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0 pointsLeonTheremin3y ago0 comments

Remote Access Trojan - malware which, usually as software, needs to make its way to the victim computer.

Hypothesis: the people responsible for the electronic harassment of "targeted individuals" use a variant of RAT done in hardware with its own radio and working even without Internet, inserted during processor design, making harder to uncover it, but it can be done.

Consider:

"It's not technically hard to make a device that complies with the FCC that listens to nonpublic bands but then is quietly waiting for some activation trigger to listen to other bands," said Eduardo Rojas, who leads the radio spectrum lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. "Technically, it's feasible."

To prove a device had clandestine capabilities, Rojas said, would require technical experts to strip down a device "to the semi-conductor level" and "reverse engineer the design." But, he said, it can be done.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-hu...

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walterbell3y ago· 2 in thread

If present, such implants could be detected with a radio-frequency meter that is logging all measurements 7x24, with post-collection filtering of RF noise on public licensed and unlicensed bands.

If present, such a receiver/transmitter would have needed to co-exist with changes in public cellular radio bands, e.g. the transition from 2G to 3G to 4G LTE over the past twenty years.

LeonThereminOP3y ago

Unlikely to be caught if the measuring instruments themselves are compromised and made to fake data related to that - just like our eyes have blind spots and the brain does some faking.

The effects of sabotage can't be faked - people only need to listen to the victims, because waiting until they themselves are victimized is a losing proposition.

walterbell3y ago

If consumer-level RF meters were sabotaged to ignore specific bands, expensive professional-level SDRs would be less likely to have the same blind spots, if only because they are used in a wide range of applications by professionals who also have reference equipment for calibration of questionable meters.

If consumer-level RF meters were sabotaged to ignore specific bands, professional-level SDRs could be used to identify those bands. That may be faster and less work than detecting any hypothetical implants, and would itself be a significant discovery of interest to the global engineering community.

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