Re "must be laughing into their soup"
For now many nations have great insight into US tasking and other agency thinking due to their well placed generations of human spies.
As long as the spies don't go looking up projects they are not cleared for they can go on spying for decades.
The NSA will find anyone internally searching for projects and terms beyond their approved projects.
As USA only accepted very best into other agencies, that was a guaranteed way to totally understand thinking and top policy setting of USA.
The problem now for the spies is the results of new US gov wide demographic hiring policies.
People with no security clearance and no ability are getting deeper into the very best parts of the US government.
Demographics has now replaced security and merit as a reason to accept someone looking for any US gov job.
The US Army and Navy will act to protect their secrets from new random US gov workers and contractors.
That will see a removal of the best US secrets and mil thinking back to Army, Navy secured locations and well away from all other US intelligence agencies/gov/contractors.
To spy on US Army and Navy is difficult as they advance up own ranks internally on merit.
The rest of the world understands existing gov/contractor clearances and how to get and keep their academic spies in.
Any advance nation can make their smart spy get a US gov job. Few nations have the totally trusted generations in the US Army/Navy to move up rank.
Should the USA ever return to the Army and Navy for all its intelligence and analysis, thats not good for all other nations well placed spies in the US gov.
Strange new security changes are never good for exisiting totally trusted and well placed spy networks.
Free for law enforcement to use now given past and existing testing results?
Based on any DNA found in the USA and any of the free site that law enforcement can open with collected data sets?
Did enough people send in to the other genealogy database sites to give anyone in the USA a partial match based on existing open data sets?
AC it wont just be the distro. It will be the people who are part of any international project in any way.
Any computer work by a company with mil/gov contracts will have to be report what their staff do.
Work for a big company and that work on any "open source" project gets banned.
People are the "security risks" not just the distro.
Nations have pushed funds into new schools. New ways of teaching.
The USA has attempted to alter the "neighbourhoods" by moving students to "better" schools.
The US tried to further education with lunches, music, arts, orchestra and bands.
Magnet schools, altering school districts. New curriculum ideas and changes to math. Academic tracks.
The grades stayed the same and all the decades of changes to environment did not seem to work.
Re "and get some free". Giving working people free stuff soon runs out of tax money to pay for free stuff. Who and what is going to be extra taxed to cover all that new "free"?
Oil wealth? Gas exports? Timber exports? Property tax?
The problem with a criminal past is other nations tend to be able to work that hidden lifestyle out to a new way to spy.
Spies then become a new best friend enjoying that same lifestyle.
Spies just go for the demand to spy to keep the secret.
Thats why most advanced security services don't like criminals. Too much risk and too much talking to new friends.
Dont give money to people with jobs.
Means test people and support them. "Social programs in Canada" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Support people who are not working.
The amount of people who then need support is kept low and a normal advance nation with a set number of people needing gov support can be covered by a normal tax rate.
Citizens who cant work, doing education. Retired citizens.
The rest of a nations citizens work and pay tax. No new payments needed for them as they are "working", pay tax and get a wage.
So what is the solution AC?
Keep things as they are now and watch for any interaction between journalists and whistleblowers? Thats a risk and the data could be published.
Collect on all US journalists who work on gov/mil stories for any sign of a new gov/mil contact?
Watch all US mil/gov workers, contractors for any political and lifestyle changes?
Do security clearances before accepting staff so people with security problems and any split loyalty problems never get a security clearance?
Think of the esprit de corps too AC. Never been trusted and never able to trust the buddy system is great for small groups of workers all over the world on a set wage.
Would a great wage and much better security prevent the need for whistleblowers to start conversations with journalists? Apart for political and faith reasons to share secrets.
Add more contractors who got a job without security considerations? The buddy system?
Two contractors working together at all times? They both know one of them never got the needed security clearance?
10 contractors on site and what % cant be trusted? Get the buddy system wrong and risk two people totally lacking in security clearances working together?
One wants to sell NSA secrets? One wants to give away NSA secrets for politics? One is an anti war activist? One with split loyalty to another nation?
