Honest question; anyone who did wireless networking back in the early days even slightly surprised by this?
WikiLeaks emits CIA's Wi-Fi pwnage tool docs
Hundreds of commercial Wi-Fi routers are, or were, easily hackable by the CIA, according to classified files published today by WikiLeaks. The confidential US government documents describe the Cherry Blossom project, which is the framework by which CIA operatives can subvert wireless routers; install software that harvests …
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Friday 16th June 2017 09:19 GMT Kane
"Are there any people in the NSA who've had the epiphany "Wait, are we the bad guys?!?" yet?"
Obligatory Mitchell & Webb sketch.
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Friday 16th June 2017 14:20 GMT eldowon
Re: Curious use of the word "commercial"
I imagine that it's to differentiate between those that use pfsense, DDWRT, Smoothwall, or even those who roll their own iptables or pf based *nix based solutions directly off of the bare packages from their chosen distros.
I used to maintain installations where a shoestring budget would be an upgrade, and know I'm not the only one.
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Friday 16th June 2017 14:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Slight waste of time
I'd say that's a waste of time, given that some organisations are rigged to route all traffic via the US.
In Belgium, for instance, one of the biggest telcos routes anything that isn't destined for Belgium itself via a US backbone which saves the NSA from having to tap into data streams on foreign grounds.
You can enable Autonomous System reporting on traceroute - just run each first and last occurrence of a new AS through geo location and you'll see what I mean.