Wendy McElroy — Your Bitcoins Open to CIA and Criminals, Heed Wikileaks’ Warning

More on Vault 7.

This Wikileaks dump reiterated something we already knew; Our devices are fundamentally unsafe. No matter what kind of encryption we use, no matter which secure messaging apps we take care to run, no matter how careful we are to sign up for two-factor authentication, the CIA—and, we have to assume, other hackers—can infiltrate our operating systems, take control of our cameras and microphones, and bend our phones to their will. The same can be said of smart TVs, which could be made to surreptitiously record our living-room conversations.

Back to carrier pigeons?

Technology News
Your Bitcoins Open to CIA and Criminals, Heed Wikileaks’ Warning
Wendy McElroy

Russia Insider — Wikileaks: CIA Hacks 'in Russian' to Cover Its Tracks

Wikileaks releases another tranche of Vault 7. The plot thickens.

The CIA doesn't just steal Russian malware. It also covers its tracks by using Russian language.

Russia Insider
Wikileaks: CIA Hacks 'in Russian' to Cover Its Tracks

RI Staff

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Zero Hedge
WikiLeaks Reveals "Marble": Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks As Russian, Chinese, Arabic...

Anonymous — Wikileaks Releases “Vault 7”

Last night Wikileaks announced that it has released an encrypted torrent file which reportedly contains information on the mysterious “Vault 7,” and which we now know is the biggest “collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks publication in history.”

It can be downloaded now at the following URL, and accessed using the password: “SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds”

Anonymous
Wikileaks Releases “Vault 7”

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Docs claim CIA can defeat WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram encryption, among other apps.

Ars Technica

Wikileaks publishes docs from what it says is trove of CIA hacking tools
Sean Gallagher

Vault 7, the the CIA’s suite of hacking tools just released by Wikileaks, includes a malware library “stolen” from other states, including Russia, that can be used to misattribute attacks to them….

The Unz Review
Taking UMBRAGE
Anatoly Karlin

Moon of Alabama
CIA Leak: "Russian Election Hackers" May Work In Langley

Zero Hedge

Wikileaks Unveils 'Vault 7': "The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Documents"; Another Snowden Emerges