I even considered working for their Information Assurance Directorate. It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as TAO until "the last days of 2000," according to General Michael Hayden.. TAO identifies, monitors, infiltrates, and . December 31, 2013 2:05 PM. Yet, events like in this video are a regular occurrence across the country involving many levels of law enforcement. We saw this with early Super Computers and Storage Systems. “Trust the people, trust in their good sense,” said Adlai Stevenson. Troutwaxer • Christopher Convery does a very fine job. December 31, 2013 3:59 PM. There definitely is and will be zero day in any major smart phone, at any given time, available to the government and off the grid. So now when the analyst wants to target someone who, say, works for Belgacom, they identify the LinkedIn profile, and by searching this database can also get the user’s Doubleclick cookies (and a bunch of others, this is transitive, so it can get, say, their Slashdot cookies, or their Yahoo cookies, etc…). December 31, 2013 9:14 AM. So, lets consider governments and corporations as technologies developed by people as means of control and of distribution of power and implemented by people via laws. I hope it inspires plenty innovation. January 22, 2014 7:58 AM. So is LaKeith Stanfield. Posted on February 22, 2021. By what right do they have to violate the property of others? http://www.zdnet.com/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-power-strip-will-hack-your-network-7000001331/ Alexander expanded on that. I have been reading and thinking a little bit on all of this. Not that Skeptical necessarily is, but what about my right to express MY viewpoint that s/he appears to be? But by and large if you want to know what a politician may or may not do, you can get the best read from what they say in public and analyzing their situations… such as political environment, resources of their nation, and so on. How would I know? In the case of Belgacom engineers, instead of reaching the LinkedIn page they were actually trying to visit, they were also directed to FOXACID servers housed on NSA networks. shockedanddismayed • I thought it was interesting that Bitcoin had a similar elite group holding around a third of the wealth. That the NSA have been the Federal Government’s hackers is not news. This was getting on for two degades before the “poor man’s” version DPA became news. December 31, 2013 5:37 PM, Bruce writes, “What seems clear is that the companies whose products are being compromised are not collaborators with the NSA in this particular program.”. Those here defending the NSA are the same people calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. Your electric supply is likely very noisy and spikes are killing your equipment. Bitcoin has an expected win-win outcome. No generals warrants, no search without warrants, but after two generations of drug prohibition and now the threat of terror spread by the media, the general public sees the government as allowed to commit every crime, for whatever purpose. Chinese hackers cloned attack tool belonging to NSA's Equation Group. At Tailored Access, we face the threats and challenges to our nation. January 2, 2014 7:07 AM, “I blame our industry. Nick P • This is a total surveillance program. In reality, the two operations are one in the same (or at least highly complementary)… I’ll admit, some targets will take far more tailoring to gain total access… However, seeing how these exploits primarily take advantage of vulnerabilities common to the hardware/software used by most of the digital world’s population, the resale/reuse value must be tremendous! COMMENDEER is used to commandeer i.e. People advocating this have a totally statist mindset. I don’t think any amount of arguing will change either of our opinions – some people simply trust in authority, others believe that authority is such a temptress that it needs to be questioned, doubted, at every step and that the greater the authority, the more doubt is called for. Nick P • spek • A posting in the past day or so about Russia amused me, they were and still are significantly “resource limited” so they are forced to squease the max out of older technology, the same applies to other 5eyes intel organisations, Thus the resource squeasing in these organisations, means they have to innovate to keep up. It’s a fundamentally anti-institutional, anarchist view. What does targeted, local or foreign, have to do with anything? They must also follow strict rules about how they use the tools. It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as TAO until "the last days of 2000," according to General Michael Hayden. George • The question is not whether this disclosure makes the NSA ineffective, but whether it pointlessly gives up an advantage to potential adversaries. Facebook This includes risks with historical precedents (even within NSA) backing them up. Push button = nothing. December 31, 2013 7:38 PM. BTW “Computing is such a lousy experience that you