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Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised
New submitter RoccamOccam writes "Shortly after the news broke that the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring the phones and email accounts of Associated Press and Fox News reporters (and the parents of Fox News Correspondent James Rosen), CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson said her computer seemed like it had been compromised. Turns out, it was. 'A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.'"
Why is the justice department denial so specific:
To our knowledge, the Justice Department has never compromised Ms. Attkisson’s computers, or otherwise sought any information from or concerning any telephone, computer, or other media device she may own or use.
It sounds like a carefully worded statement that leaves open the possibility that they planted an old fashioned bug to listen to her in her home, or a GPS tracker on her car, or secretly searched her house, or one of the other many ways they can secretly keep someone under surveillance.
Why not a simple "We have never had Ms Attkisson under any surveillance or covertly obtained any information about her"?
Besides, if she used a Verizon Business cell phone, or if the same cell phone meta-data order that was leaked to the press was given to all of the carriers, then the government *did* seek information concerning telephones used by her.
I love how they fail to mention what data was searched. Im sure that would provide alot of information as to who was doing the searching.
It isn't the operating systems. Too many people pay attention to them. The secret code is in the compilers (where all the NSA fake employees work). It works this way: the compiler itself was compiled by the NSA to add secret code to the compiler source. This way, even if you are compiling from the clean and open source files, you will still get the NSA features. And when the OS is compiled, the NSA features are also added. For all 'hard-copy' operating systems, additional effort is made to ensure that the final copy is compromised. For open source or downloadable operating systems, the NSA runs a program where they swap out bytes at the ISP level while retaining the checksums. I've heard that this program is code named LEYTUNNEL.
Posted via Tor to protect myself and my source
Think back to the 1960s. Many of the complaints the "radicals" had were in fact legitimate. The Vietnam war was poorly managed and ultimately a colossal waste of lives and resources. Agent Orange really was a horrible toxin, causing permanent injuries. Drafting people to send them to a pointless war really was an evil act (and the draft dodgers were making a decision that in retrospect was a smart one)
Marijuana really was a drug with low potential for harm, black people really were being oppressed, and nudism and free love must have been pretty fun.
The point is, what did mainstream culture have to say then? What did all those protests do to affect the decisions made by The Man? Fuck-all, that's what. Doesn't seem any different now.