NSA Exposes Cloud Computing's Weakness | Linux Today

NSA Exposes Cloud Computing’s Weakness

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Christine Hall
Jul 24, 2013

We’ve learned a few things over these last few months, since the truth came out about the NSA. We’ve learned that while we’ve been busy wearing tinfoil hats to keep the government from picking our brains, they’ve been doing it anyway, through our computers, which very well may have been helping them if we’ve been running proprietary software. We’ve learned that if you run Windows you very well might be part of the NSA’s botnet.

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