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Originally Posted by BadPhormula
That is quite astonishing! How did Roman Gaufman (aka Hackeron, The Phorm Malware Hacker) managed to sneak into a BT network centre with a 19" rack full of electronic snooping equipment and leave it there like an Elephant in the room during the 2006 and 2007 spying trials?
Who opened the doors to the actual equipment rooms and who showed him which wires to tap into, surely Stratis Scleparis the CTO of BT Retail must have authorised a BT engineer to help Roman do the dirty deads? How come JR hasn't come across the details of at least 6 weeks of someone sneaking around inside the network and no one at BT control saw millions of rogue javascript injection traffic coming from one network section?
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Its clear that a small number of BT people were involved, but a single extra server, who would notice? If you walked into a server room, could you tell what every box did? Maybe they were told it was a simple traffic monitoring server for a test project, but I'm guessing now. And especially if the server was designed right, appearing as just another conduit, who would question it?
Its easier to answer why the javascript injections weren't noticed - the network people monitor don't monitor page contents.
