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#25 Reply
Posted by
MatCat
on 24 Feb, 2014 17:39
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Invisible to the customer? I hope everyone slips up so we can all see where it is happening and put enough pressure to put an end to it so it's not happening at all.
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Dave, are you sure you are not a frontman for the Iranian nuclear program? This may explain why the CIA fed you with faulty components
there is a new manufacturing requirement for electronic components: they all have tiny VLF receivers in them and if they detect the signal, they perform at their rated specs. only those in the US can receive the VLF signal and so this ensures that foreigners who use our good components outside of US territory won't get the same level of performance.
go look it up!
(lol. no, I'm not serious.)
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Dave, are you sure you are not a frontman for the Iranian nuclear program? This may explain why the CIA fed you with faulty components
there is a new manufacturing requirement for electronic components: they all have tiny VLF receivers in them and if they detect the signal, they perform at their rated specs. only those in the US can receive the VLF signal and so this ensures that foreigners who use our good components outside of US territory won't get the same level of performance.
go look it up!
(lol. no, I'm not serious.)
And if you give the product a negative review then it puts you name on some sexrit list so when you go and order from element 14 it flags your name.
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#28 Reply
Posted by
Laertes
on 24 Feb, 2014 17:56
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A mate of mine works for a small(ish) company that does avionics, both civil and military equipment. He tells me that after 9/11 it was absolutely impossible for them to get any parts (you know, 0805 resistors and stuff, not military-grade MCUs or something) from any of the large vendors(Mouser, RS, Farnell, Digikey) with delays under 4-8 weeks, for industrial-grade ICs easily half a year or even more. They would have to sign specific waivers for EVERY part they ordered. EVERY TIME they ordered. In a NATO country(germany). In the end the company restructured into a civil mother company that has a purely civil subsidiary that would run all orders and then resell the equipment to the military sister company just to circumvent the ordering scrutiny. Because german military companies are so likely to develop WMDs for the Iraq. Crazy.
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#29 Reply
Posted by
sacherjj
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:01
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Hi,
It is well known in the intelligence community that the uCurrent records video, phone conversations and email traffic and sends in it by satellite uplink to some covert government agencies. 
Jay_Diddy_B
That new feature wasn't supposed to get out. uCurrent G.O.L.D. Government Overload Linear Dictation
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I have to confess, Saddam Hussein was innocent. It was me who ordered some parts from Digikey and filled in the wmd form in a certain way.
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#31 Reply
Posted by
opablo
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:14
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What were the "innocuous parts" ?
What was the "innocuity level" (!?!?!? jaja) of the parts we are talking about ?
resistors... microcontrollers... accelerometers... mems... geiger tubes ?
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#32 Reply
Posted by
G7PSK
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:19
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The US and UK are not the only countries with secret services, China, Russia, France, Germany and Italy all have spy departments beavering away to unearth both political and industrial secrets.
The US has always had a shoot first ask questions later policy, its just that since Geaorge Bush II was on the throne its also become a policy of shoot yourself in the foot first as well.
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#33 Reply
Posted by
Rutger
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:23
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I feel so much more safe no I know Dave Jones is on a watch list...
Dave must be really desperate for parts to order from element 14, their website sucks, so that gives me no confidence in the company.
Also I asked to be removed from there email 'spam' list, but I still receive emails, whats up with that?
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yeah for the us government its guilty until proven innocent.
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#35 Reply
Posted by
pickle9000
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:32
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This thread is going to hose every "Dave Jones" for the next 50 years. I can hear the thousands of NSA and CIA guys clicking the "Hose this guy checkbox" from here (Canada).
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What were the "innocuous parts" ?
I think RTL and DTL logic is now safe to buy for anyone in the world.
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worse yet: maybe you are looking for a job and you are on a secret 'no hire list'.
this was done in the 1950's in the US. no reason to believe it can't happen again ;(
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#38 Reply
Posted by
hikariuk
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:46
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Wales is a well known hot bed of terrorists. At least I can't even begin to guess at how many people called Dave, David, or Dafydd Jones there are in Wales.
