List of hacking and surveillance techniques used by Governments

List of hacking and surveillance techniques used by Governments.

-- Tom

 

Trojan are the Most scary

they can split your computer Open and Bring You Down!!!!
with Tones of evidence

 

Why would you be more afraid of the one technique on the list that is the most easily preventable? None of this stuff is new, these are everyday techniques.

 

They mentioned sneaking trojans in through your Windows updates and Firefox updates. How would you know what was going on if they did something like that?

 

Fake updates have been going on for years, and I don't see Microsoft nor Mozilla being party to such a measure. One there is too much risk involved, two, if a trojan came through an official update and MS or Mozilla knew about it, and it was found out about, there would be no holding back the devastating backlash. Doing something like that could literally kill Mozilla. Besides, the use of these tools are very targeted operations, they are not just going to "show up" on any website. There's no need for them anyway, and they are rarely used. Agencies can simply attach themselves to the few control points that operate the Internet if they want to go all out (and they already do that).

 

Thanks for explaining that. And I would assume, hopefully anyway, that these techniques would only be used against terrorists or something really serious like that.

 

Take a look at FinFisher FinFly ISP.

 

More on FinFisher:
Firm Sought to Install Spyware Via Faked iTunes Updates
Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Hole

 

They just use Narus

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/surveillance/2008/11/11/narus-security-through-surveillance/

Thats all they use

 

In fact there are a myriad of delivery and scrutiny modus operandi.

 

So now encrypted connections are lame or according to these they can decrypt it if they get their devices in the network?