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[David Morris]

The related meme is that this Wiki dump was perfectly timed to support
Trump's claim that Obama tapped his wires.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about this from the NY Times:
>
> The media, to its credit, eventually sorts things out
> <https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-hack-signal-encrypted-chat-apps/> —
> as it has belatedly started to do with the supposed C.I.A. cache. But by
> then, the initial burst of misinformation has spread. On social media in
> particular, the spin and distortion continues unabated. This time around,
> for example, there are widespread claims on social media that these leaked
> documents show that it was the C.I.A. that hacked the Democratic National
> Committee, and that it framed Russia for the hack. (The documents in the
> cache reveal nothing of the sort.)
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html?ref=opinion
>
> You have to read the whole thing to get her reasoning.
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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> wrote:
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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.'
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> https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
>
> The passphrase has some historical significance:
>
> SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
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