Yes recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
They used a splitter, not at some optical landing site on the coast where you could say it was "international' traffic - the US gov went for domestic traffic in bulk. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html
What was once for Soviet interests, corrupt Europeans, Soviet influenced journalists, academics, political and peace groups is now aimed at all in the USA with all the legal options that a "battlefront of the future" offers.
The term "anthropologist" and its modern context and funding in the USA can be very interesting.
Terms like "Human Terrain program" should offer some counterinsurgency warfare insight vs the projected "global humanitarians". http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/the-us-militarys-quest-to-weaponize-culture
The "deep hanging out" "earning their trust" "getting them to tell us about their worlds" are the classic opening moves.
David Price has a good book on this called Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in the Service of the Militarized State that might help.
What was once seen as college hacking, computer games, a better door lock, old movie quotes, 6 years of French and an interest in Lua, a better wheelchair interface, faster servers, community wifi, crypto is now seen by many in the US military as a new front on an internal political battlefield, - great for funding, contractors and advancement.
First you get the funding for understanding. After understanding comes influtration.
Another aspect to understanding is for internal testing. You do not want your next young crypto expert back home or in the field to ever have doubts no matter the material they are exposed to.
You want to keep your geeks happy and enjoying a living wage. Cash or an understanding of humanity from foreign embassies might fill the void in their lives wrt contractors pay or one too many night raids.
It took some time for the UK and US to understand their staff and just how and why they got turned.
I am not a lawyer:
Do they have book stores in Australia? Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?
Australian law is sort of based on UK law.
If you not in jail, have been to jail or lost a company you have control of... you are safe from slander.
The proof is on the person making the claims and can be taken to court.
As for ' Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?"
Most Australian authors know to stick to books on gardens, computers, romance, cars, travel, history, sci fi... the safe, soft topics.
Can network operators be found guilty for conspiracy to propogate libel?
If you published in Australia the person paying for the Australian 'site' would be in trouble. A court order might help remove the material from an Australian host.
So if you are enjoying the hard currency profits of running a company in Australia, understand our easy to follow laws:)
Where does it end and why?
The one case of interest was a book on Australia and it's role in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
The chapter was found on a HD and the HD was smashed into small part after a raid.
One agency did not like the bad optics of the event and notes that on their site, it was not their hammer. http://www.igis.gov.au/annual_report/05-06/year_in_review.cfm
"I conducted a preliminary inquiry and was able to advise the complainant that ASIO had not been part of the so called “cleansing” activities."
Re a pointless waste:
Follow the cash and power. The judges, DA have politcal doors to open. The local cops need to meet arrests quotas, the Feds need good PR to get more toys, budgets, overtime, move up the ranks. So many new groups in huge buildings with massive budgets are now watching, listening, collecting - they have to show something for it.
Every raid gets you some something back from the feds or state - more overtime, faster warrants/letters, a small tank, a drone, amazing new all weather- night day optical, audio cyber surveillance kit and the ex mil contractors to make it all work.
On the back end you have the private prison complex - they like their huge new structures full and thats under contract.
It depends on the operation. Short term you get paid, your wage is kept aside for you as your 'undercover' work pays in 'cash'/'drugs'.
1-2 years your up a rank and out, cover lost for ever.
The real fun is for the federal and state task force members.
They need 'day' jobs going back decades and real paperwork to stay undercover for 10's of years.
A tame utility company sends out a normal payslip while a person spends all weekends and parts of the week getting deeper in sensitive political activities.
In the past a physical paper trail was very easy to set up and very hard to database back by any outsider.
If your infiltrator does not drive a distinctive pickup in a small town and pull into the local FBI/court/federal building just after going undercover - their story should hold.
How things can go classical wrong - antiwar group sees a face they trusted in the local paper in police uniform and the questions start.
A veteran screaming about membership of an elite unit, can usually be backtracked by people who worked in or around elite units.
The posture, haircut, tone, jargon, years - dont add up due to a sloppy rushed background mostly built on idea of an "elite unit" offering some database cover.
What department lists tax and banking information in a report containing a list of undercover police officers? They all do as the list of undercover and informants is now so big computers are needed.
