It seems a dark almost black colour is linked with power and strength in tests.
Warmth and friendliness of the lighter colours are out, ie power and authority wants you to understand "strong".
My state has just changed from a light blue to a nice extra dark blue (looks black) with silver like trim:)
Work out who uses ORACLE, ESRI, SQL, Java or.net in the UK and products are still export worthy... operational support may not just be data mining to find the friends of friends of friends who went back to the family's country of origin.
Past MI5 thoughts: Long term NATO disinformation files given to the Soviets after the Francois Roussilhe (via library of NATO headquarters) case in the 1960's. Was blocked by the CIA as too complex.
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife ie the UK could alter the IRA's Internal Security Unit files.
Industrial espionage could just be cover for slight data alternation, if your spying on a UK brand the data you steal is junk or trackable or long term private sector staff are turned to informants.
technically exists or be possible, but as a practical matter it is pointless?
Most groups in the 1960-90's had perfect papers - cleared by an embassy or state backed.
Just like the freedom fighters for Libya, Syria, Chechnya, ~Yugoslavia, Iran.
Funny how they and their weapons move with such a total lack of understanding of their support networks.
Cold different groups within the US gov look at different people. But making their lists over many years might not be very hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
When seeking funding they like to quote big numbers, when caught by the press, they like to quote any smaller database.
Recall the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office and withdrawal of funding?
Transferred to other government agencies...
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on your average modern car's complex computer systems.
High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D6jxBDy8k8
0. Re watch All the President's Men (1976).
1. Reach out to your contacts, contacts from a few years ago, older journalists from a few years ago who had many journalists friends with quality tech contacts.
1.5 Offer to share the fame.
1.6 Read up on US secretly collecting two months of press telephone records.
2. 99.98% of calls might end with a click.
3. Wait for the few calls where people that just have to bully, argue, threaten for 5-100 mins.
4. Let ex staff vent with filled ample justification rants guide you.
5. Reality of press telephone records finds you.
Transparency brings the hope of legality or the reality retroactive immunity.
10's of people from legal and upper middle management pleading the fifth will make for bad optics one day.
Having to remove funny videos of your own congressional chat from your own branded upload site is bad optics too.
You have a lot of cubicle staff in the USA who kept a lot of secrets who are now wondering if they will legally covered.
You have a lot of cubicle staff with multinational links who kept a lot of secrets who are now wondering if they will legally safe in their country.
How many staff kept that legally questionable pdf?
From a submarine cable deal to...... ?
The more the staff and (lots of ex staff) read, the more they might be tempted to talk to the press.
The brands exposed want to get out in front of any legal questions and be able to tell all their staff "It was/is legal"
The legal fun of "conditions of your employment contract" and some no press "mandatory arbitration" vs the reality of domestic spying not been related to your employment and thus, not covered by the contract?
Re: "Snowden revelations have already had the effect of causing terrorists to change their communications methods to avoid surveillance thus reducing intelligence even more."
Most 1950~90's groups of Moscow backed revolutionaries or Washington funded freedom fighters probably got some form of education around the basics of elint, comint, sigint based on what was found on downed spy planes, sold by spies...
Would any modern group not be aware of the Zimmermann Telegram, the 1920's efforts on Soviet diplomatic codes, Enigma, radio tracking in Vietnam, ECHELON,lessons from the South African Border War, MI6/SAS in Ireland, tracking via Operation Condor, Bosnia, Iraq, Chechnya, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan...
KGB, SAS, MI6, East Germany, CIA all had their favourite groups and passed on much more than basic counter-surveillance, translations of Clausewitz or motivational pamphlets.
Or to put it another way telephone use = drone and night raid. Sat phone use = drone and night raid. Cell phone = drone and night raid. Family, village, clan connections = drone and night raid. Voice print capture, gunfire location have all been in the open press too.
Snowden revelations where to US lawmakers and the US public - trusted brands and federal laws.
Due process is going to get fun re confrontation clause and simple things like evidence, witnesses. You just wont have standing in your own trial to see what data the feds and their friends collected.
Welcome to the the digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
Its never impossible for the USA to spin this one more time. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, NATO leaders are totally addicted to limited NSA help.
Their press will be tame or move on. Give it a few years and let the sock puppets (as seen on slashdot) go to work with doubt, legal questions, amount of data shared, patriotism, been at war, it was all international and thus very legal, the French, the UK, recall the Data Encryption Standard style trolling?
Over time fall back on the classics of: if it really happened why risk a stock crash and very bad press, accountability would have stopped it, Congress said no, complexity in ~2000 was just too hard, cannot use the data in court so why was it collected, staff would see data moving, was only outside the USA...
Give it 5-10 years.
Nobody went to prison for 10 years
Cold, the US gov can select to watch a person at a distance after looking into their full family background.
US intelligence services go for refinement and gain much more oversight per person that the tip off via a pubic gov car, suit, badge, hours of interview per visit.
ie with more people running HD cameras at home or HD cameras been turned on when two people in plain clothes show up with with badges.
