A good way to spur adoption of strong cryptography and security
Most consumer routers and modems are outdated, and use firmware that's never or rarely updated. It would be trivial to hack into any such devices used by government employees at home and correlate the user to a database to gather additional information on them. Can foreign governments still teach blackmailed government employees how to pass a polygraph? Seems like counterintelligence investigations now need to include labor intensive firmware dumps of routers. Not like the government accomplishes anything good nowadays anyway.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 02:43:39AM -0800, Ryan Carboni wrote:
Most consumer routers and modems are outdated, and use firmware that's never or rarely updated.
It would be trivial to hack into any such devices used by government employees at home and correlate the user to a database to gather additional information on them.
Can foreign governments still teach blackmailed government employees how to pass a polygraph?
Seems like counterintelligence investigations now need to include labor intensive firmware dumps of routers.
Not like the government accomplishes anything good nowadays anyway.
Not true, Governments provide a great deal of return on investment for lobbyists, and some of this *cough* economic growth *cough* ends up in your retirement funds! This is 'good' if you like growth, right? Now you give me an idea, how about we automate router firmware dumps, and start providing free wifi for campaign staffers in collaboration with www.ngpvan.com If you are going to run a good political campaign in the digital world, you need to start with a router firmware dump...
Now you give me an idea, how about we automate router firmware dumps, and start providing free wifi for campaign staffers in collaboration with www.ngpvan.com
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Can foreign governments still teach blackmailed government employees how to pass a polygraph?
Sure, and that will hold true right up until functional MRIs replace polygraphs as the bureaucratic terrorists' weapon of choice. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWj/e3AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LRdIQAM4jhwjNegt529okcgJDv7x6 caxMhWYpWC3B2R5Ppr/TgBymd+NO68N6TiVs1Jqx77StZh8KeFDE6mIzfyT7MuNk IUudTcCUoNyhUcY3hs5w7vOICHHkoZsinsxc0n8Mc8s6IB1Sx0Z8DVL6ePECD923 PDIPg3jzLLQr0WKoZsC4+h4nSnGaPSH49ABZLTGMs302Gr/Zv3G7vmUb36xAlH+w qg1GGG6Z5aMFkrsKBNptRzSOEnAy8LWfxtZZhXjOkG5TO+i7M5Vk3/Z2/rajndIJ HKuCazCqvVkznKkS2mscnEwpKEQ2AnBvHKSxgwYlo57mzFTFZvXS7iUPEQYZHpfA oir1uB7t4Whk3jTCpz08SEWYF58gBsojZHxSUgNDxgR7Y/MjUwPv7vF2mNa6TjpW kKMG5rDZXCd/sjTJP4E0lPMHGD9ju89yEJICQDNYpJT0YU+H+BMcwYQnnKUSziCD 31aJjv6aNzd/gCEm3qgFY+tSI+/7f09zVLJmnutwtZz88ZFj9uA5Y1XTfMk5kdRx EohFK+opoIbWsQAs/8Jv1O1OJv0WCVgHvbBWyD6M2Rcyy6rFJe0N1tEx3gh+gzLU 1gw7KjLqGGGlXOx+xtlEveoj1kPFdA31Gwz897xhJKSUmAxVy9UGkGXj9iwh9mf0 84zkiHlnfcFfXJjj7SNj =wu+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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