Re "done from an office at the inquiring agency's headquarters"
That gets you what? A person who got lucky and had his or her paper trail lost during some digital "upgrade"?
Some state court or college town was kind enough to seal a record due to family connections or other considerations?
An NGO or religion was kind enough to "settle" out of court the first few times?
Do you really think a foreign embassy will just work down a list of a few 100 cleared workers and see what can be "done from an office"...
They will dig and find that record that a complete loser at a computer doing background checks could not....
The fusion centers, black ops, the public/private databases, all the new suburban office blocks with tight security filled with a million bight new faces.
The NSA is growing very fast and pointing its efforts inwards.
This will result in two systems for the USA:
A Soviet system- a huge structure unable to deal with protesters, debt, hunger, riots, informants, cyber war, crumbling infrastructure and the massive optical, hardware and software data dumps per day on people of interest around the world.
Or they end up with the MI6 dilemma - a perfect world wide network of great spies- sadly working for other powers as their vetting was rushed, classed based, faith based or family based.
The correct vetting needed per person is not easy. Family, parents, grandparents, school teachers, college, friends, lovers, drinking problems, gambling, net usage, contact with foreign powers, family origins, cult, faith... can all add up to the perfect person having two hats and helping the 'old' country or be open to blackmail, sleeping around or finding faith after a night raid or noting the double crossing a country that was always allied with the USA...
Basically a team has to physically interview up and down the family tree and most people of any meaning a person has had in their life for the better security clearances.
So yes, both the USSR and UK have tried to stuff their clandestine services with graduates with very predictable results - they all started as the "super techies" of their generations.
France has often gone its own way - from banking with gold, post ww2 occupation of Germany, pre Vietnam, weapon sales, NATO nuclear policy, 'freedom fighter' support in Libya, Syria...
Aerospace, advanced space platforms, bridge building/telco/dams/nuclear/oil/mining contracts-
France is just very good at building stuff at a fair rate or for its friends around the world and the USA sees that as its unique profit pool.
France knows the NSA loves to watch French trade deals and all French political leaders and report on any trade deals not won by the USA.
Options:
Did something very bad happen in Libya wrt to Syria and SAM like systems?
Is France going its own way with Syrian "freedom fighters" and offering much more exotic weapons found in Libya? Are some parts of the US gov very upset?
Is the USA going its own way with Syrian "freedom fighters" and offering much more exotic weapons found in Libya? Are some parts of the French very gov upset?
As for why?
France knows of ECHELON, they know of the origins of Flame....
Why is France running Windows at that level on the 'net'? Why would the US do this to France in such an open, foolish way?
Or was a well known 3rd party playing games with the French/US relationship and wanted a public 'issue' out the story.
The final option? The USA watches France and its trade but older US spies should recall Vladimir Vetrov- France was very helpful to the US - Has the US lost control of a part of its new "younger" cyber command?
Re Given the impossibility of keeping ANYTHING secret in this country
We got a tiny feel for it via news about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)#Antivirus_vendor_cooperation
"FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/01/bavarian-government-caught-looking-for-skype-backdoor/
So yes its "spilled" but usually years later and seems more of a telco/crypto/hardware/software curiosity by many.
As for "no more risk than a simple text file" - you now have the open free for all that any nation can mess with the telco, hardware or software of another nation - no questions asked.
Before that it was all 'hackers' 'probing' 'scams' 'kids' maybe the CIA faulty chips in the Soviet Unions pipelines... but to buy the unique hardware, test it and then try to pass it off as a non state actor is new.
Now its a state free for all.
His origin was Army. He married the daughter of Army General William A. Knowlton, who was superintendent of West Point while he was in training.
He seems to have a deep understanding of the Vietnam Era, Haiti as the Chief of Operations for the UN force, worked hard on mastering counterinsurgency using all tools in the US spectrum of intel and death, mindful of the optics of web 2.0.
So you have the 1970's South America/1980's Vietnam lessons generation, some UN work and a new theory on using night raids via local help, drones. A well studied man at the top of the US power structure in many ways. Now this statement about family life.... that sounds more like "any" political leadership change.
So a well educated person with deep international experience, returning to the US to speak of winning the peace.
