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Re:The NSA Furby Documents by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:53PM (#39108811)
The hack is getting the unsecure system not to damage your encrypted signal, to carry even though it is expecting plain voice talking rather than a stream of binary digits.
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Re:The NSA Furby Documents by CrazyStat on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:08PM (#39109019)
We’ve been doing that for dialup internet for decades.
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Re:The NSA Furby Documents by richardwhiuk on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:56PM (#39109681)
Dialup actively co-operates with the telephone system - e.g. the screeching at the start is designed to disable echo cancellers and other such mechanisms.
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Re:The NSA Furby Documents by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:47PM (#39110380)
Dialup doesn't work over every phone line, especially over sat voice lines.
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Re:The NSA Furby Documents by arpa on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:24PM (#39110070)
POTS didn't have an opus audio codec.
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