Re 1) He told us something that everyone who cares already knows
When commenters on the net would talk of using encryption would result in interest by the US gov - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US software and hardware firms helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US international telcos helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US domestic telcos helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of a flood of contractors been of much more importance within the NSA - now confirmed.
2) Absolutely no important change will come as a result of his disclosure, except for perhaps the police state getting worse than it already is.
The NSA will have to double up on staff doing routine admin work, hire in outside psychological testing for all staff. Long term the NSA will be filled with smart, patriotic individuals who can only obey orders. Less academic creativity will be a great loss to the USA. Self censorship will start to take a toll on any NSA projects. The NSA will fall in the the state of self doubt that filled the UK in the 1970-80s re internal staff trust issues
Re Essentially, he threw his entire life away for absolutely no reason.
He was a technical assistant for the CIA and the CIA knows how to play long term. A limited hangout over NSA issues most academics, CS, telco workers and protesters knew to be technical possible?
A list of US brands helping their gov. A list of domestic capabilities that expand from http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm August, 1972.
A lot is now confirmed by the US gov by having to make an example of this leak.
I wonder what the US gov could spun if they said its photoshopped and asked for the ID card back?
Recall how the Former British intelligence officer Katharine Gun (GCHQ Oriental languages/Mandarin translator) was treated after her “obtain results favorable to US goals” re UN/Iraq day in court? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
Charges against her were dropped the day her trial opened at the Old Bailey. The UK had nothing confirmed in court.
As for the NSA terms like "Texas Cryptologic Center" re the former chip plant at San Antonio are now more public.
Brazil has a past with its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government so the gov wants to try and move away from the optics of a CIA backed counter-insurgency.
You also have a generation of young people who grew up in democratic Brazil with the internet and they still cling to the idea they have rights and freedoms.
In the old days technical help for the USA would ensure a few government-sponsored political assassinations and disappearances would find the trouble makers and solve any issues before they got any support.
Their intelligence agencies will be doing what any intelligence agencies do, make lists and wait for the political cover for targeted or mass arrests.
The last thing intelligence agencies want is a "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popieuszko" ie some priest/press/student is beaten and murdered for the gov-
Suddenly the intelligence agents are in a very public court after just doing their 'jobs'.
Expect to see a lot of tear gas, spray, small tanks, rubber/live rounds at any protests but a long slow hidden harassment of protesters by every gov department.
Tax problems, university problems, press card is not valid, banking issues - just until a protest leader gets the message to stay home.
If that fails, active surveillance until the person does something wrong. Then a very legal night raid that the individual may or may not survive.
You dont think at least one US telco had the leadership and legal insight to look at what the NSA requested and saw many legal questions? http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
Note what happens to the person if you say just say yes or....
Lawyers and lots of money will not save a person from a ~80-90+% US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate http://cryptome.org/mayer-016.pdf
ie you dont start with questions about warrant or subpoena, criminal activity?
"...to assert that its wireless, wireline and internet businesses gave no customer phone records or call data to the NSA.""
Terms like "Call Monitoring Center for the Exclusive Use of the NSA."
"The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001"
Would you like your brand linked into something called "Groundbreaker Enterprise System"?
How long do you think you can hold out for warrants issued by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or an opinion of the Attorney General holding that any program your telco enters into is lawful?
Re: how would you know if any of it is true?
You can follow the US interest in digital file databasing at any cost vs the GCHQ having to use card indexes into the early in 1970's
You can follow the US interest in voice to text conversion at any cost.
You can follow the US interest in early digital voiceprint collection and databasing.
What other parts of the world could only hope/dream to use on high-grade Soviet communications the USA now turns inwards.
Read up on Solo, Harvest -automated tape library, the fun of having the IBM System 360...
'COINS' (Community On-line Intelligence System) from the mid 1960's should give most computer people an idea where the USA was heading...
ie a shared database for many in the US intelligence community - sounds almost cloud like;)
The poor UK had to wait a few years to start with its Automatic Data Processing efforts.
The Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's.
Lets go down the 2009 list:
Argentina/Brazil - they should know what the GCHQ did in the Falklands war and the great telco help the NSA/CIA gave during the 1970's dirty war...
