Posted on 12/31/2013 2:35:18 PM PST by rickmichaels
Question is: do we believe Apple or Snowden?
It would be cheaper to plant/buy a few key employees, and it would also be deniable.
“Anybody who wants to reach me can either call my cell phone of email me.”
I don’t have your number-so please speak into your desk lamp.
I’m pretty sure you don’t really want to call me—LOL!
The problem with this is, that you may be looking for not a needle, but a speck of dust in a haystack. Also, there are lots of ways to hide information in a torrent of TCP/IP data (hints: packet timing, sequence numbers). Your Wireshark program won’t help there.
vows?
works ‘WITH’ the NSA?
No. FOR the NSA.
We already know that tech companies are being forced to lie under basically treason law. So even if they wanted to admit they had worked with them, they couldn’t.
Right ... wink, wink, wink.... Stupid Progressives will believe anything .... just keep denying.
Or, they just got out of the way and have no idea if they did anything bad or not...
Me? No. My job only requires a Security+ certification. But there are hundreds of thousands of top of their field Cybersecurity and network people out there whose job it is to do that very thing. All it takes is for one of them to raise a red flag and publish it to the internet. Especially in foreign governments or banking systems where just like us they dedicate large sums to their cybersecurity programs. Ya think they don’t routinely scan network traffic for anomalies?
For pervasive computer surveillance to occur, it would have to generate a flood of traffic. It all couldn’t be hidden using standard network methods on a worldwide scale over a period of years. It just couldn’t have gone unnoticed.
There is something missing....
The SecuSmart solution is not a one-off single-user security enhancement, it requires back-end services and network re-routing to work. Among other things, it completely bypasses the carrier's voice network for voice calls and sends that traffic via their own NOC using secure VoIP. It also authenticates the entity at the other side of the call, but in order to do that they probably have to be using SecuSmart as well. You can't make a secure voice call to someone at some random payphone somewhere. The whole point is to keep the traffic 100% off the insecure PSTN or wireless carrier voice network.
SecuSmart's President said that it would take the NSA 149 years to break their security. "That should keep the Americans busy", he observed.
Looks like they are using manufacturers to implant ICs that can transmit via radio frequency up to 8 miles away.
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