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A 3.5" floppy copier concealed as a "day planner" and using systemd? Such spycraft in 2013 is hilarious to think about. Especially thinking about some random corporate/government worker who got recruited as a source by the CIA and has 'unsupervised' access to some floppies.
Are there any devices (on the public market) that allow for high-density whole-disk imaging/scanning with one rotation of the floppy? Feels like it could be useful for bringing "dead" floppies back to life for e.g. retro computing enthusiasts. Scan it once at insanely high resolution and later analyze the data...
If you want to discuss these sorts of technologies you should probably post a link to a 3rd party summary or analysis so that the people who are most frequently qualified to discuss those technologies are not excluded.
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Steganography actually causes distortions that are noticeable. Unencripted data often has very odd patterns, encrypted data looks unusually random.
Probably was supposed to be steganography, since stenography is what courtroom reporters do.
I know this is hard for some of you in your SoCal startup VC money burning bubbles to believe but people who work in the defense industry read this site. People who want to maintain a security clearance and abide by the law cannot in good faith browse a site hosting leaked classified into. If you want to discuss these sorts of technologies you should probably post a link to a 3rd party summary or analysis so that the…
Seriously, your clearance comes with tradeoffs. Some of us aligned against government secrecy and flunkies who sympathize with the surveillance state want the list of potential downsides for that career choice to be as long as possible.
If your shitty job will put you in jail for reading headline news, maybe you should reconsider your job.
You have another option: Boot Tails. Use Tor. Read away. Don't get caught. Don't let the thought police use the threat of jail to extinguish your intellectual curiosity.
I know this is hard for some of you in your SoCal startup VC money burning bubbles to believe but people who work in the defense industry read this site. People who want to maintain a security clearance and abide by the law cannot in good faith browse a site hosting leaked classified into. If you want to discuss these sorts of technologies you should probably post a link to a 3rd party summary or analysis so that the…
I know this is hard for some of you in your SoCal startup VC money burning bubbles to believe but people who work in the defense industry read this site. People who want to maintain a security clearance and abide by the law cannot in good faith browse a site hosting leaked classified into. If you want to discuss these sorts of technologies you should probably post a link to a 3rd party summary or analysis so that the…
I imagine this is to target old manufacturing or scada equipment. If you want to sabotage an industrial target then you're going to be seeing a lot of legacy equipment. /r/sysadmin posts from manufacturing and industrial sysadmins are fascinating as they are scary. Also it may reveal that the target is using old methods for security purposes. Imagine an office where no one has any sort of user accessible networking (…
Typerwriters won't help. Soviets could bug them in 1976: https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ib... I bet that now, CIA can do it much more stealthily. And I also think that it is pretty hard to make these 1980's workstations secure -- that old DOS software was full of vulnerabilities, and it has no modern protections at all (usernames, kernel mode). I remember back at high school we had "1980s s…