Split loyalty to their faith, cult?
Got a criminal past that some other nation has discovered? Another nation offering cash for secrets to cover a lifestyle well beyond any NSA contractor wage?
Full new security background investigations into all contractors and gov/mil workers starts to look like a good idea.
Dont hire for political correctness and to virtue signal. No getting past a security clearance on "demographics".
Dont allow politics leaders to demand security clearances are given to ensure demographics.
Advanced psychological testing would be another good pathway to discover people with problems who would want to become whistleblowers and feel the need to talk to the press.
People with lifestyle issues. In a cult? A faith group that is trying to place their workers deep in the US gov/mil. A person who needs money to enjoy a lifestyle that another nation could offer. Political internet use showing a change in personality? A worker looking for journalists who have worked with whistleblowers.
Rather than waiting for a journalist to search for projects after meeting whistleblowers, look for whistleblowers seeking journalists.
Walk the life story of all contractors and mil/gov staff. Their education, friends. university education, their political friends. In a cult, faith group? Politics? Criminal past? Deviant lifestyle that another nation could discover? A new friend who is too "perfect" and full of questions?
University politics and revolutionary friends on campus can really shape decades of later work. Journalists as friends?
Do what the FBI/mil/gov would have done in the 1950-1990's and ensure only the best and most loyal to the USA get any contractor/gov/mil jobs.
Hire for US security not diversity. History is full of decades of spies and low security hired people who got in due to rushed and failed security considerations.
Start looking over the pasts of every contractor and look into hops to interesting people, faiths, split loyalty, cash/loans spending patterns.
Every ad company will go on sorting and collecting, selling and buying. The ad company has paying customers to support.
Free "social media" has to place and find lots of new ads to pay its wages? Ads from where if the ad companies get held back with data privacy?
Will social media do direct and only allow its own ads?
Yes AC. Thats why hospitals have to really understand the methods they use. Expensive new equipment and products that work beyond what "boiling in water" can clean. ie they need to get the "sterilise" part right.
The USA, France and UK have been placing computers and extra funds all over their schools for decades.
The spending per student would have changed any lack of spending and the "environment" over decades and generations.
The average test results remained the same after all the changes, computers, funding, books, calculators, internet, laptops, new buildings, more teachers, new teachers.
If it was "environment" every well funded school would have seen dramatic results and kept great results for decades.
Lots of new tax payers money went into "adapting accordingly" all over the USA and the decades of test results remained on average the same.
The US seems fixated with the GRU in all the stories about spying globally.
The GRU did try to spy once in the UK and totally lost a well placed spy in the 1070's.
After that it was better felt to let the real spy experts in the Soviet Union and Russia look after international spying.
Now the West is to enjoy a story about the GRU that is back doing advanced cyber spying but it cant spy and needs help. When it can spy it got deep into US networks and was never found due to skills. Then went back to needing random help again in chats again?
Stories about been able to stay deep in US networks extracting vast amounts of data with amazing skills using advanced code? Then going back to needing help in chat online?
Spying that has a person no skills in chat and then super skills all over the "internet"?
With the "a military base in the heart of Moscow" with "manicured lawns, flower beds"? And "a district outside Moscow"? "Cross-country skiing"? "emerald waters"? Left around as a story to find?
The US media then getting told of US investigative methods in real time? The US media talking US results in real time?
When did the USA ever let any of its real investigative methods and real results get talked about? 30 to 60 years later.
The US also has protections against what a court can change as in creating new laws.
The USA also has good protections on a government doing prior restraint. Prior restraint in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The USA even protects it press as an occupation and free speech from governments, given the US past with "UK" laws....
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That 3:2 aspect ratio, RAM is worth paying for. Add Linux in and the user has some real nice computing.
"control over its own future".
No company wants to be the coachmaker, placing their design over another brands "computer".
The pursuit of Happiness. More different cars to design and select from around the USA.
Go internal on all ads? Sell all ads direct? Sell all data sets direct?
