[Lilug] Read wikileaks vault7

[Andrew T. Stager]

I feel like we've known all this for years, I was kind of hoping for some
new juicy stuff but it kind of just seems like the same old "yeah we can
root anything".

My personal website is constantly bombarded by Russian and Chinese IPs
everyday. I don't think anything of it. Their schools are much better with
computer science at a young age. Many of their citizens are poor, it
doesn't cost anything to sit inside and poke around people's boxes.

On Mar 7, 2017 18:35, "Orrin Edwards" <lilug at orrin.fastmail.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Orrin
> http://orrin.org/
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> 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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