WikiLeaks dumps alleged secret CIA ‘hacking arsenal’:
WikiLeaks on Tuesday began publishing what it claims is the CIA’s secret “hacking arsenal” that reveals how the intelligence agency transforms smartphones, computers and internet-connected televisions into spying devices.
The cache allegedly comes from the agency’s Cyber Intelligence Center, potentially spilling into the public domain an unprecedented amount of information about the CIA’s electronic snooping. WikiLeaks called it the “largest ever publication of confidential documents” about the agency.
While a CIA spokesman would not comment “on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents,” a former U.S. intelligence officer told POLITICO that the leaked documents looked legitimate.
On Twitter, Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the vast expanse of the government’s spying apparatus, also said the documents appeared “authentic” because of the program names, among other arcane details.
If the files are genuine, their release marks the latest embarrassing episode for the intelligence community. Last year, a group calling itself “the Shadow Brokers” released classified NSA hacking tools that revealed so-called zero-day exploits, or unknown code flaws in popular products the government is exploiting.
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