{"id":12808,"date":"2014-03-14T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:20:46","slug":"a-close-look-at-the-nsas-most-powerful-internet-attack-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12808","title":{"rendered":"A Close Look at the NSA&#8217;s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rather than go through the bureaucratic fight to move the attack logic into \u201csystem low\u201d (and co-located on the wiretap), the NSA sought to work around it in the case of QUANTUMHAND. Instead of targeting just any web connection for exploitation, it targeted persistent \u201cpush\u201d connections from Facebook, where a user\u2019s browser would leave an idle connection open, waiting for a command from the server.<\/p>\n<p>This way, even the slow, broken, classified architecture could exploit Facebook users. Sadly for NSA and GCHQ (and FSB, and DGSE, and every other spy agency), Facebook turned on encryption a few months ago, which should thwart this attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2014\/03\/quantum\/\">A Close Look at the NSA&#8217;s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest limitation on QUANTUM is location: The attacker must be able to see a request which identifies the target. Since the same techniques can work on a Wi-Fi network, a $50 <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/surveillance-state\/bb8816e88d86\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>, located in a Foggy Bottom Starbucks, can provide any country, big and small, with a little window of QUANTUM exploitation. A foreign government can perform the QUANTUM attack NSA-style wherever your traffic passes through their country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than go through the bureaucratic fight to move the attack logic into \u201csystem low\u201d (and co-located on the wiretap), the NSA sought to work around it in the case of QUANTUMHAND. Instead of targeting just any web connection for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[733,187,340,1149],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-cyberwar","tag-facebook","tag-mitm","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}