Wikileaks Leaks the CIA's Hacking

[JackLuis]

WikiLeaks releases 9,000 documents exposing alleged CIA hacking programs

The CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control your car, according to a trove of documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday which it said came from the US spy agency.

WikiLeaks said the documents show that the Central Intelligence Agency is rivalling the National Security Agency, the US government’s main electronic spying body, in cyber warfare, but with less oversight.

The group posted nearly 9,000 documents it said came from the CIA, calling it the largest-ever publication of secret intelligence materials.

The CIA would neither confirm nor deny the documents were genuine, or comment on their content.

“We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents,” said spokesman Jonathan Liu in an email.

Is the Oval Office Equipped with a SMRT TV? Has anyone swept Donald's Phone?

 

[phrodeau]

Now we know what Trump's admin is capable of.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, yes, but abroad. If they tried to do it in the States, the NSA would know it, and the turf war over that would definitely get leaked big time.

 

[Maidboy]

I'm just waiting for Anonymous to release what they hacked from Julian Assange's e-mail correspondence with Russian intel.

 

[JackLuis]

White House says Trump ‘extremely concerned’ about WikiLeaks CIA breach

President Donald Trump is “extremely concerned” about a security breach at the CIA that led to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks publishing agency documents on its hacking tools, the White House said on Wednesday.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing that the Trump administration intends to be tough on leakers.

“Anybody who leaks classified information will be held to the highest degree of law. We will go after people who leak classified information. We will prosecute them to the full extent of the law,” he said.

Who would have the information to leak this? It must have come from inside the IC, most likely the CIA, who as we know just 'loves' the Trumpanzy.

 

[urguyscott]

The Obama's and Clinton's have turned the government branches that are suppose to protect our freedom into their very own State Secret Police. These invasions and attacks on our rights have been going on most strongly over the last eight years. Look at how many members of the Obama Administration have lied to Congress and the People, some even being forced to take the 5th to save themselves from jail. They are so embedded in our political system right now that even with a change in Administration it will be hard to root them out and restore the trust in Washington. Dictators fear their own people first and most and take the side of outsiders over their own people. We have seen this in the foreign polices and internal polices of the Obama Administration. The country was on the brink of losing our freedom to a political corrupt group if they had won the election. Selling their country out for a buck with no care for human rights at all. It will take time, but hopefully the people will win and the government again will be for and by the people.

 

[sr71plt]

Gee. One wonders how they managed to lose an election than--to the Keystone Cops operation we're now watching in the White House--and haven't managed to publish Trump's tax returns.

 

[JackLuis]

CIA contractors likely source of latest WikiLeaks release: US officials

CIA contractors likely breached security and handed over documents about the agency’s use of hacking tools to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

Two officials speaking on condition of anonymity said intelligence agencies have been aware since the end of last year of the breach, which led to WikiLeaks releasing thousands of pages on Tuesday.

According to the documents, Central Intelligence Agency hackers could get into Apple Inc iPhones, devices running Google’s Android software and other gadgets in order to capture text and voice messages before they were encrypted with sophisticated software.

The White House said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump was “extremely concerned” about the CIA security breach that led to the WikiLeaks release.

The danger of hiring mercenaries, rather than loyal troops you keep on the payroll is that, when their contracts are up they owe you no loyalty. Yep, doing it on the cheap is totally worth it!

 

[sr71plt]

Just following in the footsteps of NSA contractors.

 

[JackLuis]

Just following in the footsteps of NSA contractors.

Guided by the skinflint Congress who want everything on the cheap, it's surprising they haven't offshored the whole of our defense system.

 

[sr71plt]

Guided by the skinflint Congress who want everything on the cheap, it's surprising they haven't offshored the whole of our defense system.

Sore point. Contractors were a big reason I retired early.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The Obama's and Clinton's have turned the government branches that are suppose to protect our freedom into their very own State Secret Police. These invasions and attacks on our rights have been going on most strongly over the last eight years.

If that were true you would be in a cell.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Gee. One wonders how they managed to lose an election than--to the Keystone Cops operation we're now watching in the White House--and haven't managed to publish Trump's tax returns.

The CIA is one thing, the IRS is quite another. You don't fuck with the IRS. CIA knows that.

 

[sr71plt]

If that were true you would be in a cell.

Instead of just somewhere out in the galaxy going lalalalala.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The danger of hiring mercenaries, rather than loyal troops you keep on the payroll is that, when their contracts are up they owe you no loyalty. Yep, doing it on the cheap is totally worth it!

"I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed. Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe; which I should have little trouble to prove, for the ruin of Italy has been caused by nothing else than by resting all her hopes for many years on mercenaries, and although they formerly made some display and appeared valiant amongst themselves, yet when the foreigners came they showed what they were. Thus it was that Charles, King of France, was allowed to seize Italy with chalk in hand."

-- Machiavelli

Well, that's good advice for princes. The people might prefer mercenaries. If Genoa and Bologna have been having political conflicts for a long time and the situation is approaching war, that has an effect on popular feeling in both cities. If Bologna raises an army by general conscription of Bolognese men, the troops' attitude will be, "We're gonna kill those Genoa bastards! We're gonna cut them down, rape their women and burn their fields!" To them, it's personal. But to a mercenary, it's work. He'll kill every Genoan soldier he can reach, and he'll probably rape any Genoan woman he can reach, but it will be ordinary rape and not part of some revenge agenda, and he won't burn the fields unless specifically ordered to.