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WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: WikiLeaks published new alleged material from the CIA on Thursday, releasing source code from a tool called Hive, which allows its operators to control malware it installed on different devices. WikiLeaks previously released documentation pertaining to the tool, but this is the first time WikiLeaks has released extensive source code for any CIA spying tool. This release is the first in what WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says is a new series, Vault 8, that will release the code from the CIA hacking tools revealed as part of Vault 7. "This publication will enable investigative journalists, forensic experts and the general public to better identify and understand covert CIA infrastructure components," WikiLeaks said in its press release for Vault 8. "Hive solves a critical problem for the malware operators at the CIA. Even the most sophisticated malware implant on a target computer is useless if there is no way for it to communicate with its operators in a secure manner that does not draw attention." In its release, WikiLeaks said that materials published as part of Vault 8 will "not contain zero-days or similar security vulnerabilities which could be repurposed by others."
No one said that. Do you understand how an argument works?
Someone criticizes the CIA
You start talking about the FSB
If someone asks you what time it is, do you tell them the weather?
> You do have to wonder why Wikileaks and Assange are so eager to target everything U.S. - the intelligence agencies, political fuck-ups, armed forces fuck-ups...
Russia, or China are mostly quiet, doing stuff in their own countries for the most part ( that YOU might consider as anti whatever, but locals not so much ).
The US on the other hand is a loud mouth cowboy who pretends he's all just and moral while bombing the crap out of everything, rigging elections, installing puppet presidents, doing assassinations, drug trade, and then complaining when somebody does similar.
Nobody gives a shit what China is doing... to other Chinese.
You cannot be on the top, deciding who gets what, and not having somebody to criticize you. So far, only wikileaks does that. Nobody expects anything from MSM anymore.