Hak5: The NSA Playset and SDRSharp Plugins

Hak5 a popular YouTube hacking and electronics enthusiast channel has uploaded a new video interviewing Micheal Ossman, the creator of the HackRF about the NSA’s ‘Playset’. The NSA playset describes the set of tools the NSA has access to for spying which was leaked by the documents released by Edward Snowden. Previously we posted how the HackRF was used to help reverse engineer some NSA spy tools called retro reflectors.

In the second part of the episode presenter Shannon also shows off the SDRSharp frequency manager and scanner plugin that can be used with the RTL-SDR.