Too many youtube videos about protesters followed home been questioned at their door, internal checkpoints (beatings, property damage), recording police reactions to quoting legal rights
The smart state takes its time to watch or just uses trolls and sock puppets vs setting regional targets for mass arrests and death.
ie use total loss of academic/press/wealth/belivabilty vs mass arrests and death.
IMHO 1984 was more the British Empire experience been tried at home.
The idea that you would have so many shattered people in suburbia and cities would give a Soviet 1980's dissident feel - NGO's, foreign press getting long interviews, books about their treatment.
The other view is you flood the population with food, sport, every type of sex, drugs, new education methods every generation, pleasure, addictions, books, movies, celebrities, tame press on some new scandal, mass migration and wealth generation ie no time for your protest or for groups within the community to form.
Any protest would be marginalized as old fashioned, as winding back rights, communist or fascist conspiracy, jealousy, silly or already been worked on by the free press...
Add in trolls, sock puppets - no need for shattered people after arrests.
If the State does need to shatter people - its a car crash, fast illness (mental or rapid "natural" death), friendly fire, suicide, criminal charges, total loss of academic/press/wealth standing or accident at home...
or just hint at the above can bring a person back into line.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems a dark almost black colour is linked with power and strength in tests. :)
Warmth and friendliness of the lighter colours are out, ie power and authority wants you to understand "strong".
My state has just changed from a light blue to a nice extra dark blue (looks black) with silver like trim
Hi BM, I did a quick google search and found the following chart:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16196680-police-deaths-down-23-percent-this-year-across-us?lite
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/AJDocs/121227_PoliceDeaths.pdf has a chart.
Is the US counting in new ways? Trying to reduce compensation costs from the 1970's numbers?
Thanks.
Work out who uses ORACLE, ESRI, SQL, Java or .net in the UK and products are still export worthy... operational support may not just be data mining to find the friends of friends of friends who went back to the family's country of origin.
Past MI5 thoughts: Long term NATO disinformation files given to the Soviets after the Francois Roussilhe (via library of NATO headquarters) case in the 1960's. Was blocked by the CIA as too complex.
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife ie the UK could alter the IRA's Internal Security Unit files.
Industrial espionage could just be cover for slight data alternation, if your spying on a UK brand the data you steal is junk or trackable or long term private sector staff are turned to informants.
France had "Hans Schmidt", he gave both encrypted and clear texts to France.
Other ww2 fun was the German side: Mustard via German OKK-5 efforts from a Soviet codebook captured in Finland.
http://chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/the-finnish-cryptologic-service-in-wwii.html
Did they get federal law enforcement training vs administrative upgrades?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/09/politics/tsa-badges
http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone
Too late re highway searches.
Enjoy your Transportation Security Officers at stops under Department of Homeland Security Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) and the next generation of state and federal teams.
So you can list all you worked on in the past and get a new codename to add to the list as funding shifts.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/06/job-networking-site-linkedin-filled-with-secret-nsa-program-names/
technically exists or be possible, but as a practical matter it is pointless?
Most groups in the 1960-90's had perfect papers - cleared by an embassy or state backed.
Just like the freedom fighters for Libya, Syria, Chechnya, ~Yugoslavia, Iran.
Funny how they and their weapons move with such a total lack of understanding of their support networks.
Cold different groups within the US gov look at different people. But making their lists over many years might not be very hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
When seeking funding they like to quote big numbers, when caught by the press, they like to quote any smaller database.
Recall the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office and withdrawal of funding?
Transferred to other government agencies...
Digital files on an "open campus" do not seem to be like ~"books were rare, old, in bad shape".
A few have done reverse FOIA:
http://www.annarbor.com/vielmetti/foia-friday-reverse-foia/
eg confidential commercial information vs defective parts
employment records
individual's privacy
63 versions of http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6 over time.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on your average modern car's complex computer systems.
High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D6jxBDy8k8
0. Re watch All the President's Men (1976).
1. Reach out to your contacts, contacts from a few years ago, older journalists from a few years ago who had many journalists friends with quality tech contacts.
1.5 Offer to share the fame.
1.6 Read up on US secretly collecting two months of press telephone records.
2. 99.98% of calls might end with a click.
3. Wait for the few calls where people that just have to bully, argue, threaten for 5-100 mins.
4. Let ex staff vent with filled ample justification rants guide you.
5. Reality of press telephone records finds you.
Transparency brings the hope of legality or the reality retroactive immunity. ...... ?
10's of people from legal and upper middle management pleading the fifth will make for bad optics one day.
Having to remove funny videos of your own congressional chat from your own branded upload site is bad optics too.
You have a lot of cubicle staff in the USA who kept a lot of secrets who are now wondering if they will legally covered.
You have a lot of cubicle staff with multinational links who kept a lot of secrets who are now wondering if they will legally safe in their country.
How many staff kept that legally questionable pdf?
From a submarine cable deal to
The more the staff and (lots of ex staff) read, the more they might be tempted to talk to the press.
The brands exposed want to get out in front of any legal questions and be able to tell all their staff "It was/is legal"
The legal fun of "conditions of your employment contract" and some no press "mandatory arbitration" vs the reality of domestic spying not been related to your employment and thus, not covered by the contract?
