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South African authorities admit to mass surveillance

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Post by jldugger »

pinkfoot wrote: post #130
jldugger wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's surprising to me at least because South Africa has a GDP per capita of $~6.1k, and perhaps can't afford access to that expertise. Which I suppose suggests that they didn't pay for it, and another nation state 'helped out' via intermediaries.

1. Its not uniformlly distributed. 2. China has GDP/person of ~$9,600 3. South Africa merrilly mines 4km below ground 4. Previous efforts included a nuclear weapons programme 5. Whole parts of Amazon's infa a built in CT Get out more.

Apologies, you seem to have taken this a bit more personally intended. All I was intending to suggest was that the SA gov budget would be somewhat constraining its ambitions, not that its people are technologically behind, or whatever else you seem to be implying here.

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Post by api »

darpa_escapee wrote: post #50
api wrote: post #3

Assume all Internet connections are party lines and just encrypt all the things.

Also, assume that states have access to root certificates.

No clue why this is downvoted. I would assume that at least for G7 and orher "first world" nation states.

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Post by vageli »

makomk wrote: post #115
Zarath wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the Trump tweet from the other day confirms that this speculation is not at all unfounded. I think 20cm resolution from satellite images is even better than most people speculated.

From what I can tell that image was pretty much in line with what everyone watching the US spy satellite program expected and wasn't hugely far off what's commercially available now. For instance, this was the first article I found when looking for information about the resolution of commercial satellite images (up to 30cm apparently), and it puts Keyhole spy satellites in the 7-10cm resolution ballpark: https://www.…

I'm surprised this wasn't interpreted by the media as a "flex" of the power of the US intelligence apparatus, frankly.

Re: South African authorities admit to mass surveillance

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Post by lern_too_spel »

derpherpsson wrote: post #129
lern_too_spel wrote: post #69

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What did you think was in the leaks? In my experience, when people say their parents or friends didn't believe what they said was in the leaks, the parents and friends were usually right.

Pro tip: Read the leaks. They are actual documents, that can be read. Try it!

That's what I did and what I suspect grecy did not do.

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Post by executesorder66 »

nroets wrote: post #110
executesorder66 wrote: post #76

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> There was an act of terror that was nearly committed 2 days ago Please can you provide a link to more info on this?

There are protests by truck drivers and some of these actions can be seen as terrorism. https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/kwazulu-natal/two-truck...

I don't think that is what they were alluding to. They said: "an act of terror that was _nearly_ committed"
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