It's almost breath taking in it's scope! Imagine the BIOS of your computer hacked by the feds BEFORE it even reaches the stockroom of your local computer store. The BIOS - that's where you want to be if you are a spy agency. Forget tracing your calls; forget meta data warehousing; forget call monitoring; forget putting duck tape over laptop web cam. If they already have BIOS implants in your DELL or HP or whatever brand computer, you are doomed and the game is already over.
Here is a simple test: Power up your laptop and leave it on; then exit the room for a few minutes. When you come back, check to see if your weather location is local or Arlington, VA. And, you think you can trick them by simply removing the battery in your cell phone? What if you own one that doesn't have a removable battery? Why do you think they are doing away with cell phones with removable batteries? "The ANT division does not just manufacture surveillance hardware. It also develops software for special tasks. The ANT developers have a clear preference for planting their malicious code in so-called BIOS, software located on a computer’s motherboard that is the first thing to load when a computer is turned on." Read more: NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware' http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-laptop-usb-plant-spy On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Richard Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > Arrest him and book him! > > You are fired for lying to the American people. Clear out your desk and > leave the building! Officer, arrest this man and book him for serial lying. > Bailiff, put this man in chains and take him for the perp walk,immediately! > Mr. Biden, get on the phone with that Snowden fellow and get his pardon > ready,NOW! Do it! > > It's not easy to pick the year's most transparent lie from the self-styled > “most transparent administration in history.” There are so many to choose > from—such a richness of embarrassment. > > For my money, the biggest presidential lie of the year came on June 7, the > week after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden > revealed the agency's secret collection of call records data on millions of > Americans. “I welcome this debate,” Obama proclaimed—even as his > administration was hunting down the whistleblower who started it and > preparing to hit him with 30 years of Espionage Act charges." > > Read more: > > 'Obama's Epic Fib About the NSA' > http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/24/obamas-epic-fibs-about-the-nsa > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Richard Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The ObamaCare disaster is not just a management failure, it's a firing >> incident. Where I used to work, a system failure this large would be a >> cause for instant dismissal: >> >> *"Clean off your desk and get out, you're fired! Officer, escort this >> person off the premises. And, don't you ever come back! You'll never work >> in this town again. You fuckin' idiot!"* >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> 'In Defense of Kathleen Sebelius' >> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303680404579141473117316190> >> > >
