#Vault7 Wikileaks

[jllundqu]

Been following this on Twitter. Lots of chatter about what Wikileaks has been teasing over the last few weeks.

http://heavy.com/tech/2017/02/what-is-vault-7-wikileaks-theories-vault7-tweets-photos-analysis-clues-twitter-who-where-when-why-how/

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-49-06-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

The Seed Vault in Norway. What does this have to do with anything?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-48-58-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Nazi gold stored in Merkers Salt Mine?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-48-33-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Jet Engine testing room?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/828889235994324992/photo/1

Leakers?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-08-at-8-26-01-am.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Air Force Welding?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-09-at-8-10-30-am.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Stasi Drop Box?



There are many theories, from 9/11 inside job stuff to reptilians in government, but the one that catches the most traction is that the FBI released 6 archives called "Vaults" containing FBI files on the Hillary Clinton investigation. #Vault7 could be the 33,000 'deleted' emails or emails the FBI refused to release. Now Wikileaks has promised to open #Vault7 on Feb. 19. THis date is significant because elections in Ecuador take place on Feb. 19 and a frontrunner there has promised to end Julian Assange's asylum at the embassy if he is elected.

Anyone else following this?

[jllundqu]

Clinton Emails

One theory points out that the FBI recently released part 6 of 6 from Hillary Clinton’s email investigation. This theory proposes that the tweets are a reference to deleted emails that the FBI will never be able to release. The FBI’s Vault releases on Clinton can be viewed here. These deleted emails would have, theoretically, been released as Vault 7. Others believe WikiLeaks is hinting about a new Clinton email batch that they plan to release themselves.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Others are holding to a theory that these tweets are about an upcoming 9/11 leak. In the third tweet, the engine was an F119, and these theorists point out that 119 backwards is 911. They also reference Building 7, which has been the source of many 9/11 conspiracy theories, including a conspiracy theory that there was a “vault of gold” beneath the building. (This conspiracy theory is often incorrectly ascribed to Building 7, but it’s actually about Building 6.) It seems like a bit of a stretch, since WikiLeaks has not made any indications of an upcoming 9/11 leak. A more likely explanation is that the photo was chosen because jet engine was being tested in a room sometimes called a “vault.”

The fifth tweet features a photo of someone welding, which some believe is a reference to a conspiracy theory about an angled cut on a World Trade Center beam. The “box blade” he’s welding, some say, might also be a reference to box cutters used on 9/11.

Government Spending or Military Involvement

A new theory, derived from the fifth tweet, is that WikLeaks is going to release something related to government spending or military projects. The fifth tweet referenced a photo from Whiteman Air Force Base, which talked about government spending. In addition, the host unit for the base is the 509th Bomb Wing, which operates the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Whiteman is the only permanent base for the B-2. B-2 bombers were used in October 2001 in Afghanistan.


More Theories About the Number 7

Others are taking this even farther and finding any connection they can to the number seven. In several WikiLeaks Reddit discussions, some have said that it might be a reference to the next mass extinction event following the sixth, which some scientists say we are already in the middle of. This theory is connected to the first tweet, which showed the seed vault, and proposes that #Vault7 has something to do with climate change.

Then there’s the “shadow government” theory connected to the number seven. CNBC reported in October that a new FBI release featured claims of a “shadow government” composed of high-ranking state officials, whom some referred to as “The 7th Floor Group.” There’s also a theory that this could be somehow connected to George Soros, as the last tweet in the series featured a photo from Open Society Foundations, which he founded.


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Reddit is going nuts over it

[specsaregood]

Havent the last couple times WikiLeaks has promised something was going to happen, nothing actually happened?

[jllundqu]

The cynic in me thinks this may be a fundraiser for wikileaks... they've pulled shit like this before.

But I would be super stoked if they actually dropped something major...

But I'd bet a shiny wooden nickel they don't drop anything major

[jllundqu]

Havent the last couple times WikiLeaks has promised something was going to happen, nothing actually happened?

Yeah that's why im very skeptical about anything major

[jllundqu]

Also people think it could reference #pizzagate

[oyarde]

My guess is they have nothing . I am more interested in the seed vault :)

[Valli6]

Today wikileaks released some info about the CIA spying on the candidates for France's 2012 presidential election and referred to it as "context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series"

wikileaks 2/16/17 thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?507629-wikileaks-CIA-spied-on-candidates-of-France-s-2012-presidential-election

[PatriotOne]

Much anticipated Vault 7,

Oh god...what fresh hell will this be? There's a part of me that suspects WikiLeaks ultimate goal to bring down U.S. Government (tool of One World Gov crowd. Assange was in a cult (mind control). Hoping for the best because I don't trust ANYONE at this point. Except Ron and Rand of course.

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[PatriotOne]

Year 0? What's THAT mean? That sounds Ominous.

[TheTexan]

Do they have my dick pics??!

Is that what they're releasing??

Mother of god...

[PatriotOne]

Do they have my dick pics??!

Is that what they're releasing??

Mother of god...

hahahaha....good one.

[Valli6]

Wikileaks had released information about the CIA spying on France's 2012 elections, and called it "context" for vault 7. More about election spying?


All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA's human ("HUMINT") and electronic ("SIGINT") spies in the seven months leading up to France's 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named specifically as targets are the French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan...

https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#Press%20Release%20%28English%29
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?507629-wikileaks-CIA-spied-on-candidates-of-France-s-2012-presidential-election

[NewRightLibertarian]

Let's hope that Trump seizes on this type of stuff to hammer away at the deep state. This could be big.

[Athan]

Do they have my dick pics??!

Is that what they're releasing??

Mother of god...

Omg, what if it is THEE DICK pic? You know. That one?

[sparebulb]

Do they have my dick pics??!

Yes they do.

It is in the micro leaks section.

[PatriotOne]

Wikileaks had released information about the CIA spying on France's 2012 elections, and called it "context" for vault 7. More about election spying?


https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#Press%20Release%20%28English%29
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?507629-wikileaks-CIA-spied-on-candidates-of-France-s-2012-presidential-election

Thanks for that. At least I can reign in my imagination now and get some sleep tonight....lol.

[eOs]

Brightening the image up doesn't make it any less ominous, either. Ruling district...DC? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6SapHRWQAEk0K7.jpg:large

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

It's a cryptographic statue outside the CIA headquarters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

[UWDude]

Building 7, ground Zero?

[ghengis86]

Assange said year zero was 1979; I'm guessing it's some classified spook docs from that time period, exposing the origins of the deep state.

Any other guesses? We've got a few more hours.

