Think of all the years of expert US anthropologists going out and collecting data, the low cpu designs, the decades of text to voice patents, the extra long battery life....
Just so some other part of the US gov can have a box to broadcast:
Don't run! We are your friends!
We come in peace! We come in peace!
The US had 2 options, set a weak gov standard and get lol at when its is broken and noted to be weak from day one (DES).
This breaks the trust feeling with generation of young US crypto experts who so want to feel the US gov is not allowing weak crypto for good intentions.
Self-regulation allows the US gov to sit down and have a nice chat to.com commerce interests and ensure when you buy anything "Middle East" related they can database you without too much effort.
Self regulation also protects eg CIA front companies http://cryptome.org/2012/08/cia-proprietaries-1975.pdf
"IRS personnel would be notified that thev had begun to audit an Agency proprietary, and the audit would be discontinued "
If the CIA wants to fund freedom fighters (now the "good guys") in Syria - nice to have quality encryption options that dont seem out of place.
What two big brand names are doing with such weak security seems very strange. What two big US brand names where asked to do for US national security seems....
My past wasted on waiting for expensive Mac 'ports' and now seeing Windows 8 GUI efforts -
All I can say is yes do this distro thing.
Apple showed what a weak opengl effort, slow gpu hardware support can do to great code.
MS shows what a desktop split by the needs of MS console and MS tablets can do.
A distro allows Valve to break free from the 'no good gpu for you' of an Apple or the X box first demands of a M$ desperate for branding locked onto very old hardware.
One big encrypted, ad serving, updating/healing, easy to back up download is a very positive step. A virtual console for your PC on a dynamic, free OS. Free of Apple and free of MS.
How is this done with better pw's and well thought out networks?
Weeks with 10 top brand gpus ie small system?
Weeks with many many networked "10 top gpus" systems?
Or the classic inside out decryption ie one person with a laptop and hacking skills?
A list of what was swapped.
It could show a pool of simple buy out innovation ranging from large and small firms bought up/out over many years.
This would show a lower quality of projected in house skill.
Real world testing, prior art claims.
The ratio of look and feel, trade dress vs real world wireless telecom physics.
Legal questions over the quality and use of patents could dilute a strong legal and US political position in other cases.
It depends on how your comments where logged.
New US agencies need massive funding and crave to understand how the world and local US population feel about them.
So massive daily searches are done to get a realistic understanding of any mention of their 'brand' via blogs, web 2.0.
If found and your part of the world is friendly with the USA, your telco details might have been passed along.
Nothing more done. Your request to join a "scientific conference" might trigger a review if your comments where noted.
Make sure your laptop is new (might be cloned), you have paperwork to directly link "you" to the "scientific conference" with you - printed and very very detailed - in English.
Test all contact numbers,emails, sites of people hosting you before you arrive. You might be asked to log into your web 2.0 accounts as the interview rooms get smaller and questions more complex. Dont bring any books, stickers, logos with you.
Consulate "visits" may only extend to drop off extra questions, ask realtime questions... dont expect much help form your passport.
Also expect "random" searches at anytime during your stay.
The term "dossier" on all Americans could be seen as an East bloc paper folder with a number on a page linking it to a box full of audio tapes.
The US gets past this legal and useless concept with a constant self healing realtime database.
Dragnet-spying on ALL Americans is very legal and very easy. You see who called outside the USA or got a call from outside the USA. Then you compare the numbers used and voice prints. No dossier is created, just a fast passive random, non identifying search.
If the number, voice print or words mentioned are flagged, more action is taken. If not the numbers are kept but not the call.
Legal protections are often only good for the call payload. The legal idea of a trap and trace (routing information) gets around that.
What Canada, Australia, the UK can do to the cheap long loops of US telco cables and sat links is a given.
The US has its new Fusion centers. Data is getting looked at by States, security cleared contractors.
They have systems to sell, budgets to fund with local good news stories, new drones to fly, fast boats to equip, new federal armour with V hulls to drive and body armour to use.
The NSA skill set and vision is getting cheaper, legal and very local.
Yes think of all the friendships and cards left in 2/3rd world nations as this is exported. Over years many would feel very happy around the nice people from the USA.
Training in the states, hardware upgrades, new deals and notes on dissident expats shared.
Lost to looting, fire, admin disappearance/liquidation - that sounds local to one of your hired hosting centers.
With a good backup system your ready to go again.
