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The current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, has described WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service":
Russian military intelligence used Wikileaks to distribute hacked material during the US election, he added. Earlier this month Wikileaks published details of what it said were CIA hacking tools. The FBI and CIA have launched a criminal investigation into the leak.
"WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," Mr Pompeo said, speaking at a Washington think tank. "It overwhelmingly focuses on the US, while seeking support from anti-democratic countries and organisations," he added.
Wikileaks responded by posting a screenshot of a tweet sent by Mr Pompeo last July, in which the then member of the House of Representatives referred to material contained in the Wikileaks release of Democratic party emails. The tweet has since been deleted.
Does that make the CIA a "state hostile intelligence service"?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @02:49AM (1 child)
An organization run by an alleged rapist that willingly helped sway an election to a racist, sexist, capitalist megalomaniac which prides itself on "Never getting anything wrong!" yet actively trying to destabilize the US by irresponsibly releasing HIGHLY classified and sensitive information leading directly to possible cyber attacks worldwide IS AN ENEMY OF THE MODERN WORLD.
I don't care if Russia is funding them. They are trying to fucking ruin everything. I get so mad about this I can't even see straight sometimes. Why does anyone give them any credit at all? This is the fakest possible news of fake news, my god.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:36AM
As much as I'm floored by your crap sandwich of a comment, I'll give you points for using "alleged".
The Democratic Party had their work cut out for them. Clinton ruined it, and she owns that, not WikiLeaks or the Russians. Voters gonna vote.
Gee, maybe the CIA/NSA should have thought of that and fixed vulns instead of exploit them. Oh, right, securing computer systems is antithetical to their true mission.
Identifying vulnerabilities is the first step to getting them fixed. And "responsible disclosure" is just a way for corporations to cover their asses. But you did forget that Assange has at least offered to give tech companies exclusive access to vulnerabilities [nytimes.com].
Correction: You are getting so mad about WikiLeaks (or more likely, God Emperor Trump) that you can't even think straight.
Lol, get noided kid. If your post isn't humor/trolling, you might be the most naïve anon in history.
WikiLeaks should keep doing what it does, but ultimately, the brand name is not what matters. What matters is that people are going to leak information, whether it is to WikiLeaks, some other organization, or on Pastebin/BitTorrent/Tor/etc. You might be able to stop the "ENEMY OF THE MODERN WORLD", but good luck stopping the trend.
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