Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Kreuter <ben.kreuter () gmail com> wrote:
> ...
> > (CALEA taps are *widely* exploited by the bad guys.
>
> Do you have a good citation for this?

the most infamous case is the athens affair:
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair

"While this is the first major infiltration to involve cellphones, the
scheme did not depend on the wireless nature of the network.
Basically, the hackers broke into a telephone network and subverted
its built-in wiretapping features for their own purposes."

with the "built-in wiretapping features" being CALEA components...

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