Any guesses on why CNN and MSNBC are completely avoiding reporting this news?
CIA malware and hacking tools
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#472This had the potential of being a positive development brought by Trump's election: many behaviors by the US three letter agencies that were glossed over for the past 8 years (due to the party in power being "on the right side of history") are again reprehensible and deemed a threat to be fought by the tech community.
The same way Obama's election was going to bring transparency and "change"?
This comment is just too depressing and accurate. It kills me I voted for obama and the dems, and they just spied on people nonstop. It is uniparty...
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#473This one is great:
'* Linksys WRT54G flashed with DD-WRT v24sp2 used as surrogate for testing MikroTik MIPS-LE binaries. No actual RouterBoard (i.e. MikroTik) hardware was used
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#474Taking the chance to vent just a bit. These are the sort of things I have been telling people about but have been derided as paranoid and a conspiracy theorist. The Samsung TV was a great example of this, which I called would be more than just samsung sending voice data. Also, so many people have loved to respond to people talking about this with some variation of, "but you're not important, why would they bug you".…
Principia discordia
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#475Also: 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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#476just saw half of these comments on /r/hacking. literally word for word.
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#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
That some governments use that kind of tribal moral relativism to justify war does not mean that war cannot be waged for justifiable and morally good reasons.
Give one example of a war where both sides had a justifiable and morally good reason.
Why on earth would you ever expect both sides to have justifiable reasons?
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#478You know the expense of doing this is over 100 Billion a year (especially if you include lost business for American corps over the mistrust). You have to wonder what the upside is, in dollars. I have to imagine its very, very low, and perhaps only justified in having a lottery ticket to prevent an extinction level event like WW3?
It's like nuclear weapons; if you don't have one, then you're nobody, if you do then you're untouchable, at least by conventional means.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to nitpick, I absolutely agree that the NSA should be responsible for disclosing this type of information to help secure the USA and its infrastructure. The CIA on the other hand has clear (though not always followed) directive to only act outside the US and to act against foreign nationals. It's less clear to me that they should be required to disclose these. Another post makes the claim that the CIA may have lo…
The problem is that there are very few IT systems that are purely foreign. For example, if the CIA finds an exploit in a wireless router made in China and sold all over the world, that hole can also be found by others and used against targets in the United States. Is being able to hack others worth letting ourselves get hacked?
> 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 want to debate changing the role of the CIA, and if or if not it should exist, that's a different set of questions. But given what their job is, why would they want to turn that funnel of information off? It's not in their interest to do that.
I want everything to be hyper secure on the internet, but I also know that there are threats against the US (some created because of our actions) which the CIA is responsible for trying to keep an eye on.
A similar question: is it worth being hacked so that we can know that there is an imminent attack coming against some US interest?
EDIT: I know that the CIA is responsible for some really ugly things in the world, I'm not defending any of those actions. I'm speaking more of what their theoretical function is and what responsibilities they have in disclosing some of this information.
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#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're commenting on a release that includes CIA guidelines for structuring file metadata specifically to avoid US attribution... And arguing that questioning the integrity of file metadata is a conspiracy theory... https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14587109.html
File metadata wasn't my concern. Spreading baseless rumors without concern for grieving family and friends makes Sparkling (and his buddies) grade-A fuckwads in my book.
Where exactly am i spreading rumors? I am pointing out what Assange said in two interviews and linked the source. Whether or not you belive Assange is up to you.