Sounds good? We are missing the "dark" side, the funding of the 'freedom' fighters since the late 1970's to get the Soviets, Yugoslavia, mess with Russia, Albania, Libya, Iraq, Iran... a long list of small dirty wars with huge hidden costs, a constant demand for untraceable weapons, free heavy lift transport, training and missing weapons systems, cash and drugs sales.
A lot of people are making a lot of cash in the fog of war, nations are contained, nations are buying "made in the USA" for their forces, actors and ghosts pop up and take on weakened oil rich states for freedom...
Iran is the next question, from funding freedom fighters to drone flights... whats the next step? A plane or ship "lost" to induce a legal war?
What can the US bring to the game? Troops that have had 4-6-more tours of war? Equipment that needs to be replaced? Roll out next gen drones, space platforms early?
What does the dark side of the CIA want would be the other question. A quick hot war, a long slow support only "freedom fighter" war with Iran?
Who does the US power structure want at the top of the CIA? Someone from the dark side who has never been to war but knows to say "yes"
Someone who knows war and can say yes to "night raids" been 24/7 just like winning in 1970's/80's South America?
Or has some idea about some amazing optics that will make war seem amazing again. So its not so much why as when;)
If you only want woman and have a comment about body size and race...?
Adding in your running a licensed fuel company and held back.... ie way beyond "2 people"
Read the ads, its not just 'sellers' - its people who have held back bulk supply for sex.
ie not just a random person who has a few extra cans at home and wants a deal.
If your not young, female, pretty, of the correct race, able to send a photo and willing to engage in a list of 'acts'.... NO gas for you.
Most parts of the world would offer gas to *anyone* who waits in line - with a police office keeping order until the tanks are empty for a fair cash payment.
The net been up but no gas, people using tech to seek/buy/trade/the comments about what the 'gas' can be traded for.... the type of person and picture needed to even be considered in some listings.
People boasting they have deep supply lines and saved up supply (not a person with a few cans at home ie commercial ownership with clear local/federal laws in time of need). They kept gas back for 'special' deals for a subset of woman and not for "cash".
So you have the net been used, images having to be sent up a powered telco network in a zone with not much power and then the 'price' or 'act' needed to ensure you get a can of gas.
The legal, moral, networking and 'alternative' payments just after a few days of power/gas shortages are very telling. US law enforcement is still working in the areas, ip's been collected and tracked. Yet the ads read like a few months have gone by and its a legal free for all.
US infrastructure is unable to cope or help? Just in time computer controlled supply lines have been pushed to their limits with no local supply even with days of storm warnings... Local gas stations in a storm/flood zone where not required to be fitted with backup on site wired in power?
Lots of news for nerds and the US press I would say.
Re why is everyone jumping on this bandwagon?
Think of the colourful charts - a new vision of fast ssd's, new ARM, new streamlined code and huge drops in power costs* when doing some types of math and not using HD's.
Find some art of a smiling admin and photoshop it all together.
Invite managers to lunch and sell them the low power, always on, expandable, low cost, union free remote admin upgrade, effortless cloud future - now at a super low price if you sign up today.
Then up sell the users on your green server, green power supply and find some art of a happy polar bear.
Its like selling powerpc to the young and dumb all over again.
The more you read about the classic US families- "influence on the world"/success is very personal - and the cash follows in to pet projects, people, ideas, private and tax free foundations that span generations.
From "Competition is a sin!" to nets catching workers as they drop.... personal qualities are all you have.
Step 0: Can you build or own or rent a small cell like tower structure in your district?
Step 1: Map your area for line of sight wireless. How many can you reach with existing Wi Max like units, fixed to a roof with a correct aimed install?
Ho many people own homes in the area vs renters? Any strange local laws, taxes, costly inspections, codes, height issues, tree protection laws... anything that stop a home owner from getting a dish up on their roof.
Step 2: Find out who the isp is in your coverage area.. what do they offer, can you get dedicated backhaul another provider to your tower?
If all that works out you can become a tiny isp with a set of wireless units and eat into any existing provider.
Span the valley with a 'almost free' deal to become a link station into other zones.
A lot of the work has been done with home brew mesh/2nd/3rd world mesh efforts and good hardware and software. The important part is the install - get the consumer dish directed to your tower on the first visit.
