As mentioned in this slashdot discussion page he had a RFID shielded bag. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-14/russia-captures-us-embassy-worker-act-cia-recruitment
Wireless is safe for "anyone" in the USA but we see the CIA understanding the need for a shielded bag.
We now know the NSA and CIA loves/trusts Google.
The need to buy a clean computer like device with cash to email from.
The CIA feels they can lure/own a Russian with $100k.
The going rate from the CIA is now $1 million.
New fratboy fancy dress party idea is super easy - cheapest wig, a cap and shirt. Hand out your own spy letters at the party with amazing offers.
Just watch for the Keep Geeks Busy types.
Following them with a paper trail like this?
If the GCHQ likes your calls to/from the UK they go for an optical link and get it all, cell tower, home internet, phone...
Your voice print will be referenced to any found in Africa, Middle East, Asia or just kept due to the calls you made.
Like with calls to Ireland in the 1960-70-80-90's its all done in bulk, every call.
This story is interesting due to the 100m comment thats now in the open vs a tricky hint that extra hardware was needed or more complex interpolating signals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal shows what could be done in the past.
A nice interactive chart at http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/
You can click on the examples to show what a faster download internet would feel like with a ~5g device connected.
With 5g we can use 500mb of months data in a few days as we wait for our 25mb copper line to be fixed.
Just think of the speed over a few days.... and the per mb fines if you go over:)
Yes this all depends on who, when and how the banking links where set up.
Was it one law firm in the EU with a lawyer, another lawyer and a secretary as a witness?
The person used their own name on the day thinking they could rescue their account if the input or output entities ever got shutdown?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies in their own names?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies as end account access only in their own names via one distant end bank?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies as end account access only in a chain of trust or funds names ending in one bank?
Or do they live poor in a "rented" apartment, a company car, a few luxury company cars in a garage, enjoy cruises, skiing, trips around the world but on paper still qualify for income assistance, partial pensions and/or reduced rates?
It can also depend on the age of the system you set up, grandparents, parents might have done the best they could afford with the best advice at that time and it has been updated as laws and treaties changed...
The fact that a real name is sitting on a database with real numbers is now been shared via a leak or under a "federal approach" by outside tax authorities can get interesting.
What kind of "federal approach"? The law firm/bank is made an offer - give a list of all people with this nationally or your bank is digitally isolated from international banking. Once the details are handed over hundreds of years of banking secrecy revert to been safe again and its back to greeting now and old clients minus a few who used their own names/details.
Take a "small" woodworking shop. 20 people, a few trucks, huge cave like building packed with machines on the bad/cheap side of town.
They contract to gov, firms, make a small simple kitchen somedays too. Shelves, desks, seats, computer desks fill the trucks at 6/7/8 am.
The 3d tooling and software allows a team to visit any site and show a 3d vision and in rapid time get the trucks filled.
The software works on XP pro, the machines understand XP and the creative types get upgrades for their software.
Whats going to change with average woodwork? The exotic lamination?
Only constant pressure from other small teams bidding on small gov contracts.
A new school, lab, expansions..all very time and cost sensitive.
So a bright person asks to swap XP to Win 8? Will the 3d software work? Supported like it is with XP? With the 15-10-5 yo machine that worked with XP?
How many days down to test it all? New software needed? One the phone to Germany, Japan or Italy that night?
Interesting BA, would this be done at the adsl exchange/digital loop level? Or at the ISP? A small computer/server to inject on one users net use 24/7?
Would the end user note a jump in ping on say the first hop or is it effortless wrt to any slowness now?
Thanks:)
Depends on the OS and the software. Some AV may offer a phone home option for helping with new "strange" data, some are passive software outgoing firewalls that might be easy to code around??
Then you have packet analyser software.
What can the police contract for? A preflight script check for the presence of an outgoing firewall? A list of more advanced behavioural analysis AV solutions?
Try and keep up with EU, Russian, US AV vendors? Request a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) free pass via EU and FBI contacts?