One last thing; I hope this isn't a giant nothing burger, like the BoA hard drive that was supposed to be a 'game changer/bombshell' but never materialized

[specsaregood]

Assange said year zero was 1979; I'm guessing it's some classified spook docs from that time period, exposing the origins of the deep state.

Any other guesses? We've got a few more hours.

One last thing; I hope this isn't a giant nothing burger, like the BoA hard drive that was supposed to be a 'game changer/bombshell' but never materialized

I think it is obvious that they are gong to expose proof of alien presence on earth and in our leadership. Year Zero - is the first year of the Age of Aliens epoch. Or maybe it is just coincidence that amazon has been advertising this book on my kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Forging-Zero-Legend-ZERO-Book-ebook/dp/B00BTKA42Y
Which pretty much deals with that subject.... and look at the name! great book series, btw.

[goldenequity]

CIA 'COVERT MICROPHONES'


CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.” (https://www.rt.com/news/379724-wikileaks-assange-cia-hacking/)


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Kim Dotcom
►Breaking: Skype voice conversations are converted into text in real-time, scanned for contents of interest and stored in CIA spy cloud.

@Urdbrunnen · 31 sek.
►How CIA avoids to leave hacking "fingerprints" and is able to frame others

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6UgRTJXQAQeBup.jpg:large

Les Deplorable
►CIA malware infests modern vehicles, transforming them into covert assassins.
#Samsung #Wikileaks #Vault7 #ObamaGate #MAGA #DJT #MuslimBan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6UgXqiWAAE_CR3.jpg:large

►CIA has tools to remote control chips in cars, trucks, planes, medical devices and hospital tech with assassination potential.
RT

[shakey1]

CIA 'COVERT MICROPHONES'


CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.” (https://www.rt.com/news/379724-wikileaks-assange-cia-hacking/)



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[PatriotOne]

Well the passcode certainly is telling what the general theme of vault 7 release is about.

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[PatriotOne]

CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”

Phew...no mention of Kindle. My crappy Gummy Drop game scores are safe!

[jonhowe]

This is amazing.

No mention/tweet/article/anything on: CNN, HuffPo, MSNBC, Reuters, NY Daily News, or Washington Post (just going through my list of most-hated). It's been nearly 2 hours, and other sites are reporting it quite in depth already.

Shameful! Not surprising, but shameful!

[pcosmar]

The CIA Hacking arsenal.

Cool,, the CIA has it's own NSA.. off the books.

no surprise there,

It does make me wonder what's in this big Insurance File.

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SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWi nds

might have to try that.

[TheTexan]

Yes they do.

It is in the micro leaks section.

-rep

[phill4paul]

I don't think there is anything so far that I've read that wasn't suspected. I predict that nothing much will come of this.

[asurfaholic]

Confirms what all the "crazy conspiracy theorists" have been saying for years. Absolutely nothing to sneeze at if nothing good comes of this other than the opportunity to link to your personal naysayers and rub their face in it.

The upside is that maybe some people start talking about it and distrusting the power of big unaccountable government.

[Valli6]

from the press release:

WikiLeaks has intentionally not written up hundreds of impactful stories to encourage others to find them and so create expertise in the area for subsequent parts in the series. They're there. Look. Those who demonstrate journalistic excellence may be considered for early access to future parts.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1
We should start hearing more specific stuff after some (real) journalists get a chance to comb through it.

(reminder: Journalist Michael Hastings' car crash occurred on June 18, 2013)

[AuH20]

Goddamn spooks on social media.

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[AuH20]

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[AngryCanadian]

This is already big.
So what we learned so far.
-They can hack through smart TVs and iphones.
-disguise the hacking as by Russians. While in reality its not.

[sparebulb]

Goddamn spooks on social media.

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Hey Zippy and C-Pud:

Your cover is blown.

Now blow.

[AuH20]

This is already big.
So what we learned so far.
-They can hack through smart TVs and iphones.

Jones took heat for suggesting this 5 or 6 years ago.

[AngryCanadian]

This is amazing.

No mention/tweet/article/anything on: CNN, HuffPo, MSNBC, Reuters, NY Daily News, or Washington Post (just going through my list of most-hated). It's been nearly 2 hours, and other sites are reporting it quite in depth already.

Shameful! Not surprising, but shameful!

Are you somehow surprised? the deep state owns the Mainstream News Media.

[donnay]

Are you somehow surprised? the deep state owns the Mainstream News Media.

Operation Mockingbird.

[69360]

So wikileaks says the CIA hacks and spies on everyone. At this point it's hardly news anymore.

[TheTexan]

What's the big deal, it's just hacking the microphones in every phone, TV, xbox, etc, and listening to everyone in their homes, cars, businesses, etc.

Seems reasonable to me.

[TheTexan]

If you're worried about them seeing your dick all you have to do is point your phone's camera away when you're naked.

Its a small inconvenience but it's also a small price to pay to live in a free society

[CaptUSA]

What's the big deal, it's just hacking the microphones in every phone, TV, xbox, etc, and listening to everyone in their homes, cars, businesses, etc.

Seems reasonable to me.What's the big deal?!! The big deal is that Wikileaks just published this!!! Now, regular people will know to be more careful. That includes the bad people! Obviously, the answer is to find these leakers and send them to Guantanamo!

[pcosmar]

So wikileaks says the CIA hacks and spies on everyone. At this point it's hardly news anymore.

Not news,, that is not reported.

Russian hacking the election is MSM's baby

CIA Hacking is censored by the CIA propagandists at the News outlets.
and the Spin Doctors are going into overtime.

[TheTexan]

What's the big deal?!! The big deal is that Wikileaks just published this!!! Now, regular people will know to be more careful. That includes the bad people! Obviously, the answer is to find these leakers and send them to Guantanamo!

It's fine, I'm sure with these tools to monitor basically everything, they surely will have no problem finding the terrorists responsible for this leak.

[sparebulb]

If you're worried about them seeing your dick all you have to do is point your phone's camera away when you're naked.

Its a small inconvenience but it's also a small price to pay to live in a free society

In all fairness, the modern American male would need a handheld device to see their junk.

Species change/evolution will render line of sight genetalia inspection a thing of the past.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3325/3426997447_049b66de3a.jpg

[69360]

Not news,, that is not reported.

Russian hacking the election is MSM's baby

CIA Hacking is censored by the CIA propagandists at the News outlets.
and the Spin Doctors are going into overtime.

There is no point in spinning it anymore. Even the most mundane uniformed involved people now realize the government spies on everyone. Nobody denies it. That's why I say that the latest wikileaks dump is hardly news.

