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Barnstar

 * LOL. All these years on WP, creating new articles, fixing articles, contributing OC, creating a portal and grooming a category or two, participating in member orgs, fighting against POV, helping people in RFA, etc., and my first Barnstar is for a simple vote! Well, somewhere I also have a Most Excellent Grognard award. Anyway, thanks WP... Keith D. Tyler ¶ 08:18, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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Carmel
Calm down - the bots don't delete things yet. The bot-found source is CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed anyway, so I've declined that one. I presume they got it from yours and that is public domain? Peridon (talk) 21:09, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a US Department of State work, so it's PD-USGov. I presume they got it from the same source, but I've no idea. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 21:18, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The SourceWatch page is a copy of the OAS page, and the OAS page appears to be a hastily reworded version of the State Dept page. I'll let those guys worry about who violated who, but the ultimate (and my) source is PD. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 21:21, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * As for worrying about bots adding CSD tags, my experience with speedies is that they get deleted pretty speedily without a second thought (by say another speedy-seeking editor) unless you jump on it immediately. So a bot adding CSD tags seems like a bad idea -- perhaps a "possible csd" tag followed by human confirmation and applicable re- or de-tagging would be more appropriate. IMHO. FWIW. YMMV. Etc. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 21:18, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't speak for other admins, but I do check what the bots - and patrollers - say against what I see and find. The CSD tag does say 'possibly' on it, and CorenBot and Madmanbot also have a disclaimer that they're not infallible. (Likewise at UAA - DQ's bot even suggests that it should be distrusted on some filter matches.) Very often, when an admin finds something that is considered CSD material but isn't tagged, they tag it rather than deleting straight away (which they are actually allowed to do). (An exception is attack pages, of course.) I decline quite a few speedies. Sometimes, I then retag with the correct tag, or prod or AfD as appropriate. On occasions, I add references to try to save something, or rewrite. I'm not the only one that does this. I did it before becoming an admin, too. Peridon (talk) 22:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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Linking
Hi Keith, thanks for your contributions; just a note to say that dates, years, and common terms are not normally linked on Wikipedia. Cheers. Tony  (talk)  13:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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I agree with you and supported your position on the talk page. It's an embarrassment for the WP project, but not sure how to win a battle like that. I was bold and removed the wording, but was swiftly reverted. Cheers! --Kevin Murray (talk) 02:24, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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Hi. Dod you remember where you got File:LORAN Station Malone-Cesiums-Large.jpg from? It doesn't have sourcing or an author, but you say US coast guard. Tin Eye only finds wikipedia mirrors. Thanks. Secretlondon (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

 * Not sure but pretty sure it was a USCG site. Time was you could find little side-project sites from military bases all over. No idea what the Malone base's website url was... - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 09:07, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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Frisket

A frisket is any material that protects areas of a work from unintended change.

Letterpress
On a sheet-fed letterpress printing machine, a frisket is a sheet of oiled paper that covers the space between the type or cuts (illustrations) and the edge of the paper that is to be printed. When the press operator uses a brayer to coat the surface of the type with ink, the ink brayer will often coat the furniture and slugs (wood and metal spacers) between the columns and around the type. To keep this ink from touching the target sheet, the frisket covers the area that is not desired to print. The frisket is set in a frame, often hinged to the tympan that holds the paper in place.

A new frisket has to be cut for each different page or form; a well-made frisket lasts for hundreds or thousands of impressions.

Airbrushing
In airbrushing, a frisket is a plastic sheet with an adhesive backing used to mask off specific areas of an image so that only the exposed area is covered with paint. The frisket is vital to airbrushing, because it allows the artist to control excess paint spray, create special effects, achieve extreme precision, control edge attributes and expedite the airbrushing process.

A frisket differs from other masks in that it is a single sheet that covers the entire work, parts of which are removed by cutting into the sheet. Friskets are available in matté and glossy finishes. Some friskets are also solvent-proof, manufactured for use with solvent-reduced and -based urethanes.

The frisket is fixed to the painting surface and then the appropriate shapes are cut out of the material using a razor or scalpel. The cut piece is lifted, the exposed area painted, and the process repeated using the cut pieces to mask their matching finished areas. When all painting is finished, the resulting work contains precise shapes with no overspray.

Watercolour
In watercolor painting, frisket, also sometimes called masking fluid, is a removable liquid masking fluid based on latex and ammonia, often available in various colours to make its presence more obvious, which is applied to the surface in order to mask off the areas that are not to be coloured by a given application of paint. Frisket is usually used when the unmasked areas are desired to be the same colour and a rapid wash is being applied, or for negative painting effects.

Watercolouring frisket is applied using a brush, allowed to dry, and then the watercolour paints are applied and also allowed to dry. Once the paper is completely dry, the frisket can be easily removed by gentle rubbing with a natural crepe rubber pickup, the same as those used for removal of rubber cement. The paper must be completely dry before removing the frisket as the friction can otherwise damage the paper if still damp.

A subsequent application of frisket can be applied to mask other areas—usually those with the intention of applying a different colour or to darken some areas whilst not affecting others—and removed with the natural rubber pickup. This process can be repeated several times without damaging artist-grade watercolour papers, so long as the paper is completely dry after each application of watercolours. Some lesser grades of paper, often used for practice and academic purposes, may be more prone to damage after repeated masking and painting cycles, however. Although watercolour frisket can be removed by rubbing with the fingers, doing so has the disadvantage of potentially transferring skin oils which can discolour the artwork, or otherwise affect subsequent applications of watercolours or other media such as chalk or ink.

