Yes if your telco can bill you for that call, the NSA knows where it came from, destination, duration.
If your conversation is interesting you trip the "dictionary" list and get recorded.
If the number you called is interesting you get recorded.
If the voice print of the person you are calling is interesting you get recorded.
They have your voice print for all other calls you make.
They are, like your telco at your subscriber loop carrier ~ exchange level.
Caller ID is just some fancy layer packed in with a call. It looks nice for a consumer.
I think Apple sees the world as a fibre broadband connected office with the users doing simple manipulations of a digital product for sale.
Your data is captured on some 4-8k video device, camera, music and you combine and envision the final product.
Rendering is done off site or on the Mac Pro as needed, sent on effortlessly via a fast network.
This is an artists tool on a production line like a big Mac mini or iMac, when you start earning, you upgrade hardware as needed over years.
The software is rental or stays with you as 'cloud', drop in the new cylindrical dongle as needed.
The main questions will be how productive will OS X with the ultrafast ECC memory be vs a PC with Windows you can build or buy with ECC memory?
If part of the free service is targeted ads to users based on the "content" of their emails - deep packet inspection at the ISP or backbone level is really just for port, ip and TOR tracking fun;)
You can encrypt all you want up to the trusted server and back out again. Its going back to machine readable content at some point for the ads in the USA:)
You could request a total copy of the picture data for a training exercise to help fine tune next gen facial recognition.
Inject some training pages into a huge data set and see how fast and well universities, departments and contractors do with real world "anonymised" data.
People on court orders who should have no interaction with web 2.0.
People with skills and cash for quality identity document forgery - with or without some plastic surgery.
That one image with a wanted face caught at an event, party.
Once the data is 'given' every department and contractor interested in say anti war protesters can run another "training exercise" with images from outside a base or city march.
Add in names from the 1960'70'80's90's00 with new current state and federal ID images -U.S. passport and driver license data.
Who are they friends with or again that one face in an unexpected group image, perhaps outside the USA?.
Offer the data sets to Canada, UK, Australia... just for a joint training exercise...
Their citizens might waive many rights when on any form of government assistance over a lifetime.
Would data have to be "anonymised" for Canada, UK, Australia...
If a US citizen is found via cooperation with Canada, UK, Australia...the USA just put a name or face of interest out to trusted friends.
Its not "direct access" when a national security letter covers the request for help with a "training exercise".
Re Why would anyone fake it?
When East Germany was seeking the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room thought lost after ww2 they did something fun.
Publish plausible exploring/help part time historian stories with contact information and see what flowed in.
All these telco and web 2.0 revelations do get people chatting and the net would seem a good medium to watch the flow of insight.
Sites like http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html seem to show an interest with trunk phone lines running through Britain to the Republic of Ireland in the late 1980's - why would anyone feel web 2.0 would not get the same total attention with a massive US budget?
Re might add real thought or insight:
Think back to how the UK wanted to use the GCHQ experts in open court in the early 1990's via new formed departments or technical services...
i.e. decryption computing power and international interception options of the State presented to a court as a simple police technical unit.
If I where running a defence team, upmarket lawyer - I would be sitting down with my top clients and giving them the 1990's celebrity/political chat:
Hold up a cheap broken cell phone and dropping ii into a glass of water.
Anything to make the client understand the risks of signal intelligence, logging, tracking and the first step of needing to take the battery out.
The UK had this vision of international tracking and successful domestic court cases as mobile devices and computing use became commonplace.
This could give the USA two options- a clean version of CALEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act presented to track just the bad people in an international/domestic setting due to changing digital backhaul, new operation systems and realities of more people been on the move.
Or the NSA and related agencies spin up another domestic spy hunt and try some PR spin to make it all seem just fine.
Re: "these aren't actors capable of writing their own spyware" - Italy has had its SISMI military intelligence agency using the telco 'network' in very creative ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
If that is the quality of the systems created/used/requested over time in the EU, the ability to enter one computer network seems not too hard?
ie if you have a simple domestic surveillance program covering 1000's of people, whats one US network in 2013 with that skill/support set?
You also had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004–2005
~ 100's Greek government and top-ranking civil servants....
