[118674] in Cypherpunks
Re: Unplugged! The biggest hack in history
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Oct 5 13:15:53 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 05:55:56 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <93914255611570@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net> writes:
>>The Wall Street Journal reported:
>>>In early December 1994, Morris's "analog data-intercept device" finally
>>>arrived from the FBI's engineering department. It was a $70,000
>>>prototype that Morris calls "the magic box."
>Marcel Popescu wrote:
>>Er... someone please explain me, I'm lost here - is this a $70,000
>>MODEM?!?!?
>I think this is one of those wonderful confusions that occur when someone
>is trying to keep methods and technique secret.
Blind demodulation is hardly a secret. Why spend $70K when you can buy off-
the-shelf hardware to do the same thing (for example
http://www.appsig.com/prods/m1520.html with
http://www.appsig.com/prods/data.html or
http://www.appsig.com/prods/elvira.html).
Peter.
