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Norton Symantec Facilitates FBI Computer Security Breach
If you use Norton Symantec This May Affect YOU!
According to Wikipedia, Norton Symantec has facilitated the FBI to breach computer security.
The Norton Symantec programme is excellent, and I am very satisfied with it - but don't rest on your oars if you have this programme - there are things you should know, as you will read from the rest of this lens.
if you need more detail, I give the Wikipedia link to the subject a little further down this page. But their article is rather long, and you might find my synopsis a bit easier to read!
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During my research I discovered a computer bombshell
In my first lens, Computer Problems - an Occasional Journal, I ended by saying that I would tell you what I had found out:In that lens.
I was researching Norton 360 in Wikipedia - just the usual stuff to see if I could sort out my computer problems. Then one thing led to another, and I was gripped by the revelations.
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BIG BROTHER IS "LOOKING AFTER YOU" AND, IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR ...OR DO I MEAN THEY'LL SOON FIND SOMETHING?
Wikipedia on "Norton/FBI co-operation"
Have you heard of Magic Lantern? ...... The FBI and Symantec know ALL about it.
there was a section in Wikipedia about Norton Symantec entitled "FBI Co-Operation". In a nutshell, they said that Symantec (Norton), in compliance with the FBI, had whitelisted Magic Lantern, a keylogger developed by the FBI, whose purpose was to obtain passwords to encrypted email, to assist with criminal investigations. Magic Lantern is deployed as an email attachment and when opened, a Trojan horse is installed on the suspect's computer which is activated when PGP encryption is used, which would normally be to increase the email security.According to the Wiki article, Symantec and some other major antivirus vendors have rendered their own antivirus products incapable of detecting Magic Lantern, giving rise to further concerns that hackers too might be able to subvert the programme for unlawful purposes.
It is not clear whether the FBI is required to obtain a court order before gaining access in this way since the statement of the FBI spokesman Paul Bresson merely stated that "like all technology projects or tools deployed by the FBI it would be used pursuant to the appropriate legal process". To me that does not sound 100% watertight, and it could well be open to subjective interpretation by anyone seeking to use such powers.
Opposing this intentional failure to guard against all malware, The view of Marc Maiffret, chief technical officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security, was that customers pay for a service to protect them from all forms of malicious code and it is not up to his Security firm to do law enforcement's job for them and so they do not and will not make any exceptions for law enforcement malware or other tools.
And if the FBI has those powers, who else might have them? MI5? Metropolitan Police? And what about the police and spy services in other countries? There seems to be a bit of a moral dilemma here. What do others think?
The link to the Wikepedia article is Norton Internet Security, but I warn you, it's very long.
Norton 360 Version 3.0
Wikepedia Research
I had innocently looked up Norton 360 Version 3.0 in Wikipedia. What I found shocked me a bit.But really, knowing the wily ways of the world, it should not have been all that surprising, especially having read the sort of books that Chomsky, Michael Mooreand Jonathan Bloch have written.
Are you shocked or is this the sort of thing you expected?
Either we are paying for security or we're not. If we pay for it, we should get it as competently as possible, and not find out by chance that Norton is knowingly allowing FBI intrusion on our website.
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When Big Brother is watching you, do you feel more secure?
Let's see who thinks the State has a right to spy on you if it is for the greater good of all, and who thinks it is an impertinent intrusion
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Interesting Links on Security
So that you are aware of possible breaches
The latest ones, which I found on the BBC on 4th April 2011, The Telegraph 9th February 2011 and Guardian 6th April 2011are at the Bottom:
- Secret mobile phone codes cracked - BBC version
- A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users.
Karsten Nohl, working with other experts, has spent the past five months cracking the algorithm used to encrypt calls using GSM technology. - Secret mobile phone codes cracked - Guardian version
- Just a bit more detail about the same story
- Spies, Lies and War on Terror
- See what the book is about - fascinating synopsis
- Latest Email Hoaxes - Current Internet Scams - Hoax-Slayer
- Hoax-Slayer is dedicated to debunking email hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, combating spam, and educating web users about email and Internet security issues. Hoax-Slayer allows Internet users to check the veracity of common email hoaxes and aims to counteract criminal activity by publishing information about common types of Internet scams. Hoax-Slayer also includes anti-spam tips, computer and email security information, articles about true email forwards, and much more. New articles are added to the Hoax-Slayer website every week.
- Pressure Mounts on Hacking Paper - BBC News
- BBC News item about News of the World journalists hacking into mobile phones of celebrities - outrage is increasing and the story is getting bigger. The News of the World have put aside a huge fund to pay compensation, but victims of hacking are out for their blood, and criminal prosecutions are on the cards - this story is not going away!
- Wikileaks:No Proof That Julian Assange Encouraged Leaks - The Telegraph
- Wikileaks: no proof that Julian Assange encouraged leak
Investigators in the United States are believed to have failed to find evidence to support a prosecution of Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, for encouraging the leak of secret government documents. - Assenge Given Hearing Date for Extradition Appeal for July 2011- Guardian
- 6 April 2011:
"Julian Assange has been given a date for his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault.
A two-day hearing has been listed at the high court in London beginning on 12 July, it was announced on Wednesday.
The WikiLeaks founder is appealing against a ruling by Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh magistrates' court in south London that extradition would not breach his human rights.
The 39-year-old Assange, described the ruling as "rubber stamping" and the result of a "European arrest warrant system run amok". - Facebook profile access 'leaked' claims Symantec - BBC News 11 May 2011
- Facebook profile access 'leaked' claims Symantec Facebook prompts users to grant third-party access to their profile to power applications
Access to hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts may have accidentally been leaked because of a flaw in some applications.
Security firm Symantec discovered that programs were inadvertently sharing access tokens which could be used by advertisers.
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- Good lens on important subject. Lensrolled to and featured on Security and protection. Nice detective work
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- I use Kaspersky and heard it was better than Norton. Great lens 5 stars
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