[AuH20]

When can we start assembling the gallows?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HYIfA3p8jw

[CaptUSA]

When can we start assembling the gallows?

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Yeah! Get the gallows ready for these traitors!
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_i1Q8eXh1Fw/WCec35TzKSI/AAAAAAAACvc/20gR8XmU_cYJxZ9c6G_taXq_eKejHQWMwCK4B/s640/s-1-18-e1478949891305.jpg

[donnay]

There is no point in spinning it anymore. Even the most mundane uniformed involved people now realize the government spies on everyone. Nobody denies it. That's why I say that the latest wikileaks dump is hardly news.

What it proves is that these rogue elements within the government were trying to set up Trump and are now exposed.

[AuH20]

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[brushfire]

Yeah! Get the gallows ready for these traitors!
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_i1Q8eXh1Fw/WCec35TzKSI/AAAAAAAACvc/20gR8XmU_cYJxZ9c6G_taXq_eKejHQWMwCK4B/s640/s-1-18-e1478949891305.jpg


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I dunno... Dude seems to talk right from his a$$. His words have almost no value.

[jllundqu]

And now we know what it is. A secret CIA series of programs that was used to spy on the world. Not exactly news, but the revelation is getting some press which is a good thing.

Will the CIA be held to account in a Trump regime? No.

The Deep State is taking some hits, though... Props to "The New Snowden"

[donnay]

This info may be the thing that changes Trump's mind on Snowden.

[jonhowe]

Are you somehow surprised?


Shameful! Not surprising, but shameful!


No, as I said.

[jllundqu]

Still.... none of the pictures that Wikileaks tweeted about #Vault7 make any sense.

[jonhowe]

Goddamn spooks on social media.

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This might be fake. I saw that exact text years ago.

[jllundqu]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/year-zero-series-wikileaks-cia-9981832


"The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified."

[jllundqu]

Most comments online are stating that since the CIA (according to Vault7 info) has the capability to stage fake cyberattacks and frame foreign state actors, this is 'proof positive' that Obama had the CIA do just that to Trump.

Also, Mods might want to merge the two Vault7 threads.

[AuH20]

This info may be the thing that changes Trump's mind on Snowden.

Trump has never been concerned with Snowden. He has bigger fish to fry.

[jllundqu]

This might be fake. I saw that exact text years ago.

Seriously.. Do people think the CIA had a Meme Warfare Center? Lmao....

[donnay]

Trump has never been concerned with Snowden. He has bigger fish to fry.

He could use Snowden in this administration. Julian Assange too.

[AuH20]

He could use Snowden in this administration. Julian Assange too.

All in due time. He has vipers coiled around his neck and he can't even restock the agencies with his people.

[jllundqu]

What is a zero day?

A zero-day exploit is a secret attack that a technology company, such as Apple, Google or Samsung, does not know about.

This means hackers can install a bug on a device without the user knowing, and because the manufacturer itself is not aware, can’t issue a security update for.

A zero day is the holy grail of hacking because even the latest security updates won’t work. Technology companies pay thousands of pounds to hackers who alert them about the vulnerabilities.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/07/wikileaks-vault-7-has-revealed-can-cia-hack-phone/

Hopefully the tech companies involved (Apple, Samsung, etc) will come out STRONGLY against this stuff and make a lot of noise too. I would advise people to include them in tweets about the topic.

[Brian4Liberty]

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https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/839184529529040896

[Champ]

The Snowden docs were mostly about the NSA, these cover the CIA apparatus. Trivializing the difference would be a mistake. This further uncovers the deep state activities that Ron Paul, Doug Casey, and many others have been discussing over the last few months as we have seen the deep state efforts ramp up in earnest. A government within our government, and these docs explain in part how they managed to accomplish this.

For the people already picking sides, this story is bigger than Trump, his cabinet, Obama, Hillary, or any other government puppet. This is about our government and the steps they took to take away our liberty in order to accomplish their goals. It likely confirms what most of us already know or at least suspected, but making this into a partisan story is missing the point entirely. There are 26,000 other threads with pro and anti trump factions going at it.. can we please keep that crap out of this thread, and get back to discussing issues that the website was intended for?

Partisan comment in 5, 4, 3, 2...

[CaptUSA]

The Snowden docs were mostly about the NSA, these cover the CIA apparatus. Trivializing the difference would be a mistake. This further uncovers the deep state activities that Ron Paul, Doug Casey, and many others have been discussing over the last few months as we have seen the deep state efforts ramp up in earnest. A government within our government, and these docs explain in part how they managed to accomplish this.

For the people already picking sides, this story is bigger than Trump, his cabinet, Obama, Hillary, or any other government puppet. This is about our government and the steps they took to to take away our liberty in order to accomplish their goals. It likely confirms what most of us already know or at least suspected, but making this into a partisan story is missing the point entirely. There are 26,000 other threads with pro and anti trump factions going at it.. can we please keep that crap out of this thread, and get back to discussing issues that the website was intended for?

Partisan comment in 5, 4, 3, 2...

+rep

[ChristianAnarchist]

My dream is that more info on the goonerment goonsquad and their lies and murder will eventually lead to the people finally saying "NO" to these bast@rds. The only time the goonerment is defeated (throughout history) is when the people have had enough and simply say "no" to paying taxes, going to war, saluting the flag, honoring the goonerment goons....

When this day arrives we will finally be free...

[shakey1]

I would think that better encryption technology & such would soon be in the works.

http://drshem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/encryption-NSA-spying.png

[jllundqu]

I would think that better encryption technology & such would soon be in the works.

http://drshem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/encryption-NSA-spying.png

You know the Tech companies will be out for blood after this.

[devil21]

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https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/839184529529040896

But Zippy said it's normal for car engines to fly 60 feet from the car in a collision! Some of us have suspected Zippy and other accounts are GCHQ handles. Seems a lot of the info in this release relates to GCHQ...

All of the new tech (sensors, uplinks, etc) in cars is nothing but guinea pig testing of components for the autonomous cars. Stands to reason that a driverless car can be locked and crashed with less questions and no collateral damage in the future. People like Hastings made for fine guinea pigs. And if you travel in a new car with all those "safety sensors", you and your passengers are guinea pigs too.

eta: see Cash for Clunkers program. It removed many of the uncontrollable cars from the road.

[bunklocoempire]

CIA 'COVERT MICROPHONES'


CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.” (https://www.rt.com/news/379724-wikileaks-assange-cia-hacking/)


►839100679625060353

Kim Dotcom
►Breaking: Skype voice conversations are converted into text in real-time, scanned for contents of interest and stored in CIA spy cloud.

