Confirmed: CBS News Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's Computer Compromised

Townhall.com ^ | Juine 14, 2013 | Katie Pavlich

[jdsteel]

Obama is making enemies out of even his staunchest supporters. The MSM will not take this lightly, and they should not.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Slimestein suffers from terminal ignorance.

[uncommonsense]

"Firewalls....are all provided by commercial companies...who give their backdoor option over to NSA, in exchange for something (maybe tax credits, maybe information on competition, etc). The fed’s can walk into anyone’s computer....browse, and note anything."

Possibly true, but she may have been hacked / cracked when connected to a public site that allows device discovery. Probably not - probably was an "inside job" from a SysAdmin who opened her computer to an outside agent - directed by CBS cronies of ObaMao.

If an employee is on the corporate LAN, then their computer's IP address should not be routable - therefore, external devices cannot discover or gain access to the computer¹. Certain OS features or specialized software can be used to connect from the Internet through a firewall to a PC (on the private corporate network), but it's turned off by any corporate admin worth their salt.

¹ A firewall takes the corporate public IP address used to connect to the Internet and obfuscates it on the private side by issuing a non-routable IP address to all connected devices in order to route traffic between the private and public (Internet) domains. It's called NAT - Network Address Translation - gives devices on the corporate side an IP address in the 192.xxx.xxx.xxx range.

[uncommonsense]

"But wait. NSA says they are not reading individual emails or actually listening in on your phone calls or hacking your computer. Its just a generalized data mining operation."

It probably is generalized. They intercept everything on the Internet before showing up at communication vendor servers. From The Washington Post - A Story of Surveillance

The technician, who was about to retire, handed him some wiring diagrams.

"That was my 'aha!' moment," Klein said. "They're sending the entire Internet to the secret room."

The diagram showed splitters, glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies. One fed into the secret room, the other proceeded to its destination, he said.

"This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style," he said. "The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's."

One of Klein's documents listed links to 16 entities

[LibLieSlayer]

I think that she was born with a demon for a brain.

LLS

[Rome2000]

Its the Commie way
Next step is 2 bullets to the head
That’s how Putin plays the game, the CPUSA in charge of the WH is sending a message

[who knows what evil?]

ALL Democrats are demon-possessed...how else could you support abortion and the sodomite agenda? Demon-possessed...period.

[fnord]

“CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.”

and after we determine the political affiliations of the intruder, we will decide whether to pursue this, or not.