US government snoops used Vista to spy on me
A BLOKE, SUSPICIOUS of what his newly-installed Vista was up to, fired up some port-sniffing software.
The result, he said, was "foundation shaking."
His sniffer reported unwanted connections to spooky corners of the Interweb such as "DoD Network Information Center (Department of Defense)" and "Halliburton".
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The government got to him!!!
Article bogus
Put away the tin foil hats--the article was likely found to be bogus.
Whoops, got to go. Been a while since I've done an nmap scan on my network...
re: bogus
Here's the original forum thread the inquirer quoted.
re: bogus
That's right kiddies, always get your security/conspiracy info from a quasi-legal abandoned game software site's forum, cause ya know only the best security op's work/write there.
I'm guessing they take the term "packet sniffing" to a whole new meaning.
re: bogus
Well, where else should we get our bogus conspiracy theories?