Not necessarily true. NSA had chips planted on MB’s that allow them to remotely access computers from as far away as two miles.
As I’ve said, no system is foolproof, but I was talking about unmodified systems, not something where they break in and install hardware.
Could you provide some substantive evidence for that claim?
I don’t believe that to be true, it’d be very hard to conceal.
fyi...I work on embedded software, work with companies that develop circuit boards. You’d need to allocate some radio bandwidth that isn’t interfered with, have drivers in the OS running to drive the HW, with higher levels of software to interface with the OS....and do it all without somebody noticing? Not likely.
This incident sounds like they were able to infect her machine (maybe by remote hacking, maybe they had contact with her machine) with something that gave them the ability to instantiate a remote desktop session, take over the machine as an outside user as though being at the computer. This is done by IT departments every day to assist remote users.