NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

"...WikiLeaks will give tech giants CIA zero-day exploits after they meet mystery demands

As Motherboard reports, Wikileaks made contact with the tech companies this week, but it hasn’t provided any of the relevant data. Instead, it sent over a contract with a set of conditions that must be met first, though the specifics of the document aren’t known at this time. As its Twitter account makes clear, WikiLeaks was on the fence about whether to share the vulnerabilities at all..."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/17/wikileaks-tech-companies-demands/

 

Assange is a joke and a coward. Nothing he said is even interesting, if some whistle-blowers (aka traitors) wouldn't use his site; nobody would care of him.

 

https://arstechnica.com/security/20...a-to-commandeer-318-models-of-cisco-switches/

 

Top NSA official says telephone surveillance should have been disclosed

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-nsa-idUSKBN16T034

 

Everyone really gets off mocking the Security Services who are around just to make certain that you won't get blown to bits by a bomb planted by some psychopath. And on the other hand everyone just loves Things like the arch traitor Snowden who makes a name for himself by disclosing obsolescent techniques in a concerted effort to diminish the protection that you enjoy.

But the real crime are the Journalists who revel in publishing this stuff even though they would be the first to squeal like the Pigs they are if someone they loved was murdered in a terrorist act.

 

The Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of

-- Tom

 

Peter- Fold it up and see if it will stop a bullet.

 

OK, so National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a new name for me. But the capabilities discussed aren't at all surprising. The key development is image processing and pattern recognition. The data's been available for decades. But there was no way to use it for mass surveillance. Now there is

 

The CIA’s Weeping Angel, Vault 7 and the threat to personal privacy

-- Tom

 

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", by Bob Dylan

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/03/23/wikileaks-cia-apple-mac-iphone-hacking

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/03/24/apple-does-not-negotiate-with-wikileaks

 

By Sam Biddle,

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/24/apple-says-it-fixed-cia-vulnerabilities-years-ago/

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wiretapping-is-as-american-as-apple-pie

 

I wiretapped when I was 10

 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/internet-surveillance-map-nsa-gchq/

 

@Minimalist - I don't think that's right, I think they monitor the peering points in the UK and the cables.

The standard staff in these organisations - even or especially the high-ranking - do not necessarily get told - think of the Yahoo case.

 

By Jenna McLaughlin

Meet the Midwestern Contractor That Appears Hundreds of Times in the CIA WikiLeaks Dump

 

By John Leyden

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/wikileaks_cia/

 

"CIA operations may be disrupted by new Wikileaks' data release..."

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39478967

 

As others keep pointing out, anti-US is rather their market niche. Leakers with analogous information about China or Russia, for example, can take it directly to mainstream media.

 

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/most-brits-would-feel-safer/

 

Interesting. I wonder if the same 51% will also feel safer if everyone can see their login credentials in plain, unencrypted connections, to online bank, facebook, twitter etc....

Provided that this poll was not manipulated with vague questions, the only thing this shows is just how awesomely stupid some people are.

EDIT: An oh, for our "friends" out there:

IntcIml2XCI6XCJiMXgvbDVsc3U1eXJtYVEwQ1YxdXNnXCIsXCJ2XCI6MSxcIml0ZXJcIjoxMDAwLFwia3NcIjoxMjgsXCJ0c1wiOjY0LFwibW9kZVwiOlwiY2NtXCIsXCJhZGF0YVwiOlwiXCIsXCJjaXBoZXJcIjpcImFlc1wiLFwic2FsdFwiOlwiMkF0dmE2dGErdTBcIixcImN0XCI6XCJRbUNGTGJqUmJ6RzJxUnJxZXp4cnpCblNpcVVLeG5vL1ZVY1wifSI=

 

"Most Americans unwilling to give up privacy to thwart attacks: Reuters/Ipsos poll"

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-poll-idUSKBN1762TQ?rpc=401&