The white hat, grey hat and black hat experts will be all over this.
Identify the product sold to the police, how its injected into a users OS.
How to protect, what it phone homes too....
This was tried in Australia in the past: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html
i.e. just a "phone home" computer in suburbia.
But will some consumer OS be enough the Dutch? Or will they need to link to Big Iron?
or 100's of empty rented homes with a few desktops running day and night?
Depends on the drone.
Some talk to a van direct. Great fun if the bad guys ever triangulate the base team:)
Some long lasting loitering surveillance aircraft with a look down link gets more interesting. But that might be noticed long term.
Other option is a satellite dish like link. Drone only transmits 'up', the van is half a world away.
Long term expect a cheap blimp to sit over an area of interest. Just like a satellite dish link but massive bandwidth and very easy to add more blimps:)
Almost autonomous is the next step. Visually distant, no chatter, no long term sat needed, no blimp, hard to see on any mil radar, just a zone to fly to and wait for a target with a human giving the final 'kill' command as needed.
Yes flay, You could build a huge network over a wide area, with wired connections to each mic. Back to a central hub for very basic noise values math.
The best location would be in a more empty state with lots of new drone 'schools' for maintenance, new staff needing many flight hours. This would give you some open space, a wide sky to scan and that real sound over many months.
Due to the nature of drone training, one would expect this to be away from suburbia, the big air traffic hubs.
Based on video capture to give you a visual of direction, very slight changes in every mic could build up some good basic math over time.
Another option would be to have a small cam and mic in a rock/hide and massive data card to track over a few days. Place many over a wide area making them look like some simple audio/still frame university wildlife counting project. You could map the location of each device, play back the sounds and try and sync them all at a later date.
Just thinking about very basic random issues in Australia:
I would expect a person in charge to be listed, a 24/7 contact on call, a person with the task to look after data given the size of the fines.
Some attempt to understand version drift, major exploits by staff and shown to be mapped out/some attempt to be blocked.
Upgrading to or using some "good" password-based key derivation function.
Making sure any common MS infection in ~admin staff areas does not get to move data out in bulk.
Making sure data cannot be shared on "any" web browser with the 'one' correct 'vaild for many many weeks' password.
Police checks and background interviews for cleared staff are still valid.
Sadly many Australian systems are turn key software that just works for 2-5-10 years.
If something goes wrong with the frozen in time backend turn key software over the years, they dump in new turn key hardware.
The UK become addicted to this from the early day - the Soviet Embassy was sloppy in 1930's with codes - wonderful in clear text.
Enigma and Lorentz gave the UK amazing near realtime insights into ww2.
For a short time the Soviets had so much data in the very early 1950's they where sloppy again.
Then you had every call into and out of the UK during the cold war.
Later voice prints, the internet, cell towers... it all becomes part of life for every sitting gov.
Very true re "And in a few months a new law will be proposed"
The UK has been dreaming of presenting what the GCHQ has been able to collect in a court setting since the ned of the Cold War.
From phone tracking, voice prints, data, encryption - a vision of super computers sorting or cracking seems to have a hold on generations UK politicians.
Every decade they are told not to expose the total understanding all aspects of any digital lifestyle of interest to the UK.
This law seems to be an end run around the top down GCHQ block - suburban, court friendly, average people presenting information on anyone of interest that was easy to 'find'.
None of that NTAC GTAC oversight mess.
No EU intercepts, satellites, decryption, sealed court transcripts with security cleared staff, no GCHQ staff under their 'cover' job questioned in court - just another day in court with your web history on display.
History that was exposed after 'you' did something of note.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/9991351/Town-halls-join-rush-to-use-the-snoopers-charter.html
Many years ago if you where political a national task force would track you - telephone, car, protests, work, friends...
Years ago you faced the Forward Intelligence Teams (FITs) - maybe local but much more active with facial recognition.
