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The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy
http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/...ine_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?.../
(Go to the site to see the screenshots and visuals, article quoted here
w/out pics)
United States Government Online Watchdogs? Part of the war on terror?
(92270)
Abandonia Forums at Jul 23rd, 2007 at 22:46:55
Richard Compton Writes (on the Abandonia Forums),
"It has been a month since my upgrade to Vista. I like to keep up
with tech trends and though reluctant to throw out XP, I forced myself
to just 'swallow the pill'. After all - change is inevitable, and
resistance to change shows only our inability to adapt to new scenarios
and obstacles. I refuse to be left in the dust of an evolutionary
sandstorm. I have thus relinquished my pride and dipped into the
improvements Vista has to offer. Improvements such as increased
performance with audio hardware and DAW(Digital Audio Workstation)
software. We're talking about a Microsoft upgrade that almost rivals the
audio development quality seen on Mac DAW's for years - but with none of
the proprietary hardware BS that is forged into the Mac world.
"Wait!"
You exclaim,
"What does this have to do with the title of this post?"
I'm getting to that.
After installing all of my usual apps on Vista I was impressed to
see most everything was 100% backward compatible. I expected much of my
software to be rendered incompatible. Out of everything I've tried to
run on it - 99% produce excellent results in both loading time and
performance as compared with those same apps running under XP. Improved
support against malware, spyware, and trojans - complete with a user
rights management system that a seasoned Linux user could appreciate.
All these positive aspects and more, and then.....
ALERT!
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;
NOTE;
DoD Network Information Center(Department of Defense)
United Nations Development Program(Seems to correlate to the parent
branch of the U.N.
InformaticsDivision)
Halliburton Company(We all know these guys)
There have been many other unwarranted connections that I thought
too redundant to post
images for. To list a couple;
*Ministry of Defense Data Return Agent
*DOHS-Recon(traceroutes for this address provided nothing,
suspected blocks on traceroute. Many of us who are monitoring this
situation have suspected the acronym stands for the Department of
Homeland Security*Reconnaissance?*. This is merely a guess, but an
educated one at that.)
I ran traceroutes on the IP's, and sure enough they came back legit
and government owned. I thought this might be exclusive to my system, so
I ran over to a friend of mine who upgraded to Vista when it first
became available(MICROSOFT FAN BOY! ;P ). After installing monitoring
software on his system, the hits it caught on his network were immediate
and almost identical in source. Attempts on both TCP and UDP by
suspicious government owned addresses. Again, even when idle and running
only a bare minimum of system processes. I've written a college report
on the same phenomenon, which has gained considerable attention by even
my instructor. I've posted similar articles on a few tech sites and the
like that I frequent more often than this bored, and there are a number
of Vista users who have replied with similar claims.
--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html
"Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with
legality."
- Linus Torvalds
(Go to the site to see the screenshots and visuals, article quoted here
w/out pics)
United States Government Online Watchdogs? Part of the war on terror?
(92270)
Abandonia Forums at Jul 23rd, 2007 at 22:46:55
Richard Compton Writes (on the Abandonia Forums),
"It has been a month since my upgrade to Vista. I like to keep up
with tech trends and though reluctant to throw out XP, I forced myself
to just 'swallow the pill'. After all - change is inevitable, and
resistance to change shows only our inability to adapt to new scenarios
and obstacles. I refuse to be left in the dust of an evolutionary
sandstorm. I have thus relinquished my pride and dipped into the
improvements Vista has to offer. Improvements such as increased
performance with audio hardware and DAW(Digital Audio Workstation)
software. We're talking about a Microsoft upgrade that almost rivals the
audio development quality seen on Mac DAW's for years - but with none of
the proprietary hardware BS that is forged into the Mac world.
"Wait!"
You exclaim,
"What does this have to do with the title of this post?"
I'm getting to that.
After installing all of my usual apps on Vista I was impressed to
see most everything was 100% backward compatible. I expected much of my
software to be rendered incompatible. Out of everything I've tried to
run on it - 99% produce excellent results in both loading time and
performance as compared with those same apps running under XP. Improved
support against malware, spyware, and trojans - complete with a user
rights management system that a seasoned Linux user could appreciate.
All these positive aspects and more, and then.....
ALERT!
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;
NOTE;
DoD Network Information Center(Department of Defense)
United Nations Development Program(Seems to correlate to the parent
branch of the U.N.
InformaticsDivision)
Halliburton Company(We all know these guys)
There have been many other unwarranted connections that I thought
too redundant to post
images for. To list a couple;
*Ministry of Defense Data Return Agent
*DOHS-Recon(traceroutes for this address provided nothing,
suspected blocks on traceroute. Many of us who are monitoring this
situation have suspected the acronym stands for the Department of
Homeland Security*Reconnaissance?*. This is merely a guess, but an
educated one at that.)
I ran traceroutes on the IP's, and sure enough they came back legit
and government owned. I thought this might be exclusive to my system, so
I ran over to a friend of mine who upgraded to Vista when it first
became available(MICROSOFT FAN BOY! ;P ). After installing monitoring
software on his system, the hits it caught on his network were immediate
and almost identical in source. Attempts on both TCP and UDP by
suspicious government owned addresses. Again, even when idle and running
only a bare minimum of system processes. I've written a college report
on the same phenomenon, which has gained considerable attention by even
my instructor. I've posted similar articles on a few tech sites and the
like that I frequent more often than this bored, and there are a number
of Vista users who have replied with similar claims.
--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html
"Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with
legality."
- Linus Torvalds
