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DoD connections to MS Vista PCs

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Very interesting thread where a users claims that he discovered DoD trying to connect to his vista pc.

http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/U...war_on_terror?

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Re: DoD connections to MS Vista PCs

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Re: DoD connections to MS Vista PCs

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Seems like they might be trying to cover this up

http://www.digg.com/security/United_..._war_on_terror

Interesting stuff on that page (And another interesting link linked from there also)
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Re: DoD connections to MS Vista PCs

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Wasn't this proven just to be normal traffic from using bit torrent and other applications like it. The same thing would happen on XP or even linux machines.
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