Its not peak PC for a few more generations.
New CPU designs from new upgraded factory production lines will we ok for a while longer.
Its just someone has to pay for and design the new production lines.
Re "1.5 Mbps/.25Mbps connection for $50/month"
When a network cant offer what they said to the city/state then go for community city broadband.
A telco gets a near monopoly for years to make a network then they should keep the speed up for that granted protection from new competition.
Still at that "1.5 Mbps/.25Mbps"? Its time for community broadband to be allowed in. See what some innovative ISP can do when the NN rules are gone.
Re "running off generation(s) old infrastructure, for Communication"
Thats what years of NN like rules kept in place for a few large near monopoly brands.
"Elected officials" are stuck having to protect monopoly networks due to rules and laws.
Open top to community broadband. Get some innovation into the parts of a state and city that can pay to create their own innovative new networks.
Re "The USSR did develop their own encryption standards"
That failed when the NSA and GCHQ could read along with the communications sent.
Lots of nations had fast new methods to move transfer lots of encrypted data.
All kinds of innovations to Teleprinters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:)
Make sure its a USB webcam that only gets used when needed.
Build your own CCTV network.
Network your own CCTV to a wider network you designed, understand and trust.
Don't let camera and microphones connect to network you did not set up.
Reflect back on "programs that do one thing and do it well".
Are the deep parts of an OS you are using still supportive of that philosophy?
If not consider changing to a better quality OS.
South Africa would have tried to work with police around the world since such cooperation was an option.
During the South African Border War South Africa always tried to follow police methods to tell the world about the people and Soviet mil supplies its police and mil found.
When the government changed South Africa again knew it had to work with international policing efforts.
For that support South Africa could expect help in finding its own citizens around the world as it had always been helpful and responsive.
The use of satellite phones was well understood well before it all went dark.
The West knew of the satellite phones. The US media had seen the satellite phones. The satellite phone use had been reported on.
The fear about a satellite phone been part of tracking was not new.
The real new fear was the use of the US mil to follow the network down with a real time missile strike.
Chechnya was the real new mil fear re news a satellite phone was getting tracked and a direct missile strike resulted.
So the network went down.
The change to using a satellite phone to Pakistan, then Pakistan to the world did not slow down the NSA/CIA.
The rest is about a human who changed out an altered US provided satellite phone battery pack that showed locations.
That the US had a spy and that spy was trusted to swap a battery pack with one that allowed US tracking.
I would say the "spy" story is just cover for the tracking skills/methods of the NSA.
Every US satellite phone sold was tracked by default:)
A human spy story would keep other groups trusting their US satellite phone.
Everyone has seen and knew about the satellite phone. The change was the US option for a direct missile strike. That caused the change in communications.
Someone talked about a US direct missile strike. The split loyalty would not have been in the US media as the satellite phone use was well published before going dark.
The split loyalty problem was deep in the US mil that a missile strike was planned.
Dont use a smartphone, cell phone. Don't let your voice print get captured at state and federal level.
Find work that pays cash in another part of the USA and stay away from all CCTV.
The Soviet Union faced a problem in the 1950's.
They knew the NSA and GCHQ had total control over all emerging crypto computer systems.
The Soviet Union had two option. Stay with a one time pad system and transport new codes all over the world using humans. Slow and not good for the vast numbers of longer messages
Upgrade to a new computer system and allow communication at a mil/gov level like a normal nation.
But have the NSA/GCHQ be part of all further crypto communications.
The Soviet Union had to go with computer networks and lost its codes and crypto to the NSA/GCHQ.
The gain in real time and instant communications was see as worth the risk.
+1 for computer repair shop in Montana.
The only shop in the village that can support a middle class lifestyle doing working class electronics repair work.
The networks will go back to the old ways. A week round trip for a message by using a human.
Face to face messages for the long term strategic planning.
All the people who say the math will always be secure, not no "big" US brand would use junk crypto.
PRISM and this shows the methods the US gov/mil/police use.
The US gov reads along in real time with all messages sent as they get all the keys.
The FBI should have kept its method secret. They could have used the same method all over the world.
Now every criminal group of any size knows what the FBI and any police that work with the FBI will be looking for.
Decades of useful method lost to a few days of police publicity.
New Zealand has a currency problem. Their currency is so low they can export to the world. Thats very different for the USA.
European farm subsides keep out US products and services using terms like "chemicals" and "health".
Its very smart to keep a nation in food for decades.
Its hard work to ramp up and ramp down farms and the needed generational skills.
Most normal nations do all they can to keep their farms productive and producing so their nations will never face food shortages.
Some decades see a lot of extra food.
Productivity is good. Farmers on the land, been productive is good.
Needing to find money to import food is not good.
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Its not peak PC for a few more generations. New CPU designs from new upgraded factory production lines will we ok for a while longer.
Its just someone has to pay for and design the new production lines.
gets to track it's users.
Enjoy that free tracking with the free OS, browser, search engine.
Re "1.5 Mbps/.25Mbps connection for $50/month"
When a network cant offer what they said to the city/state then go for community city broadband.