You want a dish pointed perfectly at your tower.
Can it work? If your not greedy, can get federal funding, have town hall meetings about the line of sight, mesh options, reality of pricing, ping, weather, install costs... and offer a fair amount of usage per month.
You will be up against a local telco (and an amazing amount enraged well funded "friends of the telco"), a cash strapped local gov, their code enforcers, local laws, taxes, law enforcement, radio users...
On your side you have much lower tech prices, a real need for telco in areas of the USA? with amazing natural beauty totally cut out of big telco coverage.
Think of all the small cafes, summer/winter cabins, hotels, small towns in need for anyone with a vision and some skills.
Go looking for state and federal grants, locals and local radio, tax, ex telco workers. Build a road show and get the community asking questions during meetings.
Start small, get it working, get locals with smiles on their faces in a tiny footprint... then expand. All the best.
With Skype HD you can see if the 25yo with 6 years of French is trolling you with his latest persona.
With Skype HD you can see if the 24yo with 5 years of advanced Math and a security clearance is trolling you with his latest persona.
A web cam is justly commended as a remedy for social and trolling diseases found on irc.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
They used a splitter, not at some optical landing site on the coast where you could say it was "international' traffic - the US gov went for domestic traffic in bulk.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html
What was once for Soviet interests, corrupt Europeans, Soviet influenced journalists, academics, political and peace groups is now aimed at all in the USA with all the legal options that a "battlefront of the future" offers.
Saw the pic on a blog back in 1997. Stays with you after you have seen it :)
Some more on her work at http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2006/mar/14/2
Some fun art from c1910 by a Swedish artist named Hilma Af Klint
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/hilma-af-klint/what-a-human-being-is-1910
Someone is paying for a lot of "understanding" http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20069635-17/report-25-percent-of-u.s-hackers-are-fbi-informants/
The term "anthropologist" and its modern context and funding in the USA can be very interesting.
Terms like "Human Terrain program" should offer some counterinsurgency warfare insight vs the projected "global humanitarians".
http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/the-us-militarys-quest-to-weaponize-culture
The "deep hanging out" "earning their trust" "getting them to tell us about their worlds" are the classic opening moves.
David Price has a good book on this called Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in the Service of the Militarized State that might help.
What was once seen as college hacking, computer games, a better door lock, old movie quotes, 6 years of French and an interest in Lua, a better wheelchair interface, faster servers, community wifi, crypto is now seen by many in the US military as a new front on an internal political battlefield, - great for funding, contractors and advancement.
First you get the funding for understanding. After understanding comes influtration.
Another aspect to understanding is for internal testing. You do not want your next young crypto expert back home or in the field to ever have doubts no matter the material they are exposed to.
You want to keep your geeks happy and enjoying a living wage. Cash or an understanding of humanity from foreign embassies might fill the void in their lives wrt contractors pay or one too many night raids.
It took some time for the UK and US to understand their staff and just how and why they got turned.
I am not a lawyer: :)
Do they have book stores in Australia? Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?
Australian law is sort of based on UK law.
If you not in jail, have been to jail or lost a company you have control of... you are safe from slander.
The proof is on the person making the claims and can be taken to court.
As for ' Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?"
Most Australian authors know to stick to books on gardens, computers, romance, cars, travel, history, sci fi... the safe, soft topics.
Can network operators be found guilty for conspiracy to propogate libel?
If you published in Australia the person paying for the Australian 'site' would be in trouble. A court order might help remove the material from an Australian host.
So if you are enjoying the hard currency profits of running a company in Australia, understand our easy to follow laws
Where does it end and why?
The one case of interest was a book on Australia and it's role in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
The chapter was found on a HD and the HD was smashed into small part after a raid.
One agency did not like the bad optics of the event and notes that on their site, it was not their hammer.
http://www.igis.gov.au/annual_report/05-06/year_in_review.cfm
"I conducted a preliminary inquiry and was able to advise the complainant that ASIO had not been part of the so called “cleansing” activities."
