Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices

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Originally Posted by Fish

You can gain access to some data when you have direct access to the computer? No way!

This is pretty dumb. This isn't "Hacking" in the slightest. All of these things are very well known and have been possible for decades. Hell, you can view the output of a computer monitor a short distance away without ever touching a single thing. This and much more is possible with access to the machine, and it's not any NSA secret. And if you have direct access to a computer in the first place, there are much much better ways to get what you want from that computer without using goofy-named hypothetical tinker toys attached to the cabling.



Yeah...... these idiots have no clue what they're talking about. I've constructed I2C boards that can read computer sensor information in various ways. It's moronic to say an I2C bus could hack a PC, unless you consider getting the current fan speed of the CPU fan as "Hacking".

This is pointless fear mongering.

Absolutely this.
There is not a single example of hacking in that article, nor anything that was developed as a result of the NSA.