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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 Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @09:16AM (#489068)

    And calling them 'nut jobs' makes you feel better? Or are you unwilling to even hear what they have to say?

    Yes, and Yes, both enthusiastically! I just love watching them squirm when they realize you think that they are quite insane. Had this happen with a right-wing "student" (he really was much too smart to be at University) who asked what I thought of D'inesh D'Souza (this before the felony conviction), and he looked either shocked or discovered when I immediately replied, "Right-wing hack." The Nut-job's response was, "Aren't you even going to consider D'Souza's arguments?" I said: "There is no point, really. D'inesh has been a bad boy since his undergraduate days, he really has nothing to add to any real discussion of issues, he argues in bad faith, and to even listen to what he says is to give him credibility he does not deserve." How stupid do right-wing nut-jobs have to be to think that the rest of the world is not on to them, and that the only reason their positions are not prevailing is because no one gives them a platform from which to spread the good news? Answer: pretty stupid. Their "ideas" do not fail because no one listens to them; no one listens to them because their ideas are idiotic.