CIA/FBI Throwing Hissie Fit Over WL, Vows Havoc Against All But Self
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/wikileaks-cia-investigation/ The investigation is looking into how the documents came into WikiLeaks' possession and whether they might have been leaked by an employee or contractor. The CIA is also trying to determine if there are other unpublished documents WikiLeaks may have. The documents published so far are largely genuine, officials said, though they are not yet certain if all of them are and whether some of the documents may have been altered. One of the biggest concerns for the federal government is if WikiLeaks publishes critical computer code on how operations are conducted, other hackers could take that code and cause havoc overseas. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/hey-cia-you-held-security-flaw-informa... Cindy Cohn, writing for EFF: The dark side of this story is that the documents confirm that the CIA holds on to security vulnerabilities in software and devices -- including Android phones, iPhones, and Samsung televisions -- that millions of people around the world rely on. The agency appears to have failed to accurately assess the risk of not disclosing vulnerabilities to responsible vendors and failed to follow even the limited Vulnerabilities Equities Process. As these leaks show, we're all made less safe by the CIA's decision to keep -- rather than ensure the patching of -- vulnerabilities. Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
On 03/09/2017 03:11 AM, grarpamp wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/wikileaks-cia-investigation/ The investigation is looking into how the documents came into WikiLeaks' possession and whether they might have been leaked by an employee or contractor. The CIA is also trying to determine if there are other unpublished documents WikiLeaks may have. The documents published so far are largely genuine, officials said, though they are not yet certain if all of them are and whether some of the documents may have been altered. One of the biggest concerns for the federal government is if WikiLeaks publishes critical computer code on how operations are conducted, other hackers could take that code and cause havoc overseas.
This focus on WikiLeaks is fucking hilarious. According to the WikiLeaks press release:[0] | Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking | arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero | day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated | documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to | more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its | possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive | appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government | hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom | has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive. They have no clue who already has the full archive, and what they've done with it. Someone ought to do a retrospective study. 0) https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ <SNIP>
On 03/09/2017 02:11 AM, grarpamp wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/wikileaks-cia-investigation/ The investigation is looking into how the documents came into WikiLeaks' possession and whether they might have been leaked by an employee or contractor.
WL says it WAS leaked by 'an employee or 'hacker contractor'.' Or maybe that's just a diversion and J Assange himself slipped out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the middle of the night, snuck into GCHQ, and purloined the code himself. THAT must be why what WL said wasn't taken at face. Get Assange!
The CIA is also trying to determine if there are other unpublished documents WikiLeaks may have.
WL said Vault7 was "1%". Rr
The documents published so far are largely genuine, officials said, though they are not yet certain if all of them are and whether some of the documents may have been altered. One of the biggest concerns for the federal government is if WikiLeaks publishes critical computer code on how operations are conducted, other hackers could take that code and cause havoc overseas.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/hey-cia-you-held-security-flaw-informa... Cindy Cohn, writing for EFF: The dark side of this story is that the documents confirm that the CIA holds on to security vulnerabilities in software and devices -- including Android phones, iPhones, and Samsung televisions -- that millions of people around the world rely on. The agency appears to have failed to accurately assess the risk of not disclosing vulnerabilities to responsible vendors and failed to follow even the limited Vulnerabilities Equities Process. As these leaks show, we're all made less safe by the CIA's decision to keep -- rather than ensure the patching of -- vulnerabilities. Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
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