nsa

Kaspersky Lab on this finding, a Russian company .... A drive firmware hack dating back to at least to 2001 and some indication perhaps to 1996.  Effects ALL manufacturers.  Stashes data, C&C style infection, in theory applicable to Windows but suspected to have other OS brothern.  One found...

So I've been using Google Inbox for a while now and I've got to say, I see them trying to make emails "easier", but I personally don't like it at all.   I absolutely dislike how they want to try and "clump" emails together, frequently mislabelling many of my emails.   Anyone have their own...

So...  I'm doing a bit of travelling again!  I'm reporting live from an open WiFi access point in a hotel room!  Woo hoo!  I'm currently using a VPN and all that jazz at the moment to encrypt my traffic and hopefully not have anyone sniffing my packets, but what else is there to protecting your...

So all my fellow paranoid foil crafters... More leaks about the alphabet terror agencies targetting you innocent failure to opt into total surveillance.. NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists" Are you a Linux Journal reader or use software such as Tor...

While replying to I realized there was a topic we were missing in all of this IPocalypse - privacy concerns over CGNAT. Is there anyone here that is behind CGNAT? I'm really curious what VPN platforms still work with it. I'd assume that IPSEC is completely out of the picture, same with...

We should steal those hellfire missiles killing civilians in Iraq and use it to bomb the water pipes to NSA's datacenter.

Souce: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/technology/a-peephole-for-the-nsa.html N.S.A. May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot While none of this new (the taps / port mirroring) to those of you who have worked within ISPs/datacenters, the nature of the taps further upstream sort of it...

Is working for the NSA / CSS a job or did folks sign up to the join the MAFIA? "Dear NSA/CSS Family" There is a good write up with some prior NSA abuses linked here...

Hey everyone, Sharing = caring. I found out an awesome company called PRSM that collects information from key partners and share them! More information: http://getprsm.com/

In light of whistleblower Edward Snowden's masive disclosure of US spy agencies recording traffic and spying on US citizens, the NSA has announced the elimination of 90% of system administrator jobs.  This will be a reduction of around 900 middle class jobs. More no-e-con-o-me.  Good work to...

Deutsche Telekom snubs U.S. email servers after snooping scandal (Reuters) - Germany's leading telecoms operator will channel email traffic exclusively through its domestic servers in response to public outrage over U.S. spy programs accessing citizens' private messages, Deutsche Telekom said...

So, I am hyper critical of the sites I visit these days and even more critical of what is within the pages I visit. vpsBoard is one of my favorites, but in light of the NSA, FBI and their spying and entities like Google, Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, etc. all being willing co-conspirators to...

This topic is making the rounds everywhere else, figured it'd be a good topic for discussion here. I've included a handful of random links from different sources below incase you're unaware of whats going on. http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in-data-from-50-companies...