Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA | Network backdoors are a bad idea Once you build a backdoor into your network, how long will it take before some hacker figures out how to use it for his own nefarious purposes? | |
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 Xure
join:2003-11-14
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: Network backdoors are a bad idea Exactly.
All I needs now is some hacker cherrypicking CC numbers and other business and financial info from routers all over my ISP. Imagine a hacker being able to listen in on financial transactions in a large bank and its network.
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join:2004-12-27
00000 | Re: Network backdoors are a bad idea I trust crackers and script kiddies watching my traffic far more than the bungling idiots at the FBI. | |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| Re: Network backdoors are a bad idea The government can do this now. They just need to work with the ISP in question once they get a properly court-authorized warrant. A backdoor would basically mean that they would get a warrant (possibly, maybe, we'll see) and then just "turn on" monitoring of your Internet connection. Meanwhile, a hacker group (or terrorist sympathizer hackers if you want to push some more hot buttons) could figure out how to turn on remote monitoring and listen in on traffic to gather data for any purpose (e.g. terror attacks just to keep pushing those hot buttons  ).
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guitarzan
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join:2004-05-04
Skytop, PA
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| Re: Network backdoors are a bad idea said by Andrew J  :That being said, does anyone deny the need of government to conduct wiretaps when sanctioned by the appropriate court, and done within the scope of the law? -------------------------------------------------- Yes, they had 200 warnings a day about 9-11 and did nothing. Those facts just came out in parts of the 9-11 investigation that have been declassified. So all this other stuff is just needless piling on. It's only the beginning of bad things to come. Yes the future is here and it will only get worse.They had prior knowledge of 9-11 and what did they do.? Stood around with their heads up their azzes and they used their thumbs to pick their noses while their heads were lodged in the stink holes.
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