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Does ECHELON ring a bell to you? I don't believe every computing device ever is exfilling the amount of data you describe, but I'd be very very surprised if it
by zdkl 9y ago
Does ECHELON ring a bell to you?
I don't believe every computing device ever is exfilling the amount of data you describe, but I'd be very very surprised if it weren't an option for nation level actors at the flick of a switch.
Screw minecraft, all I need is access to your USB/ethernet controllers and that's not remotely difficult.
I believe your threat model is flawed if you don't assume any existing known vulnerability isn't being at least passively used to surveil remote systems.
- rl3 9y agoFrom one of my previous replies: "I was describing measures that would likely foil automated bulk analysis." Nothing you just said is relevant in that context. Yes, obviously anything can be easily compromised if it's targeted. I said as much in the very same post. Automated bulk analysis exists to find targets in the first place.
- zdkl 9y agoI think you're vastly overestimating how complicated it is to do what I'm talking about at scale, but whatever.
- rl3 9y agoFrom a technical perspective it might not be that hard given the depth of existing capabilities, but from a risk standpoint it would probably be a terrible idea. Recall Stuxnet and some of its successors were partially reverse engineered, and just recently Intel's Management Engine is being torn apart.
- zdkl 9y agoI agree about the risk. But we're drifting in a direction where that risk is becoming lesser and lesser. Most users simply couldn't give a crap and we're gonna pay for the loss of accountability at some point