‘Blinding’ attack was based on a seriously flawed setup of equipment being eavesdropped upon, scientists at Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Labs have said. Toshiba team led by prominent quantum cryptography physicist Dr Andrew Shields demolish the basis of an attack that caused awkward headlines for a technology designed to secure military and government communications. The ‘hacker within’ remains an issue that no organisation can easily dismiss as fanciful, as Wikileaks cable leak shows, the ‘hackers within’ remain an issue.”]
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