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National security boosters have just taken a kick to the ego, with revelations that hackers can access exactly the kind of wiretap kit they believe should be deployed in every ISP and telco around the world. The zero-day that's turned up in kit from New Jersey outfit NICE would give attackers access to wiretapped voice …

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  1. Allan George Dyer
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    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Now we know, the hackers do.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

      Nothing but net!

      Having a security week? OK by me.

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  2. Sanctimonious Prick
    Mushroom

    OH...

    The irony.

    I feel like larfing.

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  3. T. F. M. Reader

    Dual use?

    @article: "NICE's Recording eXpress voice recording product <...> targets police and law enforcement agencies."

    Huh? Isn't it a call centre recording product? You know, "some calls may be recorded to improve customer service"? Plus for compliance to all sorts of non-security-related regulations?

    http://www.nice.com/compliance-call-recording ?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Dual use?

      That's the system used in our contact centres around 80k agents recorded. Software is shit though for replaying them.

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    FAIL

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    So even the snoops can't get it right.

    Makes you wonder what holes in Dettica's kit (Bae's subsidiary and pole position for the Snooper Charter) exist, does it not?

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  5. Mephistro
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    "He did not respond by the time of publication to El Reg's request to explain how the platform was not accessible outside organisations."

    Because the computers are inside police buildings! With cops and guard dogs and cameras and stuff!!!

    Cheesus, Elreg, this is basic stuff!!! ;-)

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    1. NumptyScrub
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      Err, these computers would be inside service providers buildings, aka the switch floor. Dunno if you've ever worked in a telco but I can't recall any cops with guard dogs around when I did.

      Also, should you manage to compromise the internal network of Virgin Media, for instance, you could potentially route through to one of these devices. Going in through internet facing webservers or mail gateways could be tricky, so probably some form of targeted phishing on middle-managers with laptops might be in order. Not easy, sure, but not impossible either.

      And that would be completely ignoring the curiosity of existing network engineers actually employed by these companies, when they see an accessible interface on that dark-room kit...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Shalom

    New Jersey? Really?

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  7. Christoph

    The Cobblers Children Have No Shoes

    That's a common problem - the snoopers are so busy snooping on other people that they neglect their own security.They think it can't possibly happen to them.

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    1. elDog
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      Re: The Cobblers Children Have No Shoes

      And they really can't afford any decent help in the techie department - at least not at the rates that decent tech want to be paid for crummy work like this.

      Even our fine U.S.A. over-funded "intelligence" agencies are having trouble maintaining the best and brightest (witness Mr. Snowden) or hiring the whiz kids (witness dropping drug tests for wanabe FBI positions.)

      These clowns really shouldn't be allowed near any real technology. Leave them to play with their guns and badges.

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