Wikileaks Releases CIA Hacking Docs

[SecretCatholic]

Wikileaks Releases Vault7: Year Zero, “a substantial collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.”- wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

“the CIA’s secret hacking division had produced malware and other means of hacking iPhones, Android phones, Samsung Smart TVs, and even bypassing encrypted apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram — and then lost control of the malware.”- heavy.com/news/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-vault7-file-download-clinton-obama-trump-assange-what-is/

So, basically, the CIA has built its own “NSA”, with which it can spy on us through every digital device which is connected to the Internet, and even those unconnected, if they manage to slip in their USB flash drives. This is includes smart phones, smart TVs, computers and the like.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is highly ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! This dangerous, freedom-busting nonsense must be SHUT DOWN! This is not what government is supposed to be doing to its own citizens. Oh, and apparently the CIA program has even LESS OVERSIGHT from other branches of government.

Instructions to download the archive: twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838921716768321537

Password to decrypt the archive: twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839100031256920064

And before anyone claims that this info is illegal, please understand that it is info about illegal activities of the U.S. government, that all of this is available publicly and that all the media have their hands on this already.

Expect to see LOTS of media attention, articles and discussions based upon this archive. Of course, this is only the first one in a series.

 

[chero23]

Wikileaks Releases Vault7: Year Zero, “a substantial collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.”- wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

“the CIA’s secret hacking division had produced malware and other means of hacking iPhones, Android phones, Samsung Smart TVs, and even bypassing encrypted apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram — and then lost control of the malware.”- heavy.com/news/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-vault7-file-download-clinton-obama-trump-assange-what-is/

So, basically, the CIA has built its own “NSA”, with which it can spy on us through every digital device which is connected to the Internet, and even those unconnected, if they manage to slip in their USB flash drives. This is includes smart phones, smart TVs, computers and the like.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is highly ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! This dangerous, freedom-busting nonsense must be SHUT DOWN! This is not what government is supposed to be doing to its own citizens. Oh, and apparently the CIA program has even LESS OVERSIGHT from other branches of government.

Instructions to download the archive: twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838921716768321537

Password to decrypt the archive: twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839100031256920064

And before anyone claims that this info is illegal, please understand that it is info about illegal activities of the U.S. government, that all of this is available publicly and that all the media have their hands on this already.

Expect to see LOTS of media attention, articles and discussions based upon this archive. Of course, this is only the first one in a series.

Wikileaks did help Trump during the elections.

Even if they said that they didn’t.

Trump said he wouldn’t let that happen in his watch.

2 months in and it happened.

 

[2_RollinStoned]

After loving WikiLeaks as a candidate, Trump decides he doesn’t like leaks as president

Not so funny now is it Donald?

 

[mikekle]

Edward Snowden proved all this to the American people years ago…but Joe Citizen took the tyrannical Govts side on the matter and demonized him, when he should have been recognized as an American patriot.

This will only get worse if people continue to lie down and do nothing…its sad, very sad.

 

[Ion]

Wikileaks did help Trump during the elections.

Even if they said that they didn’t.

Trump said he wouldn’t let that happen in his watch.

2 months in and it happened.

WikiLeaks did its thing…The result was no even against Clinton, it only showed who she is.
If you count by fingers do not evaluate quantities larger than 20.

Starting the investigation of the intlligence agencies should stop all the leaks.

 

[Peebo]

Sounds like George Orwells 1984…big brother is watching younpatrol:

 

[SecretCatholic]

Edward Snowden proved all this to the American people years ago…but Joe Citizen took the tyrannical Govts side on the matter and demonized him, when he should have been recognized as an American patriot.

This will only get worse if people continue to lie down and do nothing…its sad, very sad.

He did, and leaks of new and continued exploits need to be made public. It is sad, but its not over.

Sounds like George Orwells 1984…big brother is watching younpatrol:

And its going to get worse than 1984 if these abuses aren’t properly addressed.

