[WIKILEAKS] Release Vault 7 CIA Hacking Tool Repository

Key words... "Wikileaks claims"... "purportedly"... "could not be authenticated"...

 

Dude if you are saying there is no "good" and "bad" in the world, you are deeply deeply confused.

So . . . do you mean terrorists and immigrants and Mexicans are not "bad guys"? So there is no reason to fear them, take special actions about them, and so on. . . .

Any thoughts on murderers and rapists?

Your thoughts are truly f#$%ed.

 

Interesting timing, right?

[gomer pyle voice]Golly gee, Wikileaks (or however you pernounce that there in Russian) shoor does look indeependent and without narry un egenda. [/gomer pyle voice]

 

You should stop posting then. And the smart TV listening in to your voice chat is literally years old news.

 

Bad headlines for Trump!

I'm on it!


Thanks Puty!


Oh but wait...

 

It's not that Wiki leaks broke the story that's disturbing, but rather the premise that it's already in circulation.

Tie this with the parallel, yet even more disturbing Shadow Brokers auction story makes you wonder if privacy is a thrown away legacy of the last millennium

 

I only hope the Russians will snoop into my Samsung fridge and let me know when I need to replace the milk... hate when it goes bad!

 

Did you drop your claim that there are no "good guys" anymore?

If you're scared by this in addition to Mexicans, terrorists, North Korea etc etc, and it's the scariest tech thing that is scaring you today, you haven't been paying attention. What about the Snowden leaks? The NSA, the British, and the French have been doing this for years.

So, it's not that people don't care. It's that this is nothing new.

The US assassinated a US citizen in Yemen, Dude. Wake up.

Check out these lists of Top 10 Most Disturbing Revelations from Snowden:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2453128,00.asp
http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/#rBQ57iLUMPq3

 

You got me as close as I can get to roll eyes, but anyway, come on, man: you just pulled a better Pyle than I could muster.

As sirbaihu points out, this CIA release is surprising to people paying attention how? Certainly, the extent to which the files were openly circulating is disturbing, to me at least (and as per Invisible Fan above).

The disturbing thing to me is that both parties are totally on board with this stuff, for the most part. It's like they both want to have it all there for them when they're in power. It's ****ing scary and awful. I just personally assume that anything I plug in these days, or connect to the internet, is collecting and sharing data on my behavior. My wife bought a scale last year that wirelessly uploads data on a person's weight to a graph or some crap on their laptop, and I'm like, oh no, I ain't stepping on that thing. Screw that. I eat a burrito and suddenly my insurance rates change? No thanks. And that's the most innocent version of this crap.

But my post was about the "oh gee" timing of this readily available trove coming out now, just as Trump (without evidence) accuses Obama of security crimes. This dossier does not back that up one iota, but it just muddies the waters for the average sideline observer and gets the headlines away from Russia for a while. Ignoring that timing is an odd choice, just as ignoring the contents would be an odd choice too. I'm doing neither.

 

CNN Is totally ignoring this. It has been 6 hours.

 

I don't really get the outrage. Breaking -- CIA knew about vulnerabilities in smart appliances and didn't immediately alert consumers of them?

I certainly haven't parsed through all of the information, so maybe there is something bigger here -- but the outrage I've read from Snowden etc, I honestly don't see it as that big of a deal.

 

More like it's been two years, but you're totally right bruh. The MSM is conspiring to hide this news from the American people! I can go dig up a 2013 article for you as well if you'd like.

https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-record-your-living-room-chatter/

 

Yes, Wikileaks certainly have an agenda that is not in favor of the U.S. government. Whether they consider themselves friends of the people is unknown.

B-Bob, you may be suggesting that Wikileaks is working in coordination with Trump. If so, that would be far worse than Watergate, perhaps even treason on the part of Trump (a capital offense).

Regardless, it does seem obvious that one of Trump's main "governing" strategies is to tweet out an accusation of someone doing something bad and going off to play a round of golf.

If Trump did indeed make a baseless accusation of Watergate-level crime against a previous president, that in itself is extremely bad behavior for a president, almost worthy of impeachment in itself. It's gross incompetence at best.

Oh, and don't forget the Russia scandal. Never have I seen so much self-served doo doo on one president's plate.

 

What is privacy in this new digital age? How far should authorities be able to go to prevent attacks?

 

Does this compromise the CIA's integrity? The worst of it may be yet to come.

 

Don't overreact. After all, this is old news....

 

You mean, other than having it on the front page of cnn.com?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/technology/wikileaks-cia-hacking/

I sorta expected them to hide it a bit better...

 

I am glad they caught on. Thanks for the update.