What I find very chilling about this new vision for data collection and sharing is the low level of gov getting GCHQ like data powers e.g.. "council... to snoop into the private lives of ordinary citizens"
Write too much about rates, parking costs, talking about a chauffeur-driven Mercedes expenses claim - the UK has few real whistleblowers laws.
Anyone with this new clearance been exposed e.g.. in an expenses claim story could go on a search deep into the private lives of staff until they 'find' something or a press contact.
With what your average isp keeps, anyone could rewind any digital life in the UK for a day, week, month based on working for a local gov?
Most parts of the world had few options for 'international" telcos in the 1980-90's and international calls where not cheap.
Putting "Bell" allows US centric readers a reference to a time in their past, the use of pay phones and international calling cost structures at that time.
vs the long Australian telco history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Telecommunications_Commission that would not be so clear to a non Australian reader on average.
Yes, in Australia a "Bell" public phone would be taken over and a line of people would form to make at the time very expensive international calls.
This might be the same digital effort - an account with 'cash' is passed/sold around until it fails.
The Russians are smart and only watch people of interest to them.
Other countries watch everybody and work back when they notice you.
Considering the help hinted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) your better with a wide selection of developers from around the world.
"They have to be coaxed, not ordered to move. Show them the mountaintop"
So true.
The Windows "8" team needs to set aside their inner city, dorm room 620p -1080p console for 5 to 10 year loving colleagues and sell "this" years and "next" years improvements - every year.
Intel has amazing CPU power on offer.
Nvidia and AMD have generations of medium and top end GPU ability to sell.
Solid-state drive (SSD) are reqady, RAM is cheap.
Show the world what Windows 8 with DX 11.1 can do. Get fans, developers and consumers dreaming of games beyond 1080p junk.
MS was always good at this, pushing colourful images/vids onto friendly fan and review sites, getting game dev code/help out to developers, making the PC an easy place to dev for vs Apple or Linux or Sony or....
Amazing 2k quality at a reasonable price should be so easy to sell vs what? ios? PS3? a Mac Pro? Porting a game studio to opengl on Linux...
Clean up the code base, forget making life so easy for PC and console developers. Run with quality over 5-10 years of code and art stagnation.
Make sure this never happens with the Win 8 team: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/sony-indies/
Note how Sony tries to be helpful, reach out to the next gen, guide them with the best free win 8 code tools, massive amounts of free online code help.
Make writing games, artwork, sound and releasing on Windows 8 easy, profitable and fun.
If a developer does not have to worry about the drama of the OS they are selling on they will put that effort into making a great game.
Happy to help: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/457047/nbn_fibre_splicers_strong_demand/
and the issues http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/4/2/nbn-buzz/nbn-co-contractor-relations-weaken-further
" largely blaming construction companies' inability to hire skilled labour quickly enough"
Australia has a closed system for tech - protecting a guild like union history and high pay for skilled locals.
Mining needs skills too - eg heavy diesel maintenance
Sadly Australia does not reach out to the USA, Canada, UK, South Africa for worlds best skills.
Pay for 'education' (then work), protection visa and family reunion visa needs seem to push out real tech needs.
What places are left get filled with wage lowering staff that know not to make trouble....;)
Now if the job is in need, time is tight and your skilled, no locals are around at the price-
Try a few days of google searching set to site:au and send out a "few" emails.
All the best.
Slashdot Mirror
As mentioned in this slashdot discussion page he had a RFID shielded bag.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-14/russia-captures-us-embassy-worker-act-cia-recruitment
Wireless is safe for "anyone" in the USA but we see the CIA understanding the need for a shielded bag.
We now know the NSA and CIA loves/trusts Google.
The need to buy a clean computer like device with cash to email from.
The CIA feels they can lure/own a Russian with $100k.
The going rate from the CIA is now $1 million.
New fratboy fancy dress party idea is super easy - cheapest wig, a cap and shirt. Hand out your own spy letters at the party with amazing offers.
