Re: Hackers reverse-engineer NSA spy kit using off-the-shelf parts

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:30 AM, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/19/hackers_reverseengineer_nsa_spying_d...

my biased thoughts:

1. attacking like NSA means being in the middle. you can do this over various types of networks and protocols with very modest hardware;. less than off-the-shelf. the key is position, not hardware brute strength. (i don't consider passive surveillance an attack - more like an operational reality ;)

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