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Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations

posted by on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the always-on-our-side dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard. Twice.

Now, according to BBC, Wikileaks has released another incredible piece of [the CIA] arsenal. Wikileaks reportedly released the code that the CIA uses to disguise the origins of a computer virus as a part of Vault 7.

These hacking tools reportedly include decoy languages like Russian to disguise the national origins of the cyber attack or malware. The release may disrupt the CIA's current operations and reveal previous cyber operations.

Source: https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/04/wikileaks-disrupt-cia/

Also at Ars Technica

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:31PM (#488715)

    A drop of credibility goes a long way in the now-endless torrent of Fake News precipitating from nearly every nook and cranny of both mainstream and social media.
    Who are you going to trust: a) a 500 page refutation of the Holocaust by a bunch of skinheads from 4chan, or b) a 3 page essay by Howard Zinn debunking those 500 previous pages?
    Please tell me which you prefer, I'm dying to know.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:39PM (#488725)

    I don't understand the question. Do you mean "do I trust a document that is researched, vetted, and written by a number of people more than I trust something written by someone I don't know?" Tricky question! In this specific case my answer is: "I just don't care."