#Vault7 WIKILEAKS:LEAKS REVEAL CIA HACK COMPUTERS, PHONES & IPHONES, SMART TV'S - CIA SPYING #Vault7

WIKILEAKS: LEAKS REVEAL CIA HACK COMPUTERS, PHONES & IPHONES, SMART TV'S - CIA SPYING #Vault7 #Vault

Wikileaks has dropped a bombshell leaking douments that show the CIA hacking into TV's, smartphones, and computers to spy on American people. Wikileaks #vault7. #vault7. #vault. #vault7 Wikileaks. Wikileaks #vault7 CIA. CIA Wikileaks. Wikileaks CIA Hack. Wikileaks CIA Hack Computers, Phones, & TV's. Wikileaks. Wikileaks leaks. LEAKS. CIA Leaks. CIA. WikiLeaks published thousands of secret CIA files on Tuesday detailing hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs. Some companies that manufacture smart TVs include Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features intended to keep the private information of citizens and corporations safe from prying eyes. U.S. government employees, including President Trump, use many of the same products and internet services purportedly compromised by the tools. “This is CIA’s Edward Snowden,” former CIA acting director Michael Morrell told CBS News Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues, referring to the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked millions of documents in 2013. “This is huge, in terms of what it will tell the adversaries,” Morrell said. “We’ll have to essentially start over in building tools to get information from our adversaries, just like we did with Snowden.” The documents describe CIA efforts -- cooperating with friendly foreign governments and the NSA -- to subvert the world’s most popular technology platforms. Some of the products affected include Apple’s iPhones and iPads, Google’s Android phones and Microsoft Windows operating system (desktop and laptops). CNET reports that if the CIA could break into a phone’s operating system, the agency could potentially access not just encrypted data stored on devices, but also encrypted messages sent through popular services like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. The approach doesn’t break the encryption, CNET reports, but rather gives hackers the same access to messages that a regular user would have when unlocking their phone. WhatsApp declined to comment. Open Whisper Systems, parent company of Signal, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Telegram said on its website that the problem lies with operating systems and not encrypted messaging apps and that naming specific encrypted services is “misleading.” WikiLeaks has a long track record of releasing top secret government documents, and experts who sifted through the material said it appeared legitimate. The documents also include discussions about compromising some internet-connected televisions to turn them into listening posts. One document discusses hacking vehicle systems, indicating the CIA’s interest in hacking modern cars with sophisticated on-board computer. WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions. If the documents are authentic, as appeared likely at first review, the release would be the latest coup for the anti-secrecy organization and a serious blow to the C.I.A., which maintains its own hacking capabilities to be used for espionage. The initial release, which WikiLeaks said was only the first part of the document collection, included 7,818 web pages with 943 attachments, the group said. The entire archive of C.I.A. material consists of several hundred million lines of computer code, it said. Among other disclosures that, if confirmed, would rock the technology world, the WikiLeaks release said that the C.I.A. and allied intelligence services had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message.

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