The US gov will try to hide form the optics of a "mass arrest".
Every political leader understands Tiananmen Square, the US had its Bonus Army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
The US seems to be going for generational change re the 2nd Amendment- taxation, total registration, education (via youth, movies, tv), criminalization, locked transportation away from any ammo, more police questions in legal open carry states.
Your 2nd Amendment "should" cover some basic gun rights in your city or State, but jail time and fines might be the everyday reality despite Federal court cases over the years.
The US gov has learned from the Vietnam protests that "mass arrests" include some very well connected authors, lawyers, wealthy students and press.
With the risk of HD footage and sound, a good legal team a day in open court is not the the chilling effect it once was.
The US gov seems to favour infiltration, the mass use of state and federal "Agent provocateur" (infiltrate left and right wing groups and ensure crimes on camera) i.e. group leaders can be arrested just before protests
The protesters are then offered deals to bring in more quality arrests, after an event to be protested are offered 'fines' vs risking court, turned into tame busy work movements or people are moved around Federal jail system for a few week, months..
The individual is broken with lack of sleep, food, no contact with their legal team, medication withdrawl, or face a type of "Soviet punitive psychiatry" until their paperwork is found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MERRIMAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_RESISTANCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/18/patriot_games
Show the evolution of US thinking on ideas like "mass arrest" - go for the person. Map out then tame, shape any "movement" leaving nothing but informants and tame groups ready to join any real protesters.
Russia had some interesting crypto insights to offer.
The UK gov broke Soviet embassy codes early on but leaked coded Soviet efforts to their politicians and thus the press...
They ran so many agents that one time pads failed due to re use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Russia knew the West had subs, aircraft, tunnels and many other efforts all around their boarders/ under a few embassies. By the 1950's Soviet spies noted code use was not good and the Soviets stopped all chatter and went to one time pads.
At some point the Soviet Union got really, really sloppy again and the NSA/CIA got near total access again.
The Soviet Union only worked out their error due to a spy in the UK who worked at the London Processing Group (MI6)/GCHQ and later moved up into strange new Sigint efforts -American sigint satellites - Ryolite/Canyon - great for VHF and UHF.
Soviet diplomatic traffic was not safe, its strategic submarines where tracked (~Project Sambo http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigilant/lectures/gchq/brawdy/)
-ie Russia can tell the EU: try one time pads not some fancy encrypted fax machine.
As for 'Why not blame the companies", the US has one neat legal option. If you write an Australia, Brazil or Germany or Japan OS, file system and crypto - sell it or gift it - trade deals start to come into force. No computer/OS/chip/crypto protectionism or subsidised national efforts.
Re So you're saying the entire American business is based on fraud?
More that any global crypto standard is cleared by the NSA. More that any local crypto standard is questioned by the US until US firms can get total access.
US diplomats, students (PhD swaps), private sector just offer the same message of quality, many eyes, US court protections and freedoms until American business gains what the NSA needs.
Did "Snowden" make so many trusted US 'brands' hand over their crypto? They seem to do that as part of some "everyday" commercial event as hardware and software upgrades.
Not a word from their legal teams, no CEO in court talking of your right to privacy.
How could any agency spy "far greater extent than the US"? The Soviets had orbital options and needed to move huge spy ships around for limited regional efforts, the UK had cash flow problems and has to use US computers/software...the French seem to focus on their own past glory, nuclear security and trade deals.
NATO was told to use US/UK crypto as it was safe, cheap and would ensure future US "help'.
Germany can only link its own telco network to one point and gift it all to the NSA. The BND efforts end up in the German press.
Canada? They gave up to the NSA in the 1950's.
Japan? Note all the US bases... South Africa at some point in the past? The USA helped them track down Communists via their phone network.
Snowden has been busy over many years....
Any spy agency could tell what the US was doing from the 1950's onwards. By the mid 1970's you had books, magazines... court cases.
You would have to go for an air gap.
With trade deals US cloud providers start to whine and put pressure on the US gov.
The result is demands from the US gov like this: http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/trade-war-up-in-the-clouds-20120529-1zhpg.html
"‘Concerns that laws such as the Patriot Act offer the US government carte blanche to obtain private data from US providers are misplaced"
We should have listened to our own experts and air gapped much more:)
Contain their own press, save or rig trade deals, hide or set up sex scandals, protect NATO com links, insider trading and contain any "public" outbreak of local crime. Help the USA and UK.