Any state friendly with the NSA (the USA used Turkey eg Karamursel as the UK GCHQ used Cyprus) - generations going back to Adana flights, U2 from Turkey, generations of sigint collection. That help will not be forgotten by the USA when requesting access to top level US software/hardware telco vendors and cleared any export issues.
As for "without the knowledge or approval of U.S. authorities" - the NSA would have understood this event, how much they felt/had to tell other "U.S. authorities" about ongoing foreign operations is ???
The CIA had Operation CHAOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS to spy on people protesting the Vietnam War/Cuba/antiwar issues, perhaps groups in the US gov are just helping EU/friendly govs do the same with people of interest around the world as they protest?
Think hearts and minds funding:
Step 1. Find any US gov funded anthropologist. Chat with them about US gov funding, regions of the world with the US is handing out big aid grants.
Step 2. Sell, present your tech skills in a new light. Your helping sell brand USA to the world, diverting impressionable young people to good US projects.
Allowing US tech, methods, Universities, hardware, software to filter down to places where its been seen as too expensive, distant or difficult.
Step 3. Find some history project in need of interesting OCR/scanning tech. ie scan torn-up documents, old books, allow locals to create open source fonts, put their past together using US help.
Think brand name US tech and the 'free' code/software they help write with your expert skills over time.
Local empowerment, respect and great media/branding long term.
The wonderful art, culture they can present back in the USA that you helped uncover, save and gift to the world.
Cross discipline with a strong local element. The U.S. Department of State is the best friend you can have long term, as with other gov groups that will notice you over time.
If any part of the US gov asks for any small favour, always say yes, long term you might be well funded for all costs if you "help".
Get a list of your congress critters and other parties congress critters charities - get to know the faith or medical ie the international projects they like to be seen with.
Write a letter, frame what you get back and keep talking to their staff long term, work both sides, with your 'tech skills' and how inspiring their projects where/are.
Drop that political name depending on the right or left blog/press if interviewed - a few lines of good news spreads fast.
Re but that won't help you stay anonymous
All the electronic chatter is a gift for the clandestine services - they get the message (both ends), the time, location, computer ports, OS used - later a voice print, CCTV for facial recognition, some unique hardware ID or helpful software tag/meta if the user is sloppy.
Do you really think the people who did Balyoz, Ergenekon, the Susurluk scandal, the derin devlet will just sit back?
You will all be labeled like the "Mountain Turks" where and get to enjoy the wonderful new EU ready prison system.
Gone are the huge dormitories, hello solitary confinement.
You will be worked on like the US-based occupy movements where - everyone will be catalogued, leaders found, turned or misdirected, the movement stopped.
Tor will not save you from any state friendly with the NSA (the USA used Turkey eg Karamursel as the UK GCHQ used Cyprus) - generations going back to Adana flights, U2 from Turkey, generations of sigint collection help will not be forgotten by the USA and UK.
Recall the West faced the TPLA, TPLF in the 1970's....
Lots of Hollywood movies where cleaned up to 4k and some 8k too.
New movies will be 4/8k ready. Film is 4k/8k scannable given Hollywood budgets and quality original stock.
4K will become the plaything of many low budget productions - with well under $50-100k production costs.
People spent $10K on early projectors, plasma, media collections "back in the day"
So have the back catalogue content, the gpu's, the computer connections, the display, the codecs, the cpus, the computer games and OS.
Price gouging DRM media or bandwidth for regional distribution might be missing but the enduser hardware/software side seems ok:)
Try a newegg search for 'DisplayPort' under the gpu and lcd sections. You will find many 10's++ of options, brands over many prices.
A ~100 seems a good count over 2013 stock.
Seriously, who puts their top secret stuff on the Internet anyway?
Australia has long had a love/hate understanding with IT, funding and tech.
The left saw it as a privileged plaything of private schools with 1st gen laptops and PC spending.
The right saw the power of the telecommunications unions as something to be totally smashed at any cost.
Our universities poured out 1000's of Ada, C Unix, Java graduates.
Between all this you had a rush to privatise, the buying in of anything that would solve a problem at any price with a fancy brand name.
The gov can only just look after its own codes and mil bases with its best trusted staff. Most other aspects are contracted out to cleared "local" firms.
Any project is just layers of private contracts and millions and billions of $ up for grabs.
Shitty coding and massive lobbying efforts have enabled any US embassy to look at most countries state and federal police systems.