The problem with the US is you lose your data, assets, bank accounts, the accounts of people who 'helped' you are at risk, your bank gets trouble...
and they come after you with an international enforceable warrant ie legal rendition.
In the past a good lawyer might be able to save you in a US state court.
With the US federal conviction rates and this new post/pre trial asset grab - what can save you or how could you pay back the costs of trying?
Yes I get your point. Ads on tv would have a web site, then twitter and Facebook.
Then just twitter and Facebook.
Now just Facebook is mentioned if web part of the promotion.
The US had the audacity to lecture parts of the world about using its 'safe' cloud providers. With legal ideas such post or pre court semijudicial software and hardware disappearances - why risk your data in the USA?
Thats very neat and an idea that so many people may not have thought of.
Set up some blog or guide or webpage for that so others can learn how to use their phones web features.
The government is just an extension of people?
I don't think the NSA/DIA was thinking of "people" when they rolled out COINS (Community On-line Intelligence System) from around 1965/70
The US gov knew data storage was the future and saw the issues most of the West was having with massive amounts of secret data entry.
The US gov understood their communications system, their digital data moving on their networks.
The rest of the world was still playing with digital entry of old physical card indexes - and not in real time.
US intelligence had the vision of access to each other's computerised files from around 1965.
Re: Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Poor kids who made it and became 'rich' still feel they will never belong.
Legal rage to protect their 'things' makes it feel better for a few seconds.
Rich kids who made it and became 'smart' wonder why they never feel anything.
Legal rage to protect their 'things' lets them feel fun for a few seconds.
Depends who has seen you and what they want. http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/look-whos-stalking-10-creepiest-apps-658042
It also depends on they term "anybody" and "arbitrarily".
Get photographed near a protest - inner city financial district, military base, upset an agent provocateur...
A few years later you want a good job, fly to distant family - you where just passing, going to work that day - could come back to haunt you.
Many of the databases are one way. No low cost state lawyer or court can make it all better.
The problem is your 'work' and 'education' images flow into the system.
Your 3rd or 4th year prof, the nice one do DoD work? Work with a DoD cleared.com? Work on some public/private security board?
They clear his/her family, friends and "colleagues" and any students.
Want a bank account, passport, trendy job, home? Your going to have to prove who you are more and more.
Local Feature Analysis (LFA) vs the hinted at speed of nodal point databases and say the known US populations size...
The only block in the past was states that went cheap on their DMV databases. Create a card and keep that local database running was about all they could do.
So have fun at your next peace or Tibet or green or wealth protest event. Digital or real someone has you face and ip:)
I think M$ has learned from the blu ray, Sony, dvd, and their own issues with weak, old static encryption.
Expect a dynamic new vision of OS and hardware integration with flowing updates.
You will have to prove your OS, hardware and booting is in order and updated - or face having an expensive paperweight.
As soon as version 1.0.x is hacked, you can run all the Linux you want, but no more MS.
Update to version 2.1.x and MS will run again, no more Linux... think OEM activation for hardware for life. More fun would be if your hardware phoned home and updated in the background:)
You have the public stats of groups and regions supported by Pakistan, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, links to MI6/SAS/CIA and warlords, US protected drug growers/exporters.
Thats the public face of the region.
Then you have that strange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_airlift event that shows the world the reality of what the US is really doing.
What can the US do now? Follow a MI6 vision of small drug growing areas dependant on outside help but stable enough to hold local "elections"?
The Soviet idea of holding a country for a few generations of education so that by default everybody is born into a new system?
The CIA backed strong leader?
To counter this you have Ireland, Algeria, parts of South America, South Africa - holding a country is hard work.
The US seems to have made up some Boar War/census approach - work out what district/city/town/village/street/home is going to be difficult and night raid them until they are less difficult.... i.e. newspeak targeting is a cute "psychohistory' and "night raid" is a local death squad. More drones are great too.
Slashdot Mirror
Young people dont like to be reminded of what they have rediscovered :)
Think of all the years of expert US anthropologists going out and collecting data, the low cpu designs, the decades of text to voice patents, the extra long battery life....
Just so some other part of the US gov can have a box to broadcast:
Don't run! We are your friends!
We come in peace! We come in peace!
The US had 2 options, set a weak gov standard and get lol at when its is broken and noted to be weak from day one (DES). .com commerce interests and ensure when you buy anything "Middle East" related they can database you without too much effort. ....
This breaks the trust feeling with generation of young US crypto experts who so want to feel the US gov is not allowing weak crypto for good intentions.
