[nycbug-talk] Happy Halloween, here is some wacky Horror story

[Nikolai Fetissov]

> On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:15 PM, "Isaac (.ike) Levy" <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
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>> On October 31, 2013 03:26:01 PM EDT, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
>>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Mark Saad wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Brian Coca <briancoca+nycbug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does this mean that I MUST blast death metal at max volume over the whole office for security reasons?
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> Here's a different horror story, which a russian developer in our office showed us:
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> http://www.vz.ru/news/2013/10/26/656816.html
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> (I'd love for someone here who speaks/knows Russian, to validate this source isn't some sort of Russian version of The Onion or something...)

People in the clip sound like they don't know what they are talking about.
Most comments after the article discount this as a complete bs.


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> Rough Translation (using Google translate):
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> "Media: China has put in irons Russian spy-spammers"
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> Petersburg sellers of electronics in a hurry terminated contracts with Chinese suppliers after the discovery of the party "spyware" - irons, kettles and phones that can send out viruses and spam Wi-Fi.
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> All electronics have been equipped with a small chip, which, when you turn the device into the grid could easily be connected by over Wi-Fi to any unprotected computers within a radius of 200 meters.
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> According to the director of the importing company Innocent Fedorov such a surprise from his colleagues from China, he did not expect, "This place is already proven, and it is strange that such a thing happened. This happened recently, something has to happen suddenly, and we began to understand, to find out what it was. "
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> Discover the "spy" fake entrepreneurs helped the brokerage firm, transfer "Vesti.Ru" .
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> Prior to sending equipment from China Russian experts confused weight of packages, which a few grams differ materially from those in the documents. Party stopped at the border, experts engaged in the study of electronics.
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> It turned out that the embedded chips designed to send unwanted spam and computer viruses.
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> CTO and Customs broker Gleb Pavlov explains: "You do not even notice that it sends something. Neither the system administrator will not notice the attack, because it did not occur outside of the enterprise, and not through the Web, but from within. "
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> About 30 irons, kettles, phones and video recorders from a trial lot still had time to go back to their chain stores of St. Petersburg, and the question of how many of these electronics products to spyware chip, it is difficult to answer.
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> It is also unknown whether the leak could multifunction machines in other regions of Russia.
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