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This is beyond a huge stretch but your creativity is appreciated.
by ctime 8y ago
This is beyond a huge stretch but your creativity is appreciated.
- dogma1138 8y agoWhy? Both the Israeli Intelligence Heritage museum and the Vault 5 leaks specifically show hardware implants that are intended to be inserted into cables like display, HID and USB cables. Building a network tap into a CAT5 cable isn’t that hard you just need to essentially modulate the traffic into RF and have another implant near by that can intercept the radio signals. We live in a day where we have demonstratable side channels attacks against RSA keys by listening to how a laptop squeeks when it’s under load and you think building a chip into a cable is a stretch? Heck I have one cable like that atm which is a converter from a model M keyboard to a USB you can’t see the converter IC it’s built into the RJ45 connector the keyboard originally used without any additional bulk.
- willstrafach 8y agoThe implant you describe sounds much like this: https://nsa.gov1.info/dni/nsa-ant-catalog/usb/FIREWALK.jpg https://nsa.gov1.info/dni/nsa-ant-catalog/usb/FIREWALK.jpg
- dogma1138 8y agoAnd this is likely not the only one the NSA has :) It’s very easy to tap pretty much any electrical bus these days which uses a cable the tap itself can be very basic as it’s completely passive. I’ve seen a demonstration of similar taps on VGA cables that transmit the entire image to a remove reciecer which is often implanted near by in a power socket, light fixture or anything else where you have a reliable power supply and enough wires to hide and even transmit a signal out side over the power lines.