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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: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:42AM (4 children)
Boolean logic has little to do with a concept called "values". Do I value American hegemony more, or do I value liberty more? This may be a tough one to call, for some people. We, Americans, have demonstrated that we are willing to sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake of security. How much more willing are we to sacrifice other people's liberties, for the sake of our own security?
Regarding that American/Western hegemony - overthrowing that legitimately elected democratic government that I mentioned earlier has worked AGAINST all American interests. One of those unintended consequences, ya know? But, money talks, and bullshit walks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:55AM
> Boolean logic has little to do with a concept called "values"
Since nobody was talking about values, its good you have identified that you are completely off-topic.
Now, if you could only figure out the prescription for being off-topic...
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:04PM
Thank you, Sir. Your fix is highly appropriate.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 08 2017, @12:43PM
What's that expression, "The Fruit of a Poisoned Tree?" The CIA tortures people. Torture is a war crime. Therefore, nothing they ever do can be good. Indeed, their very existence has become antithetical to American values.
I personally feel that is also true of the NSA and the federal government more broadly.
But I don't hear a lot of people asserting American values these days, as you have and as I do. I remember as a kid everybody asserting those virtues all the time as something good guys strove for. The heros in every story were always hewing to the hard path of staying true to those ideals and never giving in to the temptation of becoming just like those they were trying to fight. Now, it's become fashionable to be as depraved as possible, as quickly as possible. The idea of good vs. evil has been so thoroughly deconstructed that nobody really knows what those things mean anymore. There's only power, who has it vs. who doesn't.
Washington DC delenda est.