DISQUS

Technology Liberation Front: Susan Landau on how FISA is a “gateway for hackers”

  • Jim Harper · 2 years ago
    This would be a good example of (ahem) Harper's Law.
  • Perry E. Metzger · 2 years ago
    I'm a security professional. My opinion is that she's right.

    [Writing from a talk at the Usenix Security conference.]
  • Dale B · 2 years ago
    The article The Athens Affair in the July IEEE Spectrum magazine has a pretty good description of the Greek cell phone tap scheme. Someone hacked into CO switch and modified the wire tap system software . It was much more complicated that this, read the article for details.


    I suppose a similar attack could succeed here, but it would be tough. Still, if there is a back door and someone is determined and skilled enough, they will figure out a way use it.


    BTW, Several weeks ago I complained about the lousy audio quality of the podcasts. Since the break you took a couple weeks ago, there has been a huge improvement in the audio quality. Thanks.

  • Tim Lee · 2 years ago
    Dale: I'm glad you've been finding the audio quality more to your liking. I've been trying to watch the levels on the audio more closely, and I guess it's been helping. Please do speak up if you have any further suggestions for improving the audio quality. And thanks for listening!
  • lippard · 2 years ago
    I agree. Attackers are way ahead of defenders in many ways (see Richard Bejtlich's two-part report on the most recent Black Hat Briefings).
  • Cody · 2 years ago
    Um, Jim, I'm not quite sure what my visit to Down House has to do with Richard Bejtlich's two-part report on the recent Black Hat Briefings, but thanks the for the plug!