And it’s ugly.
A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”
WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
Among the key topical revelations is that the CIA can engage in “false flag” cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant. Discussing the CIA’s Remote Devices Branch’s UMBRAGE group, Wikileaks’ source notes that it “collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
I need more coffee. This is going to be a long, long day.
How the CIA built a vast cyberweapons arsenal–and then lost control of it https://t.co/K7wFTdlC82 #Vault7 pic.twitter.com/06BKihmHwn
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 7, 2017
Mark Steyn has previously mentioned the folly of having so many people throughout government having access to so much top intel and technology (there’s literally hundreds of thousands, maybe more). And so all you need is one disgruntled employee (or soldier – the traitor Manning as an example) to completely compromise an entire agency. Government!
We have known about these hacking capabilities for some time now. But the MSM has virtually ignored it. There will be isolated articles here and there, but in the main they have decided it is “not a thing.” Trannies in the girl’s bathroom is a thing, your iPhone listening to you is not.
Well, I guess now it is going to be a thing.
Maybe we can get some support for personal freedom and personal privacy, for a change. Wild idea, right?
ZeroHedge has a good summary of what is in Vault 7
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/wikileaks-hold-press-conference-vault-7-release-8am-eastern
the interesting part revealed is that they are able to make a hack appear to be done by another source. So it appears the Russians hacked the DNC, may just be that, APPEARED:-)
Obviously the US has failed in having any kind of security hierarchy or effective authorizations. I suspect Trump has a loaded gun and is waiting for a Democrat to pull the trigger. Every time the Democrats write Trump off as a fool, he kicks them in the nuts. I suspect Trump wants Congress to start getting some of the Democrats under oath so he can start sending them to jail. If the Democrats want to be left with a shred of dignity, they might want to do the work to get elected instead of waiting for enough outrage against the Republicans to develop. The Democrats have to sell themselves to the South, flyover country, and the rust belt and give them something they like. The irrelevance of the Democrats is shown by winning the vote in 50 of the lagest counties while the Republicans won the 3,000 other counties.
“So it appears the Russians hacked the DNC, may just be that, APPEARED:-)”
Or as John McAfee put it – “If it looks like you were hacked by the Russians, you weren’t” or something to that effect. The Russians wouldn’t take credit – they would give that honour to the Chinese or the Israelis.
You should read Scott Adams blog on this
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158110404781/wiretapping-word-thinking
This is going to cause a lot of head explosions.
Trump will be blamed for this because he didn’t sufficiently condemn wikileaks previously. The same will be applied to any conservative journalists. It wouldn’t surprise me if a few liberal trolls showed up here to give Kate some grief.
The CIA kept saying that it APPEARED it was the Russians that hacked he DNC. The operative word was “appeared”, which always seemed strange to me, they never said it was for certain. So maybe a CIA operative was the culprit, or they were aware that other may have the same ability as they did. The Jews are smart people, and would have had a vested interest in hitlery loosing
It is virtually impossible in the west to maintain integrity within leviathan bureaucracies when the civilization is involved in a politically partisan cold civil war. Political corruption, surrendering privacy for the illusion of security, deep state forces, counter deep state forces, all ensure the existence of cross purposes and leakage. If it goes online it is never private or if so, not for long.
Hmm…
The long-suffering US taxpayer might well ponder why the CIA even has a “Center for Cyber Intelligence” when there is an entire US intelligence agency – the NSA – supposedly dedicated to this sort of thing.
For the sake of that poor taxpayer, one would hope the money is being expended on a synergistic all-source intelligence effort rather than a shiny set of glorious baroque stovepipes operating in splendid isolation.
One more thought…
Have you noticed that the very same people who would otherwise routinely demonize the US intelligence community (think of depictions like Syriana, the Bourne films, Homeland, Snowden and similar) are now insisting that the very same community can now be trusted about Trump and the Russians?
Not only that, but should you even question them, let alone make a movie about them, you are considered a traitor
Does anyone still want to pretend that Snowden was a traitor? None of us would have had any inkling of what was going on if he hadn’t been the first to spill the beans about how deeply the US has inflicted espionage on its own citizens. Tell me again, just how is the CIA different from the Stasi?
The Democrats will spin this as more proof that Wikileaks and the Russians are working together.
“Tell me again, just how is the CIA different from the Stasi?”
Only someone living comfortably in the West with no experience of life in a totalitarian society could ever make such a comparison.
No, of course the degree between the two isn’t comparable (for now),but nothing is as we’ve been led to believe is it? This is only what we NOW know. What else is waiting for us down that rabbit hole?
I’m going to wait for the MSM to spin this as fake, minimize it as unimportant, push it off the front page as paranoia, shift the news focus to abortion and bathroom choice and generally assure me that everything would be all right if it wasn’t for Trump being POTUS. Of course I’ll accept their conclusion. It makes life so much simpler.
