[Cryptography] "Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil"

Raphaël Jacquot sxpert at sxpert.org
Tue Sep 17 01:37:08 EDT 2019



Le 17/09/2019 à 06:40, Tom Mitchell a écrit :

> I own a now old but very good scanner (HAM radio stuff) and it had legal 
> holes cut into its tuning spectrum to keep a civilian owned commercial 
> product from scanning Cell, Military and Law enforcement  bands. They 
> imposed security by obscurity and used their legal status to listen in 
> on drug dealers on the same equipment with a permitted modification to 
> the same radio that allowed listening.

also, legal limitations on hardware would not apply to russian diplomats 
who would bring their own anyways

Raphael


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