A BRIEF HISTORY OF CYBER ESPIONAGE AND CYBER WEAPONS Part 1-espionage methods over the years-by Dr David Maddison

摘要

Spying on one's enemies(or even one's friends!)or sabotaging infrastructure is one of humanity's oldest activities,but electronics vastly expanded the possible ways of doing so.In this article,we'll describe some fascinating espionage methods that can be(and have been)used to take advantage of hidden flaws in everyday equipment,allowing spies to get their hands on all sorts of secret information.Naturally,many such techniques are secret,but there are still many that have been described in the open literature,that we explain below.The variety of technologies and methods of concealment of electronic espionage is immense,so we can only survey a portion of those,and give the most interesting examples.The number of ways people have devised to spy on each other is seemingly only limited by the imagination.We've come up with so many interesting electronic espionage techniques that this article will concentrate on those which exploit vulnerabilities in electronics and hardware,and techniques for creating vulnerabilities which can then be exploited later.Next month,we'll have a follow-up article covering other electronic spying techniques,which we don't have room for in this article.