Re "must be laughing into their soup"
For now many nations have great insight into US tasking and other agency thinking due to their well placed generations of human spies.
As long as the spies don't go looking up projects they are not cleared for they can go on spying for decades.
The NSA will find anyone internally searching for projects and terms beyond their approved projects.
As USA only accepted very best into other agencies, that was a guaranteed way to totally understand thinking and top policy setting of USA.
The problem now for the spies is the results of new US gov wide demographic hiring policies.
People with no security clearance and no ability are getting deeper into the very best parts of the US government.
Demographics has now replaced security and merit as a reason to accept someone looking for any US gov job.
The US Army and Navy will act to protect their secrets from new random US gov workers and contractors.
That will see a removal of the best US secrets and mil thinking back to Army, Navy secured locations and well away from all other US intelligence agencies/gov/contractors.
To spy on US Army and Navy is difficult as they advance up own ranks internally on merit.
The rest of the world understands existing gov/contractor clearances and how to get and keep their academic spies in.
Any advance nation can make their smart spy get a US gov job. Few nations have the totally trusted generations in the US Army/Navy to move up rank.
Should the USA ever return to the Army and Navy for all its intelligence and analysis, thats not good for all other nations well placed spies in the US gov.
Strange new security changes are never good for exisiting totally trusted and well placed spy networks.
Free for law enforcement to use now given past and existing testing results?
Based on any DNA found in the USA and any of the free site that law enforcement can open with collected data sets?
Did enough people send in to the other genealogy database sites to give anyone in the USA a partial match based on existing open data sets?
AC it wont just be the distro. It will be the people who are part of any international project in any way.
Any computer work by a company with mil/gov contracts will have to be report what their staff do.
Work for a big company and that work on any "open source" project gets banned.
People are the "security risks" not just the distro.
A statistician?
But the social media company has wages to cover?
Nations have pushed funds into new schools. New ways of teaching.
The USA has attempted to alter the "neighbourhoods" by moving students to "better" schools.
The US tried to further education with lunches, music, arts, orchestra and bands.
Magnet schools, altering school districts. New curriculum ideas and changes to math. Academic tracks.
The grades stayed the same and all the decades of changes to environment did not seem to work.
Re "and get some free". Giving working people free stuff soon runs out of tax money to pay for free stuff. Who and what is going to be extra taxed to cover all that new "free"?
Oil wealth? Gas exports? Timber exports? Property tax?
The problem with a criminal past is other nations tend to be able to work that hidden lifestyle out to a new way to spy.
Spies then become a new best friend enjoying that same lifestyle.
Spies just go for the demand to spy to keep the secret.
Thats why most advanced security services don't like criminals. Too much risk and too much talking to new friends.
Dont give money to people with jobs.
Means test people and support them. "Social programs in Canada" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Support people who are not working.
The amount of people who then need support is kept low and a normal advance nation with a set number of people needing gov support can be covered by a normal tax rate.
Citizens who cant work, doing education. Retired citizens.
The rest of a nations citizens work and pay tax. No new payments needed for them as they are "working", pay tax and get a wage.
So what is the solution AC?
Keep things as they are now and watch for any interaction between journalists and whistleblowers? Thats a risk and the data could be published.
Collect on all US journalists who work on gov/mil stories for any sign of a new gov/mil contact?
Watch all US mil/gov workers, contractors for any political and lifestyle changes?
Do security clearances before accepting staff so people with security problems and any split loyalty problems never get a security clearance?
Think of the esprit de corps too AC. Never been trusted and never able to trust the buddy system is great for small groups of workers all over the world on a set wage.
Would a great wage and much better security prevent the need for whistleblowers to start conversations with journalists? Apart for political and faith reasons to share secrets.
Add more contractors who got a job without security considerations? The buddy system?
Two contractors working together at all times? They both know one of them never got the needed security clearance?
10 contractors on site and what % cant be trusted? Get the buddy system wrong and risk two people totally lacking in security clearances working together?
One wants to sell NSA secrets? One wants to give away NSA secrets for politics? One is an anti war activist? One with split loyalty to another nation?