@Urdbrunnen · 31 sek.
►How CIA avoids to leave hacking "fingerprints" and is able to frame others

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6UgRTJXQAQeBup.jpg:large

Les Deplorable
►CIA malware infests modern vehicles, transforming them into covert assassins.
#Samsung #Wikileaks #Vault7 #ObamaGate #MAGA #DJT #MuslimBan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6UgXqiWAAE_CR3.jpg:large

►CIA has tools to remote control chips in cars, trucks, planes, medical devices and hospital tech with assassination potential.
RT

When docked to a monitor, the microphone quality of a cheap-a$$ ($99 sale) Acer Chromebook with heavy tape covering the mic hole and the lid closed has to be heard to be believed. The best quality "baby monitor" I've ever heard.

So when you're tasking at a Chromebook with the mic hole right in front of your face, the mic quality is whisper from across the room superb. huh.

What a nice feature.:rolleyes:

I encourage folks to test out their own devices using popular video conferencing apps and some headphones, to hear just exactly what can be picked up at low dBs.

[Ender]

The Snowden docs were mostly about the NSA, these cover the CIA apparatus. Trivializing the difference would be a mistake. This further uncovers the deep state activities that Ron Paul, Doug Casey, and many others have been discussing over the last few months as we have seen the deep state efforts ramp up in earnest. A government within our government, and these docs explain in part how they managed to accomplish this.

For the people already picking sides, this story is bigger than Trump, his cabinet, Obama, Hillary, or any other government puppet. This is about our government and the steps they took to take away our liberty in order to accomplish their goals. It likely confirms what most of us already know or at least suspected, but making this into a partisan story is missing the point entirely. There are 26,000 other threads with pro and anti trump factions going at it.. can we please keep that crap out of this thread, and get back to discussing issues that the website was intended for?

Partisan comment in 5, 4, 3, 2...

^^THIS^^

There is no real 2 party system or differences- just different buzz words to keep constituents happy and at each other's throats.

[jllundqu]

I agree this is a totally non-partisan issue. Anyone claiming it's Obama or Trump clearly doesn't understand the very nature of the deep state. The usual suspects are trying to make it partisan in comments sections, blogs, and the like. They claim that wikileaks is simply another name for Russian FSB. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!.

[phill4paul]

^^THIS^^

There is no real 2 party system or differences- just different buzz words to keep constituents happy and at each other's throats.

Yup. One would think that members that have been here since 2008 would know this. Some people are just thick headed though.

[phill4paul]

When docked to a monitor, the microphone quality of a cheap-a$$ ($99 sale) Acer Chromebook with heavy tape covering the mic hole and the lid closed has to be heard to be believed. The best quality "baby monitor" I've ever heard.

So when you're tasking at a Chromebook with the mic hole right in front of your face, the mic quality is whisper from across the room superb. huh.

What a nice feature.:rolleyes:

I encourage folks to test out their own devices using popular video conferencing apps and some headphones, to hear just exactly what can be picked up at low dBs.

I wish the speaker quality were as good. :p

[jllundqu]

News is starting to cover it....

[CaseyJones]

yes I have been following the Ecuadorian election

Ecuador's presidential election could have big consequences for the fate of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

http://www.businessinsider.com/ecuador-embassy-presidential-election-wikileaks-julian-assange-asylum-2017-3


There is less than a month to go before the second round of Ecuador's presidential election, the outcome of which could end Julian Assange's nearly five-year stay in the country's London embassy.

The April 2 runoff election pits Lenin Moreno, successor to current left-wing President Rafael Correa, against Guillermo Lasso, the right-wing opposition candidate.

The Correa government has hosted Assange in a converted-office apartment in the embassy since June 19, 2012, when he fled bail and requested asylum in Ecuador to avoid extradition to Sweden, which has called for his return in relation to sexual-misconduct allegations.

Welcoming Assange lent Ecuador some of the WikiLeaks founder's cache and gave Correa the sheen of a defender of press freedom at a time when he was assailing the press at home.

But Assange's accommodation may come to an end if Lasso assumes Ecuador's highest office.

"The Ecuadorian people have been paying a cost that we should not have to bear," Lasso told The Guardian during an interview in February. "We will cordially ask Señor Assange to leave within 30 days of assuming a mandate."

Lasso was behind Moreno by several points when he made his initial comments about evicting Assange from the embassy, which came about 10 days before the first round of voting on February 19 (Lasso and another conservative candidate, Cynthia Viteria, both told AFP they would end Assange's asylum if they won).

Since then, he has taken lead, with one late-February poll giving him a 52.1 to 47.2% advantage over Moreno, though 19% of respondents in that poll were undecided.

In the days after that poll was taken, Lasso also qualified his stance on Assange.

"We will ask Mr. Assange, very politely, to leave our embassy, in absolute compliance with international conventions and protocols," he told the Miami Herald by email earlier this month. But, he said, "we vow to take all steps necessary so that another embassy will take him in and protect his rights."

Lasso also noted that Assange said he would agree to US extradition if President Barack Obama gave Chelsea Manning — the former US soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of cables to WikiLeaks in 2010 and was subsequently sentenced to 35 years in a US prison — clemency.

Prior to leaving office, Obama commuted Manning's sentence, granting her release on May 17.

Assange has said that commutation is not a pardon and remains in the embassy (Manning is a transgender woman, and in this election Ecuador allowed people to vote according to their chosen gender for the first time).

As polarizing a figure as Assange has been, his presence in Ecuador's embassy is just one of many issues that could influence voters when they head to the polls on April 2.

The Odebrecht graft scandal — related to millions of dollars paid out in bribes by a Brazilian multinational firm of the same name — has implicated officials from around the region.

Several current and former officials at Petroecuador, the country's state-run oil firm, are wanted on bribery and money-laundering charges in relation to Odebrecht contracts. When the offenses in question allegedly took place, current Vice President Jorge Glas, who is Moreno's running mate, was in charge of Petroecuador.

For his part, Lasso, a former banker — an unpopular profession in Ecuador — was a presidential-cabinet member during a financial meltdown in the late 1990s that ruined savings and led many to leave the country, though he has dismissed efforts to tie him to that calamity.

more at link

[Anti Federalist]

Fuck a bunch of computer cars.

Fuck a bunch of self driving cars.

Fuck the "internet of things".

And fuck a bunch of surveillance state.



