By Egan Orion: Friday, 21 December 2007, 9:19 AM Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls CRYPTOME reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has remote administrative access to several of the most popular Windows PC firewalls, and that it has also taken control of a number of supposedly "secure" email services within the past few months. It writes that the personal computer firewall software products from MacAfee, Symantec and Zone Alarm all "...facilitate Microsoft's NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030... without security flag." "Certain privacy [and/or] full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased [or] changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities." The so-called "secure" email services implicated by Cryptome's report include Hushmail, Safe-mail.net, and Guardster.com. Just a reminder that, if you're not using strong encryption, the NSA is probably reading your email, if not also everything that's on your system's hard drive.
We never thought that for a minute. But most people dont really know whats going on in the background. Most people, including Americans, are naive to what the American government has been doing since the beginning of time. We try to convince most people to move their online business offshore and out of the jurisdiction of the United States because privacy simply does not exist there any more. Almost all internet traffic in the United States is filtered through the NSA at one point of another. Most people simply dont want to believe this is happening.