US Government Checking Up On Vista Users?

Paris The Pirate writes "This article at Whitedust displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article 'After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state'."

Re:Bullshit

[Tablizer]

It's not even a Vista screen

That's because the FBI installed XP in the middle of the night.
       

Re:Simple solution

[MillionthMonkey]

Great plan genius- now we have to find someone who bought Vista! :)

Re:I can confirm this

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymously for obvious reasons...

I work in one of the extraterrestial government agencies not in question, and I can confirm that we have been doing this. To be fair to United States government, they had no choice to let us in. It's been going on for years now. Right here, directly out of our own network, so that any retard with a freeware tcpdump/traceroute frontend can see exactly what they're up to.

PS: this isn't real.

Re:I call bullshit.

[phayes]

Given that the firehose seems to be broken, there's no way to get this unsubstantiated bullshit off slashdot...

Re:I call bullshit.

[entgod]

I love how you're clearly indicating that vista ist't windows enough to be windows :)

Re:I call bullshit. - About Lame Screen Shots

[monoqlith]

Don't be sillly. The RIAA will sue you with much less evidence than a screenshot.

Quality research...

[Shemmie]

I'd like to applaud the commitment and bravery of the researchers in bringing this information into the public domain.

I'm from a similar underground organization, and have been monitoring Vista for some time. Notable connections we have so far made are:

Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles using Vista UMPCs are dominating the World
Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by Vista
September 11 was orchestrated by the U. S. government using Vista and Workflow Foundation
etc.

It's pretty conclusive stuff, people.
(Conspiracies kindly provided by http://www.2spare.com/item_43133.aspx [2spare.com] - note it's on an IIS server - don't trust it. The truth is out there!)

Re:Laughable.

[alodien]

ATRRS? LOL...it is a conspiracy - the DOD wants you to sign up in ATRRS to take Defense Acqusition University courses. Heaven help you - don't do it - they will literally bore you to DEATH!

Re:I call bullshit.

[sgt_doom]

Botnet, for sure. Yeah, you're unequivocally correct. And I state that for the record as a card-carrying member of the Global Tinfoil Hat League (GTHL - restricted membership to carbon-based lifeforms only).

Re:I call bullshit.

[spyowl]

I think he might actually be running a WinXP box as a firewall.

And that is the place to stop reading this discussion thread.

This would make a great scary movie.

[Ohreally_factor]

Imagine that he disconnects his LAN from the internet. . . . and keeps getting the DoD traffic!! OMFG!! The DoD is hiding somewhere in his house! Probably with a big butcher knife or a a hook or one of those chain saws with a silencer that government assassins are now using.

Now what's he doing? No, you FOOL! Don't go into the server closet!!!