http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/dia-devices/
By Spencer Ackerman
Danger Room
Wired.com
12.13.12
The Pentagon wants to upgrade its spy corps. And one of its first jobs
will be finding out what’s on your iPhone.
If the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) gets its way, it’ll send an
expanded cadre of spies around the world to scope out threats to the
U.S. military. And it won’t just be a larger spy team, it’ll be a
geekier one. The DIA wants “technical exploitation” tools that can
efficiently access the data of people the military believes to be
dangerous once their spies collect it.
That’s according to a request for information the DIA sent to industry
on Wednesday. The agency wants better gear for “triage and automation,
advanced technical exploitation of digital media, advanced areas of
mobile forensics, software reverse engineering, and hardware
exploitation, reverse engineering, and mobile applications development &
engineering.” If the DIA runs across digitized information, in other
words, it wants to make rapid use of it.
One of the emphasized cases here is “captured/seized media.” Think, for
instance, of all the flash drives, hard drives and CDs that Navy SEALs
seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Flynn wants to
understand both the text they’d contain, through “automation support to
enable rapid triage,” and their subtexts or metadata, using
“steganography” tools to decipher coded messages and “deep analysis of
malicious code/executables.” And that’s on top of “deep hardware
exploitation of complex media with storage capacity” and
reverse-engineering tools “to discover firmware artifacts.”
[...]
______________________________________________
Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore
Best Selling Security Books and More!
http://www.shopinfosecnews.org
