Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by takyon on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-zero dept.

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.


Original Submission #1   Original Submission #2

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:22AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:22AM (#476321) Journal

    The CIA has good intentions, at least from the perspective of those who benefit from the power of the USA. This includes indirect beneficiaries, such as Japan and South Korea and NATO countries. If you benefit from the success of these, then you too are a beneficiary. From your perspective the CIA is good, even if you'd rather not admit it.

    Allow me to have some doubts on the good intentions of CIA (don't make me list all the CIA's "operation ajax"-like actions to justify my doubts, the list would take quite a while).

    But, even if CIA would bleed their hearth out from all the good intentions it has, don't forget the The road to Hell is paved with good intentions aphorism.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2