And please people, stop trying to turn this into a Trump thread. This is bigger than Trump and spans at least three administrations, if not more. Wikileaks needs to do its job, regardless of who is sitting in the White House.

 

[Saints_Alive]

Wikileaks needs to do its job, regardless of who is sitting in the White House.

What is WikiLeaks job ? To expose unethical internet activity by means of conducting unethical internet activity ?

 

[chero23]

He did, and leaks of new and continued exploits need to be made public. It is sad, but its not over.

And its going to get worse than 1984 if these abuses aren’t properly addressed.

And please people, stop trying to turn this into a Trump thread. This is bigger than Trump and spans at least three administrations, if not more. Wikileaks needs to do its job, regardless of who is sitting in the White House.

He didn’t say that he was going to stop leaks. That did not happen, and it could get worse.

 

[MugenOne]

I heard that this place provided the technology and know-how.

 

[mwigs]

So, we have learned the CIA can hack and spy on basically any US citizen and then they have sophisticated tools to make it look like they are hackers from Russia or any other country that they want.

Was the CIA working to frame Russia for hacking in order to undermine Trump? Evidence is clearly shown on Wikileaks they had the ability to do so.

Yup, Flynn seems to have been right on all of this.

 

[SecretCatholic]

What is WikiLeaks job ? To expose unethical internet activity by means of conducting unethical internet activity ?

Wikileaks tells us the illegal things our governments try to cover up. If you think what Wikileaks does is unethical, then you think whistle-blowing and disclosing coverups and illegal activities is wrong. I feel like I’ve had this conversation before… Ah, yes!

I will not rehash my arguments. This thread is not about Trump nor about whether Wikileaks is right or wrong to report on illegal government activity. It is about the illegal CIA activities thus disclosed.

 

[Saints_Alive]

I’m worried about identity theft more than I am about the CIA spying on me. If I have a neighbor down the street who is plotting a terrorist attack I hope they are being spied on.

Common Sense goes a long way.

 

[LeahTherese]

I’m worried about identity theft more than I am about the CIA spying on me. If I have a neighbor down the street who is plotting a terrorist attack I hope they are being spied on.

Common Sense goes a long way.

That’s not quite the point though. I’m quite sure that the CIA is - currently - doing what it’s doing in order to protect America, and her allies, from (eg) terrorism, plots by foreign governments, etc.

But it’s a very small step from doing that, to using the same capabilities to spy on US citizens (or MI5/GCHQ on British ones, etc) purely on the basis, for instance, that those citizens conform to a particular ideology which while entirely harmless, is one the state doesn’t like.

It might even start innocently enough: let’s use everyone’s TVs and toasters to gauge how many people might turn up to this pro-life, or pro-abortion, or pro-President/anti-President, etc, rally, just so we can do safe crowd control…it’s then an even shorter step to ‘let’s find out exactly who went to that rally, so we can keep tabs on them, because we don’t like their anti-administration, or pro-life (or pro-choice, or whatever), stance’. That’s when the country wakes up one morning and finds itself under an insidious tyranny it never wanted.

The problem is that if we don’t know in detail about what the CIA can at least do if it chooses to, there is no way to stop it from essentially running amok. While Snowden et al unquestionably did a great deal of damage, he, wikileaks and the rest are also to be celebrated for at least bringing this to public attention, albeit in a problematic way.

 

[Saints_Alive]

I understand but I have doubts about them worrying about anything other than national security.

I could be wrong of course but I’m just not convinced my rights are threatened as long as I’m not up to no good.

 

[LeahTherese]

I understand but I have doubts about them worrying about anything other than national security.

I could be wrong of course but I’m just not convinced my rights are threatened as long as I’m not up to no good.

“Have you got the car keys?”
“No I thought you had them.”
“Yes but then I gave them to you…”

The comfort I guess we can take is that there will be so many millions of conversations like that swamping the system, that national surveillance is kind of silly!

