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Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by oculusthrift »

wamsachel wrote: post #519
abandonliberty wrote: post #485

It's interesting to note that Julian Assange didn't demonstrate control of the wikileaks private key during his Reddit AMA 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as... Considering the political situation unfolding in the US and who this leak weakens, there is some evidence that wikileaks is not in the hands of a neutral party. There is clear motive right now for undermining the CIA. Th…

But part of these leaks implicate the Russians, as their toy chest has been exposed too.

everyone knows russia does it. their whole game is, "see. everyone oppresses their citizens. america is just as bad as us and real democracy can't exist"

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by kbenson »

dredmorbius wrote: post #459
kbenson wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The main connection I have eeked out that I don't think most understand though is the relationship between the Wall Street group and The City of London/Vatican/Swiss Banking groups and their many associated secret society groups and orders of knighthood. This is where you started to lose me. If you've eeked this out, surely you have something you can include to convince us? > I think it is telling that the decrypti…

The vast majority of our history was spent with substantial limits on the ability to collect, distribute, and access information on any one individual, let alone cross-compile information from multiple sources or for multiple individuals. Scale and rates matter.

I don't think the scale matters for the past. You spent the majority of your time with other people in your tribe or village, and they knew everything about you, and you knew everything about all of them. New information could be distributed to 90% of the people within minutes. You could physically ask most the people any questions you wanted about someone else with just a little more time than that.

The current scale just makes this true again.

Again, I don't think that makes it good, but I do think it's important to note.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by CaptSpify »

tmccrmck wrote: post #332
joeyspn wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Intercepting audio/texts before encryption by Signal, Whisper, WhatsApp etc I wish I could say that I'm surprised but no... not surprised at all. Same for the IoT stuff.

Yep. We all knew it was happening but turn a blind eye. And then one of these revelations are exposed and we all start wearing tin foil hats for a month or two.

The big question for me is: What's the alternative?

AFAIK, there's no secure replacement for most IoT stuff, or phones.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by Daishiman »

abandonliberty wrote: post #485

It's interesting to note that Julian Assange didn't demonstrate control of the wikileaks private key during his Reddit AMA 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as... Considering the political situation unfolding in the US and who this leak weakens, there is some evidence that wikileaks is not in the hands of a neutral party. There is clear motive right now for undermining the CIA. Th…

I think that anyone who has been following the Wikileaks social media accounts has noticed what can only be described as a blatant subverting of those accounts by another party.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by mikeyouse »

astrange wrote: post #513
ryanisnan wrote: post #409

Since the inception of Smart TV's, I've often wondered, is it still possible to buy a modern "stupid" TV?

You can just not tell it your wifi password.

I did that and manually set my IP address to 1.1.1.1 with a 255.255.255.255 subnet mask. I figure that's one more level of protection so if my wireless radio can be turned it, it won't be able to connect to a network that's baked into the firmware or something. (E.g. if Samsung has a test net that their TVs automatically connect to if in range.)

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by kevinbowman »

xherberta wrote: post #369
pjc50 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the weapon too secret to use sounds very Dr Strangelove, there have been slightly similar things with real weapons. The one I remember is when radar-triggered proximity shells were invented at the end of WW2 they were only issued for use on ships, so that undetonated shells would fall into the sea, so couldn't be recovered and investigated by the enemy.

Wow! I heard that when the UK began using radar to down enemy planes at night during WWII, the gov't claimed the pilots had been "eating a lot of carrots."

Yep, there's still a common belief in the UK that eating carrots gives you good night-vision, entirely because of that cover story.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by 013a »

fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #521
bluejekyll wrote: post #479

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is being able to hack others worth letting ourselves get hacked? The answer to this for me is a clear no. What I was more questioning is given the CIA's role and job, I don't think it's necessarily their responsibility to do it. We're talking about a government agency who's purpose is to collect information about potential threats against the US, they have no reason to want to make that harder on themselves. If you…

If while performing counter-intelligence the CIA discovers that a foreign government/company can/is exploiting computer systems within the US, should the CIA have a responsibility to do anything?

