08-03-2017, 07:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2017, 07:49 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Samsung has just announced that their IT specialists are frantically 'looking into' the 'reports' that their TVs are susceptible to hacking by the CIA. I guess they sort of had too, as sales of them will surely plummet to all but those who's mantra is 'I have nothing to hide'. However, this is not new or news really. I've posted articles here on toasters and refrigerators that can act as microphones and feed back everything said to whomever is in control of them [and that won't be you, Mr./Ms. owner of said product]. We had long known that computers and smart phones could seem to be 'off', yet be 'on' enough to send back voice and even sometimes video. Snowden made that clear, but it was out of the bag before he proved it. Now, we have an equally revolting revelation that the CIA [not to be outdone by the NSA or Russian Intelligence] have created their own set of programs/implants/trojans/worms/infections/hacks that can be placed in a smartphone, computer with any operating system and even your car [to kill you more likely than listen to what you say in the car]. What I'd like to know is what are People going to DO about these endless intrusions into our lives!!!! [and done with our tax money to boot!]
In fact any of these exploits can quite easily and quickly be defeated if the code is known or the means of attack is generally known; however, the NSA/CIA/others can just as quickly and easily adapt their dirty tricks to the newly modified code in the device. I'm not a programmer nor security expert, but to me it seems obvious that the only reasonably safe device would be one that regularly changed its basic parameters, both hardware and software - the first being horribly expensive and the second being a hell of a lot of trouble for the manufacturer and the user - both. Encryption may be the answer, but not the kind being used now. We are almost to the point as in 1984 where everything Winston did was seen and heard by associates of Big Brother. The capacity to do this is now available, they only haven't yet bothered to put it in every room and every device - just in many rooms and outdoor places and many devices. The NSA boasts to recording all conversations and internet actions of everyone in the developed World and much of the developing World. And, oh, by the way the 'not-yet-finished' Utah MEGA-STORAGE facility of the NSA has long been finished and in operation. The 'not finished' line was another of the Big Lies. So, they never had to get a FISA Court to approve bugging of Trump [all FISA requests are granted anyway], as the NSA only had to go to Utah and pull the calls/internet interactions of Trump or ANYONE else [even YOU!] they want when they want...it is all stored there and kept in storage, to be used at the discretion of unknown persons against all of us!
In fact any of these exploits can quite easily and quickly be defeated if the code is known or the means of attack is generally known; however, the NSA/CIA/others can just as quickly and easily adapt their dirty tricks to the newly modified code in the device. I'm not a programmer nor security expert, but to me it seems obvious that the only reasonably safe device would be one that regularly changed its basic parameters, both hardware and software - the first being horribly expensive and the second being a hell of a lot of trouble for the manufacturer and the user - both. Encryption may be the answer, but not the kind being used now. We are almost to the point as in 1984 where everything Winston did was seen and heard by associates of Big Brother. The capacity to do this is now available, they only haven't yet bothered to put it in every room and every device - just in many rooms and outdoor places and many devices. The NSA boasts to recording all conversations and internet actions of everyone in the developed World and much of the developing World. And, oh, by the way the 'not-yet-finished' Utah MEGA-STORAGE facility of the NSA has long been finished and in operation. The 'not finished' line was another of the Big Lies. So, they never had to get a FISA Court to approve bugging of Trump [all FISA requests are granted anyway], as the NSA only had to go to Utah and pull the calls/internet interactions of Trump or ANYONE else [even YOU!] they want when they want...it is all stored there and kept in storage, to be used at the discretion of unknown persons against all of us!
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass