WikiLeaks tells how CIA spied on people through phones and TVs
The latest information to be posted discloses malware, viruses and security vulnerabilities used by the Central Intelligence Agency
New York — The Central Intelligence Agency’s hackers have developed tools letting them break into devices from iPhones and Android phones to Samsung "smart" televisions to monitor conversations and messages, according to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, which specialises in disclosing government secrets, posted 8,761 documents and files on Tuesday that it said came from the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence. The trove, if legitimate, discloses malware, viruses, security vulnerabilities known as "zero days" and several hundred million lines of code used by the CIA. It also reveals that the agency has the ability to break into devices and intercept messages before they can be encrypted by applications such as Facebook’s WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Confide. "At first glance it is probably legit or contains a lot of legitimate stuff, which means somebody managed to extract a lot of data from a classified CIA system and is willing to let the world know that," Nicholas Weaver, a senior research...
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