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US Government Checking Up On Vista Users? 291

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 22, 2007 @02:24PM from the security-theatre-in-your-home dept.

Paris The Pirate writes "This article at Whitedust displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article 'After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state'."

Submission + - Gamer Kidnapped for Password in Fake Orkut Date (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22, 2007 @12:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Funny story in Gizmodo this weekend: 'An armed gang of four kidnapped a GunBound World Leader after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. The story gets better: the gamer refused to talk, probably after using some Stamina +357 spell or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.'

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