The NSA 0wnz popular firewalls and 'secure' email services

[t3ch]

From http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...ular-firewalls

CRYPTOME reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has remote administrative access to several of the most popular Windows PC firewalls, and that it has also taken control of a number of supposedly "secure " email services within the past few months.

It writes that the personal computer firewall software products from MacAfee, Symantec and Zone Alarm all "...facilitate Microsoft's NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030... without security flag."

[KrushR]

I figure someone would have sniffed those ports before now. No wai Germany hasn't noticed this. I'll RTFA in a minute.

[KrushR]

after reading, I seriously doubt it. Someone would have discovered it. I know at least twenty people running IDS (intrusion detection systems), and it logs every single packet that comes in, whether it's straight, encrypted, malformed, segmented, etc. That many Cisco engineers would have found something.

unless Cisco's in on it too.