Posted on 03/14/2014 9:05:57 AM PDT by John W
The NSA has not infected millions of computers with malware, it said in a statement on Thursday. It could though, it seems, as the agency made no attempt to deny the existence of an automated malware delivery system which appears in documents leaked by Edward Snowden this week.
According to the documents, the system, codenamed Turbine, is meant to “allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.”
A statement published to the NSA’s official website on Thursday addresses the allegations, saying “Recent media reports that allege NSA has infected millions of computers around the world with malware, and that NSA is impersonating US social media or other websites, are inaccurate.”
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Parse the words.
I believe them. Why would the lie about something like that?
They’ve seriously damaged any trust Americans had. They have become a joke.
A very dangerous joke with very dangerous tools at their disposal.
If you think you’re safe online, you’re wrong. I’m as tin-foil-hat as they come and have invested incredible amounts of personal funds to develop a heavily encrypted home network with personal email servers, etc., but I STILL believe they can infiltrate.
I only know one thing.
Snowden has other docs showing that they DID spread malware.
And now that they denied it, they will break in the next two weeks.
1.5 million is not “millions.” 1.99 million is not “millions.”
If its turned on they can see it.
The worst part about the NSA is their incompetence.
I want them to point out how many “terrorist plots” they’ve foiled by early detection with all their snooping around.
Odds are the number is zero or very close to it. In other words, they’re doing everything BUT their job.
9 new pieces of malware are created every second.
How much of it is the NSA?
Its what they (govt bureaucracies) do, they were created to find terrorist plots but aren’t finding any with their sources do they branched out to justify their jobs.
Notice they didn't say software. There's a difference.
Right.
> I’m as tin-foil-hat as they come and have invested incredible amounts of personal funds to develop a heavily encrypted home network with personal email servers, etc., but I STILL believe they can infiltrate.
And you’d be 100% correct. They’ve had this ability for much longer than the average person might guess.
In 1998 a friend and I were discussing encrypted emails and we decided to check out the process. We went to a Norwegian website and downloaded their open source PGP program. We each installed it, exchanged public keys and we each sent each other a one line email to test it out.
Mine said “This is cool. We should check out the capabilities further.”
My friend’s email was similar and only one line long.
Within one day, we were each received an email from the FBI and asking to remove the encryption software from our PCs as it might contain viruses or malware and did not conform to US standards.
We took the software off our machines, but the question remains, “How did they detect the encrypted emails so fast?” It wasn’t even 24 hours later.
“It’s not malware, it bene-ware! - It’s *good* for you, it’s good for everybody!”
The “US Standards” being, that the FBI has a back door with which to read your emails? That kind of “US Standards” that the FBI is concerned about compliance with?
We used to joke that many of Microsoft's bugs were "undocumented features". With the way words are being redefined or dropped from the vocabulary, we might as well be living in Babel these days.
And if you don't believe them, just ask them. They'll tell you.
Scout's honor. Double pinky swear, and all that...
If you want to put all the NSA and CIA crap into a nice neat pile, how is it that they can vacuum American’s e-mails, Skype, web sites etc and not have a “clue” they share about the missing plane? It is probably the same reason the Madoff folks at SEC did not catch him...they really did look at porn more than their work. I bet all the “millenialls” that are not so much into marriage, patriotic things etc etc are into seeing what their “fellow” countrymen and women are doing behind closed doors instead of what they are doing in Malaysia or the Ukraine.
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