The American consulate building in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 08 March 2017.
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The leak has already been described by experts as potentially more significant than the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden in 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported.
WikiLeaks’ publication of a massive batch of covert documents detailing the hacking techniques used by the CIA poses a multitude of uncomfortable questions for world leaders, law enforcement and even WikiLeaks itself.
In one poll tweeted earlier Wednesday, the transparency group asked whether it should work more closely with the tech industry to help shore up cyber defenses around the world.
- RT
The CIA said they knew it was coming. (RT: CIA knew #Vault7 was coming, focus turns to contractors as source of leak - officials)
US intelligence and law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Wednesday that the CIA had been aware of the impending leak of its cyberwarfare arsenal since the end of last year.
The unnamed officials also confirmed that an internal investigation by the agency into the source of the leak is focused primarily on contractors, who the agency believe passed the documents to WikiLeaks.
They also stated their belief that the 8,761 documents contained within the current “Year Zero” leak, the first of the “Vault 7” series, appear to be authentic. On Wednesday, the FBI also announced its federal criminal investigation into WikiLeaks following the latest release and stated that it will be coordinating their efforts with the CIA.
- RT
The CIA managed to show Germany once again the country gets no respect at all.
According to the leaked documents, the US consulate on Giessener Strasse, opposite the Frankfurt cemetery, appears to host the Center for Cyber Intelligence Europe (CCIE), which carries out hacking operations across the continent as well as in the Middle East and Africa.
(RT: German prosecutor ‘looking carefully’ into WikiLeaks CIA files, could launch probe)
The 'Pocket Putin' sites should just do wonders for America's relations with Russia.
WikiLeaks’ massive ‘Year Zero’ release on the CIA’s secret hacking techniques has revealed a covert listening post used by agents which may be named after Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the confidential data release, the CIA has five secret “listening posts” called ‘Pocket Putin.’
You may be thinking the CIA couldn't even manage a Friday fish fry and it looks like there's more and more reason to believe that. (RT: #Vault7: ‘Pocket Putin’ – CIA’s covert listening tool revealed)
The whistleblower goodness just goes on and on and it can when it draws from a source of unlimited global criminality and corruption in the CIA.
The leaks have revealed the CIA’s covert hacking targets, with smart TVs infiltrated for the purpose of collecting audio, even when the device is powered off.
The Google Android Operating System, used in 85 percent of the world’s smartphones, was also exposed as having severe vulnerabilities, allowing the CIA to “weaponize” the devices.
(RT: WikiLeaks says just 1% of #Vault7 covert documents released so far)
The CIA did settle one thing since apparently an Android phone is just about the single worst security problem you could possibly be carrying.
In conclusion, if the CIA / NSA defensive capability is really so damn good then why can't they do anything about the terrorist calls to synagogues in America. (RT: 18 threats made against JCCs & other Jewish facilities as lawmakers ask for ‘swift action’)
At least 11 Jewish community centers and four regional offices of the Anti-Defamation League were evacuated or locked down after receiving bomb threats. More than 140 Jewish institutions have been threatened in six waves since the beginning of the year.
On Tuesday morning, Jewish community centers (JCCs) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rockville, Maryland; Portland, Oregon; and Rochester, New York received threatening phone calls or emails, according to Secure Community Network (SCN), the security arm of the Jewish Federations of North America.
- RT
Is that not precisely that which the NSA is claiming they can detect. In their oh-so-clever scans of telephone messages, adding a few more keywords such as 'synagogue,' etc should pull such telephone calls right out of the pile.
Instead we hear crickets.
But the cellphone manufacturers are not being quiet about this outrage. (RT: Apple, Samsung, Microsoft express concern about CIA hacking after WikiLeaks dump)
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