This is one heck of an interesting speech delivered by self-exiled American hacker/bad boy Jacob Applebaum. I listened to half of it and came away with the conclusion if he died suddenly it would certainly not be surprising to anyone.
Attendees at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this weekend got a surprising rundown of the NSA’s surveillance capabilities, courtesy of security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum, who co-wrote the Der Spiegel article that first revealed the NSA catalog, went into further detail onstage, describing several individual devices in the catalog and their intended purposes.
THE EXPLOITS COULD BE DELIVERED BY DRONE
Alongside pre-packaged exploits that allowed control over iOS devices and any phone communicating through GSM, Appelbaum detailed a device that targets computers through packet injection, seeding exploits from up to 8 miles away. He even speculated the exploits could be delivered by drone, although he conceded that in most cases, an unmarked van would likely be more practical.
via The NSA’s elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away | The Verge.