CIA planned to hack cars and trucks to carry out undetectable assassinations claims WikiLeaks

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/year-zero-series-wikileaks-cia-9982483

The hacking organisation made the admission as it announced it is about to release a huge trove of confidential documents from the CIA as part of its mysterious Year Zero series

[otherone]

News is starting to cover it....

Early NPR chatter:

"How will this affect our national security?"
and
"How will "Trump's" CIA react?"

[TheTexan]

I agree this is a totally non-partisan issue. Anyone claiming it's Obama or Trump clearly doesn't understand the very nature of the deep state. The usual suspects are trying to make it partisan in comments sections, blogs, and the like. They claim that wikileaks is simply another name for Russian FSB. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!.

Was Russia behind this leak? Discuss.

[jllundqu]

Was Russia behind this leak? Discuss.

That's all the left is peddling...

[69360]

What it proves is that these rogue elements within the government were trying to set up Trump and are now exposed.

Elements in the government tried to set up Obama and will continue to do it to the next president after Trump. Trump isn't special and this is nothing new. Lots of government conspiracies have been exposed and nothing has changed.

[CPUd]

Phew...no mention of Kindle. My crappy Gummy Drop game scores are safe!

Kindle runs android, at least the Fire 2 does. Out of the box, it is a version customized by Amazon that will barely let you do anything but go to Amazon sites and buy stuff.

[asurfaholic]

I would think that better encryption technology & such would soon be in the works.

http://drshem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/encryption-NSA-spying.png

No use. When the agencies have full access to your devices and monitor and record in real time, namely before any encryption can be applied it doesn't matter how strong your encryption is.

Troubling is that even while most of us suspected our devices aren't fully secure, not many realized their tv was listening to them.

[CPUd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDzPbpTsvE

[jllundqu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDzPbpTsvE

At some point, the dam has to break... how much more can the system take?

[goldenequity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miEV209AXHA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8k-tevx8J8





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDsGKUmK4c

[devil21]

Seriously.. Do people think the CIA had a Meme Warfare Center? Lmao....

Not sure what you mean exactly but there has been documented accounts of the "meme patrol", which is the starting level for new shill trainees. You see it a lot on forums like glp where someone posts a bunch of memes to derail threads.

[dannno]

You see it a lot on forums like glp where someone posts a bunch of memes to derail threads.

That sounds familiar.

[KingNothing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDzPbpTsvE


lol these people really suck.

[KingNothing]

At some point, the dam has to break... how much more can the system take?

I don't understand how these slimeballs live with themselves. How can they be so blatantly anti-American?

[goldenequity]

"My girlfriend asked me why I carried a gun around the house all the time.
I told her it was to protect against the CIA.
She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed.
I shot Alexa.
Good times."

[Contumacious]

Been following this on Twitter. Lots of chatter about what Wikileaks has been teasing over the last few weeks.

http://heavy.com/tech/2017/02/what-is-vault-7-wikileaks-theories-vault7-tweets-photos-analysis-clues-twitter-who-where-when-why-how/

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-49-06-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

The Seed Vault in Norway. What does this have to do with anything?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-48-58-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Nazi gold stored in Merkers Salt Mine?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-3-48-33-pm.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Jet Engine testing room?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/828889235994324992/photo/1

Leakers?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-08-at-8-26-01-am.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Air Force Welding?

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-09-at-8-10-30-am.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

Stasi Drop Box?



There are many theories, from 9/11 inside job stuff to reptilians in government, but the one that catches the most traction is that the FBI released 6 archives called "Vaults" containing FBI files on the Hillary Clinton investigation. #Vault7 could be the 33,000 'deleted' emails or emails the FBI refused to release. Now Wikileaks has promised to open #Vault7 on Feb. 19. THis date is significant because elections in Ecuador take place on Feb. 19 and a frontrunner there has promised to end Julian Assange's asylum at the embassy if he is elected.

Anyone else following this?


Vault7 - Wikileaks latest release

Using the hacking technique called UMBRAGE the CIA can hack a target and leave the fingerprints of , let's say , Russia or any other third party they want to blackmail
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/wikileaks-cia-hacking-group-umbrage-stockpiled-techniques-other-hackers/98867462/)
And that 's how they convinced Obama they the Russians were the ones who hacked the DNC.

Sons-of-b i t c h e s

.

[Carlybee]

Getting to be eay too much like "Enemy of the State".

[CPUd]

https://i.imgur.com/xCC1hur.png

[UWDude]

Seriously.. Do people think the CIA had a Meme Warfare Center? Lmao....

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?508384-CIA-has-had-a-meme-factory-for-11-years-at-least-20-agents-working-on-it

[goldenequity]

WikiLeaks
Microsoft calls for a Digital Geneva Convention #CIA #Vault7

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ZciMeWMAAX8Zk.jpg:large

The need for a Digital Geneva Convention (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/02/14/need-digital-geneva-convention/#sm.0001gfio2niod3v10d92flurr6yu6)

[AuH20]

we're getting close folks. The rats are scurrying below deck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ZydToWUAE54QX.jpg

[Jamesiv1]

WikiLeaks
Microsoft calls for a Digital Geneva Convention #CIA #Vault7

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ZciMeWMAAX8Zk.jpg:large

The need for a Digital Geneva Convention (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/02/14/need-digital-geneva-convention/#sm.0001gfio2niod3v10d92flurr6yu6)
it's for the children.

[Jamesiv1]

we're getting close folks. The rats are scurrying below deck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ZydToWUAE54QX.jpg
wow.

can we be sure that is Jake Tapper's real account? wouldn't it be @realJakeTapper ?

I can't believe he would tweet that.

[seapilot]

More red pills for the public consumption. Never be able to look at a Samsung TV or smart device the same way again.

http://www.redpillhandbook.com/img/pill.jpg

[freejack]

we're getting close folks. The rats are scurrying below deck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ZydToWUAE54QX.jpg

This isn't on his feed. If anything, he retweeted Snowden's comments about the legality of the CIAs activities.

[goldenequity]

RT
►WikiLeaks says just 1% of #Vault7 covert documents released so far (https://www.rt.com/news/379856-wikileaks--cia-hacking-vault7/)

https://cdn.rt.com/files/2017.03/original/58c0134ec3618873548b45fa.jpg




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WikiLeaks‏@wikileaks · 11 min.
Germany's chief federal prosecutor has announced examination of U.S. hacking activities at the Frankfurt 'Consulate' and may prosecute.

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What's all this noise about the cia leaks?
We've known for over 10 years that all spy agencies
can turn on your mic and camera to see and hear everything.
Only fools think this is special news.
This is just one big smokescreen and the establishment normally do big scandals like this
before starting a major war!!

