CIA hacking tools revealed by Wikileaks
Posted by Solver 8 years, 5 months ago to Government
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I read about this recently in For Crew and Country by John Wukovitks. :)
"Hast Du das Geld noch gekriegt?"
I might have understood it from Dutch Heb je het geld nog gekregen?
During WWII my father sent this message: "I saw Sylvia's brother, and he said he might be in Baltimore in late July," or something like that.
As a Merchant Marine shipmaster he could not reveal his itinerary, because it was a military secret. The censors would have prevented any such message from going through. Only our family would put 2 and 2 together and know that he, himself, was Sylvia's brother.
When doing our pony rides my wife and I speak German privately. "Hast Du das Geld noch gekriegt?" (Have you gotten the money yet?) It makes a good secret language, unless there are Germans about.
Amazing what all they can do, yet were completely unable to find out Obama,s birith certificate was false, that he once dabbled in prostitution with gay men for cocaine money, ignored his ties to domestic terrorists, ignored he misdirect $5 million as an Ill. legislator meant for a park in Chicago poor area, which he put in the hands of campaign workers instead. Does anyone think he was unaware of Bill and Hillary's deal of selling uranium to Russia? Amazing what these people who can tap anything, can miss when they are motivated, by money?
Exactly!!
Any information is also of use to hackers and foreign enemies, but if so many insiders can leak that much documentation there is no reason to expect that tools have not also already been smuggled out. That is in addition to how many anti-privacy weapons have already been developed to steal and destroy by expert hackers and governments, such as in Russia, quite independently of US agencies and knowledge of what they are doing.
Most people have no idea how insecure the internet is by nature of its design, and the staggering scope and intensity of 'tools' routinely used to exploit that from all over the world.
My point was simply that it is not necessary to tell this community or many others how to do something. Telling them that it is possible is adequate to allow them to use their own resources to do it as well.
No one should be surprised by the latest revelations about the CIA. They are simply an update to previous leaks, including the comprehensive expose' of NSA by Snowden a few years ago. A lot of attention was focused on NSA because of Snowden, but to the extent the public paid much attention at all there was a public misperception that it was only about NSA. In fact, it was revealed in the Snowden documents that NSA was developing and sharing tools with multiple agencies, including foreign countries, which are used to spy on all kinds of people and that the agencies have been hiding and lying about all of it.
If you show me that a motor can reach 5 hp per pound, I will be much more inspired to try to achieve it that I would without that certainty.
If it can be hacked, someone will try, so why all the government stupidity and surprise?
I am not really knowledgeable about this, but intuitively I suspect serious criminals are aware their phones have cameras and microphones that could be used to spy on them. I suspect the reason for keeping it a secret is the public had a say, they might not want the gov't to have these tools. People working at the CIA are good people who honestly think they're the good guys. If there's a way to keep it secret from the American public, even with the questionable argument that foreign targets aren't aware of this their methods, they'll take it because it makes their job of protecting Americans from criminals easier. They believe in the Fourth Amendment in principle to protect people from gov't abuse, but they're the good guys who would never abuse it, they think, so it's hard to say no to it. This is the unfortunate path that leads to someone somewhere down the line abusing the power for political or personal gain.
This will be increasingly harder, assuming you want use it as a voice phone, because voice phone calls are almost entirely VoIP. Soon all calls will be VoIP, and there won't be an option to have a dialing connection that doesn't send Internet packets.
There's no denying that government intelligence agencies turned their microscopic devices inward and violated the public trust for nefarious purposes; they should be punished, reigned in, and scrutinized.
Even so, those agencies and their microscopic devices and stealthy skullduggery that goes along with it has its place on the global scene for national preparedness purposes.
this is a lose-lose situation.
I am totally opposed to the CIA/NSA or any other agency spying on US peoples without a warrant.
This leak is a little unfortunate, because it inspires our enemies to know the art of the possible.
O the Great and Powerful and the Evil Hag so Trump can be elected, uh, uh, whoa cough! cough! . . . never mind.
The best defense against our enemies is for the people to arm themselves. The CIA works on the premise that the people do not arm themselves.
The sheople will think it is their fault.
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