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US Government Checking Up On Vista Users?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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'."

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  1. Just Vista? by orkysoft · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So he installed Vista, plus his warez, and now he's seeing suspicious network connections? Get a grip.

    I'd like to see a bare install of Vista (legit), with no other programs running, and connection monitoring being done on a router in between the Vista box and the internet, before I will believe this. And I say this as a die-hard Linux user who has barely touched XP.

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
  2. I doubt it's due to Vista... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With PeerGuardian, you see all kinds of crap. I doubt anyone is checking up on him due to Vista. It's more likely his IP is confused for one running P2P.

    I mean, hell, 38.100.26.190 (SafeNet / MediaSentry) has been DoSing me with 10 connections/second bursts for ages now because I once clicked the wrong torrent but you don't see me writing Slashdot stories over it.