A telco gets a near monopoly for years to make a network then they should keep the speed up for that granted protection from new competition.
Still at that "1.5 Mbps/.25Mbps"? Its time for community broadband to be allowed in. See what some innovative ISP can do when the NN rules are gone.
Re "running off generation(s) old infrastructure, for Communication"
Thats what years of NN like rules kept in place for a few large near monopoly brands.
"Elected officials" are stuck having to protect monopoly networks due to rules and laws.
Open top to community broadband. Get some innovation into the parts of a state and city that can pay to create their own innovative new networks.
Code like the French and US mil. Quality.
If the "AI" was so smart why did it not understand the problem and go for the VPN users too?
Re "The USSR did develop their own encryption standards" :)
That failed when the NSA and GCHQ could read along with the communications sent.
Lots of nations had fast new methods to move transfer lots of encrypted data.
All kinds of innovations to Teleprinters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
At 8K? Thats not going to be a very long clip :)
Make sure its a USB webcam that only gets used when needed.
Build your own CCTV network.
Network your own CCTV to a wider network you designed, understand and trust.
Don't let camera and microphones connect to network you did not set up.
Reflect back on "programs that do one thing and do it well".
Are the deep parts of an OS you are using still supportive of that philosophy?
If not consider changing to a better quality OS.
We need an Ada OS.
South Africa would have tried to work with police around the world since such cooperation was an option.
During the South African Border War South Africa always tried to follow police methods to tell the world about the people and Soviet mil supplies its police and mil found.
When the government changed South Africa again knew it had to work with international policing efforts.
For that support South Africa could expect help in finding its own citizens around the world as it had always been helpful and responsive.
An ad company that offers a free secure browser will always see its own ads as trusted content :)
The use of satellite phones was well understood well before it all went dark. :)
The West knew of the satellite phones. The US media had seen the satellite phones. The satellite phone use had been reported on.
The fear about a satellite phone been part of tracking was not new.
The real new fear was the use of the US mil to follow the network down with a real time missile strike.
Chechnya was the real new mil fear re news a satellite phone was getting tracked and a direct missile strike resulted.
So the network went down.
The change to using a satellite phone to Pakistan, then Pakistan to the world did not slow down the NSA/CIA.
The rest is about a human who changed out an altered US provided satellite phone battery pack that showed locations.
That the US had a spy and that spy was trusted to swap a battery pack with one that allowed US tracking.
I would say the "spy" story is just cover for the tracking skills/methods of the NSA.
Every US satellite phone sold was tracked by default
A human spy story would keep other groups trusting their US satellite phone.
Everyone has seen and knew about the satellite phone. The change was the US option for a direct missile strike. That caused the change in communications.
Someone talked about a US direct missile strike. The split loyalty would not have been in the US media as the satellite phone use was well published before going dark.
The split loyalty problem was deep in the US mil that a missile strike was planned.
Dont use a smartphone, cell phone. Don't let your voice print get captured at state and federal level.
Find work that pays cash in another part of the USA and stay away from all CCTV.
The Soviet Union faced a problem in the 1950's.
They knew the NSA and GCHQ had total control over all emerging crypto computer systems.
The Soviet Union had two option. Stay with a one time pad system and transport new codes all over the world using humans. Slow and not good for the vast numbers of longer messages
Upgrade to a new computer system and allow communication at a mil/gov level like a normal nation.
But have the NSA/GCHQ be part of all further crypto communications.
The Soviet Union had to go with computer networks and lost its codes and crypto to the NSA/GCHQ.
The gain in real time and instant communications was see as worth the risk.
+1 for computer repair shop in Montana.
The only shop in the village that can support a middle class lifestyle doing working class electronics repair work.
The networks will go back to the old ways. A week round trip for a message by using a human.
Face to face messages for the long term strategic planning.
All the people who say the math will always be secure, not no "big" US brand would use junk crypto. PRISM and this shows the methods the US gov/mil/police use.
The US gov reads along in real time with all messages sent as they get all the keys.
The FBI should have kept its method secret. They could have used the same method all over the world.
Now every criminal group of any size knows what the FBI and any police that work with the FBI will be looking for.
Decades of useful method lost to a few days of police publicity.
the good approved encrypted trusted ads get allowed.
The bad third party ads get banned.
Always use a trusted ad blocker that's not made by an ad company.
re "stockpile food in case of shortage. "
That can change with politics, war, currency prices. An embargo.
When the low cost food stops, riots start.
New Zealand has a currency problem. Their currency is so low they can export to the world. Thats very different for the USA.
European farm subsides keep out US products and services using terms like "chemicals" and "health".
Its very smart to keep a nation in food for decades.
when they see it online and recall the truth.
Its hard work to ramp up and ramp down farms and the needed generational skills.
Most normal nations do all they can to keep their farms productive and producing so their nations will never face food shortages.
Some decades see a lot of extra food.
Productivity is good. Farmers on the land, been productive is good.
Needing to find money to import food is not good.