Self-regulation allows the US gov to sit down and have a nice chat to
Self regulation also protects eg CIA front companies http://cryptome.org/2012/08/cia-proprietaries-1975.pdf
"IRS personnel would be notified that thev had begun to audit an Agency proprietary, and the audit would be discontinued "
If the CIA wants to fund freedom fighters (now the "good guys") in Syria - nice to have quality encryption options that dont seem out of place.
What two big brand names are doing with such weak security seems very strange. What two big US brand names where asked to do for US national security seems
If only we had a "Make this" mod option :)
My past wasted on waiting for expensive Mac 'ports' and now seeing Windows 8 GUI efforts -
All I can say is yes do this distro thing.
Apple showed what a weak opengl effort, slow gpu hardware support can do to great code.
MS shows what a desktop split by the needs of MS console and MS tablets can do.
A distro allows Valve to break free from the 'no good gpu for you' of an Apple or the X box first demands of a M$ desperate for branding locked onto very old hardware.
One big encrypted, ad serving, updating/healing, easy to back up download is a very positive step.
A virtual console for your PC on a dynamic, free OS. Free of Apple and free of MS.
How is this done with better pw's and well thought out networks?
Weeks with 10 top brand gpus ie small system?
Weeks with many many networked "10 top gpus" systems?
Or the classic inside out decryption ie one person with a laptop and hacking skills?
A list of what was swapped.
It could show a pool of simple buy out innovation ranging from large and small firms bought up/out over many years.
This would show a lower quality of projected in house skill.
Real world testing, prior art claims.
The ratio of look and feel, trade dress vs real world wireless telecom physics.
Legal questions over the quality and use of patents could dilute a strong legal and US political position in other cases.
It depends on how your comments where logged.
New US agencies need massive funding and crave to understand how the world and local US population feel about them.
So massive daily searches are done to get a realistic understanding of any mention of their 'brand' via blogs, web 2.0.
If found and your part of the world is friendly with the USA, your telco details might have been passed along.
Nothing more done. Your request to join a "scientific conference" might trigger a review if your comments where noted.
Make sure your laptop is new (might be cloned), you have paperwork to directly link "you" to the "scientific conference" with you - printed and very very detailed - in English.
Test all contact numbers,emails, sites of people hosting you before you arrive. You might be asked to log into your web 2.0 accounts as the interview rooms get smaller and questions more complex.
Dont bring any books, stickers, logos with you.
Consulate "visits" may only extend to drop off extra questions, ask realtime questions... dont expect much help form your passport.
Also expect "random" searches at anytime during your stay.
Re" The libertarian party and green parties are not being rounded up." You missed the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Information_Analysis_Center report :)
The term "dossier" on all Americans could be seen as an East bloc paper folder with a number on a page linking it to a box full of audio tapes.
The US gets past this legal and useless concept with a constant self healing realtime database.
Dragnet-spying on ALL Americans is very legal and very easy. You see who called outside the USA or got a call from outside the USA. Then you compare the numbers used and voice prints.
No dossier is created, just a fast passive random, non identifying search.
If the number, voice print or words mentioned are flagged, more action is taken. If not the numbers are kept but not the call.
Legal protections are often only good for the call payload. The legal idea of a trap and trace (routing information) gets around that.
What Canada, Australia, the UK can do to the cheap long loops of US telco cables and sat links is a given.
The US has its new Fusion centers. Data is getting looked at by States, security cleared contractors.
They have systems to sell, budgets to fund with local good news stories, new drones to fly, fast boats to equip, new federal armour with V hulls to drive and body armour to use.
The NSA skill set and vision is getting cheaper, legal and very local.
But they do work so well with the NSA. ....
The NSA will not tell you how, why, when or
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-upheld/
Yes think of all the friendships and cards left in 2/3rd world nations as this is exported. Over years many would feel very happy around the nice people from the USA.
Training in the states, hardware upgrades, new deals and notes on dissident expats shared.
Lost to looting, fire, admin disappearance/liquidation - that sounds local to one of your hired hosting centers.
With a good backup system your ready to go again.
The problem with the US is you lose your data, assets, bank accounts, the accounts of people who 'helped' you are at risk, your bank gets trouble...
and they come after you with an international enforceable warrant ie legal rendition.
In the past a good lawyer might be able to save you in a US state court.
With the US federal conviction rates and this new post/pre trial asset grab - what can save you or how could you pay back the costs of trying?
