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by nk | July 22, 2007 at 11:20 am
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After running Vista for only a few days - with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection - so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening.
[...]what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state;
- DoD Network Information Center(Department of Defense)
- United Nations Development Program(Seems to correlate to the parent branch of the U.N.
- InformaticsDivision)
- Halliburton Company(We all know these guys)
- Ministry of Defense Data Return Agent
- DOHS-Recon(traceroutes for this address provided nothing, suspected blocks on traceroute. Many of us who are monitoring this situation have suspected the acronym stands for the Department of Homeland Security*Reconnaissance?*. This is merely a guess, but an educated one at that.)
I am happy that I do not live in the USA and I am also happy that my immigration plans call for Canada not the USA. What happened to the land of the free that a mere twenty year was like a blazing light for us in the darkness?
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at 11:58 on July 22nd, 2007
Yikes!!!
Does anyone have any screenshots of something like this? It's really, really scary (and really, really illegal)...
at 14:54 on July 22nd, 2007
I tried the source link and it states "This menu has been disabled" (not abled or invalid?) Interesting considering the subject and meaning of what it represents....
Give this link a try:
http://www.darkgovernment.com/wp/government-online-watchdogs-part-of-the-war-on-terror/
http://www.darkgovernment.com/wp/
(note: at time of comment it was valid)
at 15:55 on July 22nd, 2007
thanks for the extra info. i'll check it out. i never know what to think when it comes to this type of stuff...
at 18:51 on July 22nd, 2007
This is the message I got from the original link:
"The error returned was:
Sorry, the link that brought you to this page seems to be out of date or broken."
at 23:36 on July 22nd, 2007
Damn good work NK. I responded here initially, but due to it's length decided to address this issue as a stand-alone article in OPINIONS. Below is a posting from my Aboriginal newsblog discussing the very same issue. - The Angryindian
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From Intelligentaindigena Novajoservo: 11.1.07:
Watching America:
"For many years it was only wild speculation. But now Microsoft has
confirmed: 'Yes, we have collaborated with the National Security Agency
(NSA),: which is the most secretive of all U.S. intelligence services,
in the development of their new Vista operating system. The company
claims that this will enhance security for PC users, but critics fear
there is an entirely different motive.
Berlin: The U.S. National
Security Agency has participated in the development of the new Windows
operating system, called Vista. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed this to
Die Welt. 'For some time, we have been cooperating with the
intelligence services,' said Thomas Baumgärtner, a spokesman for
Microsoft Germany. With the support of the intelligence services, the
goal is to make the operating system more secure against hacker attacks.
It
is the first time that Microsoft has publicly admitted to cooperating
with the secret services, but privacy advocates and critics have
assumed as much for years. They fear that the NSA has built back doors
into the operating system, so that PC’s around the world can be
surveilled - including those owned by private individuals."
at 04:55 on July 23rd, 2007
It's not as cut-and-dried as OMG THE GOVERNMENT IS SPYING ON MY LAPTOP, but the NSA's activities are still rather suspect. Security expert Bruce Schneir had a great blog post (with lots of well-informed responses) back in January, here.
at 10:47 on July 23rd, 2007
There is also this from Chris Pirillo.