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  1. Re:Nice try, asshole on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 2

    Yes most of us recall the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor [wikipedia.org] and the specialised telecommunications system called CONDORTEL.

  2. Re:How Will He Get There on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Re:How Will He Get There on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes the Russians/Soviet navy have had a lot of experience helping people and cargo get to Cuba/South America on time and in perfect working order.
    The CIA, DIA and mercs did their best to surprise a few of the landings.
    A long range flight is a risk just due to US pressure on flight plans as seen.
    Sub or ship.

  4. Re:I don't get it. on AOC's 21:9 Format, 29" IPS Display Put To the Test At 2560x1080 · · Score: 1

    Its the consumer trade off. Average people with average $250-500 cards buy a big screen.
    Plug it in and their must have game sort of works and they are very happy.
    If the new screen ups the res too much you need two new good video cards or hope one new really expensive card works well.
    With two cards you are at the mercy of the game code, Windows, the driver and the hardware.
    All you are doing is dropping the bezel for a usable bump in res that will still be ok for most users.

  5. Re:Why hasn't the board fired Ballmer? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 2

    These optical splitters — too accurate for MS people. Only NSA contractors are so precise.

  6. Re:They tried scare tactics with OpenBSD on NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds? · · Score: 1

    Some info of SSL here http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted-today-decrypted-tomorrow.html
    Seems the "private key" is the key in many ways too :) "for example if one of their servers were seized — all previous searches would be revealed where logged traffic is available."

  7. Re:Wait a minute! on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 2

    Free to select from a very short list of security cleared lawyers.

  8. Re:Snowden isn't stateless on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes Charlie, the image of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_and_Mitchell_defection (1960 NSA cryptologists)
    or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies is been held up by a tame US mainstream media and warmed over rewritten talking points.
    The US telco/ad/VoIP/chat brands and their support for bulk domestic access is now just part of life.
    Snowden joins an impressive list of people:
    http://cryptome.org/2013-info/06/whistleblowing/whistleblowing.htm

  9. Re:Enemies of the state on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 1

    yes re economic gain try back in 1972:
    http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm
    "but most of us, me included, did some kind of smuggling on the side. Everything form small-time black marketeering of cigarettes or currency all the way up to transportation of vehicles, refrigerators, that sort of thing. One time in Europe I knew of a couple of people inside NSA who were stationed in Frankfurt and got involved in the white slave trade. Can you believe that? They were transporting women who'd been kidnapped from Europe to Mideast sheikdoms aboard security airplanes."

  10. Re:Which side is GCHQ on? on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 2

    The GCHQ ran out of next gen 'tech' cash in ~1960's. They traded the Empire (old bases world wide) for new US super computers and raw feeds.
    GCHQ is on the side that can give it the best tools to keep the Soviets and French out - at this time the USA.
    British people, companies and politics are of no interest to the GCHQ - its all just product that has to reach the US interconnects per hour.
    If they fail at that one task the ghost of 1970's Diego Garcia could haunt the UK gov again with a nice term the US holds over the UK: "unrestricted access"

  11. Dont hide, have fun on To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Stealth Clothing · · Score: 2

    Draw attention to yourself with the most imaginative draft emails you can for your state, county, regions and wait.
    Save them with one of the big brand accounts - the ones that have been in the news.
    Suddenly take your cell battery out for hours. Save emails to the press as drafts and connect to at cafes in the CBD.
    Local Feature Analysis (LFA) will get your face in a country with the population the size of the USA in a very short time.
    If the CCTV cant get your face, you will noted and get to enjoy a nice random stop-and-frisk at an exit or park or street.
    Welcome to the new world of gait signature if that fails.
    http://rt.com/news/identify-walk-system-britain-668/

  12. Re:No masks in FL on To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Stealth Clothing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes Canada is wanting to ban masks too, just for riots~ “unlawful assembly” - you face 10 years.
    http://rt.com/news/canadians-ten-years-protesting-masks-965/

  13. Re:The US is nobody's friend on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 1

    Re the US on Katyn and Polish history.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre#Western_response