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Government Communications Security Bureau

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) (Te Tira Tiaki) is the public-service department of New Zealand charged with promoting New Zealand's national security by collecting and analysing information of an intelligence nature. The GCSB is considered to be New Zealand's most powerful intelligence agency, and has been alleged to have conducted more espionage and data collection than the country's primary intelligence agency, the less funded NZSIS. This has at times proven controversial, although the GCSB does not have the baggage of criticism attached to it for a perceived failure to be effective like the NZSIS does. The GCSB is considered an equivalent of GCHQ in the United Kingdom or the NSA in the United States.

According to the Bureau's official website, it has a mission of contributing to the national security of New Zealand by providing information assurance and cybersecurity, foreign intelligence, and assistance to other New Zealand government agencies.

History
The Government Communications Security Bureau was created in 1977 on the instructions of Robert Muldoon, the Prime Minister. Prior to this, the functions now handled by the GCSB were split between three organisations:
 * Communications security was the responsibility of the Communications Security Committee, based around the Prime Minister's office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 * Signals intelligence was the responsibility of the Combined Signals Organisation, run by the military.
 * Anti-bugging measures were the responsibility of the Security Intelligence Service.

Upon its establishment, the GCSB assumed responsibility for these three roles. Officially, the new organisation was part of the Ministry of Defence, and its functions and activities were highly secret – even Cabinet was not informed. In the 1980s, however, information was gradually released, first about the GCSB's security role, and then about its signals intelligence operations.

Also in the 1980s, the GCSB was split away from the Ministry of Defence, becoming a separate organisation. It was not until 2000, however, that it was decided to make the GCSB a government department in its own right. This decision was implemented through the Government Communications Security Bureau Act 2003.

In 2001, the Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection was formed within the GCSB with a mandate to assist in the protection of national critical infrastructure from information-borne threats. The National Cyber Security Centre was established within the GCSB in September 2011, and it absorbed the functions of the Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Staff and budget
The GCSB is considered to be a government department in its own right with its head office in Pipitea St, Wellington. Through its director, the GCSB reports to the minister holding the Intelligence portfolio, who, by convention, is always the Prime Minister. Its main functions are: the collection and processing of intelligence, the distribution of intelligence, IT security, technology and administration. It has slightly over 400 employees with a range of disciplines including foreign language experts, communications and cryptography specialists, engineers, technicians and support staff.

In 2015/16 the budget for the GCSB was $89.6 million. Former Green MP Keith Locke says that despite the attention the GCSB received as a result of its illegal surveillance of Kim Dotcom, there has been little public discussion about its value. Locke questions GCSB's suitability for the task of protecting government computers given its security failures. Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Kitteridge's report noted the Bureau's problems included "under-resourcing and a lack of legal staff".

Oversight
An Inspector-General has oversight of the GCSB (and other intelligence organisations). The current Inspector-General is Brendan Horsley, who began his three year term in June 2020. The office of the Inspector-General also consists of Deputy Inspector-General Graeme Speden, and a number of investigating staff. A statutory advisory panel of two members also provides advice to the Inspector-General.

The Prime Minister appoints both the director of the GCSB and the Inspector General. Associate Professor of law at Auckland University, Bill Hodge, says the watchdog should be appointed by Parliament rather than by the Prime Minister. Former prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer agrees: "There needs to be some separation between the inspector and the agency he oversees."

Operations
The functions of the GCSB include signals intelligence, communications security, anti-bugging measures, and computer security. The GCSB does not publicly disclose the nature of the communications which it intercepts. It is frequently described by some authors, such as Nicky Hager, as part of ECHELON. In 2006, after the death of former Prime Minister David Lange, a 1985–86 report given to Lange was found among his papers, having been mistakenly released. The report listed a number of countries as targets of GCSB efforts, including Japan, the Philippines, Argentina, France, Vietnam, and many small Pacific island states. It also mentioned United Nations diplomatic traffic. In his book on the GCSB, Nicky Hager says that during the Cold War, the locations and activities of Soviet ships (including civilian craft such as fishing trawlers) were a major focus of the organisation's activities.

For the purposes of its signals intelligence activities, the GCSB maintains two "listening stations": a satellite communications interception station at GCSB Waihopai near Blenheim and a radio communications interception station at GCSB Tangimoana near Palmerston North. On 16 March 2015, the former National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed that New Zealand's GCSB agency had a secret listening post, codenamed "Caprica", at the New Zealand High Commission in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The "Caprica" outpost was reportedly modeled after the American National Security Agency's Stateroom outposts at selected United States Embassies across the world.

The GCSB is characterised by its focus on foreign intelligence gathering and is unable to collect intelligence on New Zealand citizens. Because of this, the agency is reliant on the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service for domestic intelligence gathering. If the GCSB were to collect data on New Zealanders, this would be in violation of the GCSB Amendment Bill.

GCSB strategic plan; 2016–2020
The 2016 - 2020 strategic plan entails what the GCSB is aiming to achieve in the years until 2020. Its two main focuses are; "impenetrable infrastructure" and "indispensable intelligence." "New Zealand's most important information infrastructures are impenetrable to technology-borne compromise. We call this aim impenetrable infrastructure, and New Zealand's intelligence generates unique policy and operational impacts for New Zealand. We call this aim indispensable intelligence." They plan to do this through the set up of eight priority objectives, including recruiting and retaining the best employees, replacing high grade infrastructure and continuing to modernise the GCSB's access and tradecraft.

Waihopai station

The Waihopai Station has been operating since 1989. It is described as a satellite communications monitoring facility in the Waihopai Valley, near Blenheim. The facility has been identified by MP Keith Locke as part of ECHELON. Few details of the facility are known, but it is believed that it intercepts and processes all phone calls, faxes, e-mails and computer data communications. The site is a regular target for protesters and activists who are attempting to have the base closed down. The Anti-Bases Campaign have had regular yearly protests at the base.