Just watch for the Keep Geeks Busy types.
Following them with a paper trail like this?
If the GCHQ likes your calls to/from the UK they go for an optical link and get it all, cell tower, home internet, phone...
Your voice print will be referenced to any found in Africa, Middle East, Asia or just kept due to the calls you made. Like with calls to Ireland in the 1960-70-80-90's its all done in bulk, every call.
This story is interesting due to the 100m comment thats now in the open vs a tricky hint that extra hardware was needed or more complex interpolating signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal shows what could be done in the past.
More a comment on been 2020 and the same monthly data plans ;)
A nice interactive chart at http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/
You can click on the examples to show what a faster download internet would feel like with a ~5g device connected.
With 5g we can use 500mb of months data in a few days as we wait for our 25mb copper line to be fixed. :)
Just think of the speed over a few days.... and the per mb fines if you go over
Yes this all depends on who, when and how the banking links where set up.
Was it one law firm in the EU with a lawyer, another lawyer and a secretary as a witness?
The person used their own name on the day thinking they could rescue their account if the input or output entities ever got shutdown?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies in their own names?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies as end account access only in their own names via one distant end bank?
Where they more creative using a Caribbean, old EU and Asian linked network of companies as end account access only in a chain of trust or funds names ending in one bank?
Or do they live poor in a "rented" apartment, a company car, a few luxury company cars in a garage, enjoy cruises, skiing, trips around the world but on paper still qualify for income assistance, partial pensions and/or reduced rates?
It can also depend on the age of the system you set up, grandparents, parents might have done the best they could afford with the best advice at that time and it has been updated as laws and treaties changed...
The fact that a real name is sitting on a database with real numbers is now been shared via a leak or under a "federal approach" by outside tax authorities can get interesting.
What kind of "federal approach"? The law firm/bank is made an offer - give a list of all people with this nationally or your bank is digitally isolated from international banking.
Once the details are handed over hundreds of years of banking secrecy revert to been safe again and its back to greeting now and old clients minus a few who used their own names/details.
Take a "small" woodworking shop. 20 people, a few trucks, huge cave like building packed with machines on the bad/cheap side of town.
They contract to gov, firms, make a small simple kitchen somedays too. Shelves, desks, seats, computer desks fill the trucks at 6/7/8 am.
The 3d tooling and software allows a team to visit any site and show a 3d vision and in rapid time get the trucks filled.
The software works on XP pro, the machines understand XP and the creative types get upgrades for their software.
Whats going to change with average woodwork? The exotic lamination?
Only constant pressure from other small teams bidding on small gov contracts.
A new school, lab, expansions..all very time and cost sensitive.
So a bright person asks to swap XP to Win 8? Will the 3d software work? Supported like it is with XP? With the 15-10-5 yo machine that worked with XP?
How many days down to test it all? New software needed? One the phone to Germany, Japan or Italy that night?
Interesting BA, would this be done at the adsl exchange/digital loop level? Or at the ISP? A small computer/server to inject on one users net use 24/7? :)
Would the end user note a jump in ping on say the first hop or is it effortless wrt to any slowness now?
Thanks
Depends on the OS and the software. Some AV may offer a phone home option for helping with new "strange" data, some are passive software outgoing firewalls that might be easy to code around??
Then you have packet analyser software.
What can the police contract for? A preflight script check for the presence of an outgoing firewall? A list of more advanced behavioural analysis AV solutions?
Try and keep up with EU, Russian, US AV vendors? Request a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) free pass via EU and FBI contacts?
The white hat, grey hat and black hat experts will be all over this.
Identify the product sold to the police, how its injected into a users OS.
How to protect, what it phone homes too....
This was tried in Australia in the past:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html
i.e. just a "phone home" computer in suburbia.
But will some consumer OS be enough the Dutch? Or will they need to link to Big Iron?
or 100's of empty rented homes with a few desktops running day and night?
