Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:00AM
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"The GP post claims that every closed-source product is perpetually backdoored. "
I agree that's a crap claim. Tried to provide alternative that showed situation is almost as bad as crap claims like that with 0-days. What overlap I did see was the emanation threat. That secrets leak out of any device and TEMPEST protection of them is illegal means that they are all backdoored for that in practice. Good news is it's a highly-specialist attack only a few countries know how to do that requires targeting and close proximity. Other good news is that smartcards and EM compatibility testing reinvented some defensive practices.
I agree that's a crap claim. Tried to provide alternative that showed situation is almost as bad as crap claims like that with 0-days. What overlap I did see was the emanation threat. That secrets leak out of any device and TEMPEST protection of them is illegal means that they are all backdoored for that in practice. Good news is it's a highly-specialist attack only a few countries know how to do that requires targeting and close proximity. Other good news is that smartcards and EM compatibility testing reinvented some defensive practices.