In October 2021, the GCSB announced that Waihopai Station's two dishes and radomes would be decommissioned as the technology is obsolete. However, other data collection and information gathering will continue at the station.

Tangimoana station
The Tangimoana Station was opened in 1982, replacing an earlier facility at Irirangi, near Waiouru. According to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the facility is part of ECHELON; its role in this capacity was first identified publicly by peace researcher Owen Wilkes in 1984, and investigated in detail by peace activist and independent journalist Nicky Hager.

Appointment of Ian Fletcher
Ian Fletcher was appointed as director of the GCSB in February 2012. Fletcher is a former diplomat who was interviewed by the appointment panel after an earlier short-list of four candidates had been rejected by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the State Services Commissioner. In March 2013, John Key admitted he had known Fletcher since they were in school, but denied they were friends.

Answering questions in parliament about Mr Fletcher's appointment, Key said he hadn't "seen the guy in a long time" and hadn't mentioned he had made a phone call to Mr Fletcher when the question first came up in parliament because he had "forgotten" about it. Former GCSB director Sir Bruce Ferguson said the way Key had intervened in the selection process was "disturbing". The Labour Party called for an inquiry into the matter.

Illegal spying
Shortly before Fletcher was appointed, the GCSB was found to have illegally spied on Kim Dotcom, a German national but New Zealand resident. By law, the agency cannot spy on New Zealand residents. The GCSB admitted that Hugh Wolfensohn, acting director at the time, knew the organisation was spying on Dotcom. It is believed Mr Wolfensohn was placed on "gardening leave" after it became clear the GCSB had made a mistake in spying on Dotcom. In December, the High Court of New Zealand ruled Kim Dotcom could sue the GCSB for damages. The attorney-general appealed the ruling but was unsuccessful. In March 2013, The New Zealand Herald reported that Wolfensohn "no longer works for the GCSB intelligence agency as it braces for fresh exposure of its failings".

Kitteridge report
As a result of the Dotcom saga, a review of the bureau's compliance with legislation and its internal systems and processes was conducted by Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Kitteridge. In April 2013, Kitteridge's report was leaked to the media. It contradicted GCSB head Ian Fletcher's comments that the bureau had not unlawfully spied on anyone other than Dotcom showing that the GCSB may have unlawfully spied on up to 85 people between April 2003 and September 2012.

Fairfax reported "The review noted a series of failings had led to the illegal spying, including under-resourcing and a lack of legal staff." It found "the GCSB structure was overly complex and top heavy, while staff who performed poorly were tolerated, rather than dismissed or disciplined, so they would not pose a security risk upon leaving the bureau." The Green Party asked police to investigate the illegal spying.

Kitteridge also said she had trouble accessing a number of "basic files". Prime Minister John Key said there was no "cover-up", and the files were probably either misfiled or never existed in the first place.

GCSB Amendment Bill
On 8 May 2013, the National Prime Minister John Key introduced the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill, which would extend the powers of the GCSB to enable it to collect information from all New Zealanders for the use of other government departments including the New Zealand Police, Defence Force and the Security Intelligence Service. Under the bill, the GCSB will have three main functions. Firstly, it will continue to collect foreign intelligence but it will not be allowed to spy on New Zealanders. Secondly, it will give the GCSB a legal mandate to assist the police, Defence Force and the Security Intelligence Service. Thirdly, it will extend the GCSB's cyber-security functions to encompass protecting private-sector cyber systems.

While this Bill was supported by the ruling National Party and its coalition partners ACT New Zealand and the United Future MP Peter Dunne, it was opposed by the opposition Labour and the Green parties, several left-wing groups, and the internet millionaire Kim Dotcom, the NZ Law Society, and the Human Rights Tribunal. On 27 July, opponents of the GCSB Amendment Bill staged nationwide protests in eleven major towns and cities, and thousands attended. Critics of the GCSB Amendment Bill claimed that the Bill would turn New Zealand into a police state like the former German Democratic Republic and made references to George Orwell's novel 1984 and the ongoing Edward Snowden NSA Leaks scandal. In response, Prime Minister Key acknowledged that the protests were part of a "healthy democracy" with people being "allowed" to make their voices heard for the moment.

On 14 August 2013, the Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key addressed what he identified as "misinformation" surrounding the GCSB Amendment Bill, claiming that the actions of the Government Communications Security Bureau were analogous to Norton AntiVirus. On 21 August, the House of Representatives voted to pass the GCSB Amendment Bill by 61 to 59. The bill passed its third reading despite protests from the opposition parties, human rights groups, legal advocates, and technology groups. John Key defended the GCSB Amendment Bill by arguing that it did not authorise "wholesale spying" on New Zealanders and that its opponents were misinformed.

Southern Cross Cable mass surveillance
In 2013 the New Zealand Herald reported that the owners of the Southern Cross Cable, New Zealand's majority (≈95%) international internet access point, had asked the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to pay them for mass surveillance of New Zealand internet activity through the cable. In May 2014, John Minto, vice-president of the New Zealand Mana Party, alleged that the NSA was carrying out mass surveillance on all meta-data and content that went out of New Zealand through the cable.

In August 2014, New Zealand Green Party co-leader Russel Norman stated that an interception point was being established on the Southern Cross Cable. Norman said that as the cable is the only point of telecommunications access from New Zealand, this would allow the Government to spy on all phone calls and internet traffic from New Zealand. Norman's claims followed the revelation that an engineer from the NSA had visited New Zealand earlier in the year to discuss how to intercept traffic on the Southern Cross cable. The office of National Party New Zealand Prime Minister John Key denied the claims, but admitted that they were negotiating a "cable access programme" with the NSA, while refusing to clarify what that was or why the NSA was involved.

