On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 08:56:57PM -0500, griffin@cryptolab.net wrote:
This talk is divided into two parts. Morgan Marquis-Boire and Claudio Guarnieri talking about the militarization of the internet in part one, including both targeted and dragnet surveillance in deep-packet inspection. (See also Citizen Labs' work on BlueCoat). In part two, Jake Appelbaum talks about some of the most hardcore and cutting-edge NSA surveillance tactics and equipment. (See also yesterday's Der Spiegel articles).
Actually, somehow, I have a feeling of relief to see that major hardware vendors don't seem to specifically work hand in hand with the NSA to implement backdoors. I don't see that having a JTAG connector publicaly accessible on a RAID controller as a hint for that. The other disclosures also point to my conclusion that the NSA is mostly working on their own. Of course, not all of Snowden's documents are released yet and hence my feeling could be deceiving. I thought it could be worse. Bye, Hannes