Hackers' Pub

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stf @stf@chaos.social

2/23/2026, 12:19:57 PM

Public

The #NSA with the help of #philips #backdoored (again!) a european military messaging #device in the 80ies, a few years ago the fine people of the #cryptomuseum published everything they knew about it - including a #firmware dump:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/ua8295/

back then i #reverseEngineered this, and last week finally cleaned it up, and publish it today:

https://rad.ctrlc.hu/nodes/rad.ctrlc.hu/rad:z46AkAERuXAzqZcDRKvE7byRbkga1

also on the bad site: https://github.com/stef/UA-8295-NSA

update: it's a thread: 1/n

UA-8295

Electronic short-burst message unit, developed by Nokia and sold by Philips, with a built-in NSA-developed backdoor.

www.cryptomuseum.com

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