____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 December 2007 15:10 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 06 December 2007 23:49 : \____
>>
>>> Microsoft's director of security response, Mark Miller, said the
>>> company was investigating Dreamlab's claims. He said Microsoft was
>>> unaware of any attacks exploiting the claimed vulnerability or any
>>> customer impact.
>>
>> My supervisor has some keyboards just like that and another 'vulnerability'
>> these have is setup difficulty. At some stage I think he spent hours just
>> trying to get this to work (despite prior experience). I can't recall if he
>> reached out for the IT staff at the end, but this was somehow resolved. They
>> say that Microsoft has a notoriety when it comes to making its own products
>> compatible with one another (examples: Zune-Vista, IE7-Frontpage).
>>
>> Windows -- when you can spare time tinkering with point and click menus that
>> do nothing and aren't verbose enough to say what's wrong...
>>
>
> The same issue applies to British Passports with the SSID chip in them.
> Criminals will be able to scan you in crowds with the greatest of ease,
> the things are a huge risk to personal safety.
Phones:
Cryptome: NSA has access to Windows Mobile smartphones
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1028
Hardware:
Chip Design Flaw Could Subvert Encryption
http://www.crm-daily.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11200BH5USIO
Operating systems/PC:
How NSA access was built into Windows
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
Networks:
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115
Many more references exist, so that's just a short take. Today's computing
equipment seems to be broken by design. Lack of transparency enables this.
Digital slavery via DRM and related technologies; Digital surveillance via
weak protocols.
You know, if you were to point it out to some companies/authorities, they would
fail (or refuse) to even see anything /wrong/ with this.
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~~ Best of wishes
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