The real gem in the latest Wikileaks release
The news that the CIA can break into Signal and WhatsApp is big news, but possibly the biggest item was intentionally buried in this NY Times article. To quote Wikileaks:
UMBRAGEThe CIA's hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency. Each technique it has created forms a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.
...
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.
Does that mean what it sounds like it means? Yes it does.
CIA uses techniques to make cyber attacks look like they originated from enemy state. It turns DNC/Russia hack allegation by CIA into a JOKE
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 7, 2017
Looking back to an Intercept article from late December:
CrowdStrike, whose claims of Russian responsibility are perhaps most influential throughout the media, says APT 28/Fancy Bear “is known for its technique of registering domains that closely resemble domains of legitimate organizations they plan to target.” But this isn’t a Russian technique any more than using a computer is a Russian technique — misspelled domains are a cornerstone of phishing attacks all over the world. Is Yandex — the Russian equivalent of Google — some sort of giveaway? Anyone who claimed a hacker must be a CIA agent because they used a Gmail account would be laughed off the internet. We must also acknowledge that just because Guccifer 2.0 pretended to be Romanian, we can’t conclude he works for the Russian government — it just makes him a liar.
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It must be stated plainly: The U.S. intelligence community must make its evidence against Russia public if they want us to believe their claims. The integrity of our presidential elections is vital to the country’s survival; blind trust in the CIA is not.
Hmmm. Maybe that evidence would be self-incriminating.
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Delusions and Propaganda
At this point in time, evidence is irrelevant.
All you need is confirmation bias, heavy doses of propaganda, and your own arrogance to believe you see things clearly.
"Wikileaks is Putin's agent
Russia is evil
How come the left is so easy to propagandize by the Russians?"
Every new piece of evidence that goes against a confirmed belief requires the individual to double down on the belief, otherwise they would be forced to admit they were wrong. It's easier to see yourself as the good guys and others as naive children or evil doers.
Snowden weighs in
The messenger
I mean I am agreeing with you and generally have fallen on the side of being critical of our intelligence agencies, considering their sordid history over the decades. Also, couple that with attacks against whistle blowers, they aren't something to place your bets on.
But Snowden is also another in a long line of people who are also targeted as Putin/Kremlin agents. Boom done bam. No need to actually look at what they are saying. Just instant dismissal and protecting the cozy space inside your head that confirms your biases and beliefs.
Snowden should have received the Profile in Courage award.
Interesting. However, I never cared much if Russia was
behind the hacking or not.
What is very important--and very ominous--to me: That the government and the media labeled showing Americans undoctored emails "hacking an election" and so many repeated, and continue to repeat that very dangerous lie. Providing true information about a Presidential primary is hacking an election now? Good God!
Then again, don't mind me. Marching to a slightly different drummer and all.
I agree
Further, we do not know if the DNC emails were even "hacked." According to Assange, the DNC emails that Wikileaks published were not from a hack, but were provided to them by an insider, whom many people believe to be Seth Rich. Assange emphasized that the DNC leaks did NOT come from a state entity. The use of the term "hacks" to describe the emails is totally bogus and I really wish we here would not use it, but instead use the term "leaked emails."
All this emphasis on Russia being the source of the leaks has not been verified one time, but is only conjecture because it supports the narrative that the Democrats and their neoconservative allies wish to construct. It also diverts the public attention away from the real issue which is the DNC and the Clinton campaign conspired to rig the primaries. Regardless of whom they voted for, every American should be incensed over this one fact. That alone totally invalidates our election system.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
And now, we have a new DNC head who would have done
the same thing DWS and Brazile did, had he been in their shoes.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/wherein-i-do-tom-perez-part-1
http://caucus99percent.com/content/wherein-i-do-tom-perez-part-2
That they made Brazile acting head was such a slap in the face to Bernie and his supporters. Same for replacing Brazile with Perez.
BTW, how is the Seth Rich murder investigation going? We never heard a thing after hearing about his murder. Even if you accept that he was murdered in connection with a robbery gone wrong, it was still a murder. Where's the murder investigation?
In my town, law enforcement has cameras every couple of blocks. What are the odds that my town has cameras on the streets and Washington, D.C. does not? How many people were out at 4 am?
However, again, for me, all the details pale in comparison to equate revealing truth about a primary with hacking a general election. It's one thing for the Obama administration and Hillary to attempt that level of bs. It's another for media to help them spread that and for so many others to repeat it mindlessly. Mind boggling, and with profound implications for the future.