The US goes to great efforts to train, fund and invite police officials from around the world with the gift of the latest tech and software.
They go home with an aid deal, new insights and later enjoying the new US software. The real question is why was Australia, a country that has seen the USA/UK govs own the worlds communications systems is now so lax with its own internal networks....
ASIO is like the security and counter-surveillance ~FBI wrt embassy staff in Australia, bad people/spies in the community.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is ~CIA
Defence Signals Directorate is ~NSA
The Defence Signals Directorate would know all about air gaps given its close working relationship with the NSA file structures.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service would at least have some institutional knowledge of what the CIA can do with any network.
ASIO is growing and in very public ways, huge contracts, the press, budgets, court cases, vetting of staff, helping the attorney general department find evil authors book chapters...
Too many people, too much cash to spend, fancy new offices to ensure get fitted out just right - a lot of files are going to be in flux at any one time.
Private contractors, layers of subcontractors would all be fully vetted on site, but their office staff, cleaners... fancy new cloud storage, cheap phone IT support...
Also the term "breached" can be a strange in.au too- as in IT subcontractors setting up/hosting/maintaining the public face of any.gov backend/site can be "any" trusted multinational.
The "culture" is one of privatisation, expensive and foreign bespoke interfaces.
Local IT support loves the failing OS that need large staff teams at overtime rates once turn key is done, the love of cloud and getting what could not be connected in 20 years done this year.
Re "In practice, you didn't hear of Tor and/or proxy SSL/HTTPS services, did you?"
Lets hope all the 'bugs' have been fixed:) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/flaws-in-tor-anonymity-network-spotlighted/
As for "proxy SSL/HTTPS services" how many average users would use one if reading a US news site and clicking on a file download link?
Re "As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either)"
Recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Transaction_Reports_and_Analysis_Centre that looks at all bank/cash transactions in Australia.
Its a room with a few racks of computers given the population size of Australia.
How many submarine cable landing sites in Australia? In theory every request via BT could be looked at for that ~file "checksum".
That would get around average file renaming or the need to join any active torrents or logs from direct download sites.
A few days after your IP/"interest in file" is logged you would get a knock on the door and get searched 1980's "bank robber" style. Fines, jail, all computer confiscation, storage destruction could be options.
Seeing a raid in the early am beyond a few uniformed/plainclothes asking questions would make suburbia/your street aware of your 'downloads'.
Gossip that a 'large' raid took place - gossip about "a file was downloaded" spreads - what kind of file could get a bit lost in conversation......
Long term you would be on some crime registry - no gov security clearence, no clean background check to work in a charity, with the public.
The ip to home address chain could also be very short in Australia soon, your ip is noted, your isp links back your details and a cleared bureaucrat/LEO self signs the warrant after confirming the file - no courts needed until after the raid and and a nice long 'chat'.
The problem is once you start mapping drug dealers, terrorists, pedophile and assorted evildoers some strange stuff starts happening.
The real evil people go dark understanding they have to change methods quickly, tipped of by tame experts and corrupt officers.
Support for 'freedom fighters' by the CIA becomes tricky.
Local courts are flooded with telco intercept cases and slowly most people of interest work out a phone, VoIP, computer, nav system is not so healthy to have around.
Thats why the GCHQ and NSA hate press like this. Now the FBI sees good PR, fame, new budgets and all the new hardware to roll out.
Easy cases at first with tracking, recoding via a remote turned on phone, key loggers in any consumer OS.
If this passes, do people think the US will get special "US chipped" networked devices made in China and then cheaper units for the rest of the world?
The US will lobby the world to ensue a level export market for its expensive compliant hardware.
Sydney Opera House has done this for many years. The harbour water creates a water-cooled heat pump for the AC. Sacrificial anodes work well and piping seems fine since construction.
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Yes if your telco can bill you for that call, the NSA knows where it came from, destination, duration. If your conversation is interesting you trip the "dictionary" list and get recorded.
If the number you called is interesting you get recorded.
If the voice print of the person you are calling is interesting you get recorded.
They have your voice print for all other calls you make.
They are, like your telco at your subscriber loop carrier ~ exchange level.
Caller ID is just some fancy layer packed in with a call. It looks nice for a consumer.
