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WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: WikiLeaks has unleashed a treasure trove of data to the internet, exposing information about the CIA's arsenal of hacking tools. Code-named Vault 7, the first data is due to be released in serialized form, starting off with "Year Zero" as part one. A cache of over 8,500 documents and files has been made available via BitTorrent in an encrypted archive. The plan had been to release the password at 9:00am ET today, but when a scheduled online press conference and stream came "under attack" prior to this, the password was released early. Included in the "extraordinary" release are details of the zero day weapons used by the CIA to exploit iPhones, Android phones, Windows, and even Samsung TVs to listen in on people. Routers, Linux, macOS -- nothing is safe. WikiLeaks explains how the "CIA's hacking division" -- or the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) as it is officially known -- has produced thousands of weaponized pieces of malware, Trojans, viruses and other tools. It's a leak that's essentially Snowden 2.0. In a statement, WikiLeaks said CIA has tools to bypass the encryption mechanisms imposed by popular instant messenger apps Signal, Confide, WhatsApp (used by more than a billion people), and Telegram.
No need for zero-day exploits when Donnie's using a four-year-old Samsung that's probably got more holes than Jeff Sessions' Congress testimony.
Market forces are exactly what you want in play when you're lying on a gurney in the emergency room; that way people won't be saved for a penny less than they or their families value their lives.
The question isn't about the spy capabilities. It's about whether these tools are used without logging and review by elected officials from the Congressional security committees.
If they can be, then they will be by this or that faction spying not on the bad guys but their own political opponents. This is the reason for the 4th Amendment, to stop the king from filching through opponents' papers at will looking for stuff to tag them with.
They should have an automated and non-disablable logging system that stuff things into some MD5 file that is copied offsite to multiple places, to prevent editing of it. I'm pretty sure they have little more than a piece of paper with a checkbox "You did bother to get a warrant. Or at least a national security letter, right?" before all activity is not logged anyway.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Trump said Sweden was crime ridden due to immigrants. next day Sweden then had a riot, Radio24syv investigates it, finds Russian TV station NTV paid youths to burn a car. Trump supporters cited the riot as proof Trump was right and Swedish media was wrong.
This is misinformation at its worst.
The riots in Rinkeby were sparked by a police arrest.
Are people really modding up this feces, this worst kind of fake news?
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Mod me flamebait if you will, but that's how Trump got to "I was wiretapped!" Via a conspiracy theory from a right wing radio host that Breitbarts picked up and Fox ran with. We have a man at the top of the one of the most powerful espionage machines the world has ever known, and he gets "intel" from right wing commentators. Can't you see this for what it is, a massive vulnerability at the very top of the US Government? A foreign power could game the system by selectively feeding the likes of Levin and Breitbart stories of this kind, and because Trump clearly has no trust of his own departments, and spends far too much time watching television, he would be supremely vulnerable to such manipulation.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Clapper isn't trustworthy, but then again, neither is Trump, who clearly just picked up on a bunch of garbage coming from Levin and Breitbarts, more conspiracy theory nonsense, and running with it. It's pretty clear that no one else in the White House even saw this coming, which is why they really had no way of countering it other than "The President has ways of knowing things!" Considering we can trace the wiretap claim right back to Levin, who was exaggerating the already well known fact that Russian communications were being monitored during and after the election (because concocting anti-Obama conspiracy theories is what right wing radio shock jocks have been doing for eight fucking long years), so we know Trump didn't likely get any of this information from the FBI or any other government intelligence services.
And now we see as Trump's mouthpieces basically dilute the entire wiretap claim to the point where it was "something", that they're trying to make the entire "wiretapping of Trump Tower" conspiracy theory go away, because what Trump really did was empower and invite Congressional oversight to begin looking even closer at the nonsense going on between Trump's proxies and the Russians during and after the election.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.