Posted on 12/29/2013 5:36:47 PM PST by Nachum
While the world may have become habituated to (and perhaps revels in, thank you social media exhibitionist culture) the fact that the NSA is watching anyone and everyone, intercepting, recording, and hacking every electronic exchange regardless if it involves foreign "terrorists" or US housewives, the discoveries from the Snowden whistleblowing campaign continue. The latest revelation from the biggest wholesale spying scandal since Nixon, exposed by Germany's Spiegel which continues the strategy of revealing Snowden leaks on a staggered, delayed basis, involves a back door access-focused NSA division called ANT, (which supposedly stands for Access Network Technology), described by Spiegel as "master carpenters" for the NSA's TAO (Tailored Access Operations, read more about TAO here). The ANT people have "burrowed into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell." More importantly, thanks to Spiegel (and Snowden of course), the NSA's 50-page catalog of "backdoor penetration" techniques has been revealed.
The details of how the NSA can surmount any "erected" walls, via Spiegel:
These NSA agents, who specialize in secret back doors, are able to keep an eye on all levels of our digital lives -- from computing centers to individual computers, from laptops to mobile phones. For nearly every lock, ANT seems to have a key in its toolbox. And no matter what walls companies erect, the NSA's specialists seem already to have gotten past them.
This, at least, is the impression gained from flipping through the 50-page document. The list reads like a mail-order catalog, one from which other NSA employees can order technologies from the ANT division for tapping their targets' data. The catalog even lists the prices for
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
“horribly written”
Should have said:
NSA’s Kama Sutra for the US Citizens
Lol! You win the Internet today!
That is SO gay!
Looks like a good candidate for the nut-job conspiracy-list.
(BTW, take a look at Scrambler Bob’s alternate title suggestion.)
The Bears should be used to it by now.
Here is an interesting article that was posted just a few hours ago on hacking the firmware of SD cards ....these generally have an ARM or 8051 processor inside.
This will give you an idea of the sort of hacking being done by NSA and others to compromise hardware devices.
I’d say that 99.99% of people have no idea there is an embedded computer inside every SD card.
I played with the firmware of an old SD card and had it re-name .jpg files placed on it... nearly drove a friend nuts before I owned up to the gag.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
As long as it’s not GLAAD’s list.......
Just incredible.
Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars
Chaos Communications Conference..a few hrs ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4
Ha!
I hear Robert Plant and Paul Simon are teaming up to write a new song about it.
does this mean we can get the pics off an old phone sd card that can’t be read by a pc?
There are freeware tools to get images off a troubled SD card.
I don’t remember their names but a google search will probably turn up something.
If they are important images do NOT dispose of the card because you may someday find a way to access them.
Don’t forget the hot dogs.
True story. I was watching this vid you posted the link for. As the reached the subject of 'going dark' (near the 21st or 22nd minute mark of the vid) and my computer autonomously shut itself down.
An interesting coincidence, nes pas?
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