plenty900@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
*standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
remote access.
Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
11-year-olds.
If you don't think the NSA (or anybody else) gets into your computer,
how about this, my experience so far. I used a torrent engine to
download 'Dreamgirls' for my daughter. What I got was a crappy copy and
a nasty e-mail from the MPAA police.
About 30 years ago I got a visit from 2 FBI gorillas in $1,000 suits
knocking on my door (at home, 8:00 P.M.) for a very minor infraction of
FCC regulations, and they gave me a pink ticket and a warning that if I
dot another warning it would be a RED ticket. The RED ticket is one step
from having you license pulled for a year.
If you don't think the FBI monitors your activities just write something
that says "A$$a$$inate p-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t 'WEED'" in it and wait for the
FBI at your door.
I'm not paranoid, I have been hassled over trivial stuff.
A few years back, like 2004 (I think) I was detained by both DHS and FBI
agents on duty at Beale A.F.B. for riding my bike on a PUBLIC road and
taking a few pictures with me 1.2 M Pixel fixed focus el-cheapo camera.
Even after proving I was born here, 3rd generation, they held me for a
local Sheriff to pick me up and take me straight home with the bike
loosely in his trunk.
They do it because they can.
Bill Baka
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