Another day of collective digging, more convinced. The WL release is nothingburger with lotta PR targeted at gullible media. Let me explain.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/840176287054467072 …
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Another day of collective digging, more convinced. The WL release is nothingburger with lotta PR targeted at gullible media. Let me explain.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/840176287054467072 …
zeynep tufekci added,
First, here's the piece I wrote for the New York Times. It lays the basics. But closer inspection says even worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html …pic.twitter.com/jDx9VJcAk0
First, only part that is news. Whoever gave this to Wikileaks has a cache of CIA tools. Everyone is in everyone else's network. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Defensible justifications for releasing cache would be expose CIA wrongdoing or make us safer. I'd be okay with either. This does neither.
As far as people combing through this have found, this is... an intelligence agency hacking stuff one by one. That, by itself, is not new.
I'm from Turkey. If you want to make an argument that CIA is and/or has been involved in a lot of wrongdoing, no argument. Q is this cache.
What else would be news? Unexpected capacity. Mass surveillance. But tools appear mundane, collated from conferences even academic venues.
So after all this nothingburger brouhaha, newspapers are publishing "protect yourself against CIA hacks" articles. Let me explain the issue.
Device security is lousy. Especially Androids. I've been screaming about this for years. This is not a CIA problem—this is everyone problem.
The cache tells us almost nothing new about the dismal state of affairs. Update your software. Androids don't get updates. That's the issue.
Are we safer with exploits publicized? Quite likely, most people are less safe because the problem isn't bugs, it's LACK OF UPDATES.
You might be thinking: a finite set of bugs, and if we got them fixed, yeay. Not how it works when it comes to threats against dissidents.
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