I've really turned on Wikileaks. Itd be one thing if all the major powers had equivalent leaks publishing, but focusing on the US basically serves Chinese and Russian interests far more than it does the citizens of the US. String obfuscation isn't stemming from some corrupt deal that needs sunlight... this is just doing a disservice to their original mission.
Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
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#22wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools LOL
It's much harder to leak Russian stuff because a lot of it is in paper form. After Snowden revelations, Russians returned to typewriters for all their top secret stuff [0]:
>A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service (FSO), which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the return to typewriters has been prompted by the publication of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, as well as Edward Snowden, the fugitive US intelligence contractor.
>The FSO is looking to spend 486,000 roubles – around £10,000 – on a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru. The notice included ribbons for German-made Triumph Adlew TWEN 180 typewriters, although it was not clear if the typewriters themselves were this kind.
>“After scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London, it has been decided to expand the practice of creating paper documents.”
>Unlike printers, every typewriter has its own individual pattern of type so it is possible to link every document to a machine used to type it.
Now, their hacking tools are obviously not in paper form but I bet they're much more tightly controlled than the CIA/NSA tools. They probably have a much smaller team of people who have access to such tools so it's much harder for them to leak. It's also easier to do counterintelligence on people who do have access and you can bet every one of those people is monitored to some degree.
US has thousands of contractors who work for CIA/NSA/DIA and other intelligence agencies and many, supposedly, can easily walk out with some of the most sensitive documents that the USG possesses. [1] One of these contractors, supposedly, leaked out these files to WikiLeaks [2]. FBI is now on a hunt to figure out who it was.
Russians don't have a huge network of contractors. I couldn't find the exact figure but by a quick estimation, Russians have 100x less people doing the intelligence work. They also have much, much smaller budgets because of their economy. So it's easier for them to keep secrets from leaking.
CIA probably (most definitely?) has moles inside of FSB so FSB secrets do leak. Just not to WikiLeaks.
[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1017...
[1] http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/fbi-arrests-contractor-...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/authorities-questioning-cia-con...
Re: Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I get it, because Assange is a Russian FSB agent. Yap, makes total sense.
More like Assange knows that the FSB will just straight up poison him with Polonium instead of slapping him around a bit and shipping him to GITMO.
Polonium in tea, or "slaps" while in Guantanamo or solitary confinement like Manning?
Re: Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
#24I've really turned on Wikileaks. Itd be one thing if all the major powers had equivalent leaks publishing, but focusing on the US basically serves Chinese and Russian interests far more than it does the citizens of the US. String obfuscation isn't stemming from some corrupt deal that needs sunlight... this is just doing a disservice to their original mission.
honest question: does wikileaks not have necessary connections in China to collect the intel and stuff?
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#25I've really turned on Wikileaks. Itd be one thing if all the major powers had equivalent leaks publishing, but focusing on the US basically serves Chinese and Russian interests far more than it does the citizens of the US. String obfuscation isn't stemming from some corrupt deal that needs sunlight... this is just doing a disservice to their original mission.
you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villian...
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#26wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools LOL
Seems FSB has better security than CIA. 90% of intelligence community cyber security spending is on offensive projects, so this revelation should not be too surprising. ( http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-defense-idUSKBN1... )
There's suspicion that Assange no longer has control over Wiki Leaks.
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#27What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
There is a huge advantage to do that. False flag attacks are one of the tried and true methods of intelligence agencies since ancient times. For example the official pretext for WWII was started as a false flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident US did it at the start of Vietnam War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident We gain a lot from this. We can for example manufacture "Russian hy…
one powerful tool in our arsenal, then. Sounds like something that could foster world wars :)
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I get it, because Assange is a Russian FSB agent. Yap, makes total sense.
More like Assange knows that the FSB will just straight up poison him with Polonium instead of slapping him around a bit and shipping him to GITMO.
He could also be Seth Rich'd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich
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#29I wonder if Sony really was "hacked by the North Koreans" then.
This describes a string obfuscation technology. It doesn't do anything to disguise the origin of malware.
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#30What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
I dont actually see anything in this that would indicate they could do that or that they wanted to. It appears to be 100% conjecture from Wikileaks.