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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Tue Jul 30, 2013, 02:52 AM Jul 2013

Your Computer May Already Be Hacked

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/your-computer-may-already-be-hacked.html/?ref=YF

"...the National Security Agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.” Say what?? They can see the plaintext on my computer before I encrypt it? That defeats any/all encryption methods. How could they do that?

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Links to:

How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide

(More at the link.)

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Your Computer May Already Be Hacked (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 OP

Thanks for confirin g that we are not paranoid if truedelphi Jul 2013 #1

O.M.G. how much more old news will be dragged out? intaglio Jul 2013 #2

Microsoft uses encryption? When did this start? Orrex Jul 2013 #3

The bastards got an image of my hard drive through an unsecured port. Rain Mcloud Jul 2013 #4

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

1. Thanks for confirin g that we are not paranoid if

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 03:05 AM

Jul 2013

The NSA is still funded and still proceeding as if we individuals have no power.

intaglio

(8,170 posts)

2. O.M.G. how much more old news will be dragged out?

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 03:18 AM

Jul 2013

Apart from the fact that anyone using Outlook is using a pretty insecure piece of ... software to start with, then there is the matter that all companies providing software to US agencies are required to submit details of encryption coding and source code so the US government does not get ripped off ...

If you want security you must use a proprietary 256 bit encryption program, Boffin has a good list; never, ever use the encryption provided by your OS provider or your e-mail client or your browser. Note, however, that if you do come under suspicion then law enforcement can come to you and demand your encryption key and if you do not provide it you go to jail.

Orrex

(64,323 posts)

3. Microsoft uses encryption? When did this start?

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 05:56 AM

Jul 2013

I wasn't aware that they offered any form of security in the first place!

Rain Mcloud

(812 posts)

4. The bastards got an image of my hard drive through an unsecured port.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 06:03 AM

Jul 2013

Fuck them.
Maybe they got a little subversive thrill at going through someone's private stuff.
Maybe they will strap on a ding dong(or a gun)to feel what it is like to be a man.
If they would have asked,then i would have agreed,but i guess it is more fun for them this way.
Good job,you cowardly little pussies!

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