PankeymanThis is the CIA being confirmed to have spied on practically everyone from all sorts of sources.
No, it's not.
I am not saying the CIA did not spy. Sure, they absolutely have, I've no doubt.
But that's not what this leak is. This leak shows they have the tools and the capability to spy. It doesn't list that they have. Again, I'm not disputing that they use the tools, of course they do. But don't mischaracterize what was released.
There may be other documents and leaks that will prove specific cases of CIA hacking, or lists of WHO they've monitored, etc. But this leak isn't that. As the Telegram developer put it, this is merely a map of the secret tunnels that exist that the CIA has access to.
No, it's not.
I am not saying the CIA did not spy. Sure, they absolutely have, I've no doubt.
But that's not what this leak is. This leak shows they have the tools and the [i]capability[/i] to spy. It doesn't list that they have. Again, I'm not disputing that they use the tools, of course they do. But don't mischaracterize what was released.
There may be other documents and leaks that will prove specific cases of CIA hacking, or lists of WHO they've monitored, etc. But this leak isn't that. As the Telegram developer put it, this is merely a map of the secret tunnels that exist that the CIA has access to.
This leak doesn't really confirm much we didn't already suspect. I would expect our intelligence agencies to be able to hack into computers. The important bit is who they hack, and this leak does not provide that information.
My great aunt apparently worked on computers in the CIA believe it or not. I remember her asking people in my family if they wanted cheap shoes from Korea. She also tried to recruit my sister by telling her there are a lot of lesbians in the CIA lol.
I feel like one of the scariest parts about this is that they decided to sit on and accumulate this information into one place instead of giving it to the companies so the companies could patch the back doors. This data would be so valuable to anyone who could get it, and now that it's out that the CIA has these capabilities, it won't be long before people are trying to steal it.
breaking news: cia has tools/ways to gather information with technology
https://streamable.com/38l6e
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im just glad there aren't backdoors in hardware and BIOSes and such (that we know of). low level stuff like that is one of the few things that aren't/can't be open-sourced
toads_tfwhy is this in the dumpster though lol
if you were mailed a package that said "pankeyman" on it, you'd put it in the dumpster too
if you were mailed a package that said "pankeyman" on it, you'd put it in the dumpster too
gemmim just glad there aren't backdoors in hardware and BIOSes and such (that we know of). low level stuff like that is one of the few things that aren't/can't be open-sourced
There are absolutely hardware and BIOS backdoors.
There are absolutely hardware and BIOS backdoors.