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

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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:33PM (22 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:33PM (#488717)

    I was going to post something similar to the OP but reconsidered since the source is supposedly wikileaks. Milo has a LONG road ahead if he wants to get any respect outside the alt-right circles...

    Ok that's out of the way. So, is this a fake news story? Russians trying to stir doubt and confusion, make US citizens wonder if it was the Russians for the CIA messing with elections?

    If it was the CIA then we have a branch of government trying to manipulate election results: very bad! Maybe not as bad for Trump unless there is evidence of a connection.
    If it was the Russians messing with the election: very bad! Very bad for Trump, too much evidence mounting against him.

    My personal take (which means squat) is that this is more meddling trying to destabilize the US government. Not a hard thing to do these days. I don't doubt the CIA/NSA/FBI would hack people and try to make it look like Russians / Chinese / Whoever, but I am much more doubtful about them doing so on Trump's behalf.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:37PM (20 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:37PM (#488724)

    Milo has a LONG road ahead if he wants to get any respect outside the alt-right circles.

    The irony is Milo is alt-lite and the right has pretty much disavowed him.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:47PM (19 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:47PM (#488730)

      Milo is alt-lite

      Are you saying that it's possible to actually split hairs about types of white supremacists?
      What a world.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:52PM (2 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:52PM (#488736)

        Like the Inuits having a hundred words for snow ... overabundance of anything begs for sorting and characterization.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:04PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:04PM (#488739)

          Not obligatory, but amusing nonetheless...

          https://xkcd.com/915/ [xkcd.com]

          • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:23PM

            by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:23PM (#488752)

            It's indeed slightly off-thread, because it's not specifically overabundance as much as lack of alternative focus opportunities...

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:49PM (11 children)

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:49PM (#488786)

        I don't think Milo has seen Kyle and AFAIK his boyfriend is a black dude so, no, not so much white supremacist there LOL. No not exactly a klansman, not Milo.

        He is not terribly fond of extreme feminists or antifa or the legacy left in general so in a weird "enemy of your enemy is your friend" manner he's somehow mixed in with the alt-lite people. When a follower of the religion of peace shoots up a gay night club, Milo is right there to complain about how in the modern progressive stack the shooter ranks vastly higher than the dead gay victims. The former alt-right, with the election of Trump, and the banishing of the neocons back into the gates of hell from whence they spawned, are now merely mainstream Republicans, mostly of which generally see Milo as a degenerate.

        He's in a rough spot, everyone to the left in the legacy areas see him as literally Hitler, and everyone in the right is like "you're not Hitler-ing correctly if you're gay and have a black boyfriend" so it must be very tough to be Milo.

        If you really want to blow leftists minds, over the past couple years I've seen detente between the black nationalists and the white nationalists, dare I go so far as saying "alliance"? Watch for that around the next election, its going to be interesting.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:55PM (7 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:55PM (#488788)

          Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek, generally thought of as a peaceful religion, so what say you about abortion clinic bombings? And the popular sentiment of "nuke the middle east"?

          The "religion of peace" was a move to try and stop the rampant discrimination in order prevent a modern Crusade. So bugger off with your complaints and attempts to make Milo look better. He is a troll who has been in bed with SHITTY fucking people. He made his bed so now he can sleep in it. We already know you're a likely friendly ear to such types VLM, you should start thinking about the values you hold dear and do some house cleaning. It takes effort to even SEE our own personal issues, but you've got help from commenters here on SN ;)

          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:39PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:39PM (#488811)

            because every time they try to bomb us that doesn't constitute a crusade

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @09:42PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @09:42PM (#488838)

              Looks like you missed the point... GOOD JOB!

          • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:33AM (4 children)

            by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:33AM (#488972) Homepage Journal

            Why the left keeps using the word 'we' to talk about itself? You are the minorty, you know. "We" the people have spoken. "We" are educating you about your opposition and 'you' are busy splitting the hair.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @04:23AM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @04:23AM (#489008)

              Hitler approval rating 90% [historyplace.com] in 1938
              Trump approval rating 39% [gallup.com] in 2017

              • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:06AM (2 children)

                by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:06AM (#489030) Homepage Journal

                Oh are we still playing the poll-poll?

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:31PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:31PM (#489383)

                  If you disbelieve polls, what makes you think you're a majority?

                • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:01AM

                  by cubancigar11 (330) on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:01AM (#491104) Homepage Journal

                  My personal poor troll... Don't you have any friends to help you canvassing the moderation?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:25PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:25PM (#488867)

          I don't think Milo has seen Kyle and AFAIK his boyfriend is a black dude so, no, not so much white supremacist there LOL.

          lol, just how much has political correctness infected your brain that you think fetishized tokenism is equality?

          milo is just a lame ass edgelord, guy probably isn't even gay.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:04AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:04AM (#489066)

            No true Scots... erm, gay would ...

        • (Score: 1) by justinb_76 on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:18PM

          by justinb_76 (4362) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:18PM (#489092)

          not to mention that Milo's (ethnically) jewish...

          I'd link to it but I'm at work - Red Ice did an interview a while back about the Alt-Right & Hotep (Black Nationalist) alliance, worth a watch!

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 04 2017, @09:41PM (2 children)

        Yes, Milo, the world's only white supremacist that enjoys taking it up the butt from black men.

        --
        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:53PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:53PM (#488883)

          Theeeerrre he isssss.

          Thanks for this turd of a story, next time link to the original source kplzthx. Trolling is like pranking, when done well it is great but when done wrong it just shows you to be a douche. Maybe some big black gay cock up yer butt would give you some perspective.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:07AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:07AM (#489067)

          As long as the black man doesn't enjoy it and is coerced to do it, he could still be!

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:14AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 05 2017, @12:14AM (#488909) Journal

        Are you saying that it's possible to actually split hairs about types of white supremacists? What a world.

        There's no group too small that it can't split into even smaller identifiable factions. Even at the scale of one person, you can get multiple personality disorders.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:09PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:09PM (#488743) Journal

    I doubt it's actually Fake.

    However, they've been sitting on it for a while so you start to wonder about the timing. A distraction from the growing evidence for Trump/Russia collusion?