I think Apple sees the world as a fibre broadband connected office with the users doing simple manipulations of a digital product for sale.
Your data is captured on some 4-8k video device, camera, music and you combine and envision the final product.
Rendering is done off site or on the Mac Pro as needed, sent on effortlessly via a fast network.
This is an artists tool on a production line like a big Mac mini or iMac, when you start earning, you upgrade hardware as needed over years.
The software is rental or stays with you as 'cloud', drop in the new cylindrical dongle as needed.
The main questions will be how productive will OS X with the ultrafast ECC memory be vs a PC with Windows you can build or buy with ECC memory?
http://helmer.sfe.se/ for the 6 motherboard renderfarm in an IKEA Helmer cabinet.
As for Apple we seem to have a big Mac Mini.
If part of the free service is targeted ads to users based on the "content" of their emails - deep packet inspection at the ISP or backbone level is really just for port, ip and TOR tracking fun ;) :)
You can encrypt all you want up to the trusted server and back out again. Its going back to machine readable content at some point for the ads in the USA
You could request a total copy of the picture data for a training exercise to help fine tune next gen facial recognition.
Inject some training pages into a huge data set and see how fast and well universities, departments and contractors do with real world "anonymised" data.
People on court orders who should have no interaction with web 2.0.
People with skills and cash for quality identity document forgery - with or without some plastic surgery.
That one image with a wanted face caught at an event, party.
Once the data is 'given' every department and contractor interested in say anti war protesters can run another "training exercise" with images from outside a base or city march.
Add in names from the 1960'70'80's90's00 with new current state and federal ID images -U.S. passport and driver license data.
Who are they friends with or again that one face in an unexpected group image, perhaps outside the USA?.
Offer the data sets to Canada, UK, Australia... just for a joint training exercise...
Their citizens might waive many rights when on any form of government assistance over a lifetime.
Would data have to be "anonymised" for Canada, UK, Australia...
If a US citizen is found via cooperation with Canada, UK, Australia...the USA just put a name or face of interest out to trusted friends.
Its not "direct access" when a national security letter covers the request for help with a "training exercise".
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ :)
Make Firefox send out periodically issued randomised search-queries to popular search engines all day, everyday
denial, therefore, should carry at least some weight. :)
At a LEO level ie a fax on department stationary or email is not a court order.
We did get that 2011 BBC Interview with the national security comment
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/rim-ceo-flake/
http://www.ibtimes.com/rim-ceo-walks-out-bbc-interview-says-security-question-unfair-279919
Re Why would anyone fake it?
When East Germany was seeking the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room thought lost after ww2 they did something fun.
Publish plausible exploring/help part time historian stories with contact information and see what flowed in.
All these telco and web 2.0 revelations do get people chatting and the net would seem a good medium to watch the flow of insight.
Sites like http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html seem to show an interest with trunk phone lines running through Britain to the Republic of Ireland in the late 1980's - why would anyone feel web 2.0 would not get the same total attention with a massive US budget?
Re might add real thought or insight:
Think back to how the UK wanted to use the GCHQ experts in open court in the early 1990's via new formed departments or technical services...
i.e. decryption computing power and international interception options of the State presented to a court as a simple police technical unit.
If I where running a defence team, upmarket lawyer - I would be sitting down with my top clients and giving them the 1990's celebrity/political chat:
Hold up a cheap broken cell phone and dropping ii into a glass of water.
Anything to make the client understand the risks of signal intelligence, logging, tracking and the first step of needing to take the battery out.
The UK had this vision of international tracking and successful domestic court cases as mobile devices and computing use became commonplace.
This could give the USA two options- a clean version of CALEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act presented to track just the bad people in an international/domestic setting due to changing digital backhaul, new operation systems and realities of more people been on the move.
Or the NSA and related agencies spin up another domestic spy hunt and try some PR spin to make it all seem just fine.
Read about the fun we had in Australia http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/police-to-get-home-access-to-database-20130604-2nohd.html
"The program was suspended in March 2010 and cancelled in June 2011. It was later found to have cost more than $100 million."
