Catalog of NSA compromised equipments

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/nsas-ant-division-catalog-of-exploits-for-nearly-every-major-software-hardware-firmware/

Notice the Nightstand is built on (does not exploit) Fedora Core 3.
It exploits Windows / Internet Explorer.

I bet NSA wished Explorer had been released for Linux.


Sparrow II uses some Linux (not a mainsream distro).

Iratemonk is a disk frimware hack.  It gains PC control through MBR
(Master Boot Record) substitution.  Thus it can control what gets
booted.  It knows FAT, NTFS, EXT3, and UFS.  So Linux and BSD are not
safe.

I've stopped reading for now, at about half way down.

All these revelations seem to be from about 2007.  Who knows what they
are up to now.
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