Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by SEJeff on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:48AM (#17774549)

Here I was always assuming they employed the types of people who read HN to build systems like this. I'd expect e2e crypto, perfect forward secrecy, perhaps something akin to tor, and maybe even the ability to use steganography to disguise the fact any comms were really happening at all.

Oh look at this cute kitten picture, let me save it and then get the encrypted code out of it. That's great, let me upload this equally cute puppy riding a skateboard picture to the forum that contains my reply.

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by nyolfen on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:40AM (#17774990)

it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a tor service via bridge. the snowden docs showed that gchq uses tor to communicate with assets. a big part of the value of tor is that even if youre detected connecting to it, that doesnt prove youre doing anything in particular on it, only that you’re using the network.

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by SEJeff on Thursday August 16, 2018 @11:59AM (#17775781)

Tor was funded by the DoD / CIA for exactly this: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...

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