Re a pointless waste:
Follow the cash and power. The judges, DA have politcal doors to open. The local cops need to meet arrests quotas, the Feds need good PR to get more toys, budgets, overtime, move up the ranks. So many new groups in huge buildings with massive budgets are now watching, listening, collecting - they have to show something for it.
Every raid gets you some something back from the feds or state - more overtime, faster warrants/letters, a small tank, a drone, amazing new all weather- night day optical, audio cyber surveillance kit and the ex mil contractors to make it all work.
On the back end you have the private prison complex - they like their huge new structures full and thats under contract.
Re KGB visions:
COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) is the well known one. e.g..
So you http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-masato-aokis-history-with-the-black-panthers-2012-8
In the 1990's you had Code-named PATCON, "Patriot-conspiracy," http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/18/patriot_games
A lot of created groups controlled top down.
From the UK you have long-term sexual relationships with political activists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/21/met-police-spies-women-undercover
Antiwar groups in the USA seem to face the same old party tricks of facial recognition, OCR of any plates of parked cars near a meeting, the young 20 something who wants direct action, the older louder person with 'experience' who wants direct action... or the young woman who knows someone who has great ideas about direct action...
As for cyber groups - recall http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0306/Anonymous-unmasked-hacker-ringleader-turned-FBI-informant - seems to be the same old turn, top down control, wait, raid ideas.
Depends on the state ie .... "not acting as police officers in other jurisdictions" it seems they can 'help' in other states ;):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/nypd-spying-new-brunswick-muslim-surveillance-new-jersey_n_1701340.html
It depends on the operation. Short term you get paid, your wage is kept aside for you as your 'undercover' work pays in 'cash'/'drugs'.
1-2 years your up a rank and out, cover lost for ever.
The real fun is for the federal and state task force members.
They need 'day' jobs going back decades and real paperwork to stay undercover for 10's of years.
A tame utility company sends out a normal payslip while a person spends all weekends and parts of the week getting deeper in sensitive political activities.
In the past a physical paper trail was very easy to set up and very hard to database back by any outsider.
If your infiltrator does not drive a distinctive pickup in a small town and pull into the local FBI/court/federal building just after going undercover - their story should hold.
How things can go classical wrong - antiwar group sees a face they trusted in the local paper in police uniform and the questions start.
A veteran screaming about membership of an elite unit, can usually be backtracked by people who worked in or around elite units.
The posture, haircut, tone, jargon, years - dont add up due to a sloppy rushed background mostly built on idea of an "elite unit" offering some database cover.
What department lists tax and banking information in a report containing a list of undercover police officers? They all do as the list of undercover and informants is now so big computers are needed.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/first-cyber-curriculum-goes-to-meade/article_c490140d-3390-589f-9801-aebd2f1b07c5.html
"First cyber curriculum goes to Meade"
re 'There are probably hundreds of schools certified as Centers of Excellence"
Cyber Command could be seen as "That corridor that I represent, in 10 years, there are going to be more tech jobs than Silicon Valley," "
Re "done from an office at the inquiring agency's headquarters"
That gets you what? A person who got lucky and had his or her paper trail lost during some digital "upgrade"?
Some state court or college town was kind enough to seal a record due to family connections or other considerations?
An NGO or religion was kind enough to "settle" out of court the first few times?
Do you really think a foreign embassy will just work down a list of a few 100 cleared workers and see what can be "done from an office"...
They will dig and find that record that a complete loser at a computer doing background checks could not....
The fusion centers, black ops, the public/private databases, all the new suburban office blocks with tight security filled with a million bight new faces.
The NSA is growing very fast and pointing its efforts inwards.
This will result in two systems for the USA:
A Soviet system- a huge structure unable to deal with protesters, debt, hunger, riots, informants, cyber war, crumbling infrastructure and the massive optical, hardware and software data dumps per day on people of interest around the world.
Or they end up with the MI6 dilemma - a perfect world wide network of great spies- sadly working for other powers as their vetting was rushed, classed based, faith based or family based.
The correct vetting needed per person is not easy. Family, parents, grandparents, school teachers, college, friends, lovers, drinking problems, gambling, net usage, contact with foreign powers, family origins, cult, faith... can all add up to the perfect person having two hats and helping the 'old' country or be open to blackmail, sleeping around or finding faith after a night raid or noting the double crossing a country that was always allied with the USA...
