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Re: WikiLeaks

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: WikiLeaks
Date 2017-03-08 20:46 +1100
Message-ID <eia28cF6ajpU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:0vdvbchcmhbc61l35hrfm0l8b2icpuagrg@4ax.com...
> https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
> Analysis
>
>
> CIA malware targets iPhone, Android, smart TVs
> CIA malware and hacking tools are built by EDG (Engineering
> Development Group), a software development group within CCI (Center
> for Cyber Intelligence), a department belonging to the CIA's DDI
> (Directorate for Digital Innovation). The DDI is one of the five major
> directorates of the CIA (see this organizational chart of the CIA for
> more details).
>
> The EDG is responsible for the development, testing and operational
> support of all backdoors, exploits, malicious payloads, trojans,
> viruses and any other kind of malware used by the CIA in its covert
> operations world-wide.
>
> The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn
> comparisons with George Orwell's 1984, but "Weeping Angel", developed
> by the CIA's Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs,
> transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most
> emblematic realization.
>
> The attack against Samsung smart TVs was developed in cooperation with
> the United Kingdom's MI5/BTSS. After infestation, Weeping Angel places
> the target TV in a 'Fake-Off' mode, so that the owner falsely believes
> the TV is off when it is on. In 'Fake-Off' mode the TV operates as a
> bug, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the
> Internet to a covert CIA server.

Don't believe it's a major problem with the iphone because of the
sandboxing and even if the CIA could see everything I do, the goon
who gets to snoop on me would die of boredom anyway given that
everything I do that is at all controversial is done publicly anyway.

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WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 18:52 +1100
  Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 20:46 +1100
    Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 21:53 +1100
      Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-09 20:46 +1100
        Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 05:28 +1100
          Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 06:19 +1100
            Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-11 23:43 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 04:41 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 10:26 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-13 14:56 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 05:00 +1100
        Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-10 08:12 +1100
          Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-11 23:39 +1100
            Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 04:38 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-13 16:01 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 05:06 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-14 20:47 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 04:02 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 07:05 +1100
            Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-12 08:26 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-13 16:01 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 16:54 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-03-14 20:12 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 05:07 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-14 08:47 +1100
    Re: WikiLeaks "Damian" <damian_n@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-10 01:41 +1100
      Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 04:21 +1100
      Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 05:30 +1100
      Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-10 08:14 +1100
        Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 08:30 +1100
          Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-10 08:59 +1100
        Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 13:41 +1100
          Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 14:53 +1100
            Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 20:17 +1100
          Re: WikiLeaks Allan Barker <allanbarker75@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-03-10 15:32 +1000
            Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-10 17:21 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks Allan Barker <allanbarker75@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-03-10 17:35 +1000
                Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 19:52 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-11 08:13 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 20:25 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Allan Barker <allanbarker75@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-03-12 22:20 +1000
                Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-11 08:09 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-10 19:55 +1100
                Re: WikiLeaks Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-11 08:19 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 20:22 +1100
            Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 20:20 +1100
              Re: WikiLeaks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-03-11 07:00 +0000
    Re: WikiLeaks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-03-11 06:32 +0000
      Re: WikiLeaks "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 19:46 +1100
  Re: WikiLeaks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-03-11 06:56 +0000
    Re: WikiLeaks Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 21:55 +1100

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