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[Cryptography] QUANTUM, QFIRE, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nemo)
Tue Dec 31 14:24:29 2013
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From: Nemo <nemo@self-evident.org>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:05 -0800
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message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:45:42 -0500")
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I saw some discussion of the Q Division -- er, I mean "ANT Division" --
gadgetry, but I have not seen mention of these new QUANTUM slides on
this list:
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/nsa-quantum-files/
Sure, physical bugs in your monitor/keyboard/USB cable are neat, but the
Internet-wide surveillance is a lot more disturbing, in my opinion. Or,
as I like to phrase it, there is a huge and important difference
betweent the power to spy on *anybody* and the power to spy on
*everybody*. (Admittedly, the line blurs when systems subject to
"targeted" attacks run into the hundreds of thousands...)
Anyway, the QFIRE slides are perhaps the most interesting. I
particularly liked the bit about using "Non-cooperative Wireless Access
Points" to achieve low-latency payload injection on hijacked TCP
connections.
- Nemo
https://self-evident.org/
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