[Cryptography] How Snowden broke the NSA, how to break them again.
Phillip Hallam-Baker
hallam at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 13:16:13 EST 2013
Instructive reading:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/net-us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE9A703020131108
It occurs to me that Snowden could have done the same thing armed with just
a smartphone.
1) He loads a custom app onto the phone that monitors the microphone in the
background and performs acoustic keystroke snooping.
2) Goes over to the person and asks them to type a bunch of text while he
is close, at some point they are asked to enter their password while he
looks the other way.
3) Profit!
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