NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Consumer Anti-Virus Software In Order To Track Users

Tech Crunch ^ | 6-22-15 | Lucas Matney

[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!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Funny strange...

Or, funny ha-ha?

[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"?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Published at techcrunch at 3:05 pm. Posted here at 3:10 pm.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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

[Marcella]

“NSA vacuuming of your digital lives is still an ongoing effort.”

I think you are toast because you know me, and I’m toast because a fairly close family member works at the NSA looking for bad guys like terrorists, so I figure the NSA has bugged this house :o) and my computer and my phone :o), and all my FRIENDS, of which you are one.

Now, Lazamataz already knows he is screwed and he tells us that over and over. But he is a friend of mine, too, so the NSA is probably on his case, too - that makes him not only screwed, but toast, too.

[SuzyQue]

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

[Talisker]

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

They'd tell ya, but then they'd hafta kill ya.

[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.

[bgill]

All of them, every search engine, every update for Windows or Java or whatever, your IPS, every everything.

[SuzyQue]

Yeah, probably right.

[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.

[kitchen]

[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]

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

All of them???

[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.