[kictanet] Is any of us safe from espionage?

[Dennis Kioko]

Basically, if you own a computer, NSA can install software on your drive.

On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 09:58:05 Mark Kipyegon via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
> On 17/02/2015 09:34, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet wrote:
> > If anyone of us here has a hard drive from Seagate, Western Digital,
> > Samsung, IBM and any of the rest of the top hard drive manufacturers,
> then
> > the NSA has already hacked you.
> >
> > http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216?irpc=932
> >
> > Do we move back to paper for sensitive Government operations?
> >
>
> At this point are the authorities and the public even concerned about
> being spied on?
>
> Last year we learnt that the NSA actively monitors Kenyan GSM networks
> and that was quickly forgotten.
>
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