Only govt. shills and idiots try to downplay this huge revelations.
It is not about the new informations, it is about proofs,
that the very limited group of people was right about the abuse of power and technology.
CIA spies on us, the people, is not a conspiracy anymore.
Proofs were released, instruments named.
Consequences are already visible - Germany investigates CIA hacking base in Frankfurt.
The ground is shaking, you fool.
SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWi nds

[FunkBuddha]

it's for the children.

No. It's BECAUSE of the children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxU8jierhJg

[Ender]

Getting to be eay too much like "Enemy of the State".

Always has been.

[randomname]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/229/817/548.jpg

[Marenco]

No. It's BECAUSE of the children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxU8jierhJg

Elmer fudd strikes again...

[phill4paul]

So, news reports say that the FBI is preparing to hunt for "moles" within the CIA. I don't suppose they would consider reading the wikileaks and investigate the CIA for any impropriety.

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

. . .

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

...

[UWDude]

1% exposed, 99% to go. This is going to be fun.

[UWDude]

All this power to survey and spy, even FISA taps.
Where the hell is ANY evidence of Russian hacking of the elections?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFCbOwDHtA

[pcosmar]

Was Russia behind this leak? Discuss.

Nope,, The CIA was behind it..

Demonstrating the intelligence they have become known for.

[pcosmar]

OK,, folks are going over the hacking tools and exploits. and some were known others suspected.

several reports include linux.. so I went looking for any info on potential or known threats.

Best I got is from the pclinuxos forum,,


There's a big difference between an os having vulnerabilities and one having a built-in back-door. one is a temporary state due to a coding flaw (correctable via patching), the other is permanent and by design. every os will have vulnerabilities but not all os'es have back-doors.

in order to say Linux has such a back-door and have that statement make any impact you would have to point to the code and as soon as you do it would be patched. this is the nature of open source code.

On that particular forum there seems to be no concern at all.

your mileage and OS may differ,

[Weston White]

Year 0? What's THAT mean? That sounds Ominous.

Heh, was thinking it sounded like some new X-Box game or something.

[Jamesiv1]

No. It's BECAUSE of the children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxU8jierhJg
this guy blinking his eyes a million times a minute.

fast blinking is a sign of lying.

[LibertyRevolution]

FBI Director James Comey warned Wednesday that Americans should not have expectations of "absolute privacy," adding that he planned to finish his term leading the FBI.
"There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America..."
"Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America," Comey added.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/james-comey-privacy-cybersecurity/index.html

[ChristianAnarchist]

Wikileaks needs to release EVERYTHING in a mass dump NOW. They can release as encrypted files with a failsafe method for release of the passwords. In this way they can still release it a bit at a time but still have it distributed widely in case of some attack against them.




RT
►WikiLeaks says just 1% of #Vault7 covert documents released so far (https://www.rt.com/news/379856-wikileaks--cia-hacking-vault7/)

https://cdn.rt.com/files/2017.03/original/58c0134ec3618873548b45fa.jpg




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WikiLeaks‏@wikileaks · 11 min.
Germany's chief federal prosecutor has announced examination of U.S. hacking activities at the Frankfurt 'Consulate' and may prosecute.

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[goldenequity]

WikiLeaks
CIA statement on WikiLeaks publication of CIA docs.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6bkGDXXQAAVVvk.jpg:large

SUMMARY:
It's all for your good,
We dindu nuffin (here in the US)
WikiLeaks is your enemy.

[Weston White]

Oh yea, total BS:

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/world/emerging-role-for-the-cia-economic-spy.html
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

[Origanalist]

Yup. One would think that members that have been here since 2008 would know this. Some people are just thick headed though.

Muh party.

[UWDude]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uVuJYCY07Q


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_mj9T_yZ0

Alexa shuts down when asked if you are being monitored by the CIA or NSA XD

[goldenequity]

WikiLeaks
►CIA Listed BlackBerry's Car Software (Which Runs 60 Million Cars) as Possible Target in Leak (http://archive.is/TzP3U)
BLOOMBERG


Press Association
Breaking WikiLeaks has decided to give details of CIA hacking tools to tech companies, Julian Assange says

[goldenequity]

Former Intel Officer: Ex-NSA officials hacked DNC to expose Hillary, left fingerprints to frame Russia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xqIRSTBkeo

[goldenequity]

WikiLeaks‏@wikileaks · 7 min.
VP Pence states US will use "full force of the law" against publisher WikiLeaks but not CIA or Clinton

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/323315-pence-sharing-intel-a-very-serious-offense

[LifeLibertyPursuit]

WikiLeaks‏@wikileaks · 7 min.
VP Pence states US will use "full force of the law" against publisher WikiLeaks but not CIA or Clinton

I have a sneaking suspicion that this cognitive dissonance being played upon the masses and that Trump's administration is really working close with WL. Right now taking anything face value is hard from any party and any interest. So....much......disinformation going on. But who knows the truth 100% and whoever wins this conspiracy will have a case study for years to come.

[goldenequity]

►Assange: "Cache of cyber weapons was passed around "out of control" by contract hackers."


►Assange accuses CIA of “historic act of devastating incompetence” (https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/03/assange-accuses-cia-of-historic-act-of-devastating-incompetence/)


"It looks like not only is [the CIA arsenal] being spread
around contractors and former American computer hackers for hire,
but now maybe around the black market
or being used by these American hackers
who sometimes, you know cross both sides of the fence."

While WikiLeaks was not yet publishing the tools themselves,
he and WikiLeaks would share the exploits with the targeted companies
in order to help them protect against attacks.

Assange then accused the CIA of covering up the leak
and causing damage to those companies with what he claimed was
"what appears to be the largest arsenal of Trojans and viruses in the world,
that attacks most of the systems that
journalists,
people in government,
politicians,
CEOs,
and average people use."

Reuters yesterday, reported the CIA had been aware of a breach at the end of last year.
He said such stories show it was clear the CIA knew
"that it had lost that material,
or that we had that material,
and has not disclosed that—to the public at least,
CIA had not warned the public that there's [a] loose weapons arsenal out there…

[pcosmar]

“historic act of devastating incompetence”

added to the list of historic incompetence.

Expecting the build up to catastrophic incompetence.


CIA has been trouble since it's inception.

[goldenequity]

THE INTERCEPT
Government Arsenal “zero days” — particularly effective hacks that hit undisclosed vulnerabilities in computers, smartphones, and other digital devices. (https://theintercept.com/2017/03/10/government-zero-days-7-years/)

[pcosmar]

THE INTERCEPT


Reading through that,,

All the sources are questionable,, and some has been known for years.

