Wikileaks Releases Encrypted "Vault 7" Torrent, Will Unveil Password Tuesday 9am

[Mackin USA]

#5

I agree we need to take a look at the 17 "Agencies"

[Mackin USA]

The FBI has begun preparing for a major mole hunt to determine how anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks got an alleged arsenal of hacking tools the CIA has used to spy on espionage targets, according to people familiar with the matter.

The leak rattled government and technology industry officials, who spent Tuesday scrambling to determine the accuracy and scope of the thousands of documents released by the group. They were also trying to assess the damage the revelations may cause, and what damage may come from future releases promised by WikiLeaks, these people said.

[ergophobe]

damage the revelations may cause

One interesting side note on this is that one thing that is sure to come out is that the US is mucking in elections all over the world and our outrage that a foreign power may have mucked in a US election will be put in context.

Similar to, again, the Church Committee, where a main focus was to figure out what the relationship was US-sponsored assassinations for world leaders and the Kennedy assassination and it came out just how often the CIA was involved in killing democratically elected leaders and putting dictators in place or, in some cases, killing one dictator and putting another one in place.

[littleman]

The lack of response from the WH on this is really interesting.

[Rooftop]

Further to Ergophobe's comments, The Register pointed out the following:

... if you've been following US politics and WikiLeaks' mischievous role in the rise of Donald Trump, you may have clocked that Tuesday's dump was engineered to help the President pin the hacking of his political opponents' email server on the CIA. The leaked documents suggest the agency can disguise its operations as the work of a foreign government. Thus, it wasn't the Russians who broke into the Democrats' computers and, by leaking the emails, helped swing Donald the election – it was the CIA all along, Trump can now claim. That'll shut the intelligence community up. The President's pet news outlet Breitbart is already running that line.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/08/cia_exploit_list_in_full/

[littleman]

https://streamable.com/38l6e

[Rupert]

3 rules of robotics there. Well almost

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.