[aMorePerfectUnion]

NSA at it continually to violate privacy

[Fido969]

My anti-virus software started acting funny - which ones did NSA hack?

[Old Sarge]

H/T to our FRiend aMorePerfectUnion for the post.

This has been posted once today, I think, but the narrative is still on.

Bottom Line: notwithstanding the rhetoric coming out of CONgress, the NSA vacuuming of your digital lives is still an ongoing effort.

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

The Watchman Ping List - FReepmail Old Sarge for details!

[wideminded]

The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to “track users and infiltrate networks,” ...

Cybersecurity companies, including the Moscow-headquartered Kaspersky Lab, were targeted by government agencies to gain intelligence of the latest exploits.

Since Kaspersky is a Russian company, who can say that they are not used by Russian intelligence agencies to "track users and infiltrate networks"?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Yep, son, we have met the enemy and he is us.”

[SuzyQue]

So, which “popular security software products” are they?

[I want the USA back]

They have no right to do that.

[The Great RJ]

The Chinese build your laptop, the Russians provide your “anti virus”, the NSA electronically spies on everyone and FBI surveillance planes circle you neighborhood I about ready to go back to using paper and pencil.

[dayglored]

NSA undermining our own computers? Oh that's just great news ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks, NSA. Glad to know you've joined the other side.

[tacticalogic]

And we’re all one bureaucratic screw up from the Chinese, the Russians, and the Nigerians having all of it.

[tbw2]

Massive amounts of fiber optic cable were put in during the dot-com boom. Unlike other communication technologies (cell phone towers, copper cable), this stuff is going to be in great shape for years.

We need to take all that dark cable, connect new hubs, and build a new internet that is separate from the hubs the NSA is monitoring.

[Swordmaker]

NSA has been targeting commercial anti-virus for their own purposes such as tracking users. There's a good reason why I have been telling all Mac users to NOT user any third party AV, it turns off Apple's own built in protection, which would open you up to such NSA shenanigans! — PING!

Apple and All Computer Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[IncPen]

In order to put ‘the government’ into the proper perspective, you have to remember that ‘the government’ is nothing more than your next door neighbor, or some guy who lives on the next block. ‘The government’ is simply people who went into that line of work, rather than some other job. They could have been accountants, bus drivers, retail clerks. ‘The government’ was a career choice, not a blessing of authority, or morality, or right.

So when you hear of government abuse, don’t think ‘the government’ is to blame.

Understand that ‘some guy on the next street’ is snooping in your personal data.

Because that’s what this is really about.