#bigdatasurveillanceandsecurityintelligence — Public Fediverse posts

"The following ten cities (metro areas) in decreasing order of approximate traffic volumes, account or over 90 percent of the hops routed through Canada's internet core:" #yyc #yvr #yul #yow #yyc #yeg #ywg #yxe #YSJ and #tbay
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#yyz #yyc #yow #yul #yvr together account for 92% of internet traffic inbound to canada

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> it [CSEC] works wwith the Institute of Defense Analysis in the United states
associated with universities including Princeton
and the #HeilbronnInstitute for Mathematical Research in the #UnitedKingdom
It is formally partnered with the #UniversityofCalgary and with #Carleton university in #Ottawa"

This is the sort of thing that an ethics committee in each of these universities should be reaming out, or at least documenting the activity of #bigdatasurveillanceandsecurityintelligence

there's a moment of pure cynisism that strikes, where you realize with the bigdata that csec/csis have, they can construct a better narrative than you about why their spurious correlation is meaningful than you can about why their spurious correlation is meaningless

that the power they have is the power to craft explanations, the power to undermine our ability to know what to believe through brute force

they don't *need* to have scientific validity - they can just overwhelm us with bullshit data until we accept their narrative

ie

the threat to any individual, accused by guilt-by-correlation isn't that they are not a terrorist and the data is wrong

it's that the guilt-by-correlation is just the means of self-justifying the existence of csec/csis entirely

it's like the cardassian legal standard: you're guilty, the machine (and hence any trial that is fed by it as an input) just tells you *why*. #bigdatasurveillanceandsecurityintelligence

The 1967-2017 chapter is a *great* followup to #1967thelastgoodyear - it also gives a pretty good idea of the capabilities of #CSE - like, when they got their first big computer, when they got their first cryptanalyst, tracing CSE from fairly humble and reasonable beginnings to the monster they are 'now' (now is basically 2002-2017, the post-GWOT 'now')

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suspicion is a helluva drug
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for people who haven't heard these terms before:
#fuzzing a technique for finding weaknesses in systems, by thoroughly going through what kinds of input they can accept. https://owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/

#spyonyourcustomer : my term for the propaganda term "AML/KYC"

#proofofkeysday https://www.proofofkeys.com/ : every january 3rd, everyone who participates in this holiday goes to their bank, and takes all their money out, or as much as their bank lets them, and signs a message with your cryptocurrency to ensure you're still the owner of it. If any substantial portion of bitcoiners actually participated in this, it would be a big splash at this point.

#BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence the canadian perspective, is a book and it appears i'm the only one here who's reading it - but there should be more canadians pouring through these pages
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4345350501

The banks are awash in false positives, to the point where getting rid of false positives are an "end in itself"

ie there's incentives to just turn down the knob regardless
of whether it's a hit or not

Here's what would make this worse - finding out the #SpyOnYourCustomer flags, and organizing campaigns of intentionally hitting them. Similar to #ProofOfKeysDay only instead of being a creative use of the law of averages, basically finding ways of triggering alerts that cannot be ignored. It's likely that the amount of time/effort the banks have to spend on them would be greater than the amount of time/effort required to generate them. #FuzzTheBanks #FuzzTheAML

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"Two years, you are very optimistic! We ar talking about banks, they have millions of customers, whether involved individuals, corporations, trusts, and so on. And it is even worse when we talk about big financial institutions. The IT system is not only for the bank but for all the subsidiaries of the group, insurance, life insurance, investment activity, and many more, in Canada and abroad. Thus the system often begins with the bank and it is gradually extended to the other subsidiaries, too. The task is enormous. It is a work in progress. Even when you are there, you are still in the process of calibration because there are new financial products, you have bought a competitor or you have forgotten a market and so on"
-FINTRAC official, basically telling us: there are holes in their #fintech surveillance, total financial information awareness net, and where: the mergers&acquisitions, the trusts, the probably-written-in-COBOL systems and the systems at the boundaries of other systems, and so on. #freedom #masssurveillancedefence #BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence

> We think of it as a competitive advantage to comply
[ie the big banks in #canada consider it an *advantage* not a cost, to comply with #FINTRAC 's suggestions to #SpyOnYourCustomer ]
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Apparently I'm in a race with ching yi liu to be the first to finish #BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence , and admit to it on goodreads

:A skeptic might at this point whether it has not been ever thus [ie, the state did some kind of suveillance, and made it legal later after it became suddenly difficult to deny it] the British law establishing the Royal Mail three centuries ago carried an oblique loophole for the interception of letters and packets under the order of the minister of state. What of it? Here a critical reader can turn back to the contemporary discussion around the re-emergence of 'secret law', a line of discussion wherein constitutional scholars and international jurists remind us that our whole edifice of justice is defined by avoiding the secretive hallmarks of Star Chambers and general warrants" #BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence