Published via F: 2014-01-15 16:38:29
The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
My Two Cents
So the latest NSA related disclosure is called Quantum -- what's less interesting about this spy technique is that the NSA relies on tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted into the computers. That's not a software intrusion - that's placing a special purpose piece of hardware inside the computer. Much less impressive than the rest of the NSA disclosures. Not truly scalable, unless a circuit board manufacturer gets infiltrated.