can’t distinguish normal operation from enemy action” is just beautiful. So all your long-winded statement boils down to is the ridiculous assertion that I should trust the government to protect my best interests precisely because the government does not trust me. 148 Comments, AndrewAndrew • The names of some FOXACID modules are given below: By collaboration with the British Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ MUSCULAR, Google services could be attacked too, including Gmail. Just, how far has the NSA gone with its “National Security” ruse? don't feed the trolls • Does anyone have more info about how this work ? Repair shop said I needed new motherboard = $400. Then you can forget about doing financial transactions on the Internet. BlackAngel • It relies on a compromised router that duplicates internet traffic, typically HTTP requests, so that they go both to the intended target and to an NSA site indirectly. Tailored June 25, 2014 1:48 AM. Found inside – Page 311... insurgent cells operating in and around Baghdad in the spring of 2007, ... super-secret Tailored Access Operations office were secretly tapping into ... There are a few “verified” hardwares like AAMP7G (commercial) and VAMP (academic prototype). They’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the foreseeable future. There is no information in the documents seen by SPIEGEL to suggest that the companies whose products are mentioned in the catalog provided any support to the NSA or even had any knowledge of the intelligence solutions. The idea is they will get lots of power, use it only for good, and secret regulation will work. At the heart of the N.S.A. Re: amplifying cable… I can elaborate more if you wish…, Dork • It has been active since at least 1998. It is well known the US government (and others) hoard security vulnerabilities. They can use it to garner funds by illicit methodology. Can anyone enlighten me on one of the subject’s of Applebaum’s talk? I remember that discussion, but can’t remember the context. You do not exactly walk into an NSA office and ask if there is a spot open at one of their G-14 classified super double secret p. So unless you realy know what you are looking for they are difficult at best to find. It was doing fine until I started criticizing the NSA’s actions. (A painfully transparent guise for his obvious power hungry desires.). SEA-ME-WE 4 – an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France. Thus the “brain drain” that industry now offers gives the greatest lure for the brighter talent. The metadata collection is questionable, but this kind of very specific targeted hacking isn’t. January 1, 2014 10:57 AM, “So Snowden now has no problem with releasing operational details that are outside the scope of the dragnet program.”. But since everything is a secret there’s no risk to breaking US laws. That is their duty… At least as long as any potential evidence could possibly be considered a matter of national security . Troutwaxer • Unfortunately, there is also the issue of intentional vulnerabilities … it would be trivial for US intel (or anyone else) to create frameworks of hard to find code flaws that can establish backdoors with extreme plausible deniability. , Wael • Just like the fact that not everyone’s historical data can be analyzed in near-real-time; not everyone’s devices can be manipulated on the same scale… It must require a very special ilk to decide whom is worth the effort! $5,000 to anyone who refers a qualified candidate that is hired as a full-time employee, Student loan relief, reimbursement of courses, certifications, and training for career development. herman • Moi . How is Tailored Access Operations (US NSA) abbreviated? And then, because the government is on the wire upstream, they can gather user information and passwords from that. Now organizationally, based on what we’ve seen, sure the NSA might have an edge. No worries here then! Substitute “Military” for “NSA” and things clear up a lot. Can a bad institution use them for bad purposes? Basicaly nearly all objects (including holes in them) reflect, absorbe or conduct EM radiation and will change what they do with the frequency of the EM signal. Probably not. Because of that skepticism, and because I enjoy analyzing reports and arguments, I’ll spend the time to read source documents and opposing viewpoints on subjects. January 1, 2014 11:38 AM, “Reading through the description of the hardware implants it seems that many of them have to be radar illuminated to be functional. That is their duty… At least as long as any potential evidence could possibly be considered a matter of national security ;-)”. All voting machines must have a voter verified paper trail. (We don’t know what “ANT” stands for. I do think we need an international treaty to prevent everyone who signs the treaty from spying on citizens in their own countries or foreign countries, without just cause, a warrant, and informing the authorities in foreign countries if it is not within your own borders. Isaac • If so what would be the best way to source “clean” IT equipments ? Notifications Star 0 Fork 0 0 stars 0 forks Star Notifications Code; Issues 0; Pull requests 0; Actions; Projects 0; Wiki; Security; Insights; main. Then possibly mission creep? Maybe new information he learned as President caused the shift.”