Lawmakers driving between legislative events have immunity from prosecution under legislative privilege.
A tight vote could be swayed by stopping a few key political people.
So they write in a free movment rule - the ability not to be stopped while going ~to vote.
If civil servants, bureaucrats, the private sector politically connected are getting plates that should be for lawmakers traveling between “legislative events” and using their personal cars would it really show? -
Could random vanity plate searches just be pointing to a more than a few having special plates?
Re The premise this article is based on is just repeating the initial screening over and over. That's not what happens.
We do have some historical pointers. The CIA, MI6, NGO, faith based support for protest movements sent into "sealed" 1980's Eastern Europe.
Printing equipment (small and large scale), tv/radio broadcast efforts, books, Bibles, capturing images of life under house arrest.
Every container, bag, box, person, car, van, truck would have to be searched entering - no fun if you want hard currency, export friendly factories and have new loans to repay.
The police and security forces could not politically afford to incorrectly “diagnose” people as dissidents. Moscow wanted daily reports too.
So you watched anyone of interest for a really long time no matter the cost, lack of any progress or hardware limits.
The police and security forces offered the leadership a deal - time and new equipment to map all foreign involvement - UK/US NGO, diplomats, spies and locals all caught for that perfect show trial.
For every year spent mapping out/infiltrating/trying to move up the ranks of protesters, creating fake charismatic protest leaders - the printing equipment runs, tv/radio broadcast spread -books, Bibles seem to be pouring in.
In the end the State blinks, years wasted on 24/7 surveillance of a family wanting an exit visa, suicides in jail with sealed coffins and extra "guests" with visible video equipment at the funeral, torture and liquidation in a very public way of prominent dissidents, liquidation of escaped dissidents in the West.
Once the bureaucracy starts with a file the actions and results can become self-fulfilling and budgets run away.
What can the USA do with all its massive global data mining results? Pass on the results on and pay an informant to get close?
A plot is suggested, arrests, press conferences and convictions are handed out by courts with very good odds for not understanding terms like "entrapment".
Initial screening over and over pays off for any State and selected private contractors- you get to follow people and shape the future in any way you want.
Eliminating the false positives can also get very tricky with so many infiltrating/freedom fighter efforts. Is that really bad group cover for your best freedom fighters from two wars ago and been protected for the next small war? Or one of your best informants?
A local propaganda layer would turn the "protests" into a few people in the next valley, town, suburb, street been brought to justice.
The public is rather desensitised to troops and tanks due to mil surplus been gifted to cities, towns, states and been in use.
Troops and mercs "help" at larger events - would anyone really notice anything different?
The optics of a Tiananmen Square can avoided with the round up of protest leaders, need for a permit and undercover work to spoil the event on the day.
Video work uploaded would become unavailable with the help of a few big brands:)
A soft military takeover could work if you zone up the country and focus on trouble areas/people and buy off larger zones with comforts like clean running water, power, gas, heating, food, the internet, medical care, timely unemployment benefits and dont go after drug use.
Even the offer of been "good" for ongoing property protection from looters can work wonders.
Stay home and you keep your arms as a hunter/collection with a new license - no problem at all.
Found outside its a death squad and if you survive sedition changes for you and your helpers/family.
Any home or ranch holding 'out' would be reported as hoarding, having an “arsenal”, not playing nice under the new colour of law.
Its a simple matter of burning out/shake and bake the person or people per private block of property.
Finding people with weapons in use via sounds been triangulated is not too hard ~10 to 12 audio sensors per square mile, files or local informants..
Domestic 24/7 drone use would give great map support too. Hollow points, white phosphorus, thermobaric weapons, sonic weapons, chemicals in water cannons might only be under questionable under international law.
For domestic use its just local policing as normal.
A successful night raid two doors down can also be chilling to anyone wishing to turn up at a First Amendment Zone ever again.
If a region keeps on been naughty, its Fallujah time- special ID cards and layers of identity checks.
Mercs and NATO special forces units would also be for support - no questions from them during any raid, just more overtime pay.
Yes http://cryptome.org/jya/echelon-dk.htm
"....today they monitor everything and everyone. Politicians, organizations, companies, private individuals, even friends in allied countries. In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the capability to listen in on all communication around the world.""
Fun reading back in http://it.slashdot.org/story/00/09/26/1836244/ex-nsa-analyst-warns-of-nsa-security-backdoors
Now we have the Snowden news to reflect:
Did the risk of a stock crash and very bad press save your network/OS?
