What else would be news? Unexpected capacity. Mass surveillance. But tools appear mundane, collated from conferences even academic venues.
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So after all this nothingburger brouhaha, newspapers are publishing "protect yourself against CIA hacks" articles. Let me explain the issue.
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Device security is lousy. Especially Androids. I've been screaming about this for years. This is not a CIA problem—this is everyone problem.
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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.
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Are we safer with exploits publicized? Quite likely, most people are less safe because the problem isn't bugs, it's LACK OF UPDATES.
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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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In reality, so-called 0days are 1-almost never the actual threat to dissidents; 2-Androids, Word, Adobe and phishing are. Big threats.
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Here's the real problem. Publicizing exploits creates more people who can exploit them than people protected since software is not updated.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bill Jackson Jr
This is what I mean. This *looks* like something (weren't even that many in the cache) but it is close to nothing.https://twitter.com/War_Is_A_Racket/status/840562749528772610 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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After a decade+, it is pretty clear, the only actual progress in security is made by proper architecture and updates. iOS, Chromebook.
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There are so many Android exploits out there, and so few phones are updated even after exploits are fixed for that it is basically an ocean.
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Wikileaks CIA cache is a small set of (mundane, unsurprising and thus not newsworthy) tools to fish in that ocean. Problem is the ocean.
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One bright spot in that ocean? End-to-end encryption. Cache confirms strength. The ONE THING Wikileaks attacked and media jumped on. aargh
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