[Lilug] Read wikileaks vault7

odinson odinson at warcloud.net
Tue Mar 7 07:47:41 PST 2017


Hi

 	This makes official many things long speculated on.

The CIA has been sitting on multiple zero day exploits for every 
operating system including Android and Linux.

The CIA has had a remote car hacking program since at least 2014. (beat 
em, 2013 oh yeah.)

The CIA has hacked household devices to make them appear to be off but to 
turn them into remote recording devices.

The CIA has extensive guidelines for writing viruses that can't be traced 
back to it.

Something horrendous lurks in COMODO.

Interestingly about the only thing that doesn't seem to be popped is 
bitcoin.

Two specific things come to mind.

If the CIA is doing it, it is reasonable to expect every country with a 
similar budget (China, Russia, EU?) to do the same.  If not in the past 
most certainly in the future.

This completely changes opsec computational and physical.  The entire 
internet of things is now suspect in a non theoretical way.  Vehicles are 
now suspect in a non theoretical way.  Computers should be considered 
owned or safe based on traffic patterns, not just 'up to patch, 
unconfigured services off.'  IMO air gapping critical computers should be 
considered.  Perhaps custom compilation.

As for the folks who said this was not possible, in hindsight, what 
exactly were you defending?

Heads up.

Matt

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