Posted on 09/08/2013 6:09:55 AM PDT by John W
BERLIN (AP) The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users' data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel.
The magazine cited internal documents from the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ in which the agencies describe setting up dedicated teams for each type of phone as part of their effort to gather intelligence on potential threats such as terrorists.
The data obtained this way includes contacts, call lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information, Der Spiegel reported. The documents don't indicate that the NSA is conducting mass surveillance of phone users but rather that these techniques are used to eavesdrop on specific individuals, the magazine said.
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You'll need one of these:
LOL who knew how much ahead of their time they were?.
“Quantum computing is a ways off.”
Oh, i’d guess you’ve missed something ...
http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html
I’m quite sure someone already ported shores algorithm to this neat kind of hardware. And i’d bet NSA already has quite a bunch of these.
Umm. Saying that something is quantum and it being actually quantum are not the same. Researchers MIT are still working on TRUE quantum computing. They estimate at least ten years for a serious breakthrough.
The fact that anyone is surprised the government is spying on us using communication technology is the reason we got to this state.
That's what I thought as well, until I kept hearing a twangy sound every now and again.
As you can see from the photo, I had a state of the art anonymizer system, no labels to track me, or so I thought.
Brought in a security expert to check it out. Turns out I've got FIVE agencies tapping my line.
HEY nSa and the rest of you bastids, stop watching porn on my dime$ !
LOL!
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- One very simple method used to hack into a large email service “somewhere” in the USA
add a period before the @ in the email account you want to access (or even edit!!!!)
Now use ANY password
You are now inside somebody’s email mailto:kenyanjerk@dingbat.com account
Too simple?
Really?
I opened this email account:
by using:
The email site was not amused
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What did you do in the Army Daddy?
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But as comment #9 stated, they can plant data (child porn usually) and get rid of you that way.
You know this how?
“The NSA has done nothing intelligent when it comes to encryption.”
Start by calling back all 0bama phones. Give the poor a landline and dial up access.
Starve the beast
Old news. Software to do this has been publicly available for about 10 years. Just one example:
I don’t know how accurate the show, “24” was, but it seems they were able to transcribe simple cell phone conversations.
And the NSA was using that to do what the article reports at that time?
And anything you have in the cloud, internet connected computer, or purchased with a credit card or check.
In other words, anything that isn’t a Dead Tree Book or bought with cash.
Look up Bruce Schneier’s blog. He’s an expert in cryptography and has said so much as the NSA being a govt funded group of digital bullies. They have very little actual mathematical talent at their disposal. It’s all brute force and guessing. Mathematical changes will find a way to further confound the NSA.
At least some scientist found that the dwave systems actually are quantum computers, but can only solve a subset of all quantum solvable problems. So it’s not a universal quantum computer, but still a quantum computer. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/scientists-confirm-dwave-computer-chips-compute-using-quantum-mechanics
I once found an article (just can’t find it anymore when i need it ..) reporting that it would be possible to port a derivate of the shor algorithm with O(n^3) on these machines. On a universal quantum computer shor has only O((log n)^3)
I’ll go back to my previous postulate that while the NSA might have hardware to do it, they don’t have the right brains for it to matter. I’m not a mathematician, I’m an engineer. I know from working with mathematicians that encryption is still secure for a majority of workable solutions. The NSA is hitting low hanging fruit right now. Look at black hat for industry clues. Working for the NSA is to black hat what snitching is to criminals. It might be lucrative, but you put yourself out of the community.
“Complex passwords,” huh? Well, how’s this one?
|F.I.shOOtUinTheBuTTwithA12gaSlugthatmaykz.U.UhDuBBl@zzHOl!
“I beg them to get a life,,,”
Yeah,, except the life they might want is yours. Indeed, national security states that recognize no limits to their power often do “get a life”. Thousands and millions of lives in some cases.
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