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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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:18AM
That's it - keep drinking the Kool-Aid, comrade. CIA = good! CIA can do no wrong! The CIA would never consider destroying a legitimately elected democratic government for the sake of corporate profits, right?
Don't bother to search for Operation Ajax, don't bother to read about it, and most certainly don't try to understand what it was all about. Don't even think about British Petroleum, in any of it's incarnations. Don't even ponder why the CIA would destroy a democratic government for the sake of BP's profits. Just drink some more Kool-Aid, and you'll feel good.