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Reggie too.
Back door penetration? I thought this was a family-friendly site.
It will take a President that really cares about America and its people to clean the stain called Obama.
When will all the you-know-whos at NPR and the other networks come out?
They're just watching out for all of us to make us safe.
These guys are seriously overpaying for this stuff!
I made a few 4gb thumb drives that had an extra 4gb of hidden storage and used a cheap crystal oscillator in the VHF region to transmit data. These cost less than 20 dollars each.(this was just an academic exercise) Adding receiver function would have cost an extra 20 or so. A tiny custom SDR (software defined radio) IC would be the proper way to do this and is certainly what NSA does. You can buy a small SDR board for 10 dollars but it's too big to shoehorn into many items, a custom IC would be better.
The real advantage NSA has is they get to use the huge NRO satellites in geo orbit to pick up the weak signals from such devices. Less well-heeled operators need to set up shop close to their targets, and that's a pain.
You must keep in mind that if an incredibly weak rf signal has a slow data rate then it can be reliably read even if it's signal is well below the noise floor...even amateur radio operators can do this now using a PC with the proper software and their radio gear.
I have been warning people for years about firmware tampering on hard drives and other devices. Some drives can update the firmware by simply placing a properly named file in the root directory. i.e. something like updatefw.dat some require access to connections on the HD's controller board and still others need you to run an updating program from the PC.
Name a computer peripheral and there is usually a way to tamper with its firmware code. USB thumb drives, SD cards, drive controllers, external HD's, wifi dongles..etc all of these have a controller on board (tiny computer on-a-chip) that has it's own program running (called its firmware) and all these can be altered.
Apparently we’ve got some pretty smart techies @ the NSA but,
when you consider the combined youth populations of China and India I have heard by numbers alone there will be over 20 times as many gifted kids there as here.
The concern may not be what the NSA can do today but what others will do in the future
I also trust our response to the perceived evils of the NSA will be to bridle ourselves so the competition can catch up
Ping for later.
And that is why we have to limit the government's authority and tools. An unpatriotic leader will certainly use them against the people.
LOL! What a horribly written title.
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.......
Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars
Chaos Communications Conference..a few hrs ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4
I hear Robert Plant and Paul Simon are teaming up to write a new song about it.
Dang! You stole my comment.