These sound less likely to be explicit storage components than nice persistence points for targeted malware.
On Saturday, May 24, 2014, Bruce Ediger <bedi...@stratigery.com> wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2014, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/security/nsa-obama-blackberry/ >> >> It was a rough day at the NSA in 2008 when President Obama asked for a >> smartphone. >> > .... > > Amusing and very relevant. I saw this yesterday: > <https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/what-does-gchq-know-about-our- > devices-that-we-dont> > > Which is someone looking at specifically what GCHQ destroyed of "The > Guardian's" hardware which contained Snowden documents. The upshot is that > GCHQ > destroyed more than just disk drives, they seem to have reduced very > specific > chips to dust, leading to "Privacy International" questioning why. > > Did the ex-NSA Blackberry hacker let something slip in that CNN article, or > is it just PR flak? > > -- > NSA CIA FBI NRO TSA JENKEM DHS BUTTHASH SNOWDEN GCHQ ECHELON FASTSCOPE > Warrantless wiretapping is un-American and unpatriotic: Defund the NSA. > BANANAGLEE FEEDTROUGH MUSCULAR DROPOUTJEEP FOXACID CHOCOLATE STARFISH > FASHIONCLEFT TOYGRIPPE CORALREEF HAMMERCHANT PRESSUREWAVE CAMELTOE POISON > NUT > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional Founder BSidesDetroit
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