Hmm maybe so maybe not Re: "Blackphone" said to be "a super-secure nsa-proof"

Philip Shaw wahspilihp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 05:28:11 PST 2014


On 19 Jan 2014, at 9:59 , coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 0. not trying to be a dick, but a dismissive chick label in this
> situation intentional.  employing attractive women (or men?) to HUMINT
> targets may be par for the social engineering conference course,
> but subterfuge based in sexual wiles == cheap shots and disrespect.
> 
> oh how hard i had to work to stifle a chuckle when $fed_chick
> explained she was "in desktop security but moving into laptops..."
> 
> see also: "beware strangers with candy”

Actually, for the feds that isn’t an entirely dumb idea, if their honey traps can’t manage to pretend to be delegates. Being so obviously fake, there’s a good chance that less paranoid delegates might assume she’s just trying to steal hardware from people who aren’t likely to want to report the circumstances (or trying her luck for a soon-to-be rich start-up king), and feel confident enough in their precautions to take that risk for a quick lay. (Of course, as demonstrated by numerous hacks at Blackhats many people aren’t paranoid enough even when they should be alerted to the heightened risk.)
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