Hi, I wanted to write to highlight some important documents that have recently been released by Der Spiegel about the NSA and GCHQ. We worked very hard and for quite some time on these stories - I hope that you'll enjoy them. Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-e... Part 1: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-e... Part 2: Targeting Mexico: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-e... Part 3: The NSA's Shadow Network: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-e... NSA's Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-secret-toolbox-ant-unit-offers... Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors... Interactive Graphic: The NSA's Spy Catalog: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-941262.html Neue Dokumente: Der geheime Werkzeugkasten der NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/neue-dokumente-der-geheime-werkze... NSA-Programm "Quantumtheory": Wie der US-Geheimdienst weltweit Rechner knackt: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/quantumtheory-wie-die-nsa-weltwei... Der Spiegel 1 / 2014: https://magazin.spiegel.de/digital/index_SP.html#SP/2014/1/124188114 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/index-7629.html TAO slides: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... NSA QUANTUM Tasking Techniques for the R&T Analyst: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... Yahoo! user targeting and attack example with QUANTUM: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... QUANTUMTHEORY and related QUANTUM programs: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... If you'd like to detect the QUANTUM INSERT, I suggest reading about the race condition details: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/qfire-die-vorwaertsverteidigng-der-nsa-fot... Details about the Man-On-The-Side with QUANTUM: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... QFIRE (NSA-Geheimdokumente: "Vorwärtsverteidigung" mit QFIRE), TURMOIL, TURBINE, TURBULENCE: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/qfire-die-vorwaersverteidigng-der-nsa-foto... MARINA: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... More MARINA details: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... Catalog of equipment covering around ~50 programs: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/interaktive-grafik-hier-sitzen-di... Other slides covering FOXACID and more: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... NSA QUANTUMTHEORY capabilities list: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... GCHQ QUANTUMTHEORY capabilities list: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... OLYMPUSFIRE: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... An overview of all of these articles is available in German: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/quantumtheory-wie-die-nsa-weltwei... Earlier this week, I also recently gave a talk titled "To Protect and Infect: part two" at CCC's 30C3. In the talk I explain a number of these topics - the video is a reasonable complement to the above stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA There are quite a few news articles and most of them have focused on the iPhone backdoor known as DROPOUTJEEP - they largely miss the big picture asserting that the NSA needs physical access. This is a misunderstanding. The way that the NSA and GCHQ compromise devices with QUANTUMNATION does not require physical access - that is merely one way to compromise an iPhone. Generally the NSA and GCHQ compromise the phone through the network using QUANTUM/QUANTUMNATION/QUANTUMTHEORY related attack capabilities. An example of a vulnerable Apple user is shown: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-uebernimmt-der-geheimdien... "note: QUANTUMNATION and standard QUANTUM tasking results in the same exploitation technique. The main difference is QUANTUNATION deploys a state 0 implant and is able to be submitted by the TOPI. Any ios device will always get VALIDATOR deployed." They're not talking about Cisco in that slide, I assure you. Details on VALIDATOR: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/nsa-dokumente-so-knackt-der-geheimdienst-i... Welcome to 2014! The truth is coming and it can't be stopped, Jacob