Canada/Australia/South Korea/Turkey - the GCHQ/NSA's helpers should have been very aware of what the USA and GCHQ can do...
China - did they really just forget the GCHQ efforts in Okinawa, Little Sai Wan?
France, Italy, Germany - in NATO - they should know what the NSA and GCHQ did to them.... and their trade deals
India- recall Perkar on Ceylon?
Indonesia - did they forget what Singapore gave the GCHQ in the past?
Japan -GCHQ efforts in Okinawa?
Mexico - recall the Security Council efforts re Iraq?
Russia -FSB has unique insight into all of the UK efforts:)
Saudi Arabia - did they not recall the GCHQ's efforts in the Yemen Civil War?
South Africa -recall Silvermine?
Why would any of the above with generation awareness of working with or been under GCHQ collections methods really just let their staff wonder over to 'free' wifi in a foreign country and chat with home?
Are they really unaware of email interception programmes and key-logging software?
Did they not understand the help Canada based hardware and software firms must give the GCHQ/NSA- thats the CSEC or CSE...
Or do they bring teams dedicated in generating junk that the GCHQ passes onto their masters and everybody is happy:)
Many may not have a huge traction in that part of the world or be interceptable with expensive commercial solutions.
Other companies might have demonstrated how their messages and emails are exchanged and thus encrypted communications are now available to regional security agencies.
Then change what you do if you can. If you feel the brands were secretly helping the gov try:
If you helped code for the above in a public, open source way, exit and leave a public note for other top developers/users as to Why you are stopping.
If you where going to buy their hardware, tell the world Why you are not buying their hardware anymore.
If their "suit" has the audacity to talk of privacy, tell the world Why you are not buying into their marketspeak anymore.
See a review of any new product in an open review site - drop a polite note about your insights into the products gov spying potential.
Sites that the Average Jane and Joe read...
Please note the above can put you on travel bans, work bans...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57440895-501465/new-york-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-anonymous-online-comments/
This will ensure only comments that support that the USA promotes internet freedom will stay up on some US forums.
i.e. a proper balance between security and privacy.
"A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate."
Re: NSA could easily achieve a kind of automated super-spy system that records each and every criminal action by anyone who posts online information, uses the telephone, etc.
Be fun feeding an AI with messages about corruption, regional political leadership by name, going to the press, an installation, facility, a whistleblower, contractor with "Pulitzer Prize" and past whistleblowers as keyword bait.
Load up the local keywords and pass the short message around a few Yahoo, Google, Skype, MS, Apple IM/mail accounts saved draft "dead-drop" email style with new ip's every time:)
In East Germany they would have to wait for a person to turn up at a Church peace group, take part in a march and then be taken into interrogation.
You would then face trial, loss of your home, work, educational achievements, marriage, children where at risk of State care... and you still faced years in prison.
What the US gov seems to want to do is get to you as your considering protesting, seeing who you want to protest with and then work on "shaping" the movement into a joke, waste of time or astroturfing effort.
If you show potential, you will be offered the option to turn and the group becomes fed bait to any other protesters/computer users.
No more bad optics of been arrested in the USA, just smart people making use of the many new free speech zones.
What we are seeing now is the legal distress of federal workers skilled at tracking China, Russia, EU, South America been asked to turn their skill sets on the US public.
Russia and a few trusted Germans had little to work with in late 1940's Germany but over time build a very loyal cadre.
The NSA and CIA will have to fix this over a generation of staff and buy in much better on going psychological profiling.
Just reading his WW2 history at http://www.bairdtelevision.com/war.html http://www.bairdtelevision.com/colour.html
first colour cathode ray tube
A form of 3-D television, "the Phantoscope"
High speed transmission of images (fast facsimile) "A whole newspaper could be transmitted about the world in a matter of seconds" later seen in the USA without making any mention of Baird.
As a history, the control of early electromechanical television was interesting.
If you knew you had light weight all electronic technologies ready to go in say 10-20 years - would you allow any one to roll out and get traction for mechanical system with a "commercial" television license before you where ready?
Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Jenkins
A warning form history about been first, getting "experimental" ok from the FRC, not been allowed to advertise.
No ads where sold but public service annoucments about the kit form tv where made.
