just brew it! wrote:NSA only likes it when they alone have the key to the backdoor. This is more like a lock that opens if you insert a blank, uncut key into it. If NSA knew, I'm pretty sure they would've reported this to Intel themselves since it is trivially exploitable by anyone, including hostile foreign powers.
Not true. Weaknesses in SS7 and cellphone networks can be actively exploited by anyone and is common knowledge. I remember, it was common knowledge that WPA could be broken real time with a cheap commodity laptop of the time.
Sting Rays can only be used by good guys?
Article, just last week about German banking customers getting accounts drained because the attackers used SS7 weakness to get the victims 2nd factor token text messages routed to them. Not related to sting ray, just weakness in telephone networks.
BGP...?
Security through obscurity is a like the number one mantra of national security. What's the number one rule? Don't talk about security.