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Quite so. You can say "there is no magical technology for bridging air gaps." Unless you include suitcases full of money to compromise the people traversing tho
by Zigurd 9y ago
Quite so. You can say "there is no magical technology for bridging air gaps." Unless you include suitcases full of money to compromise the people traversing those air gaps. Beyond being reasonably certain the NSA can't break strong encryption to access data at rest in situations where the key can't be bought, this is some comfort, but not a lot of comfort.
- jacquesm 9y ago> Unless you include suitcases full of money to compromise the people traversing those air gaps. Most of the time it takes significantly less than suitcases full of money. There are plenty of examples out there where hurt feelings, a sense of patriotism, a sense of honor or even simply a need to be recognized were enough.
- strictnein 9y agoI mean, there's quite a few ways to communicate between air gapped systems. The biggest difficulty is getting your code running on the internal air gapped system, so it can talk back to the first system. And transmission methods are typically pretty slow. A recent public example, but there's lots of other techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk Paying lots of money to access data at rest would really be more under the CIA, to be honest. The CIA is, theoretically, only supposed to go after data at rest, and leave all the sigint to the NSA.
- BigJono 9y agoHas anyone else noticed a small 'click' when scrubbing to a section of that video where data is being transferred. I'm assuming that's not co-incidental?