Is Vista Allowing The Government To Spy On Our Computers?

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 in Security & Privacy by Chooch

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’.”

Seen on Dvorak and Slashdot

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