How does been first end? Been made bankrupt and having your assets sold.
Another generation will think TV was a total US 1950's all electronic patent race.
What about the CRT work of Ferdinand Braun, the Nipkow disk, the 1929 work of Francis Jenkins in the USA?
The work of Telefunken? John Logie Baird? The US/German/UK patent hunt of the 1930's?
1. Buy a new motherboard/ram/cpu/ssd.
2. Think about what we now know. Its the US centric operating systems, the plain text advertising and VoIP/chat, cloud end points that seem to be of interest.
Something about your mic, camera, keyboard level that seems very useful vs the telco/exchange.
The brands listed where not regional/mulitnational telcos, AV, Wintel hardware makers.
3. Find an OS and filesystem that is not Mac/Windows/Linux.
4. Do not install/use any product offered by the brands listed in any way.
Use search sites that offer a gap between your ip and the big search engines with https.
Getting your views out and making new friends around the world be hard work.
Get a your search term noted, your ip is tracked, its sneak and peek time:)
The brands exposed where not telco's or encryption/security/AV firms.
They where the data (plaintext) input and plaintext destination points ie your mic, cam, keyboard.... at OS level and the same for the person/people you are connected to.
Recall Room 641A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A. If your working that floor with access to some rooms why would another door you see outside contractors enter interest you?
On average how much time would a person spend near one room/door?
Promoted and your not on that floor anymore, if not, its another door that will never be on your work schedule.
Re "tested, hammered, and inspected for chinks." So where encryption systems offered by the GCHQ and NSA to friendly nations near the mid/end of the Cold War.
100% safe from any Soviet hacking, tampering along any length of telecommunications systems and independently verified by the nation buying into the system.
Why did the GCHQ and NSA give out low cost "unbreakable" encryption?
Years earlier they had found the recovery of the original pre- or non-encrypted message i.e. plaintext was not safe when physically near the new encryption system.
Who got to install the new systems? Front companies/contractors for planning.
So NATO was safe from Soviet efforts but every word encoded between a country and its distant embassies was back in the UK/USA as plaintext.
So as in the past your allowed to enjoy and study all the AES you want. Your average operating system sold out your plaintext years ago.
With Government Glass you too can help fight terror as you consume.
Download our new app today and get reassuring feedback that the person you have just walked past was detected by our network.
People using complex glasses, makeup, hair styles or clothing to avoid our software will result in a beep.
Find a police officer or private security official via the domestic counterterrorism tab, show your coeducational affiliate badge and play back your footage.
If in a mall for example the person can be questioned at an exit and positively identified.
Let's See Where They Tried to Hide.
VPN providers might have a.com name and could use US/EU credit card clearing infrastructure.
When provided with an ip, port, time - the request would be crystal clear - user CC/logs details or UK~EU~US "money laundering" "counter-terrorism" clauses start getting spun up.
Using proxies could just be made into some form of suspicious online activity.
Under colour of law if caught/traced back you could get some "database" entry about your apparent need for secretive computer network skills.
You have no direct contact with police, perhaps a digital sneak and peek warrant at your logs, home.
The real fun would start if you ever needed a criminal background check or background investigation for your work or charity.
Your company, multinational or friends invite you to 'help' at a public event - all your colleagues turn up clean and have the branded tshirts/name tags for the day out.
Your name come back with a cryptic "no arrests" but your blocked by a department with the word family or children in its area of responsibility.
ie the state did not see you needing a police or national security note but wanted to keep your name on file for a long time;)
Slashdot Mirror
It makes sure another generation of CS people dont read too much about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4_(computer)
and the life of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
As with Australia, even if you do get to the police, get an inquiry, someone is ready to destroy documents or limit the terms of a final report to be almost like a satire.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-police-admit-senior-officer-shredded-documents-relating-to-child-sex-abuse/story-fni0cx12-1226667321160
Re 1) He told us something that everyone who cares already knows
When commenters on the net would talk of using encryption would result in interest by the US gov - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US software and hardware firms helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US international telcos helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of US domestic telcos helping the NSA voluntary or under colour or letter of the US law - now confirmed.
When commenters on the net would talk of a flood of contractors been of much more importance within the NSA - now confirmed.
