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recent bookmarks from jmTV detector vans may have been a con all along2016-08-09T09:16:08+00:00
https://medium.com/@adambanksdotcom/the-scandal-isnt-that-tv-detector-vans-are-going-to-intercept-your-wi-fi-ce0ac4fe1e82#.q74ruzroe
jm
During [..] World War II, radio engineering saw advances in radar, passive direction
finding, and low-probability-of-intercept techniques, which I’ll discuss in the next
chapter. By the 1960s, the stray RF leaking from the local oscillator signals in domestic
television sets was being targeted by direction-finding equipment in “TV detector
vans,” in Britain, where TV owners must pay an annual license fee that is supposed to
support public broadcast services. Its use has since expanded to satellite and cable TV
operators, who use detector vans to find pirate decoders. Some people in the computer
security community were also aware that information could leak from cross-coupling
and stray RF (see, for example, [259, 791]).
]]>rf radio tv bbc tv-licenses tv-license-detector-vans security emissions tempesthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:563fb295db72/Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze on TAO's Methods2014-01-07T15:33:03+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/matt_blaze_on_t_1.html
jmAs scarily impressive as [NSA's TAO] implant catalog is, it's targeted. We can argue about how it should be targeted -- who counts as a "bad guy" and who doesn't -- but it's much better than the NSA's collecting cell phone location data on everyone on the planet. The more we can deny the NSA the ability to do broad wholesale surveillance on everyone, and force them to do targeted surveillance in individuals and organizations, the safer we all are.
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