2015 Edward Snowden surveillance disclosures
On 5 March 2015, The Intercept website and The New Zealand Herald newspaper disclosed that the Government Communications Security Bureau had been spying on New Zealand's South Pacific neighbours including Tuvalu, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, and the French overseas departments of New Caledonia and French Polynesia. The Intercept provided documents supplied by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who had earlier released leaked documents relating to the surveillance activities of other Five Eyes partners including the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The Snowden documents show that information collected by the GCSB is sent to the American National Security Agency to plug holes in the global intelligence network. Most of the surveillance was carried out from the GCSB's Waihopai Station in the South Island. Under the premiership of Prime Minister John Key, the GCSB had expanded its intelligence-gathering activities in support of the Five Eyes.

According to investigative journalist and peace activist Nicky Hager, the GCSB had gone from selective targeting of South Pacific targets to collecting a wide breadth of email messages and telephone calls. He added that the spy agency had upgraded its Waihopai spy base in 2009 to collect both the content and meta-data of all communications, rather than specific individuals and agencies. According to leaked documents supplied by Snowden, the GCSB collected a wide trove of electronic information including emails, mobile and fixed line phone calls, and social media messages from various South Pacific countries. In addition, Snowden alleged that a GCSB officer had also worked with the Australian Signals Directorate to spy on the Indonesian cellphone company Telkomsel.

The GCSB's mass surveillance programme was criticised by opposition parties including the Green Party co-leader Russel Norman and the Labour Party leader Andrew Little, who told the press that New Zealand risked damaging its relationship with the South Pacific and that the GCSB's actions amounted to an invasion of people's privacy. In 2014, New Zealand secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council with the support of the entire Pacific region on the platform that "New Zealand stands up for small states." The Green Party also laid a complaint with the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, alleging that the GCSB had broken the law by spying on New Zealanders who were holidaying in the South Pacific. In response, Brian Fergurson, a former director of the GCSB, acknowledged that the spy agency did collect emails and other electronic communications but that it did not use material about New Zealanders captured inadvertently.

The Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pohiva has denounced New Zealand's espionage activities as a "breach of trust." He also expressed concerns about similar surveillance activities carried out by China. The Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa'ilele has by contrast dismissed allegations of New Zealand espionage against Samoa, commenting that "it would be far fetched to think that a spy agency in any country would waste their resources doing that kind of thing to Samoa." In response to these disclosures, Prime Minister John Key issued a statement on 5 March 2015 saying that he would "neither confirm nor deny" whether New Zealand's spy agencies were spying on the South Pacific. Key had earlier acknowledged that New Zealand was a member of the Five Eyes club, which included the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, during a speech calling for New Zealand to deploy troops to Iraq to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

On 11 March 2015, Edward Snowden disclosed that the Government Communications Security Bureau was also using the Waihopai Station to intercept transmissions from several Pacific Rim and Asian countries including Vietnam, China, India, Pakistan, and several unspecified South American nations. He added that the GCSB was helping the National Security Agency to fill gaps in its world surveillance data collection. In response to Snowden's disclosures, Una Jagose, the Acting-Director of the GCSB issued a statement that the spy agency was collecting less information than it was seven years ago during a session of the New Zealand Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. According to the GCSB's latest annual report, the volume of phone and electronic surveillance carried out on New Zealanders surged throughout 2014. On 13 March 2015, the Fijian military commander Brigadier-General Mosese Tikoitoga confirmed that the Fijian Military Forces were aware of the GCSB's intelligence-gathering activities in Fiji.

On 15 March 2015, the journalists Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher reported in the New Zealand Herald that the GCSB was using the NSA's internet mass surveillance system XKeyscore to intercept email communications from several leading Solomon Islands government ministers, the Solomons Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Solomons anti-corruption campaigner Benjamin Afuga. In response, the New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully downplayed reports of the spying disclosures by asserting that Pacific Islands ministers "were smart enough not to believe what they read in New Zealand newspapers." He also offered to discuss their concerns about the mass surveillance programme in private. The Solomons Chief of Staff, Robert Iroga, has condemned the New Zealand Government's actions for damaging New Zealand's image as a "friendly government" in the South Pacific. He added that communications within the inner circle of the Solomons Government was "highly secret information" that rightfully belong to the Solomon Islanders.

On 16 March 2015, Snowden released more documents which revealed that the GCSB had a secret listening post, codenamed "Caprica", at the New Zealand High Commission in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara. The "Caprica" outpost was reportedly modeled after the NSA's Stateroom outposts at selected United States Embassies across the world. On 22 March 2015, The Intercept released a new document which showed that the GCSB had monitored the email and internet communications of several foreign diplomats vying for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organization. This surveillance was carried out on behalf of the New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, who was also competing for that position. Known targets included candidates from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, Jordan, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and South Korea. Ultimately, Groser's candidature was unsuccessful and the Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevêdo was elected as the Director General of the WTO in May 2013. In response to these disclosures, Sergio Danese, the Secretary-General of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations summoned the New Zealand Ambassador Caroline Bilkey to explain the actions of her government.

On 26 March 2015, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Cheryl Gywn announced that she would lead an inquiry into the allegations that the GCSB had spied on New Zealanders working in the Pacific. Prime Minister John Key has welcomed this inquiry. On 16 April 2015, The Intercept and New Zealand Herald disclosed that the GCSB had been both spying on and sharing intelligence with the Bangladesh government, using a leaked National Security Agency document entitled "NSA Intelligence Relationship with New Zealand." The Bangladeshi security forces have been implicated in various human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings and torture. The New Zealand Government has refused to respond to these disclosures but opposition parties have criticised the GCSB for cooperating with Bangladeshi security forces.