2) Absolutely no important change will come as a result of his disclosure, except for perhaps the police state getting worse than it already is.
The NSA will have to double up on staff doing routine admin work, hire in outside psychological testing for all staff. Long term the NSA will be filled with smart, patriotic individuals who can only obey orders. Less academic creativity will be a great loss to the USA. Self censorship will start to take a toll on any NSA projects. The NSA will fall in the the state of self doubt that filled the UK in the 1970-80s re internal staff trust issues
Re Essentially, he threw his entire life away for absolutely no reason.
He was a technical assistant for the CIA and the CIA knows how to play long term. A limited hangout over NSA issues most academics, CS, telco workers and protesters knew to be technical possible?
A list of US brands helping their gov. A list of domestic capabilities that expand from http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm August, 1972.
A lot is now confirmed by the US gov by having to make an example of this leak.
I wonder what the US gov could spun if they said its photoshopped and asked for the ID card back?
Recall how the Former British intelligence officer Katharine Gun (GCHQ Oriental languages/Mandarin translator) was treated after her “obtain results favorable to US goals” re UN/Iraq day in court?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
Charges against her were dropped the day her trial opened at the Old Bailey. The UK had nothing confirmed in court.
As for the NSA terms like "Texas Cryptologic Center" re the former chip plant at San Antonio are now more public.
Brazil has a past with its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government so the gov wants to try and move away from the optics of a CIA backed counter-insurgency.
You also have a generation of young people who grew up in democratic Brazil with the internet and they still cling to the idea they have rights and freedoms.
In the old days technical help for the USA would ensure a few government-sponsored political assassinations and disappearances would find the trouble makers and solve any issues before they got any support.
Their intelligence agencies will be doing what any intelligence agencies do, make lists and wait for the political cover for targeted or mass arrests.
The last thing intelligence agencies want is a "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popieuszko" ie some priest/press/student is beaten and murdered for the gov-
Suddenly the intelligence agents are in a very public court after just doing their 'jobs'.
Expect to see a lot of tear gas, spray, small tanks, rubber/live rounds at any protests but a long slow hidden harassment of protesters by every gov department.
Tax problems, university problems, press card is not valid, banking issues - just until a protest leader gets the message to stay home.
If that fails, active surveillance until the person does something wrong. Then a very legal night raid that the individual may or may not survive.
You dont think at least one US telco had the leadership and legal insight to look at what the NSA requested and saw many legal questions? ....
http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
Note what happens to the person if you say just say yes or
Lawyers and lots of money will not save a person from a ~80-90+% US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
http://cryptome.org/mayer-016.pdf
ie you dont start with questions about warrant or subpoena, criminal activity?
"...to assert that its wireless, wireline and internet businesses gave no customer phone records or call data to the NSA.""
Terms like "Call Monitoring Center for the Exclusive Use of the NSA."
"The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001"
Would you like your brand linked into something called "Groundbreaker Enterprise System"?
How long do you think you can hold out for warrants issued by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or an opinion of the Attorney General holding that any program your telco enters into is lawful?
Re: how would you know if any of it is true? ;)
You can follow the US interest in digital file databasing at any cost vs the GCHQ having to use card indexes into the early in 1970's
You can follow the US interest in voice to text conversion at any cost.
You can follow the US interest in early digital voiceprint collection and databasing.
What other parts of the world could only hope/dream to use on high-grade Soviet communications the USA now turns inwards.
Read up on Solo, Harvest -automated tape library, the fun of having the IBM System 360...
'COINS' (Community On-line Intelligence System) from the mid 1960's should give most computer people an idea where the USA was heading...
ie a shared database for many in the US intelligence community - sounds almost cloud like
The poor UK had to wait a few years to start with its Automatic Data Processing efforts.
The Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's.
Lets go down the 2009 list: .... and their trade deals :) :)
Argentina/Brazil - they should know what the GCHQ did in the Falklands war and the great telco help the NSA/CIA gave during the 1970's dirty war...
Canada/Australia/South Korea/Turkey - the GCHQ/NSA's helpers should have been very aware of what the USA and GCHQ can do...
China - did they really just forget the GCHQ efforts in Okinawa, Little Sai Wan?