Yes I get your point. Ads on tv would have a web site, then twitter and Facebook.
Then just twitter and Facebook.
Now just Facebook is mentioned if web part of the promotion.
The US had the audacity to lecture parts of the world about using its 'safe' cloud providers.
With legal ideas such post or pre court semijudicial software and hardware disappearances - why risk your data in the USA?
Thats very neat and an idea that so many people may not have thought of.
Set up some blog or guide or webpage for that so others can learn how to use their phones web features.
Make non dairy, aerated, high fructose corn syrup sweetened treats not war?
The government is just an extension of people?
I don't think the NSA/DIA was thinking of "people" when they rolled out COINS (Community On-line Intelligence System) from around 1965/70
The US gov knew data storage was the future and saw the issues most of the West was having with massive amounts of secret data entry.
The US gov understood their communications system, their digital data moving on their networks.
The rest of the world was still playing with digital entry of old physical card indexes - and not in real time.
US intelligence had the vision of access to each other's computerised files from around 1965.
Re: Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Poor kids who made it and became 'rich' still feel they will never belong.
Legal rage to protect their 'things' makes it feel better for a few seconds.
Rich kids who made it and became 'smart' wonder why they never feel anything.
Legal rage to protect their 'things' lets them feel fun for a few seconds.
Depends who has seen you and what they want. ...
http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/look-whos-stalking-10-creepiest-apps-658042
It also depends on they term "anybody" and "arbitrarily".
Get photographed near a protest - inner city financial district, military base, upset an agent provocateur
A few years later you want a good job, fly to distant family - you where just passing, going to work that day - could come back to haunt you.
Many of the databases are one way. No low cost state lawyer or court can make it all better.
try http://cvdazzle.com/ for face-detection thwarting ideas. http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/01/how-to/how-to-use-camouflage-to-thwart-facial-recognition
The problem is your 'work' and 'education' images flow into the system. .com? Work on some public/private security board? :)
Your 3rd or 4th year prof, the nice one do DoD work? Work with a DoD cleared
They clear his/her family, friends and "colleagues" and any students.
Want a bank account, passport, trendy job, home? Your going to have to prove who you are more and more.
Local Feature Analysis (LFA) vs the hinted at speed of nodal point databases and say the known US populations size...
The only block in the past was states that went cheap on their DMV databases. Create a card and keep that local database running was about all they could do.
So have fun at your next peace or Tibet or green or wealth protest event. Digital or real someone has you face and ip
I think M$ has learned from the blu ray, Sony, dvd, and their own issues with weak, old static encryption. :)
Expect a dynamic new vision of OS and hardware integration with flowing updates.
You will have to prove your OS, hardware and booting is in order and updated - or face having an expensive paperweight.
As soon as version 1.0.x is hacked, you can run all the Linux you want, but no more MS.
Update to version 2.1.x and MS will run again, no more Linux... think OEM activation for hardware for life.
More fun would be if your hardware phoned home and updated in the background
You have the public stats of groups and regions supported by Pakistan, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, links to MI6/SAS/CIA and warlords, US protected drug growers/exporters.
Thats the public face of the region.
Then you have that strange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_airlift event that shows the world the reality of what the US is really doing.
What can the US do now? Follow a MI6 vision of small drug growing areas dependant on outside help but stable enough to hold local "elections"?
The Soviet idea of holding a country for a few generations of education so that by default everybody is born into a new system?
The CIA backed strong leader?
To counter this you have Ireland, Algeria, parts of South America, South Africa - holding a country is hard work.
The US seems to have made up some Boar War/census approach - work out what district/city/town/village/street/home is going to be difficult and night raid them until they are less difficult.... i.e. newspeak targeting is a cute "psychohistory' and "night raid" is a local death squad. More drones are great too.
Yes with http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/039233/feds-we-need-priority-access-to-cloud-resources .com telling you about chat data been watched and a great friend of the US gov suggesting keeping your data safe. .
and
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity
and
http://www.zdnet.com/aussie-govt-aloof-on-cloud-csc-1339320492/
You have the US gov telling you it wants in on your data, a US
The cloud is not looking great from any perspective, as FOSS data storage or a web 2.0 chat experience with 'free' storage options.
As people have hinted, get a few low cost 'unlimited' US servers, spread your daily encrypted data into the back end of your new 'blog'/'homepage'
Any of this 'cloud' stuff can be lost in bulk at any time just to find one ip posting to a forum/blog as the US gov lifts out hardware for a few months/years.