Chain of command and accountability save your network/OS?
Did some committee in Congress save your network/OS?
Complexity save your network/OS?
Did a.com refusing to cooperate save your network/OS?
They cannot use the data in court...
We would see the data moving
Someone would talk real 'soon'
They only care about "military" stuff..
Only outside of the US
Australia is safe:)
Re wonder what other companies are also doing for the same reason.
What could have the US gov done to M$? Take it to court 'again' and 'win' - shattering M$ down to a few MS branded product ranges as punishment?
A massive ramping up of strange issues with taxes, people in the company, new gov/mil formats open to other US brands on the desktop?
Setting standards reducing MS to just a desktop OS with a larger non MS application product pool been supported?
Lock MS out of.edu and.mil?
All very late to been seen interfering with a US tech and stock success story.
Every user in front of a MS product was feeling 'ok' about the USA, been productive for MS via locked in upgrade and offering other parts of the US gov a way in when needed.
Profit, patriotism, compliance with CALEA as a US imposed global standard would do it?
All very late to ask for a quality back door to span generations of shipping products without some gov or researcher commenting.
Would the NSA and CIA really want to see the rise of next gen EU and Asian brands? A Wang, Bull or some Japan gov backed entity getting encryption traction?
What about Soviet and Russian use? Would they be that trusting/risked so much just to catch up with fast hardware/software?
The risk of some person walking into a Soviet embassy with the usual US spy names/cash for lifestyle/true believer and one extra 'new' tech story would be a huge risk.
Do the timelines and diverse existing trust in MS work if code was requested/injected too late in the company life?
How would the backdoors be cared for over the life of a product? A software Room 641A cared for/injected by a by a few trusted insiders or contractors?
Would late code review/beta and error reports not be a risk?
The other option is a founding of many front companies wrt to 1970's emerging tech around IBM/NSA and one become/lucked/shaped house hold name much later?
From telephone calls and total hearability, satellites to the new PC?
Re: Do we have another leak somewhere else?
"a new document released online and provided to Crikey reveals"
Sounds like an older doc sitting in some complex MS filesystem or something.
On the fascist timeline we have reach ~1934. No more simple Blueshirts.
Welcome our new political police and security services that will ensure the internet stays packet pure with every more vigilant "network hygiene"
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_(film) for the staged suicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_(film) power elite and a "boating accident"
The original UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Play_the_King for the simple pleasure of cataloging the political competitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness (1985) for the display of a hardened, air gapped computer network and the need for real physical access vs the amazing ability to just 'hack' from suburbia.
The gov understanding of protest movements.
The US gov will try to hide form the optics of a "mass arrest".
Every political leader understands Tiananmen Square, the US had its Bonus Army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
The US seems to be going for generational change re the 2nd Amendment- taxation, total registration, education (via youth, movies, tv), criminalization, locked transportation away from any ammo, more police questions in legal open carry states.
Your 2nd Amendment "should" cover some basic gun rights in your city or State, but jail time and fines might be the everyday reality despite Federal court cases over the years.
The US gov has learned from the Vietnam protests that "mass arrests" include some very well connected authors, lawyers, wealthy students and press.
With the risk of HD footage and sound, a good legal team a day in open court is not the the chilling effect it once was.
The US gov seems to favour infiltration, the mass use of state and federal "Agent provocateur" (infiltrate left and right wing groups and ensure crimes on camera) i.e. group leaders can be arrested just before protests
The protesters are then offered deals to bring in more quality arrests, after an event to be protested are offered 'fines' vs risking court, turned into tame busy work movements or people are moved around Federal jail system for a few week, months..
The individual is broken with lack of sleep, food, no contact with their legal team, medication withdrawl, or face a type of "Soviet punitive psychiatry" until their paperwork is found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MERRIMAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_RESISTANCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/18/patriot_games
Show the evolution of US thinking on ideas like "mass arrest" - go for the person. Map out then tame, shape any "movement" leaving nothing but informants and tame groups ready to join any real protesters.
"level it may not be too bad."
What would the UK gov like to memory hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole ?
