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The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks said Tuesday that it has obtained a vast portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal, and began posting the files online in a breach that may expose some of the U.S. intelligence community's most closely guarded cyber weapons.
A statement from WikiLeaks indicated that it planned to post nearly 9,000 files describing code developed in secret by the CIA to steal data from targets overseas and turn ordinary devices including cellphones, computers and even television sets into surveillance tools.
The hacking organisation made the statement as it announced a huge release of confidential documents from the CIA as part of its mysterious Year Zero series, founder Julian Assange claimed. The group said that from October 2014 the CIA was "looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks" to enable them to "engage in nearly undetectable assassinations."
takyon: WikiLeaks: Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed and (selected document) Weeping Angel (Extending) Engineering Notes. Also at NYT, USA Today, BBC, and Reuters. The Hill reports that Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu has called for an investigation... into the leak of the documents and tools.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @01:30AM (6 children)
Your implicit assumption is that the behaviour actually serves american interest.
Please explain how do you reconcile in your head the ideas "american public is better served by the vulns disclosure" and "cia does not disclose the vulns, yet it serves american interest"?
What guarantees you have cia won't use them on you, as AC as you think you might be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:10AM (5 children)
> What guarantees you have cia won't use them on you, as AC as you think you might be?
Whether it is also used on me does not negate the value of using it on american adversaries.
I think you fail at basic boolean logic.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:03AM (4 children)
Yeah, sure, it matters more we are able to throw shit to out adversaries, just don't look onto the fact these adversaries can use the same shit against the population we are sworn to protect.
No, this is absolutely not a problem, we need to investigate how come our obscurity was dispersed (i.e. who has leaked unclassified material?), just forget about the failure on the "protect our citizens" mission, it's not important (what I tell you three times is true).
You'd make a good politician, spinning the things like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:10AM (3 children)
Sorry dude, are those italics supposed to be words you are putting in my mouth?
Because, frankly I'm having trouble figuring out what the hell your point is other than random outrage.
Perhaps your meds need adjusting?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:16AM (2 children)
That is what I understood from your position. Would you be willing to discuss, you only need to correct it**
My point you ask?
My point is: "I fail to see how Ted Lieu concentrating on who leaked rather than what is the rationale CIA lets american public vulnerable" can be considered as logical.
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** Based on the "Perhaps your meds need adjusting?" I have some doubts discussion is possible, so perhaps we might as well let the things how they are and agree to ignore each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:41AM (1 child)
> That is what I understood from your position.
Nah, more like something you dreamt up and decided to project on to anyone who thinks your first post was non-sensical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:20AM
(yeap. No discussion possible. Thanks for your time)