Opening a can of bugs

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2974, 2014, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Marks reveals NSA spy gadgets that built using info leaked by Edward Snowden. Radio hackers have reverse-engineered some of the wireless spying gadgets used by the US National Security Agency. Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden, researchers have built simple but effective tools that can he attached to parts of a computer to gather private information in a host of intrusive ways. The NSA's Advanced Network Technology catalogue was part of the avalanche of classified documents leaked by Snowden, a former agency contractor. The catalogue lists and pictures devices that agents can use in spy on a target's computer or phone. The technologies include fake base stations for hijacking and monitoring cellphone calls and radio-equipped USB sticks that transmit a computers contents.