. anarchy rising, Xyz • classic misdirection. 10810 Guilford Rd, Suite 108, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 info@tailoredaccess.com (717) 495-4125 Found inside – Page 613See Tailored Access Operations task forces, 63–65 taxation without representation, 70 Taylor Committee, 256–58 technology intelligence (techint), ... January 1, 2014 3:51 PM. Which would also explain GCHQ’s knee-jerk reaction towards the Guardian and showing up demanding they hand everything over/destroy it. A favored tool of intelligence service hackers is “QUANTUMINSERT.”. Nick P • Found inside – Page 304See Tailored Access Operations Target, 107 Tarjanne, Pekka, 208 Teach for America, 241 telenovela, 201–207 Telvent, 131 Tencent, 41 Terceiro Comando, ... (Why I say that stuff is a “political” rather than “technical” problem.) All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer. The politicians then had to work through “back channels” to get the NSA off of spectrum mandated for garage door openers without angering the NSA and presenting a “plausible deniable” situation to their constituents. However, I’m starting to doubt that they’re that far ahead in chips or software at all. Maybe new information he learned as President caused the shift. The even more hysterical thought is that somehow “this is it .” You techno “experts” have got to me some of the most limited thinking people ever. THEY treat their own citizens as adversaries. I’ll help you out by replacing that agency’s name with some others: DARPA, DOD black R&D (no link: surprise! Utilize configuration management tools (e.g. The visible intel leaders clearly are — they are as brash as the most hardened of whores. Yet he joined other security experts in pointing out that the operations by the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit are much more limited in their targeting than the NSA's mass . Dell’s Power Edge is headed for the dumpster – along with a lot of other American made products. Or better still, when he first suspected that a certain avenue of attack might be fruitful. Generally, there are default passwords, as well as serious security bugs. The Bill if Rights is increasingly being discarded “for our own good.” Why would they stop there? http://pwnieexpress.com/blogs/news Until just a few years ago, NSA agents relied on the same methods employed by cyber criminals to conduct these implants on computers. you realise you guys and gals are just getting misdirected by these shills – right? Fault for the error lay with the United States’ foreign intelligence service, the National Security Agency, which has offices in San Antonio. However simple continuous wave dopler radars have a number of issues and the first operational radars used pulse transmittion to more easily get range information. January 4, 2014 12:08 PM. The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), now Computer Network Operations, structured as S32 is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). December 31, 2013 11:59 AM. The first duty of a government is to trust its people and not vice versa. I wonder how this has changed your precautions for your air-gapped computer. I don’t think many people doubt he knew he was a dead-man as soon as he stepped on that plane to Hong Kong. “I don’t want to be protected by the NSA. (basic concept: put real dirty diapers in the camera bag, and cameras in the diaper bag.). What was it Lao Tzu said about more laws and bandits? Their employment contract would ensure they could only be fired for failing to do their duties, not random stuff NSA might dig up. I hope Snowden, and looking at this leak I increasingly suspect a few others as well, are getting familiar with 18 USC 794. December 31, 2013 2:42 PM. It is not even ethical. December 31, 2013 9:51 AM. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. Face it, the Federal Reserve is the ultimate Ponzi scheme going 100 years strong now and the gullible masses still buy it as much as ever. Charles Ponzi • I was rather hoping that be saved out some choice bits to serve as Hellfire repellant. (TS//SI//REL) The initial release of DROPOUTJEEP will focus on installing the implant via close access methods. Skeptical • As a society, we can ill afford the mindset of an organization that is effectively deciding guilt, then finding evidence to support it. With sufficient knowledge of an Internet browser’s security holes — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, for example, is especially popular with the NSA hackers — all that is needed to plant NSA malware on a person’s computer is for that individual to open a website that has been specially crafted to compromise the user’s computer.
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