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Title: The NSA 0wnz popular firewalls and 'secure' email services
Source:
The Inquirer
URL Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqui ... /20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls
Published: Dec 21, 2007
Author: Egan Orion
Post Date: 2008-01-23 13:45:57 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 178
Comments: 3
CRYPTOME reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has remote administrative access to several of the most popular Windows PC firewalls, and that it has also taken control of a number of supposedly "secure " email services within the past few months. It writes that the personal computer firewall software products from MacAfee, Symantec and Zone Alarm all "...facilitate Microsoft's NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030... without security flag." That bit of news is merely an aside to the posting's main topic, which is that: "Certain privacy [and/or] full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased [or] changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities." The so-called "secure" email services implicated by Cryptome's report include Hushmail, Safe-mail.net, and Guardster.com. Just a reminder that, if you're not using strong encryption, the NSA is probably reading your email, if not also everything that's on your system's hard drive. µ
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Anyone who thinks that their PC is secure is stuck on stupid.
Nicely put. Piquant even. I always assume that my e-mails are read and that anything I say or do on the Internet is open to surveillance. We are under attack personally and our freedom as a people is under attack.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
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#2. To: Sparker (#1)
Anyone who thinks that their PC is secure is stuck on stupid.
#3. To: Original_Intent (#2)
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