France, Italy, Germany - in NATO - they should know what the NSA and GCHQ did to them
India- recall Perkar on Ceylon?
Indonesia - did they forget what Singapore gave the GCHQ in the past?
Japan -GCHQ efforts in Okinawa?
Mexico - recall the Security Council efforts re Iraq?
Russia -FSB has unique insight into all of the UK efforts
Saudi Arabia - did they not recall the GCHQ's efforts in the Yemen Civil War?
South Africa -recall Silvermine?
Why would any of the above with generation awareness of working with or been under GCHQ collections methods really just let their staff wonder over to 'free' wifi in a foreign country and chat with home?
Are they really unaware of email interception programmes and key-logging software?
Did they not understand the help Canada based hardware and software firms must give the GCHQ/NSA- thats the CSEC or CSE...
Or do they bring teams dedicated in generating junk that the GCHQ passes onto their masters and everybody is happy
Many may not have a huge traction in that part of the world or be interceptable with expensive commercial solutions.
Other companies might have demonstrated how their messages and emails are exchanged and thus encrypted communications are now available to regional security agencies.
Then change what you do if you can. If you feel the brands were secretly helping the gov try: ...
If you helped code for the above in a public, open source way, exit and leave a public note for other top developers/users as to Why you are stopping.
If you where going to buy their hardware, tell the world Why you are not buying their hardware anymore.
If their "suit" has the audacity to talk of privacy, tell the world Why you are not buying into their marketspeak anymore.
See a review of any new product in an open review site - drop a polite note about your insights into the products gov spying potential.
Sites that the Average Jane and Joe read...
Please note the above can put you on travel bans, work bans
In other words more people will be aware of ;) )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK (just an exercise
later http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET
A nice chilling effect on any protesting, politics.
The problem with RSA1024 on everything is the US gov will still have the tame US based OS makers, cell phone hardware as you enter your message before it hits any encryption efforts.
Also recall Total Information Awareness, Room 641A, Romas/COIN later Odyssey where also pointers to a public private partnership.
What the State cant get, they will buy in wholesale.
Its like been given a cheap rebadged Enigma unit in 1946 by the UK....safe for any diplomacy and commerce
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57440895-501465/new-york-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-anonymous-online-comments/
This will ensure only comments that support that the USA promotes internet freedom will stay up on some US forums.
i.e. a proper balance between security and privacy.
"A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate."
Re: NSA could easily achieve a kind of automated super-spy system that records each and every criminal action by anyone who posts online information, uses the telephone, etc. :)
Be fun feeding an AI with messages about corruption, regional political leadership by name, going to the press, an installation, facility, a whistleblower, contractor with "Pulitzer Prize" and past whistleblowers as keyword bait.
Load up the local keywords and pass the short message around a few Yahoo, Google, Skype, MS, Apple IM/mail accounts saved draft "dead-drop" email style with new ip's every time
In East Germany they would have to wait for a person to turn up at a Church peace group, take part in a march and then be taken into interrogation.
You would then face trial, loss of your home, work, educational achievements, marriage, children where at risk of State care... and you still faced years in prison.
What the US gov seems to want to do is get to you as your considering protesting, seeing who you want to protest with and then work on "shaping" the movement into a joke, waste of time or astroturfing effort.
If you show potential, you will be offered the option to turn and the group becomes fed bait to any other protesters/computer users.
No more bad optics of been arrested in the USA, just smart people making use of the many new free speech zones.
What we are seeing now is the legal distress of federal workers skilled at tracking China, Russia, EU, South America been asked to turn their skill sets on the US public.
Russia and a few trusted Germans had little to work with in late 1940's Germany but over time build a very loyal cadre.
The NSA and CIA will have to fix this over a generation of staff and buy in much better on going psychological profiling.
Just reading his WW2 history at http://www.bairdtelevision.com/war.html
http://www.bairdtelevision.com/colour.html
first colour cathode ray tube
A form of 3-D television, "the Phantoscope"
High speed transmission of images (fast facsimile) "A whole newspaper could be transmitted about the world in a matter of seconds" later seen in the USA without making any mention of Baird.
Zworykin and filling patents for good US brands is all the history you need to know.
