[Lilug] Read wikileaks vault7

[Orrin Edwards]

The link to read it all is at wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/



On a similar subject, I have a small personal website at orrin.org. For
weeks my web logs have been
showing many 'HEAD' (rather than GET} requests, all coming from the
Russian Federation. I have blocked
the offending ISP's so now they get a '403', but they continue.



What could they gain by only getting website header? Nothing there but a
couple of normal header lines and a style.
 

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Orrin

http://orrin.org/





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From: odinson <odinson at warcloud.net>

To: lilug at lilug.org

Cc: lilug-si-sig at lilug.org

Subject: [Lilug] Read wikileaks vault7

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:47:41 -0500 (EST)



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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Operating system features slow computers to a crawl.

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