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[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Jamie: "Call me cynical, but I fail to see how any of this wikileaks dump is new or surprising information.Of course they are doing that. Have been for years ... "

Let me reintroduce the emphasized part of my quote:

> 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. <

So "Russian hacking" must in general be considered to be CIA hacking?
Well, that's OK with me, but ...

Am 09.03.2017 um 17:25 schrieb Jamie Anderson:
Call me cynical, but I fail to see how any of this wikileaks dump is new or surprising information. Of course they are doing that. Have been for years. What should my response be?

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:00 AM, pynchon-l-digest <owner-pynchon-l-digest at waste.org<mailto:owner-pynchon-l-digest at waste.org>> wrote:

pynchon-l-digest      Wednesday, March 8 2017      Volume 02 : Number 13324



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'"Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the
CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal
and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a
wide range of U.S. and European company products, include
Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows
and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert
microphones.'

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

The passphrase has some historical significance:

SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
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