Snuggly the Security Bear was right too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-34Iyz7EYk
and now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJeCoSigwhM
Re: "these aren't actors capable of writing their own spyware" - Italy has had its SISMI military intelligence agency using the telco 'network' in very creative ways. ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
If that is the quality of the systems created/used/requested over time in the EU, the ability to enter one computer network seems not too hard?
ie if you have a simple domestic surveillance program covering 1000's of people, whats one US network in 2013 with that skill/support set?
You also had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004–2005
~ 100's Greek government and top-ranking civil servants
Any state friendly with the NSA (the USA used Turkey eg Karamursel as the UK GCHQ used Cyprus) - generations going back to Adana flights, U2 from Turkey, generations of sigint collection. That help will not be forgotten by the USA when requesting access to top level US software/hardware telco vendors and cleared any export issues.
As for "without the knowledge or approval of U.S. authorities" - the NSA would have understood this event, how much they felt/had to tell other "U.S. authorities" about ongoing foreign operations is ???
The CIA had Operation CHAOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS to spy on people protesting the Vietnam War/Cuba/antiwar issues, perhaps groups in the US gov are just helping EU/friendly govs do the same with people of interest around the world as they protest?
Think hearts and minds funding:
Step 1. Find any US gov funded anthropologist. Chat with them about US gov funding, regions of the world with the US is handing out big aid grants.
Step 2. Sell, present your tech skills in a new light. Your helping sell brand USA to the world, diverting impressionable young people to good US projects.
Allowing US tech, methods, Universities, hardware, software to filter down to places where its been seen as too expensive, distant or difficult.
Step 3. Find some history project in need of interesting OCR/scanning tech. ie scan torn-up documents, old books, allow locals to create open source fonts, put their past together using US help.
Think brand name US tech and the 'free' code/software they help write with your expert skills over time.
Local empowerment, respect and great media/branding long term.
The wonderful art, culture they can present back in the USA that you helped uncover, save and gift to the world.
Cross discipline with a strong local element. The U.S. Department of State is the best friend you can have long term, as with other gov groups that will notice you over time.
If any part of the US gov asks for any small favour, always say yes, long term you might be well funded for all costs if you "help".
Get a list of your congress critters and other parties congress critters charities - get to know the faith or medical ie the international projects they like to be seen with.
Write a letter, frame what you get back and keep talking to their staff long term, work both sides, with your 'tech skills' and how inspiring their projects where/are.
Drop that political name depending on the right or left blog/press if interviewed - a few lines of good news spreads fast.
Re but that won't help you stay anonymous
All the electronic chatter is a gift for the clandestine services - they get the message (both ends), the time, location, computer ports, OS used - later a voice print, CCTV for facial recognition, some unique hardware ID or helpful software tag/meta if the user is sloppy.
Do you really think the people who did Balyoz, Ergenekon, the Susurluk scandal, the derin devlet will just sit back?
You will all be labeled like the "Mountain Turks" where and get to enjoy the wonderful new EU ready prison system.
Gone are the huge dormitories, hello solitary confinement.
You will be worked on like the US-based occupy movements where - everyone will be catalogued, leaders found, turned or misdirected, the movement stopped.
Tor will not save you from any state friendly with the NSA (the USA used Turkey eg Karamursel as the UK GCHQ used Cyprus) - generations going back to Adana flights, U2 from Turkey, generations of sigint collection help will not be forgotten by the USA and UK.
Recall the West faced the TPLA, TPLF in the 1970's....
Lots of Hollywood movies where cleaned up to 4k and some 8k too. :)
New movies will be 4/8k ready. Film is 4k/8k scannable given Hollywood budgets and quality original stock.
4K will become the plaything of many low budget productions - with well under $50-100k production costs.
People spent $10K on early projectors, plasma, media collections "back in the day"
So have the back catalogue content, the gpu's, the computer connections, the display, the codecs, the cpus, the computer games and OS.
Price gouging DRM media or bandwidth for regional distribution might be missing but the enduser hardware/software side seems ok
Try a newegg search for 'DisplayPort' under the gpu and lcd sections. You will find many 10's++ of options, brands over many prices.
A ~100 seems a good count over 2013 stock.
Seriously, who puts their top secret stuff on the Internet anyway?
Australia has long had a love/hate understanding with IT, funding and tech.
The left saw it as a privileged plaything of private schools with 1st gen laptops and PC spending.
The right saw the power of the telecommunications unions as something to be totally smashed at any cost.
