[Cryptography] How Snowden broke the NSA, how to break them again.

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

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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