{"id":108,"date":"2015-08-12T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:33:22","slug":"nsa-playset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2015\/08\/12\/nsa-playset\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Playset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today an article ran on ArsTechnica which caught my eye. It&#8217;s titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/08\/the-nsa-playset-espionage-tools-for-the-rest-of-us\/\">The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us<\/a>\u00a0and talks about the creation of a collection of NSA-ANT-like devices for doing&#8230; NSA-like things. One device \u2014 a deceptively simple device \u2014 caught my attention. It is called the\u00a0<b>CONGAFLOCK.<\/b>\u00a0This single transistor RF reflector can be implanted into anything that transmits data via wires. The resultant device can be hit with a continuous wave at the frequency of the bug&#8217;s antennae, and the received reflectivity can be AM demodulated to recover the signal! I find this simplicity both amazing, and disturbing. A link to the device specifications (what to and how to build it) is below!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsaplayset.org\/congaflock\">CONGAFLOCK RF retroreflector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today an article ran on ArsTechnica which caught my eye. It&#8217;s titled\u00a0The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us\u00a0and talks about the creation of a collection of NSA-ANT-like devices for doing&#8230; NSA-like things. One device \u2014 a deceptively simple device \u2014 caught my attention. It is called the\u00a0CONGAFLOCK.\u00a0This single transistor RF reflector can be implanted into anything that transmits data via wires. The resultant device can be hit with a continuous wave at the frequency of the bug&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NSA Playset - Jacob N Calvert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2015\/08\/12\/nsa-playset\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NSA Playset - Jacob N Calvert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today an article ran on ArsTechnica which caught my eye. 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