Some past stories that would be so tempting to just filter down just a bit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/30/iraq-torture-allegations-uk-military-investigations-reopened
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163799/UK-soldiers-beat-innocent-Iraqi-men-black-ops-jails-new-secret-justice-law-means-torture-hidden-forever.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/24/undercover-officers-police-chief-met
http://www.information-age.com/technology/mobile-and-networking/123457043/ee-and-ipsos-mori-face-privacy-backlash-over-mobile-data-analysis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9750403/MI6-codebreaker-Gareth-Williams-probably-locked-himself-into-sports-bag.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9337175/Soldiers-sacked-days-before-pension-date.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127453/M16-1m-bribe-silence-torture-victim-Spies-gave-dissident-Gaddafi-thugs.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/11/gchq-staff-war-crimes-drones
With some "filter controls" for a few days after publication and pay walls long term, an individual in the UK could have their news just reshaped a bit long term.
Ideas like the http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-courts will shut the press out from some UK court reporting.
This mass filter idea might be the next step.
Australia shows the mission creep eg just for a few suspected fraud sites.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/16/global-eyes-are-watching-eff-condemns-australias-new-internet-filter/
Re Savile:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/414677/BBC-paid-for-Jimmy-Savile-s-cash-gifts-to-children
The UK press seem to still be interested in the person but nothing around the issues going back many 10's of years seems to gain much press traction at all.
Look back at the Jillings Report
"Jillings report: Reaction to its release after 17 years"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23223309
The Waterhouse Inquiry
Layers of celebs, politicians, police officers, legal professionals and business owners where offering cover..
Russia had some interesting crypto insights to offer.
The UK gov broke Soviet embassy codes early on but leaked coded Soviet efforts to their politicians and thus the press...
They ran so many agents that one time pads failed due to re use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Russia knew the West had subs, aircraft, tunnels and many other efforts all around their boarders/ under a few embassies. By the 1950's Soviet spies noted code use was not good and the Soviets stopped all chatter and went to one time pads.
At some point the Soviet Union got really, really sloppy again and the NSA/CIA got near total access again.
The Soviet Union only worked out their error due to a spy in the UK who worked at the London Processing Group (MI6)/GCHQ and later moved up into strange new Sigint efforts -American sigint satellites - Ryolite/Canyon - great for VHF and UHF.
Soviet diplomatic traffic was not safe, its strategic submarines where tracked (~Project Sambo http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigilant/lectures/gchq/brawdy/)
-ie Russia can tell the EU: try one time pads not some fancy encrypted fax machine.
As for 'Why not blame the companies", the US has one neat legal option. If you write an Australia, Brazil or Germany or Japan OS, file system and crypto - sell it or gift it - trade deals start to come into force. No computer/OS/chip/crypto protectionism or subsidised national efforts.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-taps-skype-chats-newly-published-snowden-leaks-confirm/
Re So you're saying the entire American business is based on fraud?
More that any global crypto standard is cleared by the NSA. More that any local crypto standard is questioned by the US until US firms can get total access.
US diplomats, students (PhD swaps), private sector just offer the same message of quality, many eyes, US court protections and freedoms until American business gains what the NSA needs.
Did "Snowden" make so many trusted US 'brands' hand over their crypto? They seem to do that as part of some "everyday" commercial event as hardware and software upgrades.
Not a word from their legal teams, no CEO in court talking of your right to privacy.
How could any agency spy "far greater extent than the US"? The Soviets had orbital options and needed to move huge spy ships around for limited regional efforts, the UK had cash flow problems and has to use US computers/software...the French seem to focus on their own past glory, nuclear security and trade deals.
NATO was told to use US/UK crypto as it was safe, cheap and would ensure future US "help'.
Germany can only link its own telco network to one point and gift it all to the NSA. The BND efforts end up in the German press.
Canada? They gave up to the NSA in the 1950's.
Japan? Note all the US bases... South Africa at some point in the past? The USA helped them track down Communists via their phone network.
Snowden has been busy over many years....
Any spy agency could tell what the US was doing from the 1950's onwards. By the mid 1970's you had books, magazines... court cases.
You would have to go for an air gap. :)
With trade deals US cloud providers start to whine and put pressure on the US gov.
The result is demands from the US gov like this:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/trade-war-up-in-the-clouds-20120529-1zhpg.html
"‘Concerns that laws such as the Patriot Act offer the US government carte blanche to obtain private data from US providers are misplaced"
We should have listened to our own experts and air gapped much more
Contain their own press, save or rig trade deals, hide or set up sex scandals, protect NATO com links, insider trading and contain any "public" outbreak of local crime. Help the USA and UK.
Lawmakers driving between legislative events have immunity from prosecution under legislative privilege.
