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The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory

Posted by samzenpus on from the pick-your-poison dept.

littlekorea writes "A series of servers produced by Dell, air-gapped Windows XP PCs and switches and routers produced by Cisco, Huawei and Juniper count among the huge list of computing devices compromised by the NSA, according to crypto-expert and digital freedom fighter Jacob Applebaum. Revealing a trove of new NSA documents at his 30c3 address (video), Applebaum spoke about why the NSA's program might lead to broader adoption of open source tools and gave a hot tip on how to know if your machines have been owned."

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  1. 2013 by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 4, Informative

    2013 is the year that proved your ‘paranoid’ friend right The person who can figure out how we can have all our tech toys and our privacy too will earn a fortune. Assuming that the technology is not made illegal.

  2. Re:Open source? by jlv · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't trust your compiler (and compiler vendor)?
    http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html