Our universities poured out 1000's of Ada, C Unix, Java graduates.
Between all this you had a rush to privatise, the buying in of anything that would solve a problem at any price with a fancy brand name.
The gov can only just look after its own codes and mil bases with its best trusted staff. Most other aspects are contracted out to cleared "local" firms.
Any project is just layers of private contracts and millions and billions of $ up for grabs.
Shitty coding and massive lobbying efforts have enabled any US embassy to look at most countries state and federal police systems.
The US goes to great efforts to train, fund and invite police officials from around the world with the gift of the latest tech and software.
They go home with an aid deal, new insights and later enjoying the new US software.
The real question is why was Australia, a country that has seen the USA/UK govs own the worlds communications systems is now so lax with its own internal networks....
ASIO is like the security and counter-surveillance ~FBI wrt embassy staff in Australia, bad people/spies in the community. .au too- as in IT subcontractors setting up/hosting/maintaining the public face of any .gov backend/site can be "any" trusted multinational.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is ~CIA
Defence Signals Directorate is ~NSA
The Defence Signals Directorate would know all about air gaps given its close working relationship with the NSA file structures.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service would at least have some institutional knowledge of what the CIA can do with any network.
ASIO is growing and in very public ways, huge contracts, the press, budgets, court cases, vetting of staff, helping the attorney general department find evil authors book chapters...
Too many people, too much cash to spend, fancy new offices to ensure get fitted out just right - a lot of files are going to be in flux at any one time.
Private contractors, layers of subcontractors would all be fully vetted on site, but their office staff, cleaners... fancy new cloud storage, cheap phone IT support...
Also the term "breached" can be a strange in
The "culture" is one of privatisation, expensive and foreign bespoke interfaces.
Local IT support loves the failing OS that need large staff teams at overtime rates once turn key is done, the love of cloud and getting what could not be connected in 20 years done this year.
Re "In practice, you didn't hear of Tor and/or proxy SSL/HTTPS services, did you?" Lets hope all the 'bugs' have been fixed :)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/flaws-in-tor-anonymity-network-spotlighted/
As for "proxy SSL/HTTPS services" how many average users would use one if reading a US news site and clicking on a file download link?
Re "As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either)"
Recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Transaction_Reports_and_Analysis_Centre that looks at all bank/cash transactions in Australia.
Its a room with a few racks of computers given the population size of Australia.
How many submarine cable landing sites in Australia? In theory every request via BT could be looked at for that ~file "checksum".
That would get around average file renaming or the need to join any active torrents or logs from direct download sites.
A few days after your IP/"interest in file" is logged you would get a knock on the door and get searched 1980's "bank robber" style. Fines, jail, all computer confiscation, storage destruction could be options.
Seeing a raid in the early am beyond a few uniformed/plainclothes asking questions would make suburbia/your street aware of your 'downloads'.
Gossip that a 'large' raid took place - gossip about "a file was downloaded" spreads - what kind of file could get a bit lost in conversation......
Long term you would be on some crime registry - no gov security clearence, no clean background check to work in a charity, with the public.
The ip to home address chain could also be very short in Australia soon, your ip is noted, your isp links back your details and a cleared bureaucrat/LEO self signs the warrant after confirming the file - no courts needed until after the raid and and a nice long 'chat'.
The problem is once you start mapping drug dealers, terrorists, pedophile and assorted evildoers some strange stuff starts happening.
The real evil people go dark understanding they have to change methods quickly, tipped of by tame experts and corrupt officers.
Support for 'freedom fighters' by the CIA becomes tricky.
Local courts are flooded with telco intercept cases and slowly most people of interest work out a phone, VoIP, computer, nav system is not so healthy to have around.
Thats why the GCHQ and NSA hate press like this. Now the FBI sees good PR, fame, new budgets and all the new hardware to roll out.
Easy cases at first with tracking, recoding via a remote turned on phone, key loggers in any consumer OS.
If this passes, do people think the US will get special "US chipped" networked devices made in China and then cheaper units for the rest of the world?
The US will lobby the world to ensue a level export market for its expensive compliant hardware.
Sydney Opera House has done this for many years. The harbour water creates a water-cooled heat pump for the AC. Sacrificial anodes work well and piping seems fine since construction.