Published on Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden, March 7, 2017.
WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever release of confidential documents on the CIA. It includes more than 8,000 documents as part of ‘Vault 7’, a series of leaks on the agency, which have allegedly emerged from the CIA’s Center For Cyber Intelligence in Langley, and which can be seen on the org chart below, which Wikileaks also released: … //
… A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”
WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia … //
… But perhaps what is most notable is the purported emergence of another Snowden-type whistleblower: the source of the information told WikiLeaks in a statement that they wish to initiate a public debate about the “security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons.” Policy questions that should be debated in public include “whether the CIA’s hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency,” WikiLeaks claims the source said … //
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Related Links:
- Wikileaks: CIA has tools to snoop via TVs, on BBCnews, March 8, 2017;
- Apple, Samsung, Microsoft: WikiLeaks blows lid on scale of CIA’s hacking arsenal, on RT, March 7, 2017;
- Europe: WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents, on NYT, by SCOTT SHANE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ANDREW W. LEHREN, March 7, 2017;
- more on Google News-search;
Links:
Iraqi govt must prevent war crimes & heavy civilian casualties as troops liberate Mosul – HRW, on RT, March 8, 2017;
Snowden on WikiLeaks Year Zero: Evidence US govt pays to keep ‘software unsafe’, on RT, March 7, 2017;
Special Page on RT: #1917LIVE Russian Revolution;
Aschermittwoch-Rede – Gregor GYSI in Bestform, 52.19 min, hochgeladen von System Crash, am 5. März 2017;
Lagarde trial: A business class get-out-of-jail free card, on Pambazuka News, by CADTM Belgium and CADTM France, Feb 23, 2017: while the IMF loudly boasts “good governance” and demands the highest standards of discipline from states that it puts into debt with adjustment plans, Christine Lagarde endorses the theft of 403 million Euros of public money and emerges with a clean record, an improved image and remains at the head of one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world …;
hochgeladen von PontifixDeutschDoku, am 14. Okt 2016 … Doku in HD:
Paris statt Hartz IV, drei Jahre mit Familie Sommer, 28.51 min;
Flüchtlinge willkommen oder unerwünscht, Alltag in der Erstaufnahme Ingelheim, 29.55 min … täglich kommen Dutzende, ja Hunderte Flüchtlinge in Ingelheim an. Die Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung ist für Asylsuchende ein Zuhause auf Zeit, ein Start in ein Leben ohne Krieg und Armut;
ABANDONNED HOUSES, uploaded by wideeyevideo:
Central High – abandoned High school on the eastern shore of VA/(US), 17.47 min, March 4, 2016;
Westover House – abandoned house on the eastern shore of Maryland/(US), 6.01 min, July 13, 2016;
remember: Atelier de philosophie en 4e – Oscar Brenifier, 98.56 min, mise en ligne par Oscar Brenifier – Videos, le 23 avril 2011;
… and this:
- Ophelia – The Lumineers, 2.42 min, uploaded by LumineersVEVO, … more in autoplay.