Comment A thought on MS software (Score 1) 576
You'll probably find this paranoid, but remember the basic premise in the film 'hackers'? One company supplying security software for the world, and it had a backdoor?
Now, just imagine that such a thing had happened to Windows. You can transmit whatever you want out from the system every time it browses the web, because no firewall will check what's actually extra in, for example, a URL (as one method for getting data out) as it's outbound, not inbound. What a fine facility for US industrial espionage!
Just toy with the idea. If you start thinking about the implications you could end up rather worried ...
In that light frequent security failures are so much easier to explain.
If you don't think this stuff happens, maybe you ought to find out what the Swedish Government discovered in Lotus Notes a few years back. That was probably accidental, but who knows for sure?
Now, just imagine that such a thing had happened to Windows. You can transmit whatever you want out from the system every time it browses the web, because no firewall will check what's actually extra in, for example, a URL (as one method for getting data out) as it's outbound, not inbound. What a fine facility for US industrial espionage!
Just toy with the idea. If you start thinking about the implications you could end up rather worried
In that light frequent security failures are so much easier to explain.
If you don't think this stuff happens, maybe you ought to find out what the Swedish Government discovered in Lotus Notes a few years back. That was probably accidental, but who knows for sure?