A tight vote could be swayed by stopping a few key political people.
So they write in a free movment rule - the ability not to be stopped while going ~to vote.
If civil servants, bureaucrats, the private sector politically connected are getting plates that should be for lawmakers traveling between “legislative events” and using their personal cars would it really show? -
Could random vanity plate searches just be pointing to a more than a few having special plates?
Re The premise this article is based on is just repeating the initial screening over and over. That's not what happens.
We do have some historical pointers. The CIA, MI6, NGO, faith based support for protest movements sent into "sealed" 1980's Eastern Europe.
Printing equipment (small and large scale), tv/radio broadcast efforts, books, Bibles, capturing images of life under house arrest.
Every container, bag, box, person, car, van, truck would have to be searched entering - no fun if you want hard currency, export friendly factories and have new loans to repay.
The police and security forces could not politically afford to incorrectly “diagnose” people as dissidents. Moscow wanted daily reports too.
So you watched anyone of interest for a really long time no matter the cost, lack of any progress or hardware limits.
The police and security forces offered the leadership a deal - time and new equipment to map all foreign involvement - UK/US NGO, diplomats, spies and locals all caught for that perfect show trial.
For every year spent mapping out/infiltrating/trying to move up the ranks of protesters, creating fake charismatic protest leaders - the printing equipment runs, tv/radio broadcast spread -books, Bibles seem to be pouring in.
In the end the State blinks, years wasted on 24/7 surveillance of a family wanting an exit visa, suicides in jail with sealed coffins and extra "guests" with visible video equipment at the funeral, torture and liquidation in a very public way of prominent dissidents, liquidation of escaped dissidents in the West.
Once the bureaucracy starts with a file the actions and results can become self-fulfilling and budgets run away.
What can the USA do with all its massive global data mining results? Pass on the results on and pay an informant to get close?
A plot is suggested, arrests, press conferences and convictions are handed out by courts with very good odds for not understanding terms like "entrapment".
Initial screening over and over pays off for any State and selected private contractors- you get to follow people and shape the future in any way you want. Eliminating the false positives can also get very tricky with so many infiltrating/freedom fighter efforts. Is that really bad group cover for your best freedom fighters from two wars ago and been protected for the next small war? Or one of your best informants?
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted-today-decrypted-tomorrow.html
"for example if one of their servers were seized — all previous searches would be revealed where logged traffic is available." is the real worry long term.
Recall http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/07/03/1952228/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers
They can track you for been too smart and using a VPN and making easy ongoing payment interesting.
A local propaganda layer would turn the "protests" into a few people in the next valley, town, suburb, street been brought to justice. :)
The public is rather desensitised to troops and tanks due to mil surplus been gifted to cities, towns, states and been in use.
Troops and mercs "help" at larger events - would anyone really notice anything different?
The optics of a Tiananmen Square can avoided with the round up of protest leaders, need for a permit and undercover work to spoil the event on the day.
Video work uploaded would become unavailable with the help of a few big brands
A soft military takeover could work if you zone up the country and focus on trouble areas/people and buy off larger zones with comforts like clean running water, power, gas, heating, food, the internet, medical care, timely unemployment benefits and dont go after drug use.
Even the offer of been "good" for ongoing property protection from looters can work wonders.
Stay home and you keep your arms as a hunter/collection with a new license - no problem at all.
Found outside its a death squad and if you survive sedition changes for you and your helpers/family.
Any home or ranch holding 'out' would be reported as hoarding, having an “arsenal”, not playing nice under the new colour of law.
Its a simple matter of burning out/shake and bake the person or people per private block of property.
Finding people with weapons in use via sounds been triangulated is not too hard ~10 to 12 audio sensors per square mile, files or local informants..
Domestic 24/7 drone use would give great map support too. Hollow points, white phosphorus, thermobaric weapons, sonic weapons, chemicals in water cannons might only be under questionable under international law.
For domestic use its just local policing as normal.
A successful night raid two doors down can also be chilling to anyone wishing to turn up at a First Amendment Zone ever again.
If a region keeps on been naughty, its Fallujah time- special ID cards and layers of identity checks.
Mercs and NATO special forces units would also be for support - no questions from them during any raid, just more overtime pay.
Re your link to the 2006 "It’s Legal - The solid legal basis for the administration's surveillance program"
The joys of “inherent authority” for accepted foreign vs domestic intelligence thats drifts in as warrantless searches seem to be back in the news again.