On 19 April 2015, The Intercept and the New Zealand Herald revealed that the GCSB and the National Security Agency had worked together to tap into a data link between the Chinese Consulate-General and the Chinese Visa Office in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. According to a leaked secret report entitled "NSA activities in progress 2013", the GCSB was providing additional technical data on the data link to the NSA's "Tailored Accessed Operations", a powerful system that hacks into computer systems and networks to intercept communications. Other leaked documents also indicated that the GCSB codenamed their Auckland tapping operation "Frostbite" while their American counterparts called it "Basilhayden", after a Kentucky bourbon that was once regarded as the fictional spy James Bond's favourite alcoholic beverage. In response, a Chinese Embassy spokesman told the New Zealand Herald that China was concerned about the report and attached great importance to the cybersecurity issue.

On 5 May 2015, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet acknowledged that Snowden's leaked documents on the GCSB and NSA were authentic but accused Snowden's associates, particularly the journalist Glenn Greenwald, of "misrepresenting, misinterpreting, and misunderstanding" the leaked information.

2018–2019 Huawei ban
In late November 2018, the Government Communications Security Bureau prevented national telecommunications provider Spark New Zealand from using Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei's equipment in its 5G mobile tower expansion, with the agency's Director-General Andrew Hampton citing "a significant network security risk." New Zealand's decision to ban Huawei from its 5G expansion programme accompanied moves by several Western governments including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia to exclude Huawei from participating in their 5G mobile network expansion programs as well as the ongoing China-United States trade war.

2019 Christchurch mosque shootings
Following the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, the GCSB assembled a 24-hour operation response team which worked with domestic agencies and foreign partners to support the New Zealand Police and its domestic intelligence counterpart, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service. In December 2020, a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the mosque shootings criticised the GCSB and other security services and intelligence agencies for focusing on Islamic extremism at the expense of other threats including White supremacy.

In response to the Royal Commission, the GCSB's Director-General Andrew Hampton stated that the agency was committed to making its role and capabilities "more widely understood and utilised by domestic partner agencies". Hampton also claimed that the GCSB did not distinguish between different forms of violent extremism "before and after" the Christchurch attacks and vowed to support national and global efforts against the "full spectrum of violent extremism."

2021 Chinese cyber attacks
On 20 July 2021, the Minister in charge of GCSB Andrew Little confirmed that the spy agency had established links between Chinese state-sponsored actors known as "Advanced Persistent Threat 40" (APT40) and malicious cyber activity in New Zealand. In addition, Little confirmed that New Zealand was joining other Western governments including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and the European Union in condemning the Chinese Ministry of State Security and other Chinese state-sponsored actors for their involvement in the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach. In response, the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand described the New Zealand Government's statement as "groundless and irresponsible" and lodged a "solemn representation" with the New Zealand Government. The Embassy claimed that China was a staunch defender of cybersecurity and firmly opposed all forms of cyber attacks and crimes.

On 21 July, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta confirmed that New Zealand Foreign Ministry officials had met with Chinese Embassy officials at the request of the Chinese Embassy in response to the cyber attack allegations. The Embassy urged the New Zealand Government to abandon its so-called "Cold War mentality." New Zealand exporters have expressed concerns that an escalation of diplomatic tensions could affect Sino-New Zealand trade.

In late March 2024 the GCSB's Director-General Andrew Clark confirmed that the Chinese-sponsored hacker group APT40 had attempted to breach the New Zealand Parliamentary Service and the Parliamentary Council Office's computer systems in 2021. In response, GCSB Minister Judith Collins, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters issued statements criticising the attempted cyber attacks. In response, a Chinese Embassy spokesperson dismissed the complaint as "groundless and irresponsible accusations" and confirmed it would lodge a complaint with New Zealand officials. Reports of the data hack accompanied reports that the United States, British and Australian governments had sanctioned APT40 for similar activities in their countries.

Counterterrorism
On 27 March 2023, Director-General Andrew Hampton confirmed during a meeting of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee that the GCSB in cooperation with other agencies had foiled three potential terror attacks. These incidents included a person making bomb threats in 2022 with "an implied ideological motivation", a New Zealand White identity adherent's concerning online behaviour, and another White identity extremist making threats to use firearms and explosives at a public event.

Hosting of foreign agency intelligence capabilities
On 21 March 2024, the Inspector-General released a report detailing how the GCSB hosted a foreign agency's signal intelligence capability that could be used to support "military operations by foreign partners" during the years 2013 to 2020, without advising any government ministers. The report found fault with the initial process of agreeing to host the capability, as well as a lack of operational oversight during the period of its operation. Former prime minister – and former minister for the GCSB in the years 2003 to 2008 – Helen Clark, suggested that disciplinary action would be appropriate for GCSB staff that signed off on the capability

Directors
The GCSB is administered by a Director. The directors have been:
 * Group Captain Colin Hanson OBE (1977–1988)
 * Group Captain Ray Parker ONZM (1988–1999)
 * Dr Warren Tucker (1999–2006)
 * Air Marshal Sir Bruce Ferguson KNZM OBE AFC (2006–2010)
 * Simon Murdoch CNZM (acting November 2010 – February 2011)
 * Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae GNZM QSO (7 February – 30 June 2011)
 * Simon Murdoch CNZM (acting 1 July – 19 December 2011)
 * Ian Fletcher (29 January 2012 – 27 February 2015)
 * Una Jagose (acting 28 February 2015 – February 2016)
 * Lisa Fong (acting February–April 2016)
 * Andrew Hampton (May 2016 – April 2023)

Jerry Mateparae was appointed by Prime Minister John Key on 26 August 2010 taking up the role on 7 February 2011. On 8 March 2011 Mateparae was announced as the next Governor-General. He continued as Director until June 2011.

Ian Fletcher (who had been appointed for five years) unexpectedly announced his resignation for family reasons in January 2015, with an acting director to take over at the end of the month.


