NSA teams up with Mcirsoft

[tim-from-pa]

I think everyone here who has been reading my anti-Microsoft posts for years can attest to the fact that I've been saying this all along (i.e. that's why Microsoft gets viruses by design so they can spy on you, and virus writers just take advantage of this)

http://brandontward.blogspot.com/2013/07/nsa-helped-with-windows-7-development.html

"Told you so".....

Get Linux, don't be a sheeple whose life is controlled by everyone but you.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Yikes. I have fat fingers today! That's NSA teams up with Microsoft. But the misspelling should grab attention!

 

[duari91]

The NSA would spy in on Microsoft users regardless of consent.

That being said, this is why I don't own a Xbox Kinect. Placing a camera on the top of my TV for the NSA to watch? I don't think so.

 

[tim-from-pa]

The NSA would spy in on Microsoft users regardless of consent.

That being said, this is why I don't own a Xbox Kinect. Placing a camera on the top of my TV for the NSA to watch? I don't think so.

What I had in mind was deliberately dropped malware, and back doors to spy directly. On the net, they'd have to trace IP addresses and piece together one's actions, maybe hack passwords on computers that cannot be controlled directly. But that is not the same as taking control of the local computer but rather using other computers on the net to gather information based on one's footprints. A big difference IMO.

 

[turnorburn]

There are counter measures to protect your privacy its not by some magical software gimmick its more than that try using tools gleaned from the internet tutorials on "How To" there are methods to block outside intruders. If you want to start by having another source scan your machine and allow it to show you where those holes are try GRC Shields Up testing site..

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

This was my report and that after following instructions to tighten up security..

Attempting connection to your computer. . .

Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet!

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!

One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.

All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

Hope this helps

tob

 

[tim-from-pa]

My results say:

THE EQUIPMENT AT THE TARGET IP ADDRESS
DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR UPnP PROBES!​

(That's good news!)

My IP address and geographical location (at the end of the IP address) are the only information that comes up before I tried the Internet Exposure Test. And the location has to do with that of my carrier, i.e. RCN.

 

[tim-from-pa]

UPDATE: Supposedly this Snowden guy now claims now that a lot of the software we buy and use is bugged, so in the many years we've been using Microsoft some info has been going back to their servers which the government could grab. Geez, glad I use Linux now, but that's not saying the years and years before then when I was like everyone else and just used the Microsoft. The funny thing is everyone here knows I've been saying this all along. But without "proof" it sort of goes in one ear and out the other. It really hits home when someone confirms it and then we realize it's really true like a splash of cold water in the face.

This site may want to reconsider their stance on "conspiracy theories". If this is true, it's really, really evil out there. Can't believe I'd live to see the day America came to this. I see old-droppy eyed Boehner and the rest of Congress reading the constitution in front of us all over the media did not do one stitch of good. It did not sink in, apparently.

 

[hhh]

The NSA would spy in on Microsoft users regardless of consent.

That being said, this is why I don't own a Xbox Kinect. Placing a camera on the top of my TV for the NSA to watch? I don't think so.

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I have a laptop that was running Vista, with a camera on the top of it...

One day I noticed on my screen, pictures of myself in my bed!

Being sent by a couple (on the screen) from their computer, to a transmitter, to a sattelite, and back down to a reciever someplace on earth...

I duck taped over my camera lense right away...

If I get another laptop, I don't want a microphone, or a camera on it... can you recommend a laptop without a camera, and/or microphone on it?

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[tim-from-pa]

The NSA would spy in on Microsoft users regardless of consent.

That being said, this is why I don't own a Xbox Kinect. Placing a camera on the top of my TV for the NSA to watch? I don't think so.

.

I have a laptop that was running Vista, with a camera on the top of it...

One day I noticed on my screen, pictures of myself in my bed!

Being sent by a couple (on the screen) from their computer, to a transmitter, to a sattelite, and back down to a reciever someplace on earth...

I duck taped over my camera lense right away...

If I get another laptop, I don't want a microphone, or a camera on it... can you recommend a laptop without a camera, and/or microphone on it?

.

Instead of dumping the camera and microphone, I'd dump the Microsoft VIsta. Seriously. The laptop I use now use to be my son's Vista he used for college, until it got one of those famous viruses at the drop of a hat. It almost went into the trashcan (as most Microsoft computers end up after about 2 years) until I loaded Linux Ubuntu on it and been using it virtually trouble free (no viruses, no slow-ups, no need for expensive "tune ups", no need to defrag or any other tomfoolery Microsoft has). It installed easily and I brought a new lease on life for that computer. It's a shame to waste good hardware due to an utterly useless jack-shoot operating system.

Unfortunately, your sad story is far too common, and yes, it may take a little getting use to in order to switch, but don't let the anti-Linux people scare you into believing you have to be an advanced computer geek to run it. Linux came a long way to become GUI very user friendly. Those who say that either are living 15 years in the past and have not tried Linux, or else they are one of those who did no 5 minutes of study on something and talk like they know all about it. But it's either that or living in fear with this Microsoft idiocy. The choice is yours.