Still I think we should be worried not about what’s happening now but what a future government might have the opportunity to do, if we as citizens aren’t vigilant. It’s a principle of privacy, really I suppose. And it’s not unknown even for US presidents to organise surveillance, phone tapping, etc, of political opponents…

 

[SecretCatholic]

I’m worried about identity theft more than I am about the CIA spying on me. If I have a neighbor down the street who is plotting a terrorist attack I hope they are being spied on.

Common Sense goes a long way.

I understand but I have doubts about them worrying about anything other than national security.

I could be wrong of course but I’m just not convinced my rights are threatened as long as I’m not up to no good.

Why do you think that your definition of “up to no good” is the one the government subscribes to and will always subscribe to?

The whole point of limited government (the type of government the founders of the United States of America set up), with “checks and balances” is to prevent the government from gaining unaccountable and nearly unlimited power, because the founders were well aware of our fallible human nature and our innate desire of power over others, especially for those who tend to enter government.

It’s not okay to allow government to be unaccountable to the people nor to have virtually unlimited power because they’re the “good guys” and they’re just “protecting us”. Historically, that doesn’t turn out so well for the people. Constitutionally it’s not allowed.

Let me ask you: How much power should the government have? If they could read everyone’s mind, would that be okay because they’re the “good guys” and they’re just “watching out for us”? And why is it okay for them to have that power and not me? After all, I’m a good guy too, and I would only use this power to help you and others.

If your neighbor tapped your phone and read all your text messages, have your rights been violated? Why do you feel that its okay for government to do it, without even a proper warrant? And what is the POINT of warrants, if the government can and is spying on everyone everywhere all the time?

I think it comes down to either believing that government is a magical entity that can manage itself and needs no serious accountability (and is somehow immune from temptations and sin) or that government is another necessary, but flawed human institution which needs to be accountable, especially considering the power it wields and all the money it demands from the people by force.

 

[Saints_Alive]

I doubt the surveillance is random.

If I was really worried about it I would unplug my TV and put tape over my laptop camera. But I’m not.

The world is a dangerous place these days. It’s as dangerous for a CIA agent’s family as much as the rest of us. I doubt they are the bogeyman.

 

[SecretCatholic]

“Have you got the car keys?”
“No I thought you had them.”
“Yes but then I gave them to you…”

The comfort I guess we can take is that there will be so many millions of conversations like that swamping the system, that national surveillance is kind of silly!

Artificial Intelligence is going a long way to filtering conversations to whatever keyword, patterns or topics they want. It’s not just a bunch of people listening to conversations. Also, they’ve got your whole history stored, and one day they may decide to use it against you if they don’t like what you’re doing.

How many possibly damning things do we say privately throughout the years? It would be possible to convict just about ANY human being on such statements alone!

 

[Saints_Alive]

Why do you think that your definition of “up to no good” is the one the government subscribes to and will always subscribe to?

The whole point of limited government (the type of government the founders of the United States of America set up), with “checks and balances” is to prevent the government from gaining unaccountable and nearly unlimited power, because the founders were well aware of our fallible human nature and our innate desire of power over others, especially for those who tend to enter government.

It’s not okay to allow government to be unaccountable to the people nor to have virtually unlimited power because they’re the “good guys” and they’re just “protecting us”. Historically, that doesn’t turn out so well for the people. Constitutionally it’s not allowed.

Let me ask you: How much power should the government have? If they could read everyone’s mind, would that be okay because they’re the “good guys” and they’re just “watching out for us”? And why is it okay for them to have that power and not me? After all, I’m a good guy too, and I would only use this power to help you and others.

If your neighbor tapped your phone and read all your text messages, have your rights been violated? Why do you feel that its okay for government to do it, without even a proper warrant? And what is the POINT of warrants, if the government can and is spying on everyone everywhere all the time?

I think it comes down to either believing that government is a magical entity that can manage itself and needs no serious accountability (and is somehow immune from temptations and sin) or that government is another necessary, but flawed human institution which needs to be accountable, especially considering the power it wields and all the money it demands from the people by force.

You could always move to another country if you are scared. I’m staying put.