4 ms·
According to a recent Wikileaks tweet, this leak is only 1% of the files that they have on the CIA. So most likely, they have many more exploits that are more s
by benbenolson 10y ago
According to a recent Wikileaks tweet, this leak is only 1% of the files that they have on the CIA. So most likely, they have many more exploits that are more significant.
- rspeer 10y agoYou're extrapolating from Wikileaks hyping itself in a tweet and calling the result "most likely". Find a better justification for your beliefs.
- croon 10y agoSo yet another thing Wikileaks (Assange) wants us to take their (his) word for.
- 69mlgsniperdad 10y agoAre you implying that he did something dishonest? I can't recall one example even. Although, I do recall a handful of politicians and news stories claiming the DKIM verified emails were likely fake. For example, I remember when Donna Brazile said that it wasn't her who sent the email leaking debate questions. Russians probably broke DKIM, and Brazile was probably coerced into admitting she's a liar.
- deno 10y agoWhat exactly are you suggesting? That they defeated modern cryptography or compromised Google to unprecedented degree?
- 69mlgsniperdad 10y agoThe last sentence was sarcastic.
- deno 10y agoSorry! You’ve run into Poe’s law.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- coldtea 10y agoWell, they also published those papers you see now. On the other side, there's an organization that by definition asks you to take them on their word that everything they good is for your own good...
- rspeer 10y agoThey published the papers with a heavy dose of spin. Remember how the headline contained FUD about Signal and WhatsApp? The released documents have nothing about sidestepping Signal and WhatsApp. That was pure conjecture and editorializing. Of course WikiLeaks wants ordinary people to be vaguely afraid of using Signal and WhatsApp. End-to-end encryption is very much counter to their goals.
- brianpgordon 10y ago> End-to-end encryption is very much counter to their goals. What would those goals be?
- bigbugbag 10y agoWasn't whatsapp all over the news for its "replace the encryption key transparently without notifying the user" feature ? Also facebook. I don't trust signal, a centralized that requires a phone number while pretending to be secure and providing some anonymity is flawed by design and begging to be exploited.
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoOWS never claim that Signal provides anonymity. The word they use is privacy which sometimes involves being anonymous, but not necessarily so. > Wasn't whatsapp all over the news for its "replace the encryption key transparently without notifying the user" feature ? Also facebook. Which was a conscious design decision. Not doing that (even for people that had turned on "notify on key changes"), would let whatsapp know which users could be securely MITM'd. Neither is a very good choice, but an understandable trade-off when it comes to security vs usability.
- 10y ago
- bsder 10y agoYeah, Assange can go get stuffed. He has lost all credibility with this drips and drabs bullshit in an attempt to keep himself some kind of "celebrity". Release it and let people figure it out or shut the fuck up. Snowden is a hero. Assange is an asshat.
- jessaustin 10y agoSnowden coordinated with Greenwald et al. for years on their "drips and drabs" strategy. Rightly so! The point of leaking is to have a political effect. Those effects are multiplied when leaks are well-timed. I'm glad, because had the leaks that have many people most upset not been so effective, USA would probably be at war in Syria right now. https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broadening-access-to-the-snowden-archive-heres-why/ https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broaden...
- bigbugbag 10y agoFunny that the snowden leaked document have been released drips and drabs to the point that only a portion has been made public yet but for some reason you fail to take it into account. Also Assange would be Poitras/Greenwald here not Snowden.
- Crito 10y agoHow much of that "99% unreleased" is represented by the stub files: ::: THIS ARCHIVE FILE IS STILL BEING EXAMINED BY WIKILEAKS. ::: ::: IT MAY BE RELEASED IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WHAT FOLLOWS IS ::: ::: AN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED LIST OF ITS CONTENTS: :::