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DJ Olive

DJ Olive (also known as The Audio Janitor; born Gregor Asch) is an American disc jockey and turntablist. He is known for producing music generally in the electronic genre, with strong influences of dub, and free improvisation styles. He is widely credited with coining of the term "Illbient" in 1994. He was a founding member of the immersionist group Lalalandia Entertainment Research Corporation in 1991.

DJ Olive is a member of We, Lunchbox and Liminal. He has also collaborated with Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, William Hooker, Zeena Parkins, Uri Caine, Medeski Martin and Wood, Dave Douglas, and various others.

Associated acts

 * Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, Free Kitten)
 * Ikue Mori (DNA, Kato Hideki, Badawi, Subdub, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Electric Masada, Amanda Stewart)
 * Zeena Parkins, Uri Caine, Medeski Martin and Wood Dave Douglas, Anthony Coleman, Keystone, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Marcus Rojas, William Hooker, (Thurston Moore, Elliott Sharp)

Discography
With Uri Caine With Dave Douglas With Medeski, Martin & Wood
 * dj olive. Coco, Record blanks
 * dj olive. So Me Free, Record blanks
 * dj olive. Homeless Records, Record blanks
 * dj olive. Moon Wax, Record blanks
 * dj olive. Vinyl Scores Live at Kootenay Coop Radio, Record blanks
 * dj olive. Vinyl Scores Live at Berghain, Record blanks
 * dj olive. Balm, Record blanks
 * dj olive, THWIS, the Agriculture
 * dj olive, "Heaps As" Live in Tasmania, the Agriculture
 * dj olive, Bodega, the Agriculture
 * dj olive, Coonymus ep, the Agriculture
 * dj olive, Triage, ROOM40
 * dj olive, Sleep, ROOM40
 * dj olive, Buoy, ROOM40
 * We™, Decentertainment, Home Entertainment,
 * We™, Square root of negative one, Asphodel
 * We™, "as is", Asphodel
 * We™, Asphodelic, Asphodel
 * We™, Sonar99. La recopilacion, so dens
 * We™, crooklyn dub vol 1, Word sound
 * We™, Valis: assassination of syntax, subharmonic
 * We™, Mysteries of creation, Axiom
 * We™, Necropolis Mix, Knitting Factory Works
 * We™, The Antenna Tool and Die Session, Asphodel
 * We™, Home Entertainment Vol. 2, Liquid Sky Music
 * We™, Home Entertainment Vol. 3, Liquid Sky Music
 * We™, Rock& Roll, this is jungle sky vol. 5, Liquid Sky Music
 * We™, Land of the Baboon, Silent
 * We™, You Mix, Incursions in Illbient, Asphodel
 * Lunchbox, Anyways, the Agriculture
 * Lunchbox, Incite:20, XLR8R
 * Kim Gordon, Dj Olive, Ikue Mori, SYR 5
 * DJ Olive & J.P. Dessy, Scories, Sub Rosa
 * BBQ Beets II, returturn of the yams, the Agriculture.com
 * Barbecue Beets, sunrise on a rooftop in brooklyn, the agriculture
 * Liminal, Live at the Whitney Museum Series, Knitting Factory Works
 * Liminal, Nosferatu Soundtrack, Knitting Factory Works
 * Liminal, Pre Set, Knitting Factory Works
 * Keter, Zohar, Knitting Factory Works
 * Elliott Sharp, State of the Union, Zoar
 * Funk, this is jungle sky vol.6. Liquid Sky Music
 * Welcome to Execrate, Leaf
 * Ben Neill, Triptycal, Antilles
 * William Hooker, Armageddon, Homestead Records
 * William Hooker, Mindfulness, Knitting Factory Works
 * William Hooker,Compexity #2, Kos recordings
 * Cloudwatch vol. 2. Sonic Soul
 * Gerard Malanga, Up from the Archives, Sub Rosa
 * BitStreams, Sound work exhibition at the Whitney Museum, JDK
 * A Mutated Christmas, Illegal Art
 * Copier.Coller, Quatermass, La Batie, Sub Rosa
 * The turntable sessions, vol 1,Amulet Records
 * Drop the Needle, illy B Eats remixes and breakbeats, Amulet Records
 * Melatonin, Room 40
 * Dj Olive meets I/O, Powerhouse Sessions, Room 40
 * Polyhedric Tetrapak, Ooze.bap records
 * NXS, Sleeper, Music Mine
 * Soundworks, Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney
 * Blue Marble, Aiko Shimada, Tzadik
 * EMIT, One, Electronic music information technology
 * City Sonics, Transcultures
 * Christian Marclay, dj Trio, Asphodel
 * Christian Marclay, dj Trio, Live at the Hirshhorn 2002, Cuneiform Records
 * Liquid Architecture #6, Liquid Architecture Festival Melbourne
 * Matt Haimovitz, Goulash, Oxingale records
 * Matt Haimovitz Tod Machover, The Vinyl Cello, Oxingale records
 * Benefit Compilation For Japan, Various Artists Of Kompakt Distribution
 * 2008 Mutek Festival Compilation, Mutek Records
 * Air Texture Vol 3, Air Texture
 * Urlicht / Primal Light (Winter & Winter, 1997)
 * Gustav Mahler in Toblach (Winter & Winter, 1999)
 * The Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 2000)
 * Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame (Winter & Winter, 2003)
 * Shelf-Life (Winter & Winter, 2005)
 * Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart (Winter & Winter, 2006)
 * Keystone (Greenleaf, 2005)
 * Moonshine (Greenleaf, 2007)
 * Spark of Being (Greenleaf, 2010)
 * Uninvisible (Blue Note, 2002)

Remix's include work for:
 * vida blue
 * Bill Laswell
 * sporangia
 * celluid mata
 * Kompakt
 * telekenetic soulmate
 * 48 cameras
 * Choro Club
 * Nettle
 * Rinken
 * Mono
 * Zu
 * the McDades
 * Medeski Martin & Wood

Remixed by WE (TM):
 * Free Kitten
 * Medeski Martin and Wood
 * Tipsy
 * Arto Lindsay
 * Soul Slinger
 * the Dylan group

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Kantianism

Kantianism (Kantianismus) is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The term Kantianism or Kantian is sometimes also used to describe contemporary positions in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics.