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#39 Reply
Posted by
zapta
on 24 Feb, 2014 18:54
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Well, it looks like there is a David Jones that discusses building drones with a guy named NorMohd Al Ariff Zakaria's
http://diydrones.com/profile/DavidJones883This may trigger an interesting edge in the association graph.
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Hi,
It is well known in the intelligence community that the uCurrent records video, phone conversations and email traffic and sends in it by satellite uplink to some covert government agencies.
Jay_Diddy_B
That new feature wasn't supposed to get out. uCurrent G.O.L.D. Government Overload Linear Dictation
Isn't it Government Overlord's Listening Device?
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#41 Reply
Posted by
Macbeth
on 24 Feb, 2014 19:38
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#42 Reply
Posted by
peter-h
on 24 Feb, 2014 20:00
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I live in the UK, and found Citibank blocking online payments on my account. I used to get an obscure numeric error message. After a long time, it got escalated to Level 2 (what a joke) support and they said my name was on a US Govt blacklist. I left them soon afterwards.
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#43 Reply
Posted by
XynxNet
on 24 Feb, 2014 20:28
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Probably you got them scared by mailing µRuler leaking envelopes!
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#44 Reply
Posted by
deth502
on 24 Feb, 2014 20:33
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you think the us govt is bad living in australia, you should try living here.
the way those crooked fucks work, you should probably be putting osama binladen c/o al quida, and they would go right through.
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#45 Reply
Posted by
timtesting
on 24 Feb, 2014 20:44
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The US and UK are not the only countries with secret services, China, Russia, France, Germany and Italy all have spy departments beavering away to unearth both political and industrial secrets.
The US has always had a shoot first ask questions later policy, its just that since Geaorge Bush II was on the throne its also become a policy of shoot yourself in the foot first as well.
LOL, yeah. we are taking a Don Knots approached to government these days!
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#46 Reply
Posted by
erazmus
on 24 Feb, 2014 20:57
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As a Canadian, when ordering from Digikey, I have to check a box certifying that I'm not going to export these components outside of Canada. I'm not exactly sure what good this is going to do. Is the simple act of checking a box going to stop the export of critical bomb-making components out of country?
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those that would do Bad Things(tm) wouldn't dare lie on a web-based form, would they?
how insane. how utterly stupid and insane.
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#48 Reply
Posted by
AlfBaz
on 24 Feb, 2014 22:10
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Dave, just keep an eye out for vans like this
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#49 Reply
Posted by
open loop
on 24 Feb, 2014 22:35
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What would be crazy is if we could not buy mentos and coke due to watch lists, just picture the science at Tescos or Wallmart (but you can buy real Guns at Wallmart in some states! With amo!)
My therory...
What would be interesting to find out (well actually very dull) is how these ordering systems work for an international company like Farnell. Just think of the following situation...
Farnell/ element 14 buys 10000 resistors from vishay say..
The route to get 10 of these resistors in the post to your door is ridiculously complicated fortunately its mostly automated through computers. There must be upwards of 40 transactions and steps needed just to get these parts. I know this from talking to friend who writes e commerce software as a job. Just think of tax laws, accountancy laws, stock control, kanban, purchasing, parts availability, currency conversions, shipping and billing addresses, customs etc then I think to trade with the USA you need to put some extra steps for accountancy etc ( I am an engineer not an accountant). And the software has to talk with an old computer based stock control systems that you inherited when buying a subsidiary company, this is precisely why these large companies use "obsolete" stock control software as it would be a very complicated and expensive job to update it. I reckon it would cost Farnell upwards of 20 million pounds just to do the upgrade.
As for watch lists, given the above complexity where transactions bounce between a labarynth of computer systems I am not surprised. It just makes the customer feel that extra special ;-( not, so I totally understand why Dave was miffed when he found out as I would be.
Companies are s#*t scared of being finned by their own government that export controls become a pain in the arse even for domestic customers! I think this is going to happen more and more...
I have had experience of this kind of thing where I had to get an export licence to send a "tech support" email to Pakistan about equipment we stopped making 25 years ago. Yep.. you can contravene UK export controls by clicking send on any email where you give any technical information to the wrong company/organisation, even if they are in your own country! Just make sure you know who the end user is.
As we all now know that Osama bin larden is now dead you could use that name.