Sifting the chaff on this story is going to be as difficult as getting it taken seriously.

[Suzanimal]

If anyone listens to Monica Perez on Saturdays, she's going to be discussing it.

840287752591618048

[charrob]

Are the manufacturers innocent?

Assange is giving the code to the manufacturers to "fix" the flaws in their products. How do we know that these manufacturers didn't purposely work with the government to create these back doors? The telecoms have certainly worked with the government in illegally surveilling customers; it's really not a stretch that manufacturers of products might have purposely put back doors into their products.

[pcosmar]

Are the manufacturers innocent?

Assange is giving the code to the manufacturers to "fix" the flaws in their products. How do we know that these manufacturers didn't purposely work with the government to create these back doors? The telecoms have certainly worked with the government in illegally surveilling customers; it's really not a stretch that manufacturers of products might have purposely put back doors into their products.

It is known in some circles. Some consider it theory (of the conspiracy sort).

Seems some people may be proven right. Theory might become Fact.

[AZJoe]

Our National Police State.
Slay the Monster: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/march/10/do-we-live-in-a-police-state/

the power of the Deep State is even more forbidding – and seemingly invincible – than anyone knew. Joyful anticipation because, for the first time,... it is dawning on the most unlikely people (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/8/wikileaks-will-show-cia-undermining-america/) that we are, for all intents and purposes, living in a police state. …

American “liberalism” – which now champions the Deep State (https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer/) as the savior of the country – has become a toxic brew (https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/839897263958806529) that is fundamentally totalitarian. ... What we are seeing, as the role of the “intelligence community” in basically leading a seditious conspiracy against a sitting President is revealed, is a complete switch in the political polarities in this country: what passes for the “left” has become the biggest advocate of the Surveillance State ...

The material in “Vault 7” is extensive: it ranges from examining the ways in which a Samsung television set that is seemingly turned off can be – and no doubt has been – used to spy on the conversations and activities of a room’s occupants, to the various ways in which our spooks infiltrate and subvert common electronic devices, such as the iPhone, in order to gather information. “Infected phones,” we are told in the introduction to the material, “can be instructed to send the CIA the user’s geolocation, audio and text communications as well as covertly activate the phone’s camera and microphone.” The CIA is even working on remotely controlling the electronic steering systems installed in cars – a perfect route to pulling off an assassination that looks like an “accident.” Not that the intelligence services of the “leader of the Free World” would ever consider such an act (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_1945). ...

As these viruses and other invasive programs are unleashed on an unsuspecting public, they fall into the hands of a variety of bad actors: foreign governments, criminals, and teenagers on a lark ... This plague is being spread over the Internet by a veritable army of CIA hackers: “By the end of 2016 … the CIA’s hacking division, which formally falls under the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (https://www.wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/files/org-chart.png) (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other ‘weaponized’ malware.” The inevitable end result: a world infected with so much malware that computers become almost useless ...
In short, a war that made us less safe. ...

[CIA/NSA False Flag Hacking and Spying] the CIA’s Remote Devices Branch’s “Umbrage group,” ... “collects and maintains a substantial library (https://www.wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_2621753.html) of attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.” The idea is to mask the Agency’s cyberwar operations … The process of attribution, WikiLeaks explains, is “analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon one murder in the set is solved then the other murders also find likely attribution.” … It simply draws on computer code used by its adversaries ... and inserts it into its own handcrafted malware and other invasive programs, thus leaving Russian (or Chinese, or North Korean) fingerprints on the handiwork of CIA hackers. … So now we learn that the CIA has perfected the art of imitating its rivals, mimicking the Russians – or whomever – in a perfect setup for a “false flag” scenario. ...

We have created a monster, a Deep State with such unchecked power, armed with such Orwellian technology, that it represents a clear and present danger to our constitutional republic. This threat is underscored not only by the latest WikiLeaks revelations, but also by the intelligence community’s intervention in our domestic politics, which has been documented in the headlines of the nation’s newspapers for the past few months. … Accelerated by our foreign policy of perpetual war, the national security bureaucracy has accumulated immense power, and our elected leaders have neglected to provide any oversight. Indeed, they are at its mercy. ...

Either we slay the monster or it will enslave us.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/media/121077/cia-vault-7.jpg?width=443px&height=296px

[AuH20]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this cognitive dissonance being played upon the masses and that Trump's administration is really working close with WL. Right now taking anything face value is hard from any party and any interest. So....much......disinformation going on. But who knows the truth 100% and whoever wins this conspiracy will have a case study for years to come.

Pence is a snake, but Farage did meet with Assange earlier this week.

[charrob]

It is known in some circles. Some consider it theory (of the conspiracy sort).

Seems some people may be proven right. Theory might become Fact.

That's extremely worrisome. That's blatant all out Fascism.

[AZJoe]

From Dennis Kucinich:http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/08/dennis-kucinich-new-wikileaks-reveal-proof-are-sliding-down-slippery-slope-toward-totalitarianism.html


The U.S. government must get a grip on the massive opening that the CIA, through its misfeasance, nonfeasance and malfeasance, has created. … the agency left open electronic gateways that make all Americans vulnerable to spying, eavesdropping and technological manipulation …

That the CIA has reached into the lives of all Americans through its wholesale gathering of the nation’s “haystack” of information …

It is bad enough that the government spies on its own people. It is equally bad that the CIA, through its incompetence, has opened the cyberdoor to anyone with the technological skills and connections to spy on anyone else. The constant erosion of privacy at the hands of the government and corporations has annihilated the concept of a “right to privacy,” …

we are sliding down the slippery slope toward totalitarianism, where private lives do not exist.
We have entered a condition of constitutional crisis that requires a full-throated response from the American people. ...

[jmdrake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDzPbpTsvE

Go to hell Andrea Mitchell. "That would say something about their motives indeed." How about instead of questioning the motives of Assange she questions the motives of her guests? Hey, when the Pentagon papers were released were liberals running around screaming "Why isn't the press releasing info on the communists?" We expect totalitarian regimes to spy on their own people! Finding out that happens is no shocker. No surprised. Finding out our own "democratic" government is doing it to us (and yes they are doing it to us) is the shocker. (Well...not so much anymore.)

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxU8jierhJg

So the CIA/NSA national stasi surveillance state apparatus is not to blame for illegally hacking and domestic spying on everyone. Rather, its the millennials for not having enough "loyalty" to a big brother police state Stasi apparatus.

