nice people from FSB/KGB to ensure its all good.
Sell out to mines/oil backed by China with a lots of nice new experts, workers and useful infrastructure ensure its all good.
Add in arms dealers, political and faith based groups who feel timber, oil, gems and strategic minerals are much better looked after in Paris, London, Washington.
So you have a lot of groups who dont want the locals getting too vocal.
3D printing will build up steam in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents.
I wonder if a 3D scanner can fit in a back pack for hours of battery powered urban scanning on the move?
Thinking about http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/3d-printed-aston-martin/
I wonder how small the 3d scanning tech could go?
Could a fake bulky dslr battery pack fit a 3d scanner under a camera?
Bring a tethered laptop and a friend for the day at the show and scan away?
0111 its getting interesting:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/30/govt-knows-best-white-house-creates-nudge-squad-to-shape-behavior/
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7
Also recall the classic http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
If all that fails:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/
The U.S. Constitution is sort of clear that the US public is not some ZiL with a car phone in 1980's Moscow.
The "evidence" is now all on the net, help with domestic decryption, "business records" from US hardware and software brands.
You dont need to go "installing key loggers" when the tame US OS and software maker gives you plain text.
Data from your ips to a site over a national telco is now a "public network"??
"...persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." seems pretty clear to most in the USA.
"damage"? Most of the news was in books and magazines from the 1970~2000's Cold.
The Soviet Union and Russia had many top spies in the UK and US for years.
The US and its allies are upset the big US global brands where embarrassed.
The US public has a better understanding of their 4th Amendment in 2013.
Bradley Manning shows what "beacons of freedom and respect for civil rights" is reduced to in 2013.
Jozsef Mindszenty got to the United States embassy in 1956 Budapest. Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave.
Now people protected in Russia for 1 year.
The classics:
Big Russian truck with very poor breaks?
Would make the mystery files find their way onto the net.
After Assange and Mordechai Vanunu, the world should be wise to any friendly new people.
Wait the year out and try for a transit grab again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair should give the press some idea about what the FSB would be facing.
Depends who has the sway in the USA: the soft, smart MI6/GCHQ 'optics and character' ideas or the CIA "German" results team....
And recall the slashdot names pushing the Metadata myth and 'size' of the Utah Data Centre :) .mil/.gov groups) over time and now all your data 'layers' do too. :)
The telco system always belonged to ~ NSA, GCHQ (as different
All this was hinted at in books, magazines over the 1960,70,80,90's.
What I always found interesting was the public/press rush for a 'gov key' to any US net encryption back in the early 1990's and then much less chatter/detail/press/.edu.
Now we know why
The best and brightest at Apple, MS, BeOS, Linux did learn from "the great masters" - thank you to all of them.
They faced the limits of the data on a floppy and cd.
They had to think of updates over dial up, isdn, adsl.
Their art had to look amazing and be responsive on first gen cpu/gpu's.
They had to work around the quality and quantity of consumer RAM.
They where stuck with early sound output.
You got a generation of GUI's that worked, file systems that looked after your data, over time better graphics and sound.
You got a generation of programming options that let you shape your 3d car on screen rather than write your own gui and then have to think about the basics of 3d art for every project.
They also got the internet working at home.
Its like an East German boarder guard getting the cash for a motorcycle.
The nice story about working hard and helping find contraband....
ie nobody in the West is going to let an East Germany forget about what happens on the Wall.
We now all know the truth about the US brands and their legal positions wrt your plaintext.
Refreshing that old quote: You implement Cloud, the new network structure, where they pay dollars an hour, have no health care, no retirement, no pollution controls, etc., and you're going to hear a giant sucking sound of US admin jobs being pulled out of this country. We have great telco agreements across the world. :)
Do US admins, technical staff, CS graduates, staff with double degrees really think US multinationals will let you work overtime with Seattle civilian aircraft engineers like wages for generations?
The "creativity and innovation" will be in security/privacy cleared front companies based in the USA to offer legal cover for huge out sourced backhaul.
Agility will be more in finding a "self-service model" faster based on ever cheaper staff in say a Vietnam or Laos.
Will the US end user see any price savings? The cost per core, per seat, per VM will be rental and with their 24/7 'local' hardware support for your software rental:
cost will chart in one direction: Up
If you got into an Apple store, its rows of the same generation of products. If you have not bought into the cult or are on the upgrade cycle, its a hard sell to convert a new user at the price point with the same old OS/look/feel/range.
Samsung has products ranging from:
low cost glossy colour clamshell phones with the basic functionality a user needs at the local price point.
mid range tablet like products
larger size tablets
Buying Samsung feels good at any price and has a new feel about it.
Now you also have the NSA "inside" branding.
Apple cannot go too cheap, no can it clutter up its product lines again, some may recall the Performa years.
Better, longer local ads? Or learn from a UK drugmaker on how to "grow sales volume" with a nice bump to 'prices" in China?
So when top US brands help with decryption, video, sound, plain text - just for legal foreign "metadata"? :)
Time to rethink the 4th Amendment?
A UK or Australian style "Telecommunications Interception and Access Act" would be better then?
A more happy updated living document that understands the need for changes?
The employees could then sit, listen, watch and read with less of the
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." to distract them?
http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm shows a few did speak out
Welcome to a world where " "severe pain" must necessarily be pain associated with "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions"" is top quality legal jargon.
"Prolonged mental harm" is months or years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
A new gen of public–private partnerships, faith based groups, business, foreign diplomats, multinationals, legal teams, NGO's... contractors.. see endless tax payer contracts to add the worst sites and keep the tech updated.
MI5/6 and the GCHQ will also see it as one big lab experiment as to who and why people buy into VPN or other methods of circumvention.