Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> writes:

> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
>>> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
>>> unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
>>> hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
>>> they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
>>> remote access.
>>
>> Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
>> 11-year-olds.
>
> If you don't think the NSA (or anybody else) gets into your computer,
> how about this, my experience so far. I used a torrent engine to
> download 'Dreamgirls' for my daughter. What I got was a crappy copy
> and a nasty e-mail from the MPAA police.

Whats has that got to do with you computer?

> About 30 years ago I got a visit from 2 FBI gorillas in $1,000 suits
> knocking on my door (at home, 8:00 P.M.) for a very minor infraction
> of FCC regulations, and they gave me a pink ticket and a warning that
> if I dot another warning it would be a RED ticket. The RED ticket is
> one step from having you license pulled for a year.

As Homer would says : "Dooweee. Dooweee. Dooweee."

> If you don't think the FBI monitors your activities just write
> something that says "A$$a$$inate p-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t 'WEED'" in it and
> wait for the FBI at your door.
> I'm not paranoid, I have been hassled over trivial stuff.

Just mad.