[pcosmar]

This goes here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4

[invisible]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uVuJYCY07Q


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_mj9T_yZ0

Alexa shuts down when asked if you are being monitored by the CIA or NSA XD

Probably the best post you've ever made. (credit where credit is due)
A friend of mine has one of these things, and I showed them these videos tonight. So of course they tried it when they got home, asked it the same questions in half a dozen different ways, and only got the response back that it didn't understand the question. I figured that it had probably been reprogrammed since those videos went into circulation, to give a don't understand the question response instead of shutting down. Has anyone else tried this with one of these things?

[Firestarter]

As is so often the case with Wikileaks, most of the documents are boring to read.
I already wrote something about it. In fact I found some other articles that are more interesting than the "Year zero" dump of Wikileaks: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?503015-Big-Brother-knows-everything-%96-GSM

See the folowing quotes from the other thread.

Wikileaks dropped a bombshell last March 7 by putting 8761 documents on the internet about systematic CIA infiltration of computers around the world.
The following is interesting (to say the least) - Weeping Angel. It’s designed to hack into Samsung F8000-Series “smart” televisions. Even when the telescreen is switched off, they can use the TV's microphone and webcam to spy: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_12353643.html


Besides the Weeping angel that can use a Samsung telescreen to spy on you, arguably the most interesting is that the CIA was discussing the possibility to hack cars.
I agree with Wikileaks that this is enough evidence to suspect that the CIA wants to take over the vehicle control systems. This leads to the conclusion that the CIA can carry out car crashes, without leaving evidence.
Wikileaks has redacted the files by removing identifying information of involved government officials and tens of thousands of CIA targets and attack machines throughout Latin America, Europe and the USA.
Please note that the CIA uses the HIVE suite to also hack Linux systems.
Here’s the press release by Wikileaks on the latest dump - part of the series dubbed “Year zero”:
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

There is even (older) evidence that it’s relatively easy to hack car computers, which shows beyond a doubt that the CIA could take over car control systems.
In 2008, a 14-year-old altered a television remote control to take control of trams in the city of Lodz, Poland, derailing several trams.
In 2010, a 20-year-old man with a modicum of computer savvy hacked car computers in a Texas Auto Center causing some mayhem.
In 2015, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked into a Jeep Cherokee and managed to “turn the steering wheel, briefly disable the brakes and shut down the engine”. Miller achieved this from more than a mile away by a MacBook, without any installed device needed.
Valasek and Miller also found readily accessible Internet links to thousands of other Jeeps, Dodges and Chryslers that used the wireless entertainment and navigation system Uconnect. By typing the right series of computer commands, they could easily hack into these vehicles from a distance.
Earlier in 2013 Miller and Valasek appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to override the control of a car — yanking the steering wheel, disabling the brakes and shutting off the engine.
According to experts, because the security on automotive systems is “15 years, maybe 20 years behind” they’re not difficult to hack.
Any idea why the US federal government has required that all cars since 1996 install onboard computers?
In 2013, Samy Kamkar used a creation called SkyJack and less than $100 in extra gear to transform a basic drone into an attack vehicle capable of taking control of drones that flu nearby: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/07/22/hacks-on-the-highway/?utm_term=.869d905b549b

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Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Dark Matter", which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain 'persistence' on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware. ...

Amongothers, these documents reveal the "Sonic Screwdriver"project … a "mechanism for executing code on peripheraldevices while a Mac laptop or desktop is booting" allowing anattacker to boot its attack software for example from a USB stick"even when a firmware password is enabled". The CIA's"Sonic Screwdriver" infector is stored on the modifiedfirmware of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter.

"DarkSeaSkies"is "an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an AppleMacBook Air computer" and consists of "DarkMatter","SeaPea" and "NightSkies", respectively EFI,kernel-space and user-space implants. ...

"Triton"MacOSX malware, its infector "Dark Mallet" and itsEFI-persistent version "DerStarke" are also included inthis release. ...

Alsoincluded in this release is the manual for the CIA's "NightSkies1.2" a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the AppleiPhone. ... designed to be physically installed onto factory freshiPhones. i.e the CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain ofits targets since at least 2008. ...
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/?cia

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Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, a former employee in the CIA's Engineering Development Group, is believed to have provided the agency's top-secret cyber warfare tools to WikiLeaks - according to a disclosure by federal prosecutors at a January hearing in a Manhattan court on unrelated charges of possessing, receiving and transporting child pornography. Schulte, who has been in jail for months, has pleaded not guilty on the child porn charges.
Schulte previously worked for the NSA before joining the CIA, then "left the intelligence community in 2016 and took a job in the private sector," according to a statement reviewed by The Post.

Schulte also claimed that he reported “incompetent management and bureaucracy” at the CIA to that agency’s inspector general as well as a congressional oversight committee. That painted him as a disgruntled employee, he said, and when he left the CIA in 2016, suspicion fell upon him as “the only one to have recently departed [the CIA engineering group] on poor terms,” Schulte wrote. -WaPo
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Prosecutors allege that they found a large collection of child pornography on a server maintained by Schulte, however his attorneys argue that anywhere from 50 to 100 people had access to it, which Schulte set up several years ago to share movies and other digital files.

Federal authorities searched Schulte’s apartment in New York last year and obtained personal computer equipment, notebooks and handwritten notes, according to a copy of the search warrant reviewed by The Washington Post. But that failed to provide the evidence that prosecutors needed to indict Schulte with illegally giving the information to WikiLeaks. -WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-identifies-suspect-in-major-leak-of-cia-hacking-tools/2018/05/15/5d5ef3f8-5865-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.36c9fda22d5d)
And while Schulte "remains a target of that investigation," prosecutor Matthew Laroche, assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, said that the investigation is "ongoing." Part of that investigation, reports WaPo, is analyzing whether the Tor network - which allows internet users to hide their location (in theory) "was used in transmitting classified information."

In other hearings in Schulte’s case, prosecutors have alleged that he used Tor at his New York apartment, but they have provided no evidence that he did so to disclose classified information. Schulte’s attorneys have said that Tor is used for all kinds of communications and have maintained that he played no role in the Vault 7 leaks. -WaPo
“Due to these unfortunate coincidences the FBI ultimately made the snap judgment that I was guilty of the leaks and targeted me,” Schulte said. He has launched Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/John-Galts-Legal-Defense-Fund-225303401359184/) and GoFundMe pages to raise money for his defense, as well as post articles critical of the criminal justice system.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-17/former-cia-employee-suspected-vault-7-wikileaks-disclosure