Well their core business is SIGINT. it's only logical for this to be the focus.
I don't see how this is surprising. On Thursday, September 5, 2013, Tom Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Robert Guerra > > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> > >> Curious on people's comments on types of routers, firewalls and other > appliances that might be affected as > well as mitigation strategies. Would > installing a pfsense and/or other open source firewall be helpful in > >> anyway at a home net location? > > So this might get me flamed out of libtech, but.... > > There's this commercial solution done by a couple of folks out of > Columbia. They owned up some Cisco VOIP phones and then thought "How > could we make it really hard to own embedded devices like this and > routers?" and basically they wrote their own agent that they mutate > (so every install is different) and then timeslice its execution in a > RTOS by instrumenting a vendor firmware image. I've seen it work in > demo devices, and they say they have it working pretty well on a lot > of stuff. It looks super snake oily, and I can't claim to have any > experience with it beyond their 30 minute talk and demo, but I was > convinced it was worth investigating much more. Also, being academic > backgrounded, they have research papers explaining a lot of it. > > http://www.redballoonsecurity.com/technology.html > > -tom > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected] <javascript:;>. >
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