The NSA is payloading you!

Do you install unsigned packages using unencrypted protocols? YOU ARE FUCKED
Now your BIOS, every single chipset, and the microcode of your CPU is backdoored.
Do you pass files from your DMZ computer to your off-line computer using USB drives? YOU ARE FUCKED
Now the off-line computer you were using to encrypt shit using Curve25519 is compromised and it's using high-frequency sounds to ask for more fucking payloads from your main machine!
Not using a battery as your power-source, tin-foiling your walls, and doing acoustic insulation in your room? YOU ARE FUCKED
You are being tempested, differential power analyzed, and keyboard sniffed through audio recording...

There is no escape when you give so much power and money to a satanic agency like the NSA

THE NSA IS PAYLOADING MY ANUS

I wish people would stop labelling the boogeyman as the NSA. You seriously think China's intelligence agencies don't do the same thing? The UK has a data center that stores every packet that goes through a UK-owned server with a three day retention span, and increasing. If you want to be paranoid about this shit, good for you, more people should be. But if people just keep saying ``NSA NSA NSA NSA'' there's the implication of ``If the NSA stopped watching me, nobody would be watching me''. This isn't a problem with a few bad apples in a single organization sponsored by a single country, this is human nature. If public outrage causes the NSA to be defunded or something, I would hope nobody is naive enough to think that all of our problems would magically go away.

Programming

1. Nope. Plus, the problem is on the unsigned packages, not the communication method.
2. BIOS, only those that do something with the internet, and can be reflashed from OS level. All CPUs older than 19 years ago are fine. The newer intel ones are truly evil by design. Plus, using the CPU is the least method they can scan your shit. Ultrasonics is easier to eaves drop on you, and scanning your packets. They can care less what's in your computer, than what you publish online.
3. LOL, you paid attention to that BadBIOS worm. We have denounced so many times, even in the hacker news thread. The timing could have not been better in arstechnica.
4. Eeyup. BE sure to shield your devices honey. My friend uses magnesium plates for all his laptop covers.
5. What? Like Aluminum is a great sound absorbent…
6. Yeah, we went over that, esp. in high metropolitan areas. Even then, a good metal roof can resonate most of the ultrasonics away.

>>2
Ouch. Does it feel good though?

>>3
Amen. Just trust in cryptography, and in the mantra of deterrence. Always be prepared. I know my anus is.

>>4
LET THAT BE!

The agency’s Dishfire database -- nothing happens without a code word at the N.S.A. -- stores years of text messages from around the world, just in case. Its Tracfin collection accumulates gigabytes of credit card purchases. The fellow pretending to send a text message at an Internet cafe in Jordan may be using an N.S.A. technique code-named Polarbreeze to tap into nearby computers. The Russian businessman who is socially active on the web might just become food for Snacks, the acronym-mad agency’s Social Network Analysis Collaboration Knowledge Services, which figures out the personnel hierarchies of organizations from texts.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/more_nsa_revela.html

"Prosecutors might say, 'Aha, we won - now let's go do it again.' Or they might say, 'OK, we made our point - now we can step back a little bit.'"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-damage-analysis-idUSBRE96U00420130731

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/a_template_for.html

A Template for Reporting Government Surveillance News Stories

This is from 2006 -- I blogged it here -- but it's even more true today.

Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks, the [name of agency (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)] have been gathering a vast database of [type of records] involving United States citizens.

"This program is a vital tool in the fight against terrorism," [Bush Administration official] said. "Without it, we would be dangerously unsafe, and the terrorists would have probably killed you and every other American citizen." The Bush Administration stated that the revelation of this program has severely compromised national security.

1971 Perry Fellwock National Security Agency > Former NSA analyst who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview with Ramparts (magazine) in 1971.[12] At the time, the NSA was a little-known organization. Because of the Fellwock revelations, the U.S. Senate Church Committee introduced successful legislation to stop NSA spying on American citizens. Fellwock was motivated by Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers.[13]

It was created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s. By the end of the 20th century, the system referred to as "ECHELON" had evolved beyond its military/diplomatic origins, to also become "... a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications."[6]

The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact.

It described a world where the two major powers—each possessing nuclear weapons and thereby threatened with mutually assured destruction (MAD)—never met in direct military combat. Instead, in their struggle for global influence they engaged in ongoing psychological warfare and in regular indirect confrontations through proxy wars. Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension, which could have led to world war. The tensest times were during the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban missile crisis (1962), the Vietnam War (1955–1975), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the "Able Archer" NATO military exercises (1983).

The conflict was expressed through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to client states, espionage, massive propaganda campaigns, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events (in particular the Olympics), and technological competitions such as the Space Race. The US and USSR became involved in political and military conflicts in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. To alleviate the risk of a potential nuclear war, both sides sought relief of political tensions through détente in the 1970s.

Does the u.s. government suffer post-war ptsd ?

Korea Afghanistan Vietnam Cuba
Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia

All the places that give you trouble now?

So now you mess with everyone..?
I give you 20 years, tops....

>>5

5. What? Like Aluminum is a great sound absorbent…

Aluminum is for tempest-like side channel attacks

>>3

human nature

AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Things are happening in the world? Well I guess it's just HUMAN NATURE EVEN THOUGH I'VE YET TO SEE ANY EVIDENCE OF THIS MAGICAL THING CALLED ``HUMAN NATURE''

A FEW THOUSAND PEOPLE AT THE TOP BEHIND ALL THIS MEANS EVERYBODY IS BEHIND THIS THAT GODDAMN ``HUMAN NATURE'' EH?

>>15
Letting those few thousand sick fucks get to the top is definitely everybody's fault.

Now everybody must take action !

>>15
So do you really think that if the NSA were magically defunded tomorrow, you wouldn't have to worry about governments intruding on your privacy?

>>16,15
hippies

>>18
Or thugs FTM. It's not like governments are the only ones who profit of this mass surveillance apparati. I am sure ISPs and other big cartels are in cahoots with this massive profiling system.

NSA became liek God - omnipresent, yet nobody sees it.

>>21

yet nobody sees it.

Because god is a usless bum, just like the NSA.
If they have that kind of power why cant they just bomb stupid scum using predator drones and make the world a better place.

>>22

If they have that kind of power why cant they just bomb stupid scum using predator drones and make the world a better place.

Self-preservation.

>>22
Drones are overrated and only work well against retarded sheep herders in huge open areas such as deserts.
The current NSA would get out-spied if they were to deal with the soviet union, everything is getting worse. Convenience makes things worse.

Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

you've been payloaded!

>>25
Man, I wish I was an NSA PORN MUSLIM !

╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮

I've nothing to hide.

OP, you are grossly overestimating the power (and the scope of that power) that the NSA has.

>>27
close your middle fingers and open your eyes.

>>28
It's unknown information, so an estimate is as likely to be an overestimate as it is to be an underestimate.

>>1

keyboard sniffed through audio recording

Joke's on you - I type all my text into a a terminal constantly running a self-audited rev, then copy it back out!

>>27
who are you quoting?

>>29

close your middle fingers and open your eyes.

Deep.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/new-attack-steals-e-mail-decryption-keys-by-capturing-computer-sounds/

even more payloaded anuses

>>33
That has nothing to do with payloads, it's just a side-channel attack against a shitty implementation of RSA.

Yeah well, Appelbaum was payloaded hard this time:
http://www.dw.de/snowden-ally-appelbaum-claims-his-berlin-apartment-was-invaded/a-17315069