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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: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @09:41PM (7 children)

    As an old boss of mine used to say way too often: "When the pain to change is less than the pain to stay the same, people change."

    He would say that all the time, and it got real tired, real fast. However, it happens to be true.

    I was in Chicago a few years ago (about 20 months before the Obergefell [wikipedia.org] decision) and was walking along Michigan Avenue when I was accosted by a young man asking me to give him money to support marriage equality.

    I pointed out to this earnest young man that culture changes slowly. You can't force people to change their ideas about the world, even if those ideas are antithetical to equality and liberty. He got pretty hot about that and I had to leave him to canvass others.

    Now that the Obergefell decision is the law of the land, there are, sadly, too many folks who take their own trained in prejudices for the laws of nature and rail against the idea that liberty rests, in large part, with equality of opportunity. That goes way beyond marriage equality of course, but as I said, culture changes slowly.

    We can only raise our voices and work towards the day when the psychopaths aren't the ones making the rules. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:32PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:32PM (#488870)

    What is the point of your anecdote?
    You told the kid that you weren't going to give him money because working for change is pointless?
    Just how do you think societal change happens? Its precisely because of people like him pushing with everything they have against the massive inertia of society that makes change happen. Without hundreds of thousands each doing their part to move society a fraction of a millimeter social progress would remain at a stand still. Every one of those people making their infinitesimal contribution adds up.
    No wonder he got pissed at you.

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:39PM (3 children)

      What is the point of your anecdote?
      You told the kid that you weren't going to give him money because working for change is pointless?
      Just how do you think societal change happens? Its precisely because of people like him pushing with everything they have against the massive inertia of society that makes change happen. Without hundreds of thousands each doing their part to move society a fraction of a millimeter social progress would remain at a stand still. Every one of those people making their infinitesimal contribution adds up.
      No wonder he got pissed at you.

      My point (since you seem to have problems with reading comprehension) was that "culture changes slowly."

      Do you disagree with that assessment, or are you just trying to pick a fight?

      --
      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:44PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:44PM (#488877)

        That's not a point.
        That's an observation.
        What was your reason for saying that to the kid?
        Why say that rather than a comment on the weather?

        • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:52PM (1 child)

          Mostly just to piss you off.

          Now piss off, pissant.

          --
          No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:58PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:58PM (#488884)

            Translation: You are right, I am a bellend and fuck you very much for scratching my thin skin by pointing that out.

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:42PM

      And I guess you missed this part too:

      We can only raise our voices and work towards the day when the psychopaths aren't the ones making the rules. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.

      Did you not bother to read that far, or do you just want to argue?

      In your case, it doesn't seem like it would be a fair fight.

      --
      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:04PM (#489250)

    you should have told him that anyone that let's the government control his/her/it marriage is a pitiful slave and deserves the various injustices that invariably come with a master/slave relationship. stupid socialists think government can be planned into fairness. It's impossible to make this relationship fair.