[kictanet] Is any of us safe from espionage?

[Ngigi Waithaka]

And in - depth review here

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

Surprisingly, Kenya is one of the Medium Rated Infection Countries in same
league as UAE, Qatar, Libya. Clearly someone thinks we are quite 'important'

Regards

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi at at.co.ke> wrote:

> Dennis,
>
> Basically, if you own a computer, NSA has *already* hacked you.
>
> Waithaka Ngigi
>
> Alliance Technologies
> Nairobi, Kenya
>
> www.A1.io
> On 17 Feb 2015 11:30, "Dennis Kioko via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> 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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