Timeline for In CitizenFour, what was Edward Snowden mitigating with a head blanket?
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| Feb 1 at 11:49 | comment | added | Mikko Rantalainen | This blanket was about being safe from mass surveillance, not from a targeted attack against him. If NSA had been aware of his location, they wouldn't have used high tech surveillance to collect the password for his laptop but send SWAT to take him down. As such, the potential attack vector was hidden cameras cheap enough for mass surveillance which means no IR, and pretty low resolution video and audio with stereo mic at best. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 2:10 | comment | added | siliconrockstar | 'Still, using some advanced audio software, from the typing sound of the pressed keys, deducing from echo, reverb, comparing with the sound of a keyboard of an identical laptop, you could determine their coordinates in space.' This is effectively impossible without multiple precisely located microphones and knowing the exact position of the laptop before you record. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:41 | comment | added | Jens Erat | Done; seems something that should be handled by a script for all i.stack.imgur.com URIs. Or even better, just enforce HTTPs for all of them... | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:40 | history | edited | Jens Erat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Protocol-relative image URI.
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| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:37 | comment | added | Mario Trucco | As per this meta question, I'm trying to change the included image URI to protocol relative, but I can't edit less than 6 chars. Could you do that instead? Should have //i.sstatic.net/bDeLe.png instead of i.sstatic.net/bDeLe.png | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 23:57 | comment | added | Mark Buffalo | This is what happens when you become one with the tinfoil. I love it! :D | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 18:46 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @PyRulez A lead-lined tracking blanket. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | Christopher King | "He also offered the blanket to the others in the room when they were entering their credentials into their laptops, but they refused, probably regarding this as being overcautious." Or they were afraid it was a tracking blanket. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 18:43 | comment | added | Christopher King | @wizzwizz4 Lead defeats that. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @GrasDouble You could also use x-rays if you're willing to go that far. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 14:23 | history | edited | Jens Erat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Formatting.
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| Jan 15, 2016 at 11:35 | comment | added | Gras Double | Still, using some advanced audio software, from the typing sound of the pressed keys, deducing from echo, reverb, comparing with the sound of a keyboard of an identical laptop, you could determine their coordinates in space. You can also analyse the movement of muscles of Snowden's arms and extrapolate up to its fingers' location and movement. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 17:41 | history | edited | Jens Erat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 14:45 | vote | accept | Mars | ||
| Feb 23, 2015 at 23:13 | history | answered | Jens Erat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
