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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT A cautionary mote from Greenwald's book
From: Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:09:12 +0200
The guys and gals at NSA must have a VERY boring life listening to and reading 
from us. Time to post a pix as Nathan would say.
Anyone has shot porn lately? We'd immediately know if they're watching this 
list.
Godd luck!
;-)
Put-you-phone-in-the-fridge-and-sound-cool Philippe



Le 10 juin 2014 à 02:44, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> Re: Chris B's scepticism
> 
> That's an interesting idea, Brian, but possibly untrue. 
> 
> Chris
> 
>> Just getting into this book.
> 
>> It sems that for many years the USA government has had the ability to
> 
> remotely activate cell-phones and turn them into listening devices. 
> 
> ///////////////////////////////
> 
> This method of covert surveillance was taken very seriously when Greenwald  
> and Laura Poitras (documentary film-maker) met with Snowden in Hong Kong; all 
> three took the advoidance action I described - remove battery, or place in 
> fridge.
> 
> It gets worse. On pages 148 & 149, Greenwald describes how, in the USA at 
> least, the NSA routinely intercepts routers, servers and other computer 
> network devices being exported from the USA before they are delivered to the 
> international cusotomers. The agency then implants backdoor surveillance 
> tools (chips), repackages the devices with a factory seal, and sends them on. 
> Cisco devices are especially hard hit. The chips eventually connect back to 
> the NSA infrastructure. Quoted. 
> 
> A lot easier than implanted software which could be discovered and removed.
> 
> Suspiciion of the same kind of activity by the Chinese computer giant Huawei 
> (which would have reduced NSA access) led to Huawei leaving some markets 
> outside China
> 
> Brian (This is Supersleuthing better than I have ever done)
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