Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

[Sean Lynch]

The talk is titled "To Protect and Infect Part 2" and video is available at
http://streaming.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/webm/30c3-5713-en-de-To_Protect_And_Infect_Part_2_webm.webm

If you can't view WebM you can find other formats by looking around in
parent directories.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jim Bell <jamesdbell8 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/NSA-Surveillance/2013/12/30/id/544431<http:///>
> Privacy Advocate Exposes High-Tech NSA Spy Gadgets
>    Monday, 30 Dec 2013 03:43 PM
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>   A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually
> explicit peek into the intelligence world's tool box, pulling back the
> curtain on the National Security Agency's arsenal of high-tech spy gear.
> Independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum on Monday told
> a hacker conference in Germany that the NSA could turn iPhones into
> eavesdropping tools and use radar wave devices to harvest electronic
> information from computer even if they weren't online.
> Appelbaum told hundreds of computer experts gathered at Hamburg's Chaos
> Communications Conference that his revelations about the NSA's capabilities
> "are even worse than your worst nightmares."
> "What I am going to show you today is wrist-slittingly depressing," he
> said.
> Even though in the past six months there have been an unprecedented level
> of public scrutiny of the NSA and its methods, Appelbaum's claims —
> supported by what appeared to be internal NSA slideshows — still caused a
> stir.
> One of the slides described how the NSA can plant malicious software onto
> Apple Inc.'s iPhone, giving American intelligence agents the ability to
> turn the popular smartphone into a pocket-sized spy.
> Another slide showcased a futuristic-sounding device described as a
> "portable continuous wave generator," a remote controlled device which —
> when paired with tiny electronic implants — can bounce invisible waves of
> energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed even if the
> target device isn't connected to the Internet.
> A third slide showcased a piece of equipment called NIGHTSTAND, which can
> tamper with wireless Internet connections from up to 8 miles away.
> An NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said that she wasn't aware of Appelbaum's
> presentation, but that in general should would not comment on "alleged
> foreign intelligence activities."
> "As we've said before: NSA's focus is on targeting the communications of
> valid foreign intelligence targets — not on collecting and exploiting a
> class of communications or services that would sweep up communications that
> are not of bona fide foreign intelligence interest to the U.S. government."
> The documents included in Appelbaum's presentation were first published by
> German magazine Der Spiegel Sunday and Monday.
> Appelbaum and Der Spiegel have both played an important role in the
> disclosures of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but neither has clarified whether
> the most recent set of slides came from Snowden.
>
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