 That's the other test. Yeah, it's staring. That's more from... Yeah. Yes. Yes, I was... in 2000. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Oh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Oh, let's start. Everything you need to know about Kraut is in your handout. If you'd like one, I have a few spare in my bag. I come here quite a lot taking people around because it's what I do. And it's important that people come and see places like this. Now, there's not a lot you can do here, but it's an act of witness. And the problem we have about the whole cyber domain is it doesn't exist. And it's really difficult to get your head around something which doesn't exist, which is what I hope I got through last night about data, because really data doesn't exist. It's just magnetism on a drum or electric charge in a transistor. It only gives it meaning when it's in people's heads. And so bringing people here and witnessing what's here, it's that same process. It creates something in people's heads. Before I went to sleep last night, I listened to some music to try and chill out and relax. And there's a strange American band called Bad Wolves who've just done a cover version of the 1994 Cranberries hit Zombie. But they've subtly changed it. Instead of the chorus being their tanks and their bombs and their guns what Bad Wolves has done is their tanks and their bombs and their guns and their drones. And it's that kind of very soft, surreptitious cultural influence is how we get through to people which is nice to bring people here because I can bring people here and a little while later they've done something beautiful just because of the witnessing experience of coming here. Anyway, I should be in Quake and that's the end of the ministry. Yeah? Well, I haven't found anybody else to take over yet. This is directly landing ground as it was originally set up and before the war it was training for air pilots. On the far side beyond those trees there's actually some listed fire shelters because they used to station fighters here and now are there listed buildings they can't destroy them because they have cultural significance. The site's on a ridge so it's really difficult to see. The best place to see it is from the top of the hill over there but we couldn't possibly get the bus across the field. But that's where the photos in my presentations are taken from. You can't quite see it but where that mast is that's the communication centre. Edward Snowden worked there for a couple of weeks and behind that next to it is the Intelligence and Operations Centre where it is a site within a site it's where all the real stuff happens. All what you see here, all these buildings the big building over there that's the administration building for the 422nd Air Base Group that's all the everyday USAF activity of running bases logistics there's a store over there there's a fire station housing and as Will pointed out yesterday the baseball pitch but the real stuff happens at the site within a site which is where that mast is over there and then the other two security areas of these here this is the western satellite complex behind it which we'll see as we go down there is the eastern one, you would have seen that as you came upon the road this morning as I say in the handout people talk about radomes or golf balls I don't call them golf balls, I call them puff balls because they're a fungus that's the fruiting body coming out the ground but today because of fibre optics all the real stuff happens under the ground spreading great distances across the land and because of the costs and the limitations of satellites it's pretty much our backup for fixed sites like this satellites are only really used to communicate with mobile devices, be that people on phones or tanks or whatever for fixed site to fixed site it's all about fibre optics now and satellites really are only used when the fibre optics are not working for some reason or they're over capacity but the other problem we have is if you look at the Defence Information Systems Agency's website they have become a commercial data broker they broke bandwidth for commercial operators now mostly actually that's other military research companies civilian arms companies who are using their systems but over that way about 10 miles we have a cable and wireless ground station that links to global satellites we know from the cable and wireless documentation that has a permanent fixed satellite link to Washington it's called the Washington link and that's there for news agencies who need to pipe their live news broadcast to and from Washington but DISA probably broke some of that space with them as a backup for this if this is overloaded and that's the problem you can come here and look at this and as I said in my talk yesterday I'm going to tell you what the system is and what it's for you have to get into the politics the organization to bureaucracy of it because again with military we're talking bureaucracy why do I hack computer code computer code is a system of rules why do I do law as part of activism law is a system of rules it's like hacking computer code but more fun and that's how you need to look at this place we're at Crownton this could be anywhere in the world because radomes are radomes cables are cables they all work exactly the same and we know very little but by studying what is around the site as I've done for many years and looking how it's changed you can map what's happening inside by the bits you can see because knowing each of those is probably half a gigabit of bandwidth but one fiber optic cable can give you two and a half to five gigabits of bandwidth so one cable is five of those potentially and that's the thing about communications today by mapping how much bandwidth is going from A to B you not only know how important the site is but by how it's changing how the bureaucracy emphasis on that site is changing and that's what's happening with Crownton now do you remember the Black and White photo I showed you last night of this place it was taken from here that was the really ropey old ray dome with the bucky ball dome over the top with the triangular shapes over it that went years ago and now it's those that picture last night it was a nest of radio antennas and radio antennas radio is pretty hit and miss sometimes some bits of the year it doesn't work so you need four or five different antennas to transmit the same message on different frequencies just in case one of those frequencies doesn't work all that's gone now because this stuff is so much more reliable and actually it's that change in technology which has enabled drones, network centric warfare you couldn't have done that with radio you can only do it with data and the high bandwidth that that gives you the main road is the national data trunk they all go up our main road and so this place taps into our national data trunk which gives it, if it's how BT or Cable and Wireless provide the links to this place from wherever else in the world now if you went six miles in that direction you've got Barford St John which is the transmitter annex they still relay emergency action messages from there the high frequency communication system still works from there and that's over the horizon radio communications and it's a backup it's probably very rarely used but in case all of this goes wrong, cyber attack for example they've still got the good old fashion analogue to keep working they're not that stupid unless there's any questions that we can have a slow mosey downhill for the cables, so do they physically have completely their own set of cables that is completely separate from the civil part between here and the US, so their own submarine cable that is only for them they have a cable to replace all those is about the width of a pencil yeah you get the idea of how dense the data is in that that bundle of cables from the national communication if you look at a picture of London 30 or 40 years ago Captain Campbell was sent to court for taking a photo of the post office tower in London it was covered in microwave links they've all gone all our backbone microwave network has pretty much been dismantled because those cables have replaced it and more and they all run up and down that road what this place does is just add a few more cables to that and they will be identifiable because they all belong to one operator or another operator who contracts with DISA to provide them, now from here there's a swishing centre there's various swishing centres some of the biggest are in west London but there are others around the country Birmingham the big one of course is in Cornwall because that's where a third of the world's internet traffic a third of the world's data cables come ashore pretty much if you're sending data from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere it goes through Cornwall there's very few transatlantic cables going off of Africa because they haven't got the infrastructure to support them there's a few go from Spain but the real bundle of cables east and west comes out of the south west of England anymore?