Is Your Mac Reporting Back to the US Army?是您的Mac报告回美国军队？

Despite anecdotal claims to the contrary Apple Mac computers are not invulnerable.尽管有传闻声称，相反苹果的Mac电脑并非无懈可击。 As Sig Figs’ guest blogger作为SIG的无花果'客户的Blogger Jenny Oliver has reported previously珍妮奥利弗报道，以前 there are many security issues for Mac users.有很多的安全问题为Mac用户。 She sent me an update recently in which she seems to have uncovered a very worrying conspiracy surrounding a cluster of machines with an inbuilt trojan apparently reporting back to the US government.她寄给我的一更新最近，她在其中似乎已发现了一个非常令人担忧的阴谋，周围的一组机器与内在的木马报告，显然回向美国政府。

“It is now almost two months since I have been “现在是近两个月以来，我一直 unable to use my Macbook Pro online无法使用我的MacBook Pro在线 ,” she says. ， “她说。 “After various offers to allow anti-cybercrime persons access to my computer for information-gathering purposes in the interests of national and international security, I realized that my personal and business needs were obviously greater and did a total erase and reinstall this week. “之后的各种优惠，让反网络犯罪的人进入我的电脑，为收集资料的目的，在利益的国家和国际安全，我意识到我的个人和企业的需要，显然更大，做了总擦除并重新安装这个星期。 The unidentified Trojan (or equivalent) had zombified my laptop, and the agency involved had jammed open ssh (secure shell handling)… this meant that they had complete control over it.身份不明的木马（或同等学历） ，已zombified我的笔记型电脑，该机构所涉及的已挤满了开放的SSH （安全壳处理） … …这意味着他们已经完整的控制权。 Indeed, if I had not used it in a while, it would hopefully switch itself on (even disconnected from the ‘net!), lid closed and all!事实上，如果我没有用它在一则，它希望切换本身就（甚至断开，从净！ ） ，盖封闭，所有！ Some programming skills there… note that the said ‘agency’ was waiting for a passing Mac-user to drop by.”一些编程技巧有…注意，该说'机构'正在等待路过的Mac用户，以减少“ 。

The panic begins when you do more digging than you should inside your machine.恐慌开始，当您做更多的挖掘比你应该内您的机器。 “When I first got my Mac, I did lots of exploring. “当我第一次得到我的Mac ，我没有很多的探索。 I noticed that if I fired up Network Utility, under the Info tab it would report a network connection which looked quite alien,” she adds, “This would only be visible if examined when completely disconnected from the Net.我注意到，如果我发射了网络实用工具，根据信息标签，它会报告网络连接，其中不少外国人看， “她补充说， ”这样做只会可见，如果审查时，完全断开净。 “Odd!” I thought, and supposed then that it must connect with Apple for some reason, and did not take the matter further. “奇怪！ ： ”我认为，假定，然后，它必须连接与苹果出于某种原因，并没有采取进一步行动。 It was only after I accidentally clicked on the bogus, malicious link in Google in September that I did some more investigation.这只是后，我不小心点击了假，恶意链接在Google在9月，我做了一些更多的调查。 The ‘default’ IP address was there after the hack, but it was then I recalled seeing it from the first … and the reinstall established that. '默认'的IP地址是有后开刀，但当时我记得看到它从第一… …和重新确立。 I looked up the address on www.arin.net - the American Registry of Internet Numbers.我翻查的地址www.arin.net -美国登录互联网的人数。 144.3.8.0. 144.3.8.0 。 The US Corps of Infrastructure and Engineers.美国兵团的基础设施和工程师。 This Corps is responsible for rebuilding in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.”这个团是负责重建的地方，如伊拉克和阿富汗的“ 。

I did a quick Google for that IP address and discovered a discussion我做了快速Google的IP地址，并发现了一个讨论 forum论坛 talking rather haphazardly about the issue way back in November 2004, well before Jenny’s Mac purchase.谈，而不是胡乱对这个问题，早在2004年11月，以及前，珍妮的Mac购买。 Apparently the Apple Firewire TCP/IP defaults to a 144.xxx number on all Macs.显然苹果的FireWire的TCP / IP默认为1 144.xxx的数目对所有互委会。 What at first appears to be a US government conspiracy actually turns out to be nothing more than a legacy of the fact that the US government ran the first internet machines and these 144.xxx addresses are just some of the earliest IPs handed out to organisations, such as Apple, early on.是什么在第一次出现了美国政府的阴谋，其实原来是只不过是一个遗产的事实，即美国政府然第一次互联网机器和这些144.xxx的地址，只是一些最早的IPS移交给组织，如苹果，早在上。

Anders HiPhi speaking on that forum points out that, “The server is part of the European ORSN network - a 13 strong server array network - through which all European internet traffic passes.安德斯hiphi在谈到这个论坛指出， “服务器的一部分，欧洲orsn网络-一个1 3强S erver阵列的网络-通过所有的欧洲互联网流量通过。 The ORSN say they need the US side servers as they don’t have enough resources.” However, he asks, “Even if this is the reason for the IP to be a default in the OS, Apple has it’s own ORSN servers, so why should they program US ARMY servers as their deafult?该orsn说，他们需要美方的服务器，因为他们没有足够的资源。 “不过，他问道： ”即使这是理由的IP是一个默认情况下，在操作系统，苹果它自己的服务器orsn ，所以他们为何要计划，美陆军的服务器作为其deafult ？ USACE are almost certainly responsible for Cyber Operations as part of their brief, so why have APPLE put US ARMY CyOps servers as a default when they could have used their own?” usace是几乎可以肯定，负责网络业务的一部分，他们的简短，那么，为何有苹果把美国军队cyops服务器作为默认时，他们可以用自己的“ ？

What does Apple have to say on this subject?什么是苹果不得不说关于这个问题的呢？ Apparently, just because the machine defaults to this IP when it doesn’t have a real address to hook into does not mean it is an active address being packet sniffed by a US government employee.显然，仅仅因为机器默认为这个IP时，它没有一个真正的施政报告中钩到，并不意味着它是一个积极的地址被包sniffed由美国政府雇员。 It’s an它的一 inactive address无效地址 . 。

Who knows?谁知道？ Maybe Jenny is right and there is a conspiracy.也许珍妮是正确的和有一个阴谋。 I’m of a mind to assume that it’s nothing more than a pingback address to an ancient timeserver that is no longer used by Apple’s Firewire drives but that was hardwired in early in the design and is so low priority that there is no impetus to remove it now.我的心态，假设它的只不过是一个pingback地址，以一个古老的时间服务器是不再使用苹果的FireWire硬盘，但被硬年初，在设计和是如此之低的优先是有没有动力，以消除现在。 Except that it would stop Mac users who dig too deep from worrying needlessly that the US Army is watching their every move.除外，它将停止Mac用户谁挖太深，从不必要的担心，美国军队正在注视他们的一举一动。 Indeed, I just spoke to Jenny Oliver again and she is relieved that I found this information but wonders why it is not more widely known and readily available to paranoid Mac users.事实上，我刚才的发言，以珍妮奥利弗再次和她是宽慰的是，我发现这方面的资料，但不知道为什么，这是不是更广为人知，而且现成的，以偏执的Mac用户。 Maybe there really is a conspiracy after all!也许真的是一个阴谋，毕竟！