Tor_and_The_Dark_Net_Remain_Anonymous_and_Evade_NSA_Spying_by_James

THEY ARE WATCHING YOU –
VIRUSES, MALWARE,
VULNERABILITIES
Your computer will always be vulnerable to some sort of attack from those who want to
harm you in some way. Whether it is harm your privacy, steal your information or throw
you in jail.
It should come to no surprise to us that the US government is actually the largest
purchaser of malware.
“According to a new report, the United States government is now in fact the single
largest buyer of malware in the world thanks to the shift to “offensive”
cybersecurity and is leaving us all vulnerable in the process.
In order for the government to exploit vulnerabilities discovered in major software,
they cannot disclose those vulnerabilities to the manufacturers or the public, lest
the exploit be fixed.
“My job was to have 25 zero-days on a USB stick, ready to go,” one former
executive at a defense contractor told Reuters. The defense contractor would
purchase vulnerabilities from independent hackers and then turn them into exploits
for the government to use as an offensive cyberweapon.”
After reviewing the sources in the article and other articles, some of these defense
contractors expressed concern that the government was essentially funding criminal
activity. They are paying independent hackers, in some cases blackhats to find zero day
exploits (ones that have not been publicly announced yet) and buy these exploits off of
them for huge sums up money, upwards of $100,000.
If you are using a laptop with a built-in microphone and camera, you are extremely
vulnerable to an attack as John McAffee, the man who started McAffee Anti-Virus
explains.
““We don’t have much [security] anymore, and certainly not in the online world,”
he said at Saturday’s talk. “If you can give me just any small amount of information
about yourself, I promise you, within three days, I can turn on the camera on your
computer at home and watch whatever you’re doing.””
http://endthelie.com/2013/05/10/report-us-government-now-buys-moremalware-than-anyone-else-in-the-world/#axzz2qIjeZ32e”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/john-mcafees-product-aims-make-internetusers-virtually/story?id=20424182
So the first thing you should do right now is go grab some opaque tape and put it over
your camera. If you are on a desktop and you have a webcam plugged in, unplug it unless