Ethics
Kantian ethics is deontological, revolving entirely around duty rather than emotions or end goals. All actions are performed in accordance with some underlying maxim or principle, which are vastly different from each other; it is according to this that the moral worth of any action is judged. Kant's ethics are founded on his view of rationality as the ultimate good and his belief that all people are fundamentally rational beings. This led to the most important part of Kant's ethics, the formulation of the categorical imperative, which is the criterion for whether a maxim is good or bad.

Simply put, this criterion amounts to a thought experiment: to attempt to universalize the maxim (by imagining a world where all people necessarily acted in this way in the relevant circumstances) and then see if the maxim and its associated action would still be conceivable in such a world. For instance, holding the maxim kill anyone who annoys you and applying it universally would result in self termination. Thus holding this maxim is irrational as it ends up being impossible to hold it.

Universalizing a maxim (statement) leads to it being valid, or to one of two contradictions—a contradiction in conception (where the maxim, when universalized, is no longer a viable means to the end) or a contradiction in will (where the will of a person contradicts what the universalisation of the maxim implies). The first type leads to a "perfect duty", and the second leads to an "imperfect duty".

Kant's ethics focus, then, only on the maxim that underlies actions, and judges these to be good or bad solely on how they conform to reason. Kant showed that many of our common sense views of what is good or bad conform to his system, but denied that any action performed for reasons other than rational actions can be good (saving someone who is drowning simply out of a great pity for them is not a morally good act). Kant also denied that the consequences of an act in any way contribute to the moral worth of that act—his reasoning being (highly simplified for brevity) that the physical world is outside our full control, and thus we cannot be held accountable for the events that occur in it.

The formulations of the categorical imperative:

 * 1) Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
 * 2) Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
 * 3) Therefore, every rational being must so act as if he were, through his maxim, always a legislating member in the universal kingdom of ends.

Political philosophy
In political philosophy, Kant has had wide and increasing influence with major political philosophers of the late twentieth century. For example, John Rawls drew heavily on his inspiration in setting out the basis for a liberal view of political institutions. The nature of Rawls' use of Kant has engendered serious controversy but has demonstrated the vitality of Kantian considerations across a wider range of questions than was once thought plausible.

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S11 (protest)

S11 refers to a series of protests against meetings of the World Economic Forum on 11, 12 and 13 September 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, where approximately 10,000 people of many ages and a wide cross section of the community were involved. One of the groups involved in the protests called itself the S11 Alliance. This group was dominated by various socialist parties. The success of the protest led them to the creation of the M1 Alliance on 1 November 2000 in preparation for the next year's May Day events and the S26 Alliance, in solidarity with protest against the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings in Prague (26 September 2000). The other main organising network for the protest was the autonomist & anarchist s11 AWOL.

The protest was part of the anti-globalisation movement, and closely modeled after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle (known as the battle for Seattle.) This movement has been motivated by a number of concerns about globalization, including loss of national sovereignty, environmental impact, and the impact of foreign debt and multi-national corporations on third world countries.

The protest was notable as the first major anti-globalization action to take place in Australia. As with previous events in other parts of the world, the event was characterized by civil disobedience and often festive direct action, and by an aggressive police response. Protesters linked arms and some chained themselves together in an effort to prevent delegates from getting into the meetings. The police reportedly responded with pepper spray (which in Victoria is not permitted to be used by police at demonstrations), and Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand MP Nándor Tánczos reported that he and other protesters were victims of police brutality.

Police response
During the S11 protests there was a significant media presence, and some reporters and photographers were attacked by police during their attempts to break up the protest. This resulted in a higher degree of reporting than that which normally occurs at similar protests, and a large amount of photographic and video evidence of the event was available. In a report regarding the police response, the Ombudsman's Report stated "It was obvious that the event had been one of the most photographed events in recent memory and there was likely to be a great deal of video footage."

 * The majority of the police removed their name tags, a contravention of Victoria Police Operating Procedures. This prevented individual police from being identified in later hearings regarding police actions.
 * Video footage showed punches and overhead baton strikes being used against the demonstrators, and several were stomped or kicked while upon the ground and/or dragged by their hair. Several demonstrators were struck without warning while not engaged in violent activity. These were all violations of police procedures.
 * During a "baton charge", police struck camera operators from the Seven Network and SBS while they were filming. This footage was shown on the respective stations. Photographers from The Age and Herald Sun newspapers claimed that their camera equipment was removed from them and smashed by police during the charge.
 * A woman was run over by an unmarked police car with uniformed officers inside. The protesters claimed that the car was stationary until it suddenly accelerated over the woman and sped off. Police claimed that the protesters surrounded a moving car and were rocking and damaging it. However, the footage taken by a nearby camera crew clearly bore out the protesters' version of events.

The 40 person Legal Observer Team present over the three days made two conclusions in its report published after the event:

1) It is the conclusion of the Pt'chang Legal Observer Team, that, in the almost complete absence of police attempts to arrest individual protesters who broke the law, individual police officers were taking opportunities afforded by the chaotic nature of the event, crowd numbers, isolation or the lack of accountability to senior police, and effectively meting out their own "summary", extra judicial punishment to individual protestors. Buoyed by, and perhaps made fearful by the media generated myths of "violent S11 protestors" and briefed by their commanding officers of much the same, some police officers were able to take full advantage of every opportunity to assault, intimidate and harass individual protesters whilst on duty.