Depends on the drone. :) :)
Some talk to a van direct. Great fun if the bad guys ever triangulate the base team
Some long lasting loitering surveillance aircraft with a look down link gets more interesting. But that might be noticed long term.
Other option is a satellite dish like link. Drone only transmits 'up', the van is half a world away.
Long term expect a cheap blimp to sit over an area of interest. Just like a satellite dish link but massive bandwidth and very easy to add more blimps
Almost autonomous is the next step. Visually distant, no chatter, no long term sat needed, no blimp, hard to see on any mil radar, just a zone to fly to and wait for a target with a human giving the final 'kill' command as needed.
Yes flay, You could build a huge network over a wide area, with wired connections to each mic. Back to a central hub for very basic noise values math.
The best location would be in a more empty state with lots of new drone 'schools' for maintenance, new staff needing many flight hours. This would give you some open space, a wide sky to scan and that real sound over many months.
Due to the nature of drone training, one would expect this to be away from suburbia, the big air traffic hubs. Based on video capture to give you a visual of direction, very slight changes in every mic could build up some good basic math over time.
Another option would be to have a small cam and mic in a rock/hide and massive data card to track over a few days. Place many over a wide area making them look like some simple audio/still frame university wildlife counting project.
You could map the location of each device, play back the sounds and try and sync them all at a later date.
Just thinking about very basic random issues in Australia:
I would expect a person in charge to be listed, a 24/7 contact on call, a person with the task to look after data given the size of the fines.
Some attempt to understand version drift, major exploits by staff and shown to be mapped out/some attempt to be blocked.
Upgrading to or using some "good" password-based key derivation function.
Making sure any common MS infection in ~admin staff areas does not get to move data out in bulk.
Making sure data cannot be shared on "any" web browser with the 'one' correct 'vaild for many many weeks' password.
Police checks and background interviews for cleared staff are still valid.
Sadly many Australian systems are turn key software that just works for 2-5-10 years.
If something goes wrong with the frozen in time backend turn key software over the years, they dump in new turn key hardware.
The UK become addicted to this from the early day - the Soviet Embassy was sloppy in 1930's with codes - wonderful in clear text.
Enigma and Lorentz gave the UK amazing near realtime insights into ww2.
For a short time the Soviets had so much data in the very early 1950's they where sloppy again.
Then you had every call into and out of the UK during the cold war.
Later voice prints, the internet, cell towers... it all becomes part of life for every sitting gov.
Very true re "And in a few months a new law will be proposed"
The UK has been dreaming of presenting what the GCHQ has been able to collect in a court setting since the ned of the Cold War.
From phone tracking, voice prints, data, encryption - a vision of super computers sorting or cracking seems to have a hold on generations UK politicians.
Every decade they are told not to expose the total understanding all aspects of any digital lifestyle of interest to the UK.
This law seems to be an end run around the top down GCHQ block - suburban, court friendly, average people presenting information on anyone of interest that was easy to 'find'.
None of that NTAC GTAC oversight mess.
No EU intercepts, satellites, decryption, sealed court transcripts with security cleared staff, no GCHQ staff under their 'cover' job questioned in court - just another day in court with your web history on display.
History that was exposed after 'you' did something of note.
Re: "control surveillance state is bollocks...." :)
The problem for the UK is the long term slide from a real judicial warrant to a bureaucratic warrant to a self signed police letter to your local council all "just having a look".
Recall:
Private watch lists:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/blacklist-thousands-of-construction-workers-denied-1469233
Less public review/press when caught legal vision
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
The "wish" lists:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/11/police-software-maps-digital-movements
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/government-may-sanction-chemical-incapacitant-use-on-rioters-scientists-fear-6612084.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9046668/UK-riots-paratroopers-are-trained-in-riot-control.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/09/riot-control-chemicals-plastic-bullets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114601/Water-cannons-streets-months-Tear-gas-Tasers-police-wish-list-combat-riots.html
Going private:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/20/g4s-chief-mass-police-privatisation
Going "undercover" for a good few years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/9991351/Town-halls-join-rush-to-use-the-snoopers-charter.html ... to snoop into the private lives of ordinary citizens"
Many years ago if you where political a national task force would track you - telephone, car, protests, work, friends...
