NSA spy skills

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I dont know is this true but i heard on TV that NSA is make very strong computer worms to spyng Franch computers and other countryes.Can anyone found that super worms???

[Elise]

Hello,

Its not impossible for them to do this, and the ethics of doing so are another subject altogether, but if this is the case, then its unlikely you'd see this in the wild, because that would give them a serious disadvantage (element of surprise is important) and because it likely would be employed at a specific target only. Unless something would leak out, its unlikely you'll encounter something like this on your own computer.

[biodegradable]

Kaspersky is found virus Fire,i believe that NSA got unkown to us technology.Some people can anything to spy enything,i dont know how but in twenty-first century that is very possible,thanks for answer Elise madam

[Kevin Zoll]

Of course the NSA has technology that is unknown to us. If they are using publicly known exploits and exploit kits, then everyone would be actively working to mitigate those exploits and kits, that includes the targets of NSA spying. Which, for the most part are individuals and governments that are considered to be hostile to the USA. Unfortunately the NSA's dragnet is so huge, that is catches the data of innocent people. The good news is that the vast majority of that non-targeted traffic will never be scrutinized; unless it contains data that the search algorithms use to flag traffic for further evaluation.

It has also become public that the NSA has backdoored at least 2 major encryption algorithms, one of which is broken and there are no plans to fix that particular algorithm. It should also be assumed that the NSA has backdoored encryption hardware, as well. If you don't want someone finding something out, don't put it on the Internet.

[biodegradable]

Shadow i use free SSTP VPN maked by Microsoft but VPN is just illusion? i am riht?

[Kevin Zoll]

SSTP is a proprietary standard owned by Microsoft, and I wouldn't count on that not being compromised by the NSA.

PPTP has been compromised by the NSA.

L2TP and L2TP/IPsec may be compromised by the NSA.

OpenVPN, which uses the OpenSSL library and SSLv3/TLSv1 protocols, along with a variety of other technologies, can be considered a reliable and secure VPN solution. OpenSSL includes an algorithm known to have been subverted by the NSA. However, as I mentioned in my previous post, the implementation of that particular algorithm is flawed, and as a result completely breaks the algorithm; and cannot be used by OpenSSL. The OpenSSL project has no intentions of fixing the implementation of that particular alogrithm.

At this time OpenVPN does not appear to have been compromised by the NSA, and is also (because of the way OpenVPN exchanges keys) appears to be immune to NSA attacks.

[biodegradable]

hey man THANKS ALOT ALOT but why i cant find VPN for IPv6.IPv4 is not actuall like IPv6? or i ask stupid question ?

[Kevin Zoll]

IPv6.IPv4 is not a protocol but translation from IPv6 to IPv4 and vise versa.

[biodegradable]

wow you have answer for all,thank you prof