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[Johnny4745]

International Space Station making laptop migration from Windows XP to Debian 6

An incident in 2008 apparently made space-station personnel more aware than ever of a computer virus' ability to disrupt operations in the absence of support from an open source community. That was the year the station computers were infected by the Gammina.AG. Virus after an astronaut brought an infected USB or flash drive into orbit. The virus infected other computers on board.

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-international-space-station-laptop-migration.html

[polonus]

Firefox- en Chrome-extensions hijack Facebookaccounts

http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=105970

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[SpeedyPC]

Firefox- en Chrome-extensions hijack Facebookaccounts

http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=105970

polonus

WOW! Does this means I have to give up Firefox Browser or FF-extensions to used MS IE10 .............and beside I don't used facebook and I don't trust it at all....... to me it's a piece of sh%t like a toilet paper wiping you're bare bum with it.

[bob3160]

Firefox- en Chrome-extensions hijack Facebookaccounts

http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=105970

polonus

WOW! Does this means I have to give up Firefox Browser or FF-extensions to used MS IE10 .............and beside I don't used facebook and I don't trust it at all....... to me it's a piece of sh%t like a toilet paper wiping you're bare bum with it.

In Chrome, only if you have the following extension running: chromebrasil.crx - I don't

[SpeedyPC]

Firefox- en Chrome-extensions hijack Facebookaccounts

http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=105970

polonus

WOW! Does this means I have to give up Firefox Browser or FF-extensions to used MS IE10 .............and beside I don't used facebook and I don't trust it at all....... to me it's a piece of sh%t like a toilet paper wiping you're bare bum with it.

In Chrome, only if you have the following extension running: chromebrasil.crx - I don't

Me too as I don't have chromebrasil.crx running, all I'm saying is adding an extension can be a worried because not very many people and users who don't have enough security awareness to watch what their adding to the FF browser extension.

[Gopher John]

The Firefox extension mentioned is mozillabrasil.xpi, which is not hosted on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/, the official Firefox Add-ons site.  This means that it wasn't vetted as safe.  As with all software, it's best to use the official sites.

[bob3160]

My simple philosophy:
If an app or extension is worth it's salt, it's available from the official source.
If you can't get the item from the Official Source, it isn't worth getting.

[polonus]

Govt surveillance, the going on Mobile Twitter, Viber, Line _ WhatsApp could get narrow in some countries: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/  link article author Moxie Marlinspike
But this is probably worldwide, and they rather not like you to know: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/01/governments-hacking-techniques-surveillance

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[polonus]

Encrypting your Notes on Android to Protect Yourself From Government Cellphone Surveillance [Android]
Re: http://android.16mb.com/protect-yourself-from-government-cellphone-surveillance-android.html link article author: naruto

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[polonus]

Is this the real reason behind MS acquiring skype?
http://www.zdnet.com/big-brother-microsoft-listens-in-to-your-skype-ims-7000001495/
What on the Internet does not come under surveillance now?

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[bob3160]

Is this the real reason behind MS acquiring skype?
http://www.zdnet.com/big-brother-microsoft-listens-in-to-your-skype-ims-7000001495/
What on the Internet does not come under surveillance now?

polonus

Strange but you agreed to all of this before Microsoft owned the service. Why is Microsoft the culprit

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

You are right. I pass the news as I found it.
But as you said nothing changed,

polonus

[bob3160]

Hi bob3160,

You are right. I pass the news as I found it.
But as you said nothing changed,

polonus

Simply passing along what really is nothing more than Microsoft Bashing,
isn't always the best thing to do. 
It's fairly easy to create controversial headlines in order to have people pass them along..... 
(I've probably been guilty of that practice a few times.)

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

Thank you for pointing that out to me. Sincere apologies for passing that news, without mentioning actually before and after skype was acquired nothing in this respect has changed. Both abided by what the law asked of them.
Did not post this message with MS bashing at heart, just wanted to stress the surveillance aspect of it.

With old fashioned telepone lines in Europe there is no number recognition for callers from the States, not the other way round....

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[polonus]

In the hope this has not been reported here before. PushDo is back after having been downed 4 times with new enhanced evasion via DGA, read:
https://blog.damballa.com/archives/1998  link article author Damballa's Senior Researcher Jeremy Demar,

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