Split loyalty to their faith, cult?
Got a criminal past that some other nation has discovered? Another nation offering cash for secrets to cover a lifestyle well beyond any NSA contractor wage?
Full new security background investigations into all contractors and gov/mil workers starts to look like a good idea.
Dont hire for political correctness and to virtue signal. No getting past a security clearance on "demographics".
Dont allow politics leaders to demand security clearances are given to ensure demographics.
Advanced psychological testing would be another good pathway to discover people with problems who would want to become whistleblowers and feel the need to talk to the press.
People with lifestyle issues. In a cult? A faith group that is trying to place their workers deep in the US gov/mil. A person who needs money to enjoy a lifestyle that another nation could offer. Political internet use showing a change in personality? A worker looking for journalists who have worked with whistleblowers.
Rather than waiting for a journalist to search for projects after meeting whistleblowers, look for whistleblowers seeking journalists.
Walk the life story of all contractors and mil/gov staff. Their education, friends. university education, their political friends. In a cult, faith group? Politics? Criminal past? Deviant lifestyle that another nation could discover? A new friend who is too "perfect" and full of questions?
University politics and revolutionary friends on campus can really shape decades of later work. Journalists as friends?
Do what the FBI/mil/gov would have done in the 1950-1990's and ensure only the best and most loyal to the USA get any contractor/gov/mil jobs.
Hire for US security not diversity. History is full of decades of spies and low security hired people who got in due to rushed and failed security considerations.
Start looking over the pasts of every contractor and look into hops to interesting people, faiths, split loyalty, cash/loans spending patterns.
Every ad company will go on sorting and collecting, selling and buying. The ad company has paying customers to support.
Free "social media" has to place and find lots of new ads to pay its wages? Ads from where if the ad companies get held back with data privacy?
Will social media do direct and only allow its own ads?
Yes AC. Thats why hospitals have to really understand the methods they use. Expensive new equipment and products that work beyond what "boiling in water" can clean. ie they need to get the "sterilise" part right.
The USA, France and UK have been placing computers and extra funds all over their schools for decades.
The spending per student would have changed any lack of spending and the "environment" over decades and generations.
The average test results remained the same after all the changes, computers, funding, books, calculators, internet, laptops, new buildings, more teachers, new teachers.
If it was "environment" every well funded school would have seen dramatic results and kept great results for decades.
Lots of new tax payers money went into "adapting accordingly" all over the USA and the decades of test results remained on average the same.
The US seems fixated with the GRU in all the stories about spying globally.
The GRU did try to spy once in the UK and totally lost a well placed spy in the 1070's.
After that it was better felt to let the real spy experts in the Soviet Union and Russia look after international spying.
Now the West is to enjoy a story about the GRU that is back doing advanced cyber spying but it cant spy and needs help. When it can spy it got deep into US networks and was never found due to skills. Then went back to needing random help again in chats again?
Stories about been able to stay deep in US networks extracting vast amounts of data with amazing skills using advanced code? Then going back to needing help in chat online?
Spying that has a person no skills in chat and then super skills all over the "internet"?
With the "a military base in the heart of Moscow" with "manicured lawns, flower beds"? And "a district outside Moscow"? "Cross-country skiing"? "emerald waters"? Left around as a story to find?
The US media then getting told of US investigative methods in real time? The US media talking US results in real time?
When did the USA ever let any of its real investigative methods and real results get talked about? 30 to 60 years later.
PRISM is not just for the USA anymore.
will listen in. CIA will phone NK nuclear scientists with offers of cash.
Tiananmen Square 1989
Taiwan.
Tibet.
Student movement.
89 people's movement.
All the people topple communism.
Operation Yellowbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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The US also has protections against what a court can change as in creating new laws.
The USA also has good protections on a government doing prior restraint. Prior restraint in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The USA even protects it press as an occupation and free speech from governments, given the US past with "UK" laws....
The USA is not the UK.... The USA still has some freedoms that are fully protected from a government.