Happy to see this, because this is how they (Law enforcement / intelligence agencies) do it nowadays.
Many years ago law enforcement (french DCRI now called DGSI) illegally placed a keylogger on my laptop, they placed it when I bought it online from materiel.net and placed it before I took delivery of it.
it is 100% certain in my mind.
So never ever buy a laptop or hardware online if you think you might be exposed to this, buy it from a store.
I was going to build a hardware keylogger for laptops just for fun and as a proof-of-concept to show how easily this could be done.
I made a joke online that I had access to the e-mails from the ministry of justice and that I would publish all of them wikileaks style (This was back in the 2011s, 2012s era). I had indeed found a security issue but the e-mail stuff was a joke, but due to many other factors it was more than believable.
They even came to arrest me a few month later, I am not making this stuff up!
But the whole story is very crazy, I should write a complete blog post on it and what their shady techniques are.
> But the whole story is very crazy, I should write a complete blog post on it and what their shady techniques are.
Please do. If you have any new details not in the public-domain and are safely able to disclose them I am certain many other readers would be interested. :-)
I don't know who GP is but I've got in my LinkedIn contact someone I personally met who was actually spied upon by the GCHQ (or was it GCHQ + NSA? You never really know in this cases).
It was done to him simply because he's a famous belgian cryptographer.
And we're talking about people who made frontpage of mainstream media newspaper: hardly the kind of publications that shall report all the various states' wrongdoings (typically they'll instead be complicit and try to cover up misdeeds).
It's not as if these thing do not happen nor if as if there aren't persons of interests here on HN.
Many years ago law enforcement (french DCRI now called DGSI) illegally placed a keylogger on my laptop, they placed it when I bought it online from materiel.net and placed it before I took delivery of it. it is 100% certain in my mind.
So never ever buy a laptop or hardware online if you think you might be exposed to this, buy it from a store.
I was going to build a hardware keylogger for laptops just for fun and as a proof-of-concept to show how easily this could be done.