  14. Re: Progressive Disclosure on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 2

    Yes the term limited hangout psy-op is been used.
    The public outing of 1980's diplomatic communications between Tripoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin should have been a warning to the EU.
    The IRA ands its connections to unique supplies from the US east coast should have been a warning to the UK/EU.
    The strange messages leaked via Iranian communications in 1991 should have have been a warning to the EU.
    The low cost and total trust the EU and NATO put in 1970/80's US crypto compatibility is only now getting traction in the EU?
    Did the EU play the USA? Accept the role of Soviet proof communications but fill the pipe with junk?
    The NSA went running to the State department over aircraft deals and the EU sat back and LOL - yes we are as corrupt as our coded message imply?
    On an international scale nothing is new just confirmed?.
    All the good domestic stuff came out with the Room 641A ending and retro active US telco protection.
    On a domestic scale nothing is new just reconfirmed?.
    US firms helping the Feds as they have always done wholesale and without any legal protest or data protection via CALEA/FISA/letters and private contractors.
    The US confirms its all true in public via a demand for a sealed court case?
    Expect massive funding for freedom fighters in Syria, a huge hunt in the USA for leakers? A legal/trust disconnect between the US press and been able to ever talk to people in the US gov again?
    A buddy system for admins on gov duty and huge new psychology/network roll out to track US gov staff and their habits at work and home?
    As for the EU are we really to understand they would test the network traffic only, find it safe and pass on the ok to buy more cheap US/UK encryption units?
    The EU seems able to teach math, crypto, CS, physics to an international level, have a history of keeping East Germany/Warsaw Pact efforts out, understand what the Soviet navy and airforce tried to do...
    Did EU gov engineers not read up on TEMPEST and look at past cryptographic units sold to them and ask any questions?
    Some political deal to just let the USA/UK have it all so they could move up to just under the AUSCANNZUKUS clearance?
    Stunned to what the USA/UK can do in 60 years with past ww2/ex Stasi help on a telco system sold to the EU under US guidance?

  15. Re:NSA Use on MIT Researchers Can See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yes US seems right up on all the tech average people use and how to track them:
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/
    Become a domestic “person of interest” and they will use every connected device you have.
    Welcome to a world where you have to change your notions of secrecy and enjoy every connected device been backdoor ready by design.

  16. Re:WTF? on U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks · · Score: 1

    In China you would still be able to get the news.
    The good news in the Guardian is getting as worrisome to the USA as the Bible was to the Soviet Union?
    I wonder if any of the ex Stasi have told their new US employers how hard it is to ban books, news and ideas?
    China seems to understand some books, news and outside ideas are good for trade and their officer class.
    The US vs Soviet or East German as in ideas, words, text has real power?
    In 1969 the East German Communist Youth movment published a magazine with a cartoon FDJ leader on the cover - with long hair.
    Every copy had to be tracked by the post office, found and destroyed.
    In 1981 the cover talked of price-fixing and food. Same result.
    I really hope the US is just using bans to track mil people reading the UK news....

  17. Re:network ignorance on U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Re Such as? (I'm really curious)
    It stops a keyword tracking feedback loops forming that drags in more casual at 'work' readers. Now if your home or at a rented house off base and start reading more and more about the subject ... thats more interesting to the US gov.
    Thats the neat trick the USA has over the internet - they can watch people of interest ie with a real security clearance and see how they use the net/react over time.
    If ~100 contractors and other base staff read the Guardian at home long term - something is different. Testing should have found people like that and never advanced them.
    There was a low point in the GCHQ due to very low wages, useless military supervision and home sickness that allowed the Soviets to gain a few useful people just due to basic pay and conditions.
    The US wants to find the same "people", making reading the documents 'wrong' could make traits to become clear.
    If everyone is allowed to read the documents it gets hard - who is just following the news and who is of interest long term.
    It is the same for .mil education - who uses the base or mil/edu university computers to search wikileaks when using such texts is 'not' good.
    The other reason is the cross clearances of the leak hunters vs the staff just looking at work.
    A person at work might be cleared for lets say project FARM but the surveillance staff and their admins might only be cleared for lower level work/side projects.
    So more people have to be called in to talk to the surveillance staff and their interest in project FARM...
    Best just to say no reading and let the tracking teams go to work.

  18. Re:So how do you know the binary matches the sourc on Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors After NSA Documents Leak · · Score: 1

    Cold you have to understand Australia.
    They love MS, MS giving them code to look over at after generational buy in is just a trinket.
    What was Australia going to do if it finds a project related hole? File it with MS and hope its fixed in weeks? Months? Many months?
    Australia was just feeling bad over its lack of sufficient software source code and IP to allow its airforce to understand some aircraft systems.
    Source code became a political and defence issue with huge political efforts to try and get the US gov to be nice over the issue.
    So for the US and MS to be seen to be offering Australia something was cute, but with todays insights, MS at a VOIP, server, cloud, code, consumer or filesystem level seems a tame tool of US gov interests.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/trade-war-up-in-the-clouds-20120529-1zhpg.html
    Comments like this from the US:
    ‘‘...governments should not prevent service suppliers of other countries, or customers of those suppliers, from electronically transferring information internally or across borders ... or accessing their own information stored in other countries’’...
    seem a bit of a LOL given the other line about 'a careful set of constraints to protect individual privacy"