Basically a team has to physically interview up and down the family tree and most people of any meaning a person has had in their life for the better security clearances.
So yes, both the USSR and UK have tried to stuff their clandestine services with graduates with very predictable results - they all started as the "super techies" of their generations.
France has often gone its own way - from banking with gold, post ww2 occupation of Germany, pre Vietnam, weapon sales, NATO nuclear policy, 'freedom fighter' support in Libya, Syria...
Aerospace, advanced space platforms, bridge building/telco/dams/nuclear/oil/mining contracts- France is just very good at building stuff at a fair rate or for its friends around the world and the USA sees that as its unique profit pool.
France knows the NSA loves to watch French trade deals and all French political leaders and report on any trade deals not won by the USA.
Options:
Did something very bad happen in Libya wrt to Syria and SAM like systems?
Is France going its own way with Syrian "freedom fighters" and offering much more exotic weapons found in Libya? Are some parts of the US gov very upset?
Is the USA going its own way with Syrian "freedom fighters" and offering much more exotic weapons found in Libya? Are some parts of the French very gov upset?
As for why?
France knows of ECHELON, they know of the origins of Flame....
Why is France running Windows at that level on the 'net'? Why would the US do this to France in such an open, foolish way?
Or was a well known 3rd party playing games with the French/US relationship and wanted a public 'issue' out the story.
The final option? The USA watches France and its trade but older US spies should recall Vladimir Vetrov- France was very helpful to the US - Has the US lost control of a part of its new "younger" cyber command?
Depends on the skill of the mothership?
Some p2p request for a new list of accounts?
Re Given the impossibility of keeping ANYTHING secret in this country
We got a tiny feel for it via news about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)#Antivirus_vendor_cooperation
"FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool"
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/01/bavarian-government-caught-looking-for-skype-backdoor/
So yes its "spilled" but usually years later and seems more of a telco/crypto/hardware/software curiosity by many.
As for "no more risk than a simple text file" - you now have the open free for all that any nation can mess with the telco, hardware or software of another nation - no questions asked.
Before that it was all 'hackers' 'probing' 'scams' 'kids' maybe the CIA faulty chips in the Soviet Unions pipelines... but to buy the unique hardware, test it and then try to pass it off as a non state actor is new.
Now its a state free for all.
His origin was Army. He married the daughter of Army General William A. Knowlton, who was superintendent of West Point while he was in training. ... a long list of small dirty wars with huge hidden costs, a constant demand for untraceable weapons, free heavy lift transport, training and missing weapons systems, cash and drugs sales. ;)
He seems to have a deep understanding of the Vietnam Era, Haiti as the Chief of Operations for the UN force, worked hard on mastering counterinsurgency using all tools in the US spectrum of intel and death, mindful of the optics of web 2.0.
So you have the 1970's South America/1980's Vietnam lessons generation, some UN work and a new theory on using night raids via local help, drones. A well studied man at the top of the US power structure in many ways. Now this statement about family life.... that sounds more like "any" political leadership change.
So a well educated person with deep international experience, returning to the US to speak of winning the peace.
Sounds good? We are missing the "dark" side, the funding of the 'freedom' fighters since the late 1970's to get the Soviets, Yugoslavia, mess with Russia, Albania, Libya, Iraq, Iran
A lot of people are making a lot of cash in the fog of war, nations are contained, nations are buying "made in the USA" for their forces, actors and ghosts pop up and take on weakened oil rich states for freedom...
Iran is the next question, from funding freedom fighters to drone flights... whats the next step? A plane or ship "lost" to induce a legal war?
What can the US bring to the game? Troops that have had 4-6-more tours of war? Equipment that needs to be replaced? Roll out next gen drones, space platforms early?
What does the dark side of the CIA want would be the other question. A quick hot war, a long slow support only "freedom fighter" war with Iran?
Who does the US power structure want at the top of the CIA? Someone from the dark side who has never been to war but knows to say "yes"
Someone who knows war and can say yes to "night raids" been 24/7 just like winning in 1970's/80's South America?
Or has some idea about some amazing optics that will make war seem amazing again. So its not so much why as when
If you only want woman and have a comment about body size and race...?