2) The Legal Observer Team strongly asserts that the Victorian Police command decisions to deploy the level of force observed during these attempts to clear access points was both entirely unjustified and unprovoked and poorly and dangerously executed. The decision to use the fully equipped Force Response Unit, with full body and face protection, and lines of mounted police to carry out a simple objective of clearing an access point stands out as particularly unjustified when a procedure of arresting people engaged in unlawful obstruction could have been implemented with no injuries to people and nor threat towards individual police. It is the conclusion of the Legal Observer Team that the use of batons, surprise formation charges and the use of containment lines of mounted police a) was potentially lethal and resulted in an incredibly high level of serious personal injuries amongst protestors present at these incidents; and b) served to create a highly emotive, dangerous and provocative climate during and immediately after each manoeuvre.

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Talk:Numbat

Foxes
"The deliberate release of the European Red Fox in the 19th century, however, wiped out the entire Numbat populations in Victoria, NSW, South Australia, and the Northern Territory, and..."

So do these foxes directly hunt and eat Numbats ? Or do Numbats starve when these foxes grab all the resources first ?

Answer: The red fox eats the numbats. It is believed that numbats are most vulnerable to foxes in habitats where there aren't many logs for them to hide in (ie deserts). The foxes are able to dig them out of burrows but it's harder for them to get to numbats that can shelter in logs.

This species is apparently going to be trial released in the Arid Recovery reserve in Roxby Downs, sometime this year (2005). --SydBoy 11:14, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Foxes eat numbats.61.230.88.35 11:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

It eats nuts. 64.250.194.162 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:03, 1 April 2009 (UTC).

Capitalization
In normal English usage, mammal names such as dog, cat, elephant, tiger and panda are not capitalized. When part of the name comes from a proper noun, that part is capitalized, like Asian elephant, Siberian tiger, English terrier. Does anyone have an objection to decapitalizing "numbat"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wakablogger2 (talk • contribs) 06:10, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Wombat disamb
Having seen this kicked in and out of the header recently... I would actually favour including the "Not to be confused with Wombat" note. I personally had a hard time distinguising the buggers by name in my callow youth. Can't hurt, might help and seems uncontroversial. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
 * To be oblique, because I prefer that notion is not the first thing announced about the species, is there some evidence that these names are confused? cygnis insignis 09:55, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

reverts
I can be reverted with edit summaries, but expected to raise it on the talk if I want to change the article, eh? … I am reverted without edit summaries, then tendentiously noted as having added information without a citation. The citation is in the article … are you guys new here? Well, no, just lazy and privileged it seems, take a step back and discuss this. And can I have a specific line in WP:AT, "Although official, scientific, birth, original, or trademarked names are often used for article titles, the term or name most typically used in reliable sources is generally preferred.", that can mean something to a gut feeling interpretation, "use English [as I see it]" or it can be applied with the RS. cygnis insignis 14:01, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * questions:
 * , what does "I'm invoking millions of redirects and hundreds of years of WP:PRECISION in our sources" even mean when you reverted me? Please familiarise yourself with wp:lead's section on organisms. Quote When a common (vernacular) name is used as the article title, the boldfaced common name is followed by the italic un-boldfaced scientific name in round parentheses in the opening sentence of the lead.
 * More broadly, what does The orthography and pronunciation of the Nyungar name is regularised, following a survey of published sources and contemporary consultation that resulted in the name noombat, pronounced noom'bat. mean? Resulted in noombat being the Nyungar name? If so, shouldn't it be indicated in the lead as being the non-English root of the English word? Sabine's Sunbird  talk  16:45, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I'm unclear what your appeal to WP:AT is in aid of. The species is unquestionably typically referred to as the numbat in almost every source. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  17:30, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

 * Firstly, I blended discussion of Sunbird's reverts with those less thoughtful, sincere apologies are extended to that respected contributor. I have opened a discussion on that addition to WP:Lead, and cannot claim I was unaware of it. I was myself being tendentious, making a point, in adding italic to the title and emboldened name. The phrasing about Abbott's research and recommendations is perhaps awkward, but I think more so if one has a head-canon on what does and does not qualify as English. A similar entry occurs at Purpureicephalus spurius, and the potted history of that proposed (and accepted, in one sense) name that would have likely supplanted red-capped parrot if the research had been done previously. There is a link to the paper in that article on what Abbott did on bird names, and the introduction goes into great details about methods and materials. What happened, in southwest Australia, is that committees were formed to create names that suppressed the extant names that were entering the language through their common use. This was very deliberate, like the IOC does for the most reactionary group of naturalists of today, bird watchers (no offense). The results and publications of these choices were immediately contentious, and those coining names like, I'm guessing, banded anteater were met with indignation from someone who had published another satisfactorily non-indigenous name, marsupial hedgehog or whatever; no one was regularising the orthography and pronunciation of existing names despite many authors since Gould (birds, mammals) noting the names. cygnis insignis 04:59, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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N30

N30 may refer to:

Roads

 * N30 road (Belgium), a National Road in Belgium
 * Route nationale 30, in France
 * N30 road (Ireland)
 * N-30 National Highway, in Pakistan

Other uses

 * 1999 Seattle WTO protests, a series of protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999
 * Acer N30, a PDA
 * Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30, a star catalogue
 * Cherry Ridge Airport, serving Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Cystitis
 * Net 30, a form of trade credit
 * Newport 30, an American sailboat
 * Toyota Hilux (N30), a Japanese pickup truck
 * "N30", a song by Avail, from their 2000 album One Wrench

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