Australia Spying

Australia spies on its citizens.   This story tells about it. Don't spy on your own people. Let the neighbor do it for you and you for your neighbor.  There is an excellent video interview here.  I spent two years traded to the Australian navy.  They have a general trait of looking at complex things and expressing them in simple direct ways.  It is more than a national meme.  It is a national character trait of an egalitarian society.

More about Telstra vacuuming data here at this link.

NewGen is the Australia distributor for Gigamon products.  This is an interesting series of tweets by visitors to NewGen in Australia.  

 Newgen also provides Extrahop which can decrypt SSL in real time.  Interesting to know why anyone would want to do this to "eliminate a blindspot".  This site at Newgen shows the network information charts produced by Extrahop.  Summary information shown here at this link includes the SSL client activity.  It says nothing about decrypting that SSL encrypted information, which Extrahop can do.  It does however show that capability at this link. 

How the hell is the NSA breaking SSL?  Some explanation to be found here a this link.

Extrahop.  Think about it.  Man in the Middle Attack is an "Extra Hop".  It is blatant to call your product "Extrahop".  It is the "Extrahop in the middle that nobody should know about if you are spying on communications.  Blatantly stupid.  Someone must have thought it was funny.  I had a fake ID card once that said I worked for BFD Industries.  Inside three letter joke.

This is Gigamon's website  The biggest and foremost word on the website is:  "Visibility".  Gigamon says exactly what its systems do.  Very up front!

Gigamon^® provides intelligent Traffic Visibility solutions for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with unmatched visibility into the traffic traversing both physical and virtual networks without affecting the performance or stability of the production environment. Through patented technologies, the Gigamon GigaVUE^® portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to security, monitoring or management systems.

Gigamon's tech partners list here at their web site is a Who's Who of the spy world.  All the usual suspects.  For example: JDSU.  Parse what it says they do here.   It is an elegant job of euphemisms and double speak.  Those working in this sector, all of Gigmon's tech partners can interpret exactly what spy product and services JDSU offers.  Do they think everyone is blind to what they are doing in the intelligence world not to see the thin disguise?  How obvious is their PacketPortal product?  Hiding in plain sight?  A Breakthrough in Network Intelligence?  Probably designated "Top Secret" elsewhere.

Come on Aussies.  Send all internal communications via the USA.  We are good neighbors if you will be too.  Neither of us spy on our own people.  Just send the results back to each other.  Nobody will know!  For example, this is how it is done. Nobody will notice the diversion to another country.  Call it outsourcing your intelligence. This is how it is done. 

Australia has always been the little brother to the USA like it was the colony of Great Britain.  Always itching to get into any bar fight either were in. 

JDSU recently bought Arieso to add its products to PacketPortal.  What product service does Arieso produce?

Arieso’s solutions harness the power of customer generated, geolocated intelligence to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing mobile operators today. ariesoGEO locates, stores and analyzes data from billions of mobile connection events, giving operators a rich source of intelligence to help boost network performance and enrich user experience. This intelligence transforms the effectiveness of network performance engineering; enables customer-centric self-optimizing networks; creates true understanding of customer experience and enables monetization of unique insights.

Gosh!  How does the NSA get info from millions of cell phones?  Read all about it. 
Australia probably does it the same way.

Perhaps unrelated but this story 6 Dec. 2013 talks about The Rise and Fall of Australia’s $44 Billion Broadband Project  Started in 2009.  Big chunk of change and an ambitious plan to provide optical connections to Australian homes.


"So now, after three years of planning and construction, during which workers connected some 210 000 premises (out of an anticipated 13.2 million), Australia’s visionary and trailblazing initiative is at a crossroads. The new government plans to deploy fiber only to the premises of new housing developments. For the remaining homes and businesses—about 71 percent—it will bring fiber only as far as curbside cabinets, called nodes. Existing copper-wire pairs will cover the so-called last mile to individual buildings."

Could it be that the last thing done, to connect to homes was not the intent of the project but the excuse to build out the optic infa structure to provide it an use that infa structure for intelligence gathering purposes?


  Don't spy on your own people. Let the neighbor do it for you and you for your neighbor.  There is an excellent video interview here.  I spent two years traded to the Australian navy.  They have a general trait of looking at complex things and expressing them in simple direct ways.  It is more than a national meme.  It is a national character trait of an egalitarian society.

This is Gigamon's website  The biggest and foremost word on the website is:  "Visibility".  Gigamon says exactly what its systems do.  Very up front!

Gigamon^® provides intelligent Traffic Visibility solutions for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with unmatched visibility into the traffic traversing both physical and virtual networks without affecting the performance or stability of the production environment. Through patented technologies, the Gigamon GigaVUE^® portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to security, monitoring or management systems.

Gigamon's tech partners list here at their web site is a Who's Who of the spy world.  All the usual suspects.  For example: JDSU.  Parse what it says they do here.   It is an elegant job of euphemisms and double speak.  Those working in this sector, all of Gigmon's tech partners can interpret exactly what spy product and services JDSU offers.  Do they think everyone is blind to what they are doing in the intelligence world not to see the thin disguise?  How obvious is their PacketPortal product?  Hiding in plain sight?  A Breakthrough in Network Intelligence?  Probably designated "Top Secret" elsewhere.

Come on Aussies.  Send all internal communications via the USA.  We are good neighbors if you will be too.  Neither of us spy on our own people.  For example, this is how it is done. Nobody will notice the diversion to another country.  Call it outsourcing your intelligence.

Australia has always been the little brother to the USA like it was the colony of Great Britain.  Always itching to get into any bar fight either were in.  They were with us in Vietnam as well.

JDSU recently bought Arieso to add its products to PacketPortal.  What product service does Arieso produce?

Arieso’s solutions harness the power of customer generated, geolocated intelligence to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing mobile operators today. ariesoGEO locates, stores and analyzes data from billions of mobile connection events, giving operators a rich source of intelligence to help boost network performance and enrich user experience. This intelligence transforms the effectiveness of network performance engineering; enables customer-centric self-optimizing networks; creates true understanding of customer experience and enables monetization of unique insights.

Gosh!  How does the NSA get info from millions of cell phones?  Read all about it. 

Perhaps unrelated but this story 6 Dec. 2013 talks about The Rise and Fall of Australia’s $44 Billion Broadband Project  Started in 2009.  Big chunk of change and an ambitious plan to provide optical connections to Australian homes.

"So now, after three years of planning and construction, during which workers connected some 210 000 premises (out of an anticipated 13.2 million), Australia’s visionary and trailblazing initiative is at a crossroads. The new government plans to deploy fiber only to the premises of new housing developments. For the remaining homes and businesses—about 71 percent—it will bring fiber only as far as curbside cabinets, called nodes. Existing copper-wire pairs will cover the so-called last mile to individual buildings."

Could it be that the last thing done, to connect to homes was not the intent of the project but the excuse to build out the optic infra structure to provide it an use that infa structure for intelligence gathering purposes?