I remember that, it was a work of art, having 4 zero day backdoor they deployed and sent by some USB drive left around the facility to be picked up by small minded employee (or someone being bribed by us).That was a perfectly crafted virus...by global national entities...made the operators think that everything was AOK, while they oversped the equipment...amazing, and no remote control.
I was thinking the same thing. Having it work requires some sort of massive subscription plan or have to go on the E911 network, plus the most important thing is a large enough antenna that makes it useful. It would be much easier to use wifi and go on some Chinese routers nearby instead. I wonder if they really want to spend the additional $20 or so per device to make them cellular complete or just have the digital part of the cellular chip left unused on it. This article didn't say what mechanism was found and how complete it is, I am now really curious on what it has inside.Probably reusing the same board across different platforms. Cellular would be the silliest method of spying if you have no direct physical access to the device.
I have a hard enough time trying to setup a bitcoin miner at work with a left over computer and sent it through a cell phone hotspot, I couldn't imagine them not getting caught if all of a sudden they want to go through T-Mobile with 10k devices without getting attention from Palentir.
Everyone in the world is doing it to everyone else in the world already. Remember this? If we don't assume the cat is out of the bag we are not doing our job right.I've been seeing this news here and there recently.
While not surprising it is frightening.
If the US wants to get tough with China, this would be a valid hill to defend.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/
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