I think one of the possibilities suggested beyond call-home or backdoors was that they might have installed a secret kill-switch to be activated against 'enemy' nodes in time of war was an cyber shock and awe campaign.
mg On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > On 06/13/2013 10:20 AM, Scott Helms wrote: > >> >> Not really, no one has claimed it's impossible to hide traffic. What is >> true is that it's not feasible to do so at scale without it becoming >> obvious. Steganography is great for hiding traffic inside of legitimate >> traffic between two hosts but if one of my routers starts sending cay >> photos somewhere, no matter how cute, I'm gonna consider that suspicious. >> That's an absurd example (hopefully funny) but _any_ from one of my >> routers over time would be obvious, especially since to be effective this >> would have to go on much of the time and in many routers. Hiding all that >> isn't feasible for a really technically astute company and they're not in >> that category yet (IMO). >> >> > It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Hijacking many cat > photos to > send your cat photo... how deep is your DPI? > > Remember also, the answer to the universe fits in 6 bits... > > Mike > >