Years ago you faced the Forward Intelligence Teams (FITs) - maybe local but much more active with facial recognition.
What I find very chilling about this new vision for data collection and sharing is the low level of gov getting GCHQ like data powers e.g.. "council
Write too much about rates, parking costs, talking about a chauffeur-driven Mercedes expenses claim - the UK has few real whistleblowers laws.
Anyone with this new clearance been exposed e.g.. in an expenses claim story could go on a search deep into the private lives of staff until they 'find' something or a press contact.
With what your average isp keeps, anyone could rewind any digital life in the UK for a day, week, month based on working for a local gov?
Most parts of the world had few options for 'international" telcos in the 1980-90's and international calls where not cheap.
Putting "Bell" allows US centric readers a reference to a time in their past, the use of pay phones and international calling cost structures at that time.
vs the long Australian telco history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Telecommunications_Commission that would not be so clear to a non Australian reader on average.
Yes, in Australia a "Bell" public phone would be taken over and a line of people would form to make at the time very expensive international calls.
This might be the same digital effort - an account with 'cash' is passed/sold around until it fails.
Yes with chat gone, the need for looking up ip's at the request of LEO is down. Thats a one time wage drop of security cleared staff.
or 25% chance of been federal informant.
Get more than a few Western hackers together and enjoy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer
The Russians are smart and only watch people of interest to them.
Other countries watch everybody and work back when they notice you.
Considering the help hinted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) your better with a wide selection of developers from around the world.
"They have to be coaxed, not ordered to move. Show them the mountaintop" .... ...
So true.
The Windows "8" team needs to set aside their inner city, dorm room 620p -1080p console for 5 to 10 year loving colleagues and sell "this" years and "next" years improvements - every year.
Intel has amazing CPU power on offer.
Nvidia and AMD have generations of medium and top end GPU ability to sell.
Solid-state drive (SSD) are reqady, RAM is cheap.
Show the world what Windows 8 with DX 11.1 can do. Get fans, developers and consumers dreaming of games beyond 1080p junk.
MS was always good at this, pushing colourful images/vids onto friendly fan and review sites, getting game dev code/help out to developers, making the PC an easy place to dev for vs Apple or Linux or Sony or
Amazing 2k quality at a reasonable price should be so easy to sell vs what? ios? PS3? a Mac Pro? Porting a game studio to opengl on Linux
Clean up the code base, forget making life so easy for PC and console developers. Run with quality over 5-10 years of code and art stagnation.
Make sure this never happens with the Win 8 team:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/sony-indies/
Note how Sony tries to be helpful, reach out to the next gen, guide them with the best free win 8 code tools, massive amounts of free online code help.
Make writing games, artwork, sound and releasing on Windows 8 easy, profitable and fun.
If a developer does not have to worry about the drama of the OS they are selling on they will put that effort into making a great game.
Bringing Skype to the USA :)
Happy to help: ;)
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/457047/nbn_fibre_splicers_strong_demand/
and the issues
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/4/2/nbn-buzz/nbn-co-contractor-relations-weaken-further
" largely blaming construction companies' inability to hire skilled labour quickly enough"
Australia has a closed system for tech - protecting a guild like union history and high pay for skilled locals.
Mining needs skills too - eg heavy diesel maintenance
Sadly Australia does not reach out to the USA, Canada, UK, South Africa for worlds best skills.
Pay for 'education' (then work), protection visa and family reunion visa needs seem to push out real tech needs.
What places are left get filled with wage lowering staff that know not to make trouble....
Now if the job is in need, time is tight and your skilled, no locals are around at the price-
Try a few days of google searching set to site:au and send out a "few" emails.
All the best.