Alfred E. Newman said it best.
“tell me again, how the CIA is different from the Stasi…”
Better pensions.
The Stasi probably produced more accurate intelligence.
I think its time to defend the Constitution of these United States of America against all enemies, both foreign and DOMESTIC, by ordering an airstrike on Langley HQ.
Who would you trust with you life? In my opinion the CIA is both professional & efficient. I don’t have to judge everyone based on the methods of a few turds who abuse their roles…Crack heads have infiltrated the CIA before “The Falcon & the Snowman”…. Growing up is hard, especially if you are only 12
You are making the presumption that this is “the methods of a few turds who abuse their roles” rather than being systematic by design. This presumption is probably wrong. Mavericks don’t break into a system as large as national security and allowed to simply run rogue.
Your opinion about “professional & efficient” is also probably wrong. After all, these idiots lost control of their own tool kit, much less large numbers of screw-ups in the past too numerous to list them all here.
You obviously haven’t read a single part of what was revealed.
Ever hear of the 4th Amendment? The CIA and the NSA are engaged in wholesale violation of it, making them a domestic enemy of the Constitution.
I stand by my assertion.
I’v said before, and will repeat, it’s not the man behind the curtain, it’s the crowd behind the curtain. As on author suggested, that the NSA knew exactly what happened in 1963, but they have remained silent all this time. Hoover had reams of files on every one who was important at the time, but he pled next to the NSA, they’v been at it since 1952.
cgh…I was going to say the same about Snowden, he let the cat out of the bag, and now wiki is supplying a steady drip drip drip!
I suspect Trump wants Congress to start getting some of the Repunlicansunder oath so he can start sending them instructions what to do = i.e. theor job sd Repub congress.
Ever hear of the 4th Amendment? Yeahwell
The Fourth Amendment requires a “Probable Cause” Warrant… Probable Cause does not come in a bag @ walmart..
All evidence obtained by a warrant may be used in a Court
The Crime is using “Raw Intel” obtained by Surveillance for political gain..Raw Intelligence is not Court ready
Reading the Constitution does not mean you understand how it is applied in the real world…
I trust the CIA because I have past experience.. It is a blind Trust, but the alternative is stupid
Phil, the CIA was big in Kennedy’s assassination, so in my never so humble opinion, you are an idiot to trust them, or any large government org. Hoover and the FBI were also IN on the facts of Kennedy, as were WH Bush, and his father Prescott. Maybe you should read and learn a little bit more
Many Americans have always made the assumption that the intelligence agencies respect the Fourth Amendment. And in this case, have they? Every other time? You trust a state with limitless ability to surveil us any time they want? Does the NSA spying on Tea Party conservative groups, and the IRS subsequently targetting them not concern you? The alternative is stupid, but we sliding down that slope, aren’t we?
“your iPhone listening to you is not” a problem if you choose not to have an i-whatever.
Believing that listening to i-phone users would provide useful realistic data, is like believing that an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters would write Shakespeare.
Alfred E. Newman said it best.
so true…
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken
The CIA is engaged in nefarious activities against its own citizens and others? I’m shocked!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Rosen, Snowden, and chg apparently; all cut from the same cloth.
If your word is not bond, you are a waste of time. Anyone without the critical thinking skills to question everything else someone who broke the contract Snowden signed… Well, also a waste of time.
Utter rubbish. If one side does not disclose what the scope of the contract is, it’s no contract.
from the scott adams link:
“In other news, watch President Trump force China to put the clamps on North Korea’s missile program by making it clear we’ll handle it for them if they can’t take care of their own backyard. If the ”
I like how this guy thinks. Ive been telling people this since before great leader III won this round of N korea’s ‘reach for the top’.
and as far as ‘trusting’ the go***mn CIA, explain this little fambly connection:
allen dulles, CIA director, and his brother
john foster dulles, big name in the united fruit company, getting able (but secret!!!) assistance from said CIA to quell those nasty natives demanding leftist things like, oh, land reform . . . . .
kinda like the peoples liberation army setting up international corporations to do bizznizz in Canuckistan; mines, real estate, etc
The CIA has been a problem for a very long time. They are the seat of the shadow government. They are guilty of asassinations, drug dealing, terrorism, false flags, extortion etc. This has been going on since FDR. I think Trump is a problem for them, but they have so much power. It is difficult to know how to stop them.
apparently you fail to understand that there are 2 sides to a contract that need to be kept, even if one side is implied rather than written. Try taking some contract law, BEFORE spouting off
They are professional and efficient at meeting their own ends — which have nothing to do with the needs and desires of US citizens. The CIA is corrupt and will stop at nothing (including assassinations ) to further their agenda. They are the deep state.