Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro...
by snypher on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:24AM
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You might not understand the depth to which you can be exploited. They will simply let you use your laptop and switch your USB cable, which has a built in 6ft antenna.
Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro...
by BlueTemplar on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:57AM
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Researchers have been able to make integrated circuits emit radio waves.
Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro...
by _jal on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:27AM
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Perhaps with something like this?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/ragemaster_ns...
Or this?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/cottonmouth-i...
If you have actually attracted the attention of the NSA, pulling your NIC is playground stuff.
(I’m presuming here that the laptop is openable, and that you will do so and physically remove any wi-fi M.2 card from it — and associated antennae — since you won’t be using it. There might be some sort of extra surface-mount snooper chip left onboard that could replicate the same function — but without big antennas, how’s it going to report?)