NSA: The BackDoor Into Your Computer

This is a short one. A friend  sent me an email from a trusted source that obviously makes it hard to authenticate. But, as a basic Geek, when I saw it , I froze. I, too, was concerned about the warrentless wiretapping, but I comforted myself by saying that the massive influx of data would be hard for them to sort out.

This is a whole different animal. This is one step away from sneaking into your house and looking at all your personal things when your gone- without a warrant.

I'm not sure how to verify this, but as most developers know, most software has a back door in it. Many of you are using this software right now. If this letter is correct, then there should be shouting from the rooftops. If true, it makes wiretapping look almost "quaint" when it comes down to the violation of the basic constitutional right of privacy.

Here is the email and the link. I leave it up to those who know more than I to figure out if this soemthing that should be looked at. Note , I've have emphasized the sections that should be of most concern by putting them in bold.

A sends:
Subject: NSA-affiliated IPs/DNS as of 19 Dec 2007 05:57hrsGMT
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:40:38 -0700 (MST)

Just learned following within the past few days:

Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities.

Hushmail: now fully owned by private entity NSA affiliate; has had informal relationship with NSA for a number of years that effectively provided NSA with real time access to Hushmail's hosting servers.

Safe-mail.net: Israeli-based, ironically privately lauded by NSA and US military several years ago for its sound implementation of SendMail with SSL webmail GUI frontend. Now provides mail server info to NSA in real time.

Guardster.com (SSH/SSL proxy): NSA contractors have "bought" full access rights to Guardster servers a few days ago. Separate but related: faciliated port sniffing of hosting servers at Everyones Internet, on NSA affiliates' behalf, has been ongoing for a number of months now.

More info on industry Windows security software:

Zone Alarm, Symantec, MacAfee: All facilitate Microsoft's NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030; ie will allow access without security flag. Unknown whether or not software port forward routing by these same programs will defeat NSA access.

I will continue to provide more info on the above and related topics upon discovery.

Note the bold areas, I assume that admin access and remote control means the same remote desktop that some of you may have used, for the rest it means it's the same as them sitting in front of your computer and looking through everything with complete admin access.

I hope that someone can put some absolute proof that this is wrong. But it sure sounds like what these guys would do. If true, It makes the telephone companies  look like jaywalkers in comparison.

Here is the Link

Disclaimer: This diary has not been fact checked beyond what is written. I can only say I trust the source.