{"id":39,"date":"2007-11-12T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:14:09","slug":"who-trusts-you-and-who-do-you-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Who trusts you and who do you trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason I am constantly reminded of the old Schwarzenegger movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093894\/\"><em>Running Man<\/em><\/a> where the game show host Damon Killian  yells out &#8220;Who loves you and who do you love?&#8221; to rousing applause.  Except when I think of that scene I often replace the word love with the word trust. They mean about the same thing don&#8217;t they?<br \/>\nSo who do you trust? Do you trust your security consultants? &#8216;Acid&#8217; or &#8216;AcidStorm&#8217; (aka John Kenneth Schiefer) who worked for a Los Angeles based security consultant company known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3gcgroup.com\/\">3G communications<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamfraudalert.com\/f142\/john-kenneth-schiefer-botmaster-aka-acid-acidstorm-pleads-guilty-10692\/\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to purposely infecting computers he was supposed to be protecting with various forms of malware, running a botnet of 250,000 machines and even stealing paypal account passwords. Did I mention he was a security consultant?<br \/>\nAnd how about this, brand new Maxtor brand hard drives from Seagate are found to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/2003387202\">Trojans preinstalled<\/a> on them. What&#8217;s worse is that this has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/09\/19\/maxtor_harddrives_include_virus\/\">happened before<\/a> (and will probably happen again.)<br \/>\nThe bad guys aren&#8217;t lurking around corners hidden in dark alleys, they are right here in plain sight. So who do you trust? Who trusts you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason I am constantly reminded of the old Schwarzenegger movie Running Man where the game show host Damon Killian yells out &#8220;Who loves you and who do you love?&#8221; to rousing applause. Except when I think of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/?p=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacerogue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}