NSA Does NOT Need Physical Access To Compromise Electronic Devices - Kevin Gosztola Discusses

[matthewf]

[Progressive dog]

1. This is a bad hoax

Radar does specific things and this isn't one of them.

[PeoViejo]

2. I agree

When CRT Monitors were common, they radiated a lot of RF Energy, which, under ideal circumstances, could be captured and the screen contents recovered, but getting a backdoor without a network connection of some sort is fantasy.

[jtuck004]

3. N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

I don't know exactly where the stuff about radar cropped up, but they are using radio. I think people are getting this stuff confused, or perhaps it's intentional on the part of The Agency or those reporting about it...

In any event, the story in the NYT

The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
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The radio frequency technology has helped solve one of the biggest problems facing American intelligence agencies for years: getting into computers that adversaries, and some American partners, have tried to make impervious to spying or cyberattack. In most cases, the radio frequency hardware must be physically inserted by a spy, a manufacturer or an unwitting user.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?_r=0

[wildbilln864]

4. thank you. n/t