Back on the A?V topic Early this month a report was published by AV-Test that only gave a clean bill of health to Kaspersky, Bit-Defender, and ESET. All the remainder including (surprise surprise) Macrappy and Norton actually had security flaws that would potentially allow direct attacks through the A/V itself!
A bit of data supporting Steve’s last post — NSA revealed that in order to track just 42 people, they had to trawl through 151 MILLION phone call records. (Supposedly they were careful to <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>limit</span> the scope of their trawling in order to comply with US law). I suspect that for the reasons given by Steve, GCHQ similarly has to snoop on 50 million UK phone records to track a similarly small number of UK terrorist suspects. I wonder what percent of GCHQ’s time is in consequence wasted by ‘PPI’ irritants!
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