[Cryptography] new wiretap resistance in iOS 8?

Paul Ferguson fergdawgster at mykolab.com
Thu Oct 2 15:59:15 EDT 2014


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On 10/2/2014 10:45 AM, The Doctor wrote:

> On 09/30/2014 07:50 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> 
>> I guess we shouldn't use USB anymore.
> 
> It is definitely something to worry about.  On that note, the PoC 
> implementation of malicious microcontroller firmware (not a file 
> system image) can be checked out of Github from here for 
> experimentation, development, and weaponization:
> 
> https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson
> 
> So much for sleeping well tonight...

See also:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/

- - ferg


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Paul Ferguson
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