Wikileaks reveals CIA's Elsa: a geo-location malware for WiFi / Windows

Post by ionised » Thu, Jun 29, 2017, 3:55 PM UTC

mmjaa wrote: post #36

norgie wrote: post #30

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> For those of us not living under the CIA's nefarious shadow The CIA's mission is foreign intelligence meaning they operate outside the US. Since it sounds like you're not in the US, you are far more likely to be targeted by the CIA (still very unlikely unless you work for a government) than people living in the US.

The CIA doesn't work for me. It works for Americans. Not everyone is happy with having an agency for which their sovereign is not responsible, nevertheless influencing their lives in a big way.

Post by mmjaa » Thu, Jun 29, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

ionised wrote: post #41

mmjaa wrote: post #36

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The CIA doesn't work for me. It works for Americans. Not everyone is happy with having an agency for which their sovereign is not responsible, nevertheless influencing their lives in a big way.

> The CIA doesn't work for me. It works for Americans. Correction, it works to maintain the current status quo.

Post by mmjaa » Sun, Jul 02, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

ionised wrote: post #44

mmjaa wrote: post #43

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Whatever - the point is, not everyone is as enamoured with the CIA and its purpose, as most Americans appear to be ..

Agreed. The problem I have is that with the same mindset I should be able to say that about GCHQ/MI5/MI6 (intelligence services of my own country) but I cannot in all good conscience support a lot of what they do. It seems like they exist more to protect the interests of the landed elite, the wealthy, privileged and powerful than they do to protect the nation and its people. The latter is just misdirection.