I don't believe the clear answer to that is Yes. I'm not sure if it is No either. Maybe they should share that intelligence with the NSA, but I can imagine if sharing that intelligence would compromise the the mission of the CIA then they wouldn't.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by djsumdog »

abandonliberty wrote: post #485

It's interesting to note that Julian Assange didn't demonstrate control of the wikileaks private key during his Reddit AMA 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as... Considering the political situation unfolding in the US and who this leak weakens, there is some evidence that wikileaks is not in the hands of a neutral party. There is clear motive right now for undermining the CIA. Th…

> This may not have been an act of altruism like Snowden

I'm still really surprised no one questions the Snowden narrative. A man who earned $200k a year, worked remotely in Hawaii with his smoking hot wife, suddenly decided he has a conscience, either collected data slowly over time or did a massive data dump and released all this information to Greenwald and Der Sepgiel. Then he flees to Russia where he openly tweets against Russian policy.

Unlike many other stories, there were no where near the level of government denial. Media outlets ate it up without looking into any of it.

I really feel like Snowden was an intentional leak, either to show the NSA could proclaim their spying abilities and no one would be able to stop them, or they wanted to profess they had capabilities they don't actually have.

In either case, the US government is still spying relentlessly, creating war zones and expanding military powers. People say I'm a "tin foil hat conspiracy theorist" when I say that the CIA most likely created ISIS to destabilize Syria.

It's not crazy, it's what the CIA has been doing for decades. The 1973 Coupe in Chile, Bay of Pigs, School of the Americas, Iranian Contras .. the list is as long as you want to make it.

You should question each "leak."

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by camdenlock »

tehwalrus wrote: post #45
dvcc wrote: post #5

Based on the overview alone (of course I can't read the entire report that fast!), this is exactly what I expect a spy agency would be doing -- if they were not then I would be disappointed. What exactly in the admittedly shortened list am I supposed to be upset about? It makes no distinction between US citizens and overseas parties. If these actions are being done domestically against US citizens, with no just cause…

> If these actions are being done domestically against US citizens, with no just cause sure I will get upset, but that has yet to be seen. May I just ask, why does this distinction matter? Why do you believe the world should be divided into "people who were issued bits of paper by my overlords" and "people who weren't"? I never understood this division in other people's heads. It leads to all sorts of philosophical p…

> Why do you believe the world should be divided into "people who were issued bits of paper by my overlords" and "people who weren't"?

Because different people, and different groups of people, have different beliefs and intentions. The current divisions, such as nation states, may seem arbitrary, but some of them are currently necessary.

We quite simply do not live in a unified utopia as some posters here have deluded themselves into believing (which is an easy trap to fall into when one lives in a well-fed, massively rich democracy where one wants for nothing, such as the ones we all live in).

Like it or not, these divisions exist, and will continue to exist well beyond our lifetimes. Groups of humans want to dominate other groups, to exterminate them, or worse. The divisions are necessary to protect the things we value, such as social progress, our loved ones, our innovations, and so on.

In short, there is still a very clear and objective distinction between good and evil in the collective human species, and this leads to the development of the divisions with which you're uncomfortable.

Thankfully, such feelings of "that's icky!" are not (yet) a primary factor in the decision-making process with respect to defending our side of the line. If it were, we wouldn't be having this discussion. We wouldn't be able to have many discussions at all, and particularly not on a medium so free as this one. We'd probably be doing manual labor in between sessions of worship to some supreme leader or god-authority.

Yeah, I'll... I'll take those divisions for now, please.

Re: CIA malware and hacking tools

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Post by djsumdog »

mo17i wrote: post #475
mrpippy wrote: post #451

Also: OmniGraffle and Sublime Text license keys (registered to "Affinity Computer Technology") https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_25264141.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_9535650.html

I tried Sublime Text license key and it worked!

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