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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:48AM
With regard to being members of a larger body: I didn't say otherwise, so your rebuttal is essentially a straw man. In fact, you're agreeing with me: The "civilized" world is looking ever more like what I describe. Much of human interaction already occurs through "private" negotiation/enforcement.
The key that you are missing is that the culture does not yet present a conscious, deliberate appreciation for contract negotiation/enforcement, which is why it still makes sense to people that a government can just ban liquor sales on one day of the week, or lock people in cages for smoking marijuana, or arbitrarily and capriciously raise some one-size-fits-all fee for living in a particular jurisdiction... you know... because... a school needs to give every child an iPad.