It is no longer 2006 or 2008 and the ability to pull another "state secrets" defense wrt spying in American will be legal fun.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/state-secrets-defense/
The US could go for a legal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora solution with some new domestic cover via rubber stamped case-by-case “special needs” efforts. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Yes http://cryptome.org/jya/echelon-dk.htm .com refusing to cooperate save your network/OS? :)
"....today they monitor everything and everyone. Politicians, organizations, companies, private individuals, even friends in allied countries. In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the capability to listen in on all communication around the world.""
Fun reading back in http://it.slashdot.org/story/00/09/26/1836244/ex-nsa-analyst-warns-of-nsa-security-backdoors
Now we have the Snowden news to reflect:
Did the risk of a stock crash and very bad press save your network/OS?
Chain of command and accountability save your network/OS?
Did some committee in Congress save your network/OS?
Complexity save your network/OS?
Did a
They cannot use the data in court...
We would see the data moving
Someone would talk real 'soon'
They only care about "military" stuff..
Only outside of the US
Australia is safe
Re wonder what other companies are also doing for the same reason. .edu and .mil?
What could have the US gov done to M$? Take it to court 'again' and 'win' - shattering M$ down to a few MS branded product ranges as punishment?
A massive ramping up of strange issues with taxes, people in the company, new gov/mil formats open to other US brands on the desktop?
Setting standards reducing MS to just a desktop OS with a larger non MS application product pool been supported?
Lock MS out of
All very late to been seen interfering with a US tech and stock success story.
Every user in front of a MS product was feeling 'ok' about the USA, been productive for MS via locked in upgrade and offering other parts of the US gov a way in when needed.
Profit, patriotism, compliance with CALEA as a US imposed global standard would do it?
All very late to ask for a quality back door to span generations of shipping products without some gov or researcher commenting.
Would the NSA and CIA really want to see the rise of next gen EU and Asian brands? A Wang, Bull or some Japan gov backed entity getting encryption traction?
What about Soviet and Russian use? Would they be that trusting/risked so much just to catch up with fast hardware/software?
The risk of some person walking into a Soviet embassy with the usual US spy names/cash for lifestyle/true believer and one extra 'new' tech story would be a huge risk.
Do the timelines and diverse existing trust in MS work if code was requested/injected too late in the company life?
How would the backdoors be cared for over the life of a product? A software Room 641A cared for/injected by a by a few trusted insiders or contractors?
Would late code review/beta and error reports not be a risk?
The other option is a founding of many front companies wrt to 1970's emerging tech around IBM/NSA and one become/lucked/shaped house hold name much later?
From telephone calls and total hearability, satellites to the new PC?
Re: Do we have another leak somewhere else?
"a new document released online and provided to Crikey reveals"
Sounds like an older doc sitting in some complex MS filesystem or something.
We seem to be moving to a merger of corporate and government security.
The private sector seems to be in the news wrt cybersecurity in the past few days.
A new view on cyber offense http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/?p=110420-ga
Terms like network hygiene http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/us-army-blocks-guardian-website-access.
The internet seems to be taking on a whole new role wrt to security from the desktop to corporate to the role of media.
The fun of "citation needed" to many of the bigger questions around private contractors just to 'look after' as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A seem to have become more clear to many people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
On the fascist timeline we have reach ~1934. No more simple Blueshirts.
Welcome our new political police and security services that will ensure the internet stays packet pure with every more vigilant "network hygiene"
If your looking for some of the Australia links in map form try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Japan_Cable (Telstra, BT, Verizon Business, Softbank)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3_(cable_system) ~Jakarta, Indonesia to Perth, Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REACH_Global_Services
http://www.pccwglobal.com/images/stories/brochures/Inf_map_lk_201203.pdf
Basically this is a huge peering network that allows the US gov to keep an eye on all data of a network wrt to Asia/Australia networks.
The text of the agreement linked from http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/12/telstras-deal-with-the-devil-fbi-access-to-its-undersea-cables/ seems to point to "any customers" vs a simple "lawful interception" to a foreign country (US).
Be fun to see some Australians legal standing respond to this:
Will they try superior orders? ASIO/AG dept made me do it?
Would an Australian of ordinary sense and understanding know it to be an invasion of privacy?
My client was a US whistleblower who generated a huge bunch of bitcoins and I need help smuggling him into Kenya?
Add in some https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240657.0 details with a bit of http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/bitcoin-prism