As a history, the control of early electromechanical television was interesting.
If you knew you had light weight all electronic technologies ready to go in say 10-20 years - would you allow any one to roll out and get traction for mechanical system with a "commercial" television license before you where ready?
Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Jenkins
A warning form history about been first, getting "experimental" ok from the FRC, not been allowed to advertise.
No ads where sold but public service annoucments about the kit form tv where made.
How does been first end? Been made bankrupt and having your assets sold.
Another generation will think TV was a total US 1950's all electronic patent race.
What about the CRT work of Ferdinand Braun, the Nipkow disk, the 1929 work of Francis Jenkins in the USA?
The work of Telefunken? John Logie Baird? The US/German/UK patent hunt of the 1930's?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS ;) )
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK (just an exercise
later http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET
in the past you would have to be seen/be active and then get the full "data privacy" issues.
The new trick is to rewind your "online life" after your seen/become active by ~ a few years.
A nice chilling effect on any protesting, politics.
1. Buy a new motherboard/ram/cpu/ssd. :)
2. Think about what we now know. Its the US centric operating systems, the plain text advertising and VoIP/chat, cloud end points that seem to be of interest.
Something about your mic, camera, keyboard level that seems very useful vs the telco/exchange.
The brands listed where not regional/mulitnational telcos, AV, Wintel hardware makers.
3. Find an OS and filesystem that is not Mac/Windows/Linux.
4. Do not install/use any product offered by the brands listed in any way.
Use search sites that offer a gap between your ip and the big search engines with https.
Getting your views out and making new friends around the world be hard work.
Get a your search term noted, your ip is tracked, its sneak and peek time
The brands exposed where not telco's or encryption/security/AV firms.
They where the data (plaintext) input and plaintext destination points ie your mic, cam, keyboard.... at OS level and the same for the person/people you are connected to.
Recall Room 641A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A.
If your working that floor with access to some rooms why would another door you see outside contractors enter interest you?
On average how much time would a person spend near one room/door?
Promoted and your not on that floor anymore, if not, its another door that will never be on your work schedule.
Re "tested, hammered, and inspected for chinks." So where encryption systems offered by the GCHQ and NSA to friendly nations near the mid/end of the Cold War.
100% safe from any Soviet hacking, tampering along any length of telecommunications systems and independently verified by the nation buying into the system.
Why did the GCHQ and NSA give out low cost "unbreakable" encryption?
Years earlier they had found the recovery of the original pre- or non-encrypted message i.e. plaintext was not safe when physically near the new encryption system.
Who got to install the new systems? Front companies/contractors for planning.
So NATO was safe from Soviet efforts but every word encoded between a country and its distant embassies was back in the UK/USA as plaintext.
So as in the past your allowed to enjoy and study all the AES you want. Your average operating system sold out your plaintext years ago.
Driving your approved mini van, drinking from a government sized beverage container looking around with your Stasi Specs on.
With Government Glass you too can help fight terror as you consume.
Download our new app today and get reassuring feedback that the person you have just walked past was detected by our network.
People using complex glasses, makeup, hair styles or clothing to avoid our software will result in a beep.
Find a police officer or private security official via the domestic counterterrorism tab, show your coeducational affiliate badge and play back your footage.
If in a mall for example the person can be questioned at an exit and positively identified.
Let's See Where They Tried to Hide.
VPN providers might have a .com name and could use US/EU credit card clearing infrastructure.
When provided with an ip, port, time - the request would be crystal clear - user CC/logs details or UK~EU~US "money laundering" "counter-terrorism" clauses start getting spun up.
Using proxies could just be made into some form of suspicious online activity. ;)
Under colour of law if caught/traced back you could get some "database" entry about your apparent need for secretive computer network skills.
You have no direct contact with police, perhaps a digital sneak and peek warrant at your logs, home.
The real fun would start if you ever needed a criminal background check or background investigation for your work or charity.
Your company, multinational or friends invite you to 'help' at a public event - all your colleagues turn up clean and have the branded tshirts/name tags for the day out.
Your name come back with a cryptic "no arrests" but your blocked by a department with the word family or children in its area of responsibility.
ie the state did not see you needing a police or national security note but wanted to keep your name on file for a long time