US Government Checking Up On Vista Users?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 22, 2007 @06:24AM 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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Re:I call bullshit. by nbannerman · 2007-07-22 06:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yeah, I don't get those screenshots either - the RDP window is Vista, but the contents are XP... I'm willing to call bullshit on this as well - nothing more than anti-MS FUD without verification.