Very true. Recall the EU social network spy system brief, INDECT
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009
You can have all the IM, OS and browsers you want, over time shared database logs build a pattern of 'you' and your friends once a set of "dictionary" words are tripped.
Your text flow becomes justification.
Interesting how the hop numbers fit in with the MS news
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/07/16/responding-to-government-legal-demands-for-customer-data.aspx
"fractions of a percent – of our customers have ever been subject to a government demand related to criminal law or national security."
wrt a massive user base, numbers of computer users and US population size.
Re: "Snowden revelations have already had the effect of causing terrorists to change their communications methods to avoid surveillance thus reducing intelligence even more." ...
Most 1950~90's groups of Moscow backed revolutionaries or Washington funded freedom fighters probably got some form of education around the basics of elint, comint, sigint based on what was found on downed spy planes, sold by spies
Would any modern group not be aware of the Zimmermann Telegram, the 1920's efforts on Soviet diplomatic codes, Enigma, radio tracking in Vietnam, ECHELON,lessons from the South African Border War, MI6/SAS in Ireland, tracking via Operation Condor, Bosnia, Iraq, Chechnya, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan...
KGB, SAS, MI6, East Germany, CIA all had their favourite groups and passed on much more than basic counter-surveillance, translations of Clausewitz or motivational pamphlets.
Or to put it another way telephone use = drone and night raid. Sat phone use = drone and night raid. Cell phone = drone and night raid. Family, village, clan connections = drone and night raid. Voice print capture, gunfire location have all been in the open press too.
Snowden revelations where to US lawmakers and the US public - trusted brands and federal laws.
Due process is going to get fun re confrontation clause and simple things like evidence, witnesses. You just wont have standing in your own trial to see what data the feds and their friends collected.
Welcome to the the digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
Its never impossible for the USA to spin this one more time. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, NATO leaders are totally addicted to limited NSA help.
Their press will be tame or move on. Give it a few years and let the sock puppets (as seen on slashdot) go to work with doubt, legal questions, amount of data shared, patriotism, been at war, it was all international and thus very legal, the French, the UK, recall the Data Encryption Standard style trolling?
Over time fall back on the classics of: if it really happened why risk a stock crash and very bad press, accountability would have stopped it, Congress said no, complexity in ~2000 was just too hard, cannot use the data in court so why was it collected, staff would see data moving, was only outside the USA...
Give it 5-10 years.
All the nice sentences just to talk around full compliance with CALEA? :)
Its not like it was just some fax with a time, ip and port number from some city police department.. with an amazing letterhead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/edward-snowden-claims-microsoft-collaborated-with-nsa-and-fbi-to-allow-access-to-user-data-8705755.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/11/snowden_docs_detail_collaboration_between_nsa_and_microsoft/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-taps-skype-chats-newly-published-snowden-leaks-confirm/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
US Adult Computer and Adult Internet Users
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1158.pdf
The tiny % number wrt to big US computer use number and US MS marketshare seem to add up
Interesting http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm lists gov works, bankers, military, a call-centre-employee, health insurance PR, a few former NSA, CIA, FBI employees, people in sports and education, press, lawyers...
In this broad mix, how/why did so many within the US computer/CS/networking elite stay so silent? Did they feel it was just a domestic link to the FBI in continuous use?
Was the psychological profiling and testing of contractors near perfect Cash was great?
So few staff over so many product ranges over many years?
Hi Arhc, could more have been done via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21 ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICLEI in the US?
ie get the land away from all and any State/county oversight via some federal 'protect nature' buffer zone?
Ideas like http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-03-09/news/0603081682_1_citrus-trees-replant-non-citrus
"no longer will enforce the ban on residential"
Nobody went to prison for 10 years
Cold, the US gov can select to watch a person at a distance after looking into their full family background.
US intelligence services go for refinement and gain much more oversight per person that the tip off via a pubic gov car, suit, badge, hours of interview per visit.
ie with more people running HD cameras at home or HD cameras been turned on when two people in plain clothes show up with with badges.
Too many youtube videos about protesters followed home been questioned at their door, internal checkpoints (beatings, property damage), recording police reactions to quoting legal rights
The smart state takes its time to watch or just uses trolls and sock puppets vs setting regional targets for mass arrests and death. ie use total loss of academic/press/wealth/belivabilty vs mass arrests and death.
IMHO 1984 was more the British Empire experience been tried at home.
The idea that you would have so many shattered people in suburbia and cities would give a Soviet 1980's dissident feel - NGO's, foreign press getting long interviews, books about their treatment.
The other view is you flood the population with food, sport, every type of sex, drugs, new education methods every generation, pleasure, addictions, books, movies, celebrities, tame press on some new scandal, mass migration and wealth generation ie no time for your protest or for groups within the community to form.
Any protest would be marginalized as old fashioned, as winding back rights, communist or fascist conspiracy, jealousy, silly or already been worked on by the free press...
Add in trolls, sock puppets - no need for shattered people after arrests.
If the State does need to shatter people - its a car crash, fast illness (mental or rapid "natural" death), friendly fire, suicide, criminal charges, total loss of academic/press/wealth standing or accident at home...
or just hint at the above can bring a person back into line.