NSA Backdoors Exposed (Updated)

¤ IT Firms Lose Billions After NSA Scandal ::

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/it-firms-lose-billions-after-nsa-scandal-exposed-by-whistleblower-edward-snowden-9028599.html
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¤ Apple Claims They Know Nothing About Backdoors ::

http://www.infowars.com/apple-says-it-knows-nothing-about-your-iphone-spying-on-you/

¤ Apple Inc. Lying Exposed ::

 Logs from a properly air-gapped Mac OSX show
the system attempting to access the Airport -
yet the Airport card was physically disconnected.

http://pastebin.jity.de/view/f3610334
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¤ Dell Inc. Apologizes for the ‘Inconvenience’
of Helping NSA Install Backdoors ::

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131230/17174425718/dells-twitter-account-apologizes-inconvenience-helping-nsa-place-hidden-bios-bug.shtml

http://www.infowars.com/dells-twitter-account-apologizes-for-the-inconvenience-of-helping-nsa-install-spyware/
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¤ Jacob Appelbaum Explains New NSA Leaks ::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

Mirror » http://fileb.ag/xwcp0jrewk2o

¤ Jacob’s NSA Slides @ioerror (ZIP) ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-catalog.zip

¤ Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit ::

 The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered
to be the intelligence agency’s top secret
weapon. It maintains its own covert network,
infiltrates computers around the world and
even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant
back doors in electronics ordered by those
it is targeting. ... ...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html

 The insert method and other variants of
QUANTUM are closely linked to a shadow
network operated by the NSA alongside the
Internet, with its own, well-hidden
infrastructure comprised of “covert”
routers and servers. It appears the NSA
also incorporates routers and servers
from non-NSA networks into its covert
network by infecting these networks with
“implants” that then allow the government
hackers to control the computers remotely.

 In this way, the intelligence service seeks
to identify and track its targets based on
their digital footprints. These identifiers
could include certain email addresses or
website cookies set on a person’s computer.
Of course, a cookie doesn’t automatically
identify a person, but it can if it includes
additional information like an email address.
In that case, a cookie becomes something
like the web equivalent of a fingerprint.
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¤ NSA QUANTUM Theory (FOXACID) ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-quantumtheory.pdf

¤ NSA/GCHQ QUANTUM Tasking Techniques ::

 “YahooBcookie’s are unique to a specific
computer and can hold other <yahoo> addresses
that are being logged into on that computer
as long as the user does not clear browser
cookies.”

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-quantum-tasking.pdf

¤ NSA QFIRE Packet Injection Attacks ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-qfire.pdf
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¤ NSA Catalog for Hardware Backdoors ::

 The specialists at ANT, which presumably
stands for Advanced or Access Network Technology,
could be described as master carpenters for
the NSA’s department for Tailored Access
Operations (TAO). In cases where TAO’s usual
hacking and data-skimming methods don’t suffice,
ANT workers step in with their special tools,
penetrating networking equipment, monitoring
mobile phones and computers and diverting or
even modifying data. Such implants, as they are
referred to in NSA parlance, have played a
considerable role in the intelligence agency’s
ability to establish a global covert network
that operates alongside the Internet.

 Some of the equipment available is quite
inexpensive. A rigged monitor cable that
allows “TAO personnel to see what is displayed
on the targeted monitor,” for example, is
available for just $30. But an “active GSM
base station” -- a tool that makes it possible
to mimic a mobile phone tower and thus monitor
cell phones -- costs a full $40,000. Computer
bugging devices disguised as normal USB plugs,
capable of sending and receiving data via radio
undetected, are available in packs of 50 for
over $1 million.

 The ANT division doesn’t just manufacture
surveillance hardware. It also develops software
for special tasks. The ANT developers have a
clear preference for planting their malicious
code in so-called BIOS, software located on a
computer’s motherboard that is the first thing
to load when a computer is turned on.

 This has a number of valuable advantages: an
infected PC or server appears to be functioning
normally, so the infection remains invisible
to virus protection and other security programs.
And even if the hard drive of an infected
computer has been completely erased and a new
operating system is installed, the ANT malware
can continue to function and ensures that new
spyware can once again be loaded onto what is
presumed to be a clean computer. The ANT
developers call this “Persistence” and believe
this approach has provided them with the
possibility of permanent access.

 Another program attacks the firmware in
hard drives manufactured by Western Digital,
Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung, all of which,
with the exception of latter, are American
companies. Here, too, it appears the US
intelligence agency is compromising the
technology and products of American companies.

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-tao-ant-pdf.pdf
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html
http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/29/der-spiegel-nsa-hacking-unit-tao
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/31/snow-d31.html

¤ NSA Cisco / Juniper Router Backdoors ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-firewalls.pdf

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-router.pdf

¤ NSA Computer Monitor Backdoor ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-bildschirm.pdf

¤ NSA PCI Bus Backdoor ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-rechner.pdf

¤ NSA Motherboard Backdoor (#BadBIOS) ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-server.pdf

¤ NSA Keyboard Backdoor ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-tastatu.pdf

¤ NSA Apple iPhone Backdoor ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-handys.pdf

¤ NSA WiFi Card / Apple Airport Backdoors ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-mobilfunk.pdf

¤ NSA Active 802.11 Netcard Backdoor ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-w-lan.pdf

¤ NSA USB Backdoor to Bridge Air-gaps ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-usb.pdf

¤ NSA Alternative SIGINT Hunter ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/nsa-ant-raumuber.pdf

¤ NSA Keystroke, Screenshot & SIGINT Hunting ::

http://cryptome.org/2013/12/greenwald-13-1231.pdf

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20948-glenn-greenwald-the-nsa-can-literally-watch-every-keystroke-you-make
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