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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-only-missing-the-gigantic-datacenter dept.

When Der Spiegel and Jacob Appelbaum published leaked pages of the National Security Agency's ANT Catalog—the collection of tools and software created for NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division—it triggered shock, awe, and a range of other emotions around the world. Among some hardware hackers and security researchers, it triggered something else, too—a desire to replicate the capabilities of TAO's toolbox to conduct research on how the same approaches might be used by other adversaries.

In less than 18 months since the catalog's leak, the NSA Playset project has done just that. The collection boasts over a dozen devices that put the power of the NSA's TAO into the hands of researchers. Project creator Michael Ossmann—a security researcher, radio frequency hardware engineer, and founder of Great Scott Gadgets—detailed the tools at a presentation during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last week, and he talked with Ars more about it this past weekend at DEF CON 23.


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by chrysosphinx on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:20AM

    by chrysosphinx (5262) on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:20AM (#222182)

    Guys, did you realized those "catalogs" are 7 years old? And the article is from year 13. Go get some duino nano or something and build the stuff at home.

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