Adding in your running a licensed fuel company and held back.... ie way beyond "2 people"
Read the ads, its not just 'sellers' - its people who have held back bulk supply for sex.
ie not just a random person who has a few extra cans at home and wants a deal.
If your not young, female, pretty, of the correct race, able to send a photo and willing to engage in a list of 'acts' .... NO gas for you.
Most parts of the world would offer gas to *anyone* who waits in line - with a police office keeping order until the tanks are empty for a fair cash payment.
The net been up but no gas, people using tech to seek/buy/trade/the comments about what the 'gas' can be traded for .... the type of person and picture needed to even be considered in some listings.
People boasting they have deep supply lines and saved up supply (not a person with a few cans at home ie commercial ownership with clear local/federal laws in time of need). They kept gas back for 'special' deals for a subset of woman and not for "cash".
So you have the net been used, images having to be sent up a powered telco network in a zone with not much power and then the 'price' or 'act' needed to ensure you get a can of gas.
The legal, moral, networking and 'alternative' payments just after a few days of power/gas shortages are very telling. US law enforcement is still working in the areas, ip's been collected and tracked. Yet the ads read like a few months have gone by and its a legal free for all.
US infrastructure is unable to cope or help? Just in time computer controlled supply lines have been pushed to their limits with no local supply even with days of storm warnings...
Local gas stations in a storm/flood zone where not required to be fitted with backup on site wired in power?
Lots of news for nerds and the US press I would say.
Re why is everyone jumping on this bandwagon?
Think of the colourful charts - a new vision of fast ssd's, new ARM, new streamlined code and huge drops in power costs* when doing some types of math and not using HD's.
Find some art of a smiling admin and photoshop it all together.
Invite managers to lunch and sell them the low power, always on, expandable, low cost, union free remote admin upgrade, effortless cloud future - now at a super low price if you sign up today.
Then up sell the users on your green server, green power supply and find some art of a happy polar bear.
Its like selling powerpc to the young and dumb all over again.
The more you read about the classic US families- "influence on the world"/success is very personal - and the cash follows in to pet projects, people, ideas, private and tax free foundations that span generations. .... personal qualities are all you have.
From "Competition is a sin!" to nets catching workers as they drop
Step 0: Can you build or own or rent a small cell like tower structure in your district?
Step 1: Map your area for line of sight wireless. How many can you reach with existing Wi Max like units, fixed to a roof with a correct aimed install?
Ho many people own homes in the area vs renters? Any strange local laws, taxes, costly inspections, codes, height issues, tree protection laws... anything that stop a home owner from getting a dish up on their roof.
Step 2: Find out who the isp is in your coverage area.. what do they offer, can you get dedicated backhaul another provider to your tower?
If all that works out you can become a tiny isp with a set of wireless units and eat into any existing provider.
Span the valley with a 'almost free' deal to become a link station into other zones.
A lot of the work has been done with home brew mesh/2nd/3rd world mesh efforts and good hardware and software. The important part is the install - get the consumer dish directed to your tower on the first visit.
You want a dish pointed perfectly at your tower.
Can it work? If your not greedy, can get federal funding, have town hall meetings about the line of sight, mesh options, reality of pricing, ping, weather, install costs... and offer a fair amount of usage per month.
You will be up against a local telco (and an amazing amount enraged well funded "friends of the telco"), a cash strapped local gov, their code enforcers, local laws, taxes, law enforcement, radio users...
On your side you have much lower tech prices, a real need for telco in areas of the USA? with amazing natural beauty totally cut out of big telco coverage.
Think of all the small cafes, summer/winter cabins, hotels, small towns in need for anyone with a vision and some skills.
Go looking for state and federal grants, locals and local radio, tax, ex telco workers. Build a road show and get the community asking questions during meetings.
Start small, get it working, get locals with smiles on their faces in a tiny footprint... then expand. All the best.
With Skype HD you can see if the 25yo with 6 years of French is trolling you with his latest persona.
With Skype HD you can see if the 24yo with 5 years of advanced Math and a security clearance is trolling you with his latest persona.
A web cam is justly commended as a remedy for social and trolling diseases found on irc.