@HenryAWallace A very important point
A very important point that has been bothering me a lot too.
Honestly, if Russian spies want to do opposition research on American political figures and reveal the results to the American public--and then essentially sign their names to the effort, so everybody knows it was them--I'm not sure why I was ever afraid of them.
Perhaps they can replace our press.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Over on TOP, . . .
. . . I noticed that someone gently, meekly brought up the Umbrage group, and the sound of crickets was heard resounding throughout the blog.
Yup, this is the big news in this leak. Any pointing of fingers coming out of the U.S.'s intelligence community must be regarded henceforth as almost certainly misdirection.
You would expect that
with that crowd. All the decent people have mostly left (pun intended).
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Decent people shouldn't live here
They'd be happier someplace else. Jack Napier, Batman (1989)
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
I'm surprised they mentioned it at all
I noticed that several rec'd diaries were "Trump is a Putin Traitor!"
But then the DNC didn't rig the primaries, so...
'Hoisted' and 'petard' come to mind
Along with a large helping of 'oops'!
And a side order of "If it weren't for you meddling kids........."
(Edited)
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Sounds like this breach is larger than
what wikileaks has. Much larger. They only have what one source gave them. Sounds like a lot of this stuff was stolen, sold, whatever a while ago by a number of parties from what I've read.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Excerpt from
the article I referred to above:
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Shouldn't someone be fired for this?
In the private sector someone would be fired.
Who knows
if anyone is being held accountable? Obviously, if there is a group of people involved in security breakdowns, gross incompetence or plain and simple theft of the archive, we will never be told about what happened to them by our government. Maybe wikileaks knows but they seem determined at this point not to name names, obviously to protect their source.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
From wikileaks press release
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
@Steven D Oh, I see. The
Oh, I see. The arsenal isn't people, it's code.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Hey, g, that's not how the CIA operates
The terminus of employment would be a completely unexpected heart attack.
Or slipping off a subway platform.
Or a "random gang shooting".
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Or a self-driving car malfunction.
native
Keep thinking of death of investigative journo Michael Hastings
every time I hear about the latest Wiki revelations containing references to "self-driving car malfunction."
Does anyone have a link to that specifically?
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
@Steven D Whoa, what, seriously
Whoa, what, seriously?
Does this mean that large numbers of CIA hackers/privately contracted hackers working for CIA--just quit?
what does "losing control of a large part of your hacking arsenal" mean?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Would it mean
losing control of the methods by which they hack, such that the former U.S. government hackers and contractors have provided those methods to others?
@Linda Wood That is what it
That is what it means, yeah. I didn't realize they meant they had lost control of the code, which is way less shocking actually, than if they had lost control of a lot of their human assets.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
Actually, I find the code loss more terrifying. Even hundreds of rogue operatives could probably be traced, although actually the CIA appears to be dangerously rogue on its own, so their losing control over operatives might not necessarily be a bad thing, depending.
But all of this malware and the back-door keys floating freely around could be used by any number of people to do anything from setting off nuclear systems/shitting down power or other essential stations (think Stuxnet) to stealing everyone's ID to shutting down everyone's computers - you name it. This scares me a LOT more, because these millions of lines of code can be used against us (the people of the world) for any purpose by anyone of how many having/eventually gaining access? Millions, conceivably...
A bot-net operator apparently, having made a fortune and recently retiring, was claiming to be releasing what they'd used free, for anyone else to do whatever the heck they were doing in using other people's devices and fouling up millions of people to some degree or another... now this?
National Security, like democracy, human rights and the US Constitution, is evidently regarded as just another buzzword to be used against the public only, by apparently just about everyone in the corrupt US government and its various branches, agencies and public/private nightmares...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Ellen North Of course you
Of course you're right and the loss of the code is more potentially destructive. But not more shocking. I'm not as surprised that the CIA lost control of a lot of software--they spread it around so much, to so many people. But if a bunch of hackers withdrew their loyalty/support from the CIA all at once, that would shock me.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Steven D
Lol, part of the information-sharing among spy networks/private companies which Obama OKed?
Or was some of this released in order to have plausible deniability, since this absurd fabrication - RUSSIAN!!! hacked elections!!! Hacked emails!!! which were already-known as insider-leaked/judicially released emails - had already been pretty much traced back to the CIA due to their bizarre 'signature' claims?
Got my speculators on...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
HUBRIS
is what comes to my mind.
