You should know that President Trump has issued an Executive Order calling for a thorough review of this nations cyberwar preparedness. The Wikileaks cyber dump of Tuesday, gives good reason for such a review. Hail to the Chief !!!
Here is what we know so far, as review of this document dump continues:
1. The CIA developed malware for iPhone and Android, as well as Windows, OSx, Linux, and internet servers.
2. The CIA has a "menu" of hacking tools for its assets to use, as well as "fingerprints" of other states.
3. The archive Wikileaks released was likely passed around among former U.S. hackers and contractors
4. The CIA appears to have duplicated the NSA's cyberwarfare efforts to avoid information sharing.
The article giving us the above four points (with commentary) is found here, and concludes with these words:
According to Wikileaks, for years the CIA has been developing "its own
substantial fleet of hackers," one that has "freed it from having to
disclose its often controversial operations to the NSA (its primary
bureaucratic rival) in order to draw on the NSA's hacking capacities."
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