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CIA Tricked Antivirus Programs, Claims WikiLeaks (betanews.com)
Reader Mark Wilson writes: Today, WikiLeaks published the third installment of its Vault 7 CIA leaks. We've already had the Year Zero files which revealed a number of exploits for popular hardware and software, and the Dark Matter batch which focused on Mac and iPhone exploits. Now we have Marble to look at. A collection of 676 source code files, the Marble cache reveals details of the CIA's Marble Framework tool, used to hide the true source of CIA malware, and sometimes going as far as appearing to originate from countries other than the US. The source code for Marble Framework is tiny -- WikiLeaks has provided it in a zip file that's only around 0.5MB. WikiLeaks explains that the tool is used by the CIA to hide the fact that it is behind malware attacks that are unleashed on targets: "Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA. Marble does this by hiding ("obfuscating") text fragments used in CIA malware from visual inspection. This is the digital equivalent of a specialized CIA tool to place covers over the english language text on U.S. produced weapons systems before giving them to insurgents secretly backed by the CIA. Marble forms part of the CIA's anti-forensics approach and the CIA's Core Library of malware code."
Our Guard Dogs have turned on us ... and they have rabies.
The CIA is a bigger threat to us than Russia is.
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Julian's a Russian asset. He might've had the best intentions at some point, but it's very difficult to realize them while staring down the barrel of a figurative or literal gun. His omissions, timing, and deeply misleading editorialism are equally as powerful as printing blatant falsehoods.
And by that you mean that his release isn't authentic?
Or maybe that it isn't important? Or interesting? Or valuable to society?
And I have to wonder, just how is it that you know his intentions? Or that he's a Russian asset?
You mention "printing blatant falsehoods". Do you have references, sources, rationalization, or... in fact... *anything* to support what you just said?
Someone always tries to direct the conversation away from the issues and to the person making the claim.
Does this work on Slashdot? Can we get everyone talking about the merits of Julian Assange at the top of the discussion, pushing any real debate down "below the fold" so fewer people see it?
Remind me, where is Snowden, now?
Right where the US knowingly forced him to be. Snowden didn't want to seek refuge in Russia, the US gave him no choice by yanking his passport when/how they did. It's easier for the US intelligence services and their propaganda mouthpieces to dismiss Snowden's revelations to the low-info US public that way.
Russia is on the offensive on the internet...
When has Russia, or every other major power including the US for that matter, NOT been on the offensive on the internet?
...deeply implicated in Trump and Brexit elections.
Innuendo and conjecture unsupported by verifiable facts. Just as likely, if not more so, that it was British and US intelligence services attempting to interfere, if anyone was. They'd have more to gain (or lose), actually.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The CIA is a bigger threat to us than Russia is.
I think you're missing a key point here: The CIA threat *is* the Russia threat.
Consider the balance of evidence: Putin says the Clinton leaks did not come from Russia, Julian said specifically that he knew where the Clinton leaks came from and that it wasn't Russia, the US evidence that the Clinton leaks came from Russia can be summed up as "it's something they would do".
And now we find out that the CIA can leak whatever they want and make it *look* like it came from Russia.
Also, they are one of the government agencies who claims that the leaks came from Russia.
Now, I don't have any evidence that the CIA is leaking things and making it appear as if Russia did it, but this has to make us question whether we can trust *any* government pronouncement of where some leak or another came from.
All this "the Russians did it!" can now be completely ignored as an ad-hominem attempt to lead attention away from the actual data that was leaked.
We don't know *who* leaked it, because for all we know it was our own security agency.
(And need I point out that GCHQ, Russian intelligence, and a host of other players could probably do the same thing.)