The arrogance and sense of superiority we saw in the DNC and the Clinton campaign is a twin sister to the arrogance and sense of superiority that has marked the intelligence community for decades.
They've been begging to be struck down.
Sane Progressive points out lots of good stuff.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Thank you for that
she's great, not easy to listen to, not "fun," but I agree with her. Don Mikulecky wrote a diary the other day remarking how climate change and the denial of it seem part of the same disease infecting our politics and economics. I agree. Most people don't want to hear the truth of how bad things really are as it is overwhelming. I don't know what to do except not watch any MSM, very little TV (dumb comedy only now and maybe a movie), and don't consume any more than necessary. I'm good there, have no desire to shop any more at all. As for protests I have not joined any so far. My own revulsion for Repugnants makes me happy to see some of it, but I know it's not real and not addressing the underlying reasons.
Scary thing on Amazon, I did not really think about the implications to that before now, nor did I realize Bezos is building a data base for the CIA. I use my Kindle all the time and download a lot of non fiction political and economic. I know there's no escaping it but my God, makes me want to live off the grid completely now more than ever.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
@lizzyh7
I hope that there will be life on the planet still, at least over the next decade or next few decades, whether on or off the grid, assuming one exists during that period. If something isn't done now, there may be none in the very, very near future.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@dkmich
Thanks so very much for posting this! A definite must to watch and think about!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
At this point, they might as well...
Just leave little notes at the end of everyone of their pieces of "Hacking" evidence.
Мы действительно русские хакеры, а не ЦРУ. В самом деле! Мы говорим это, чтобы вы знали, что мы не ЦРУ и настоящие русские хакеры. Честное слово.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Translation please. I am not good hacker.
Just a gag... :)
Translated:
We are really Russian hackers, not the CIA. Indeed! We say this so that you know that we are not the CIA and the real Russian hackers. Honestly.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks That's effing
That's effing hilarious. I didn't know you spoke Russian. Or did you use Google translate?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Totally cheated and Used Google Translate.
But ran it past an acquaintance who does speak Russian and they said it was passable. As in it sounds like something that somebody who doesn't speak Russian would think sounds right, but is just a little off.
If it was the English version it would read more like:
Please to be understanding, we are Russian hackers, negative the CIA. Indeed! We say this so that y'all know that we ain't the CIA, specific Russian hackers. Honest!
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks That's hilarious.
That's hilarious.
Even when I'm depressed, you can crack me up.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Perhaps inspired a bit by Berke Breathed
But it's the 80's all over again...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Stay tuned for the latest hack--no, it's not science-fiction
Still working on the essay.
This is a good summary of the WikiLeaks dump:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Your smartphone
iphone exploits
android exploits
Thanks for this gjohnsit.
It's getting more interesting by the minute. Things are getting exposed that might never had been exposed. Good work!
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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Dont hold your breath
Waiting for the media to connect the dots on the CIA use of Russian hacking addresses. One large local paper here has not a word about Vault 7. The other covers the ability of the CIA to turn iPhones and god forbid smart TV's into surveillance tools, zero coverage of CIAs use of foreign malware etc.
The "software" will always end up in the wild
When a hack happens there's a ton of folks who disect and decompile it, who then put it out there for anyone to use or expand upon.
That the CIA has any kind of a moral
or ethical foundation, is a very dubious proposition. I mean, considering its history, the record of its various operations and exploits. That it has accrued as much power and influence as it has, makes it perhaps more dangerous than it is useful. A hostile servant is worse than no servant at all, and it's getting to the point where you have to wonder who is serving whom.
native
Hunt for Snowden 2.0
link
Came across this, from last
Came across this, from last summer... found it interesting, as I must have seen this before but she does get very in-depth and with so much going on and being so tired, I dunno if I'm the only one to need reminding about who profits from this...
Homeland InSecurity could not, despite efforts, access all voting infrastructure this last election, and Her Royal Coronation and the Mutual Assured Destruction of life on the planet failed to occur on schedule, because she was Trumped by potentially-Lesser-Evil voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH_n6vswVJY
And this has likely been posted, but I'm just listening to it now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMcL1EE0zxY
She's dead right - the corporate/billionaire puppet-strings must be first cut before the American people can have any hope of actual representation.
Haven't seen this yet, but I cannot watch videos at night, so may have simply missed it? We mostly kinda figured, anyway, of course...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtBxdDp5nA
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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.