Laugh of the Day: Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your iPhone's Radios Are Snitching
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/snowden-designs-device-warn-iphones-radio-snitches/ On Thursday at the MIT Media Lab, Snowden and well-known hardware hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang plan to present designs for a case-like device that wires into your iPhone's guts to monitor the electrical signals sent to its internal antennas. The aim of that add-on, Huang and Snowden say, is to offer a constant check on whether your phone's radios are transmitting. - - - If you know anything about RF leakage and analysis, you should be laughing your butt off like I am right now. Talk about playing people for suckers. One obvious flaw -- "extraneous" transmissions" to leak data from phones aren't even necessary. All you have to do is salt away the goodies in memory and transmit them in the course of "routine" communications in bulk form later. Hell, I even noted this in my very first YouTube video "Is your cell phone bugged?" (which, I just discovered, is still the top YouTube Search result for that search, and now has more than a million views). I made that thing back almost 10 years ago, long before most people had phones even capable of running what we call malware now, when the odds of being bugged that way were extremely low: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujosfSkHFrQ ("Is your cell phone bugged?") --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