  19. Re:WTF? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am sure Germany has all words to do with anything controlled/remote logged due to acts like:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen
    beam of infrared light or triggers via photographic flash units, engineering of shaped metals or RC are well known and any keywords around that tech would be tracked.
    You also have movies like The Dead Pool.
    West Germany has always had huge database options, resident registration and lots of cash.
    The tracking and tapping of East German spies/helping the USA/UK would have made West Germany think about easy call tracing during all national telco upgrades.
    A physical location eg one "Internet exchange point" for all intra-German Internet traffic would make tracking ~95% of the German internet trivial.
    As mentioned by the European Parliament: Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System (pdf).
    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN

  20. Re:First India, now China... on Foxconn's Robot Workforce Now 20,000 Strong · · Score: 2

    The US computer importers are just rethinking ideas like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKD_kits for their products to get in 'new' classified edu and mil projects.
    All the paperwork now looks clean and the long cheap supply chains stay intact.
    The world is not strange, just using old creativity to apply for massive ongoing US gov contracts that have security fine print no direct outside firm can get around.

  21. Re:NSA direct access to all servers on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    The US could have done what the UK did with Katharine Gun over the UN/Iraq/swing nations.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
    The US seems to wish to go the under seal court route.

  22. Re:Well... on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Re Nothing else matters
    Yes we are all behind the digital curtain now. As with past telecom 'calls' in Europe, everything is been stored for a lifetime now.
    The good news is due to the dramatic US court actions - its all clarified in the public mind. The brands are exposed, the suits, their engineers and graduates -seem more like junta bureaucrats.
    Write some lines from your Constitution on a protest board/blog, exercise some rights outside or online via the dedicated 'free speech zone' and remind the public of what the brands did to your internet, ran and extracted from your computer.
    Blog, write up on their next gen tech toys - the DRM now spies on you :)

  23. Re:w3m / lynx on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Lynx on the OpenBFS filesystem :)

  24. Re:NSA, GCHQ, who's next? on GCHQ Tapping UK Fiber-Optic Cables · · Score: 2

    Enjoy your freedoms as just another software developer, artist, author.
    Start a blog about 'your' new free code/encryption/file system if you have the skills.
    Safe from spyware, keyboard hardware loggers, MacWin/Linux ready....free and real soon now.
    Start talking about the press by name, mention corruption, new insights into past political 'deals' in your State, city.
    Go way beyond simple keyword lists and make sure its in your geographic area.
    Drive around a lot in new ways/times, stop as if 'meeting' the press, people with past insights, with your cell phone next to you.
    Educate consumers about the expensive spy friendly junk they will be buying.
    When you are tracked down and questioned at your front door- try your polite but consumer grade mic is running voice :)
    You "might" have a video camera running just as they "might" have been intercepting your boring blog/ life.
    So enjoy your freedoms as just another software developer, artist, author.
    Nothing to hide just code snippets or background to a book, play, script, comic, song, game.....
    A very dystopian comedy - book, play, script, comic, song, game...

  25. Re:but why? on GCHQ Tapping UK Fiber-Optic Cables · · Score: 4, Informative

    The UK interest in coded product goes back to the Soviet embassy codes before ww2.
    After that code breaking effort political leaders in the UK have really asked "how can we help" and for "more" over every generation.
    As US tech got cheaper more became "everything"
    GCHQ has had its ups and downs trading the Empire ie land to the USA for NSA product.
    The GCHQ was also very smart in staying out of the press, not going to court vs spies and some publishers (so did the NSA for a long time).
    The bulk data interest could always be seen as with the first Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's.
    http://cryptome.org/jya/gchq-etf.htm international telephone calls to and from Ireland.
    The finding of any keyword of interest on all phonelines was always the aim in the 1960-80's.
    re protecting with all of this data mining - the gov, the celebrities, press, trade, disruptive technology, arms deals, diplomatic blackmail, dissidents, protesters, disarmament, peace protesters, bases, police corruption, local elections, trade unions - anything and anyone that could get traction in the community or be a worry to the establishment.
    The file placed before a political leader becomes addictive and gets wide domestic budget cuts turned into expanded projects.
    Major crimes where only been an issue in ~1990-2000 and seem to have stopped due to the ability of major crime networks to slowly stop using all electronic communications once the court cases start.
    CIB3 (anti-corruption squad) and 'Operation Nigeria' also showed what could go wrong for the GCHQ. Corrupt police officers very quickly learn of huge new efforts wrt to "major crimes" and guess what - all electronic communications stop.
    Better to let the perception of anonymity keep people talking.
    The future is just like the NSA - a rewinding of anyones 'internet' life once they are discovered.
    To keep that amount of data you have to collect it all, store and in the past filter for keywords/known links. Add in facial recognition, voice prints, cell tracking, spyware, drones.