Seems par for the course for any society redonning the shackles of bronze age superstition.
And while that may be an easy point to make, I have yet to meet a turkish expat not thrilled by the Erdoganesian reformation of their home country. It's possible that their female counterparts have a different opinion, but the simple fact that I have yet to meet one seems to be a point in and of itself.
I have very little hope for what was once an example of how even islamic rule can be subdued. Regression seems to be the majority will, if not rule.
Turkey will cannibalize its scientific base, and with it the prosperity it so loudly proclaims it deserves.
What will be left is yet another bottom feeding theocracy, and we'll all be worse off because of it.
Like almost every outlet and pundit covering this story, the author focusses entirely on the content of the hacks while completely foregoing what Wikileaks themselves see as the most damaging factor:
"Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive."
It is not about WHAT this software can do, it's about WHO controls it.
As a non-US citizen completely devoid of american exceptionalism, I wholeheartedly welcome anyone opposing the proliferation of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stolen/copied weaponized software.
After all, if even the CIA themselves can't keep track of who has what, there should be no doubt in anyones mind that a lot of these tools have been bought, sold and used by people with anything but the general public's best interest in mind.
The only way to 'fix' a vulnerability is to expose and patch it, so the hacker has to start over. For that reason alone I hope Wikileaks goes even further than they already have.
Beyond that, I still disagree that these leaks brought 'nothing new' to the table.
Was it general knowledge that TVs were not only hackable, but effectively hacked? Or that the tech existed to make a hack look like that of another state actor?
Before, these things were educated guesses at best, conspiracy theories at worst.
Now they are actual proven facts.
Seems par for the course for any society redonning the shackles of bronze age superstition.
And while that may be an easy point to make, I have yet to meet a turkish expat not thrilled by the Erdoganesian reformation of their home country. It's possible that their female counterparts have a different opinion, but the simple fact that I have yet to meet one seems to be a point in and of itself.
I have very little hope for what was once an example of how even islamic rule can be subdued. Regression seems to be the majority will, if not rule.
Turkey will cannibalize its scientific base, and with it the prosperity it so loudly proclaims it deserves.
What will be left is yet another bottom feeding theocracy, and we'll all be worse off because of it.
Like almost every outlet and pundit covering this story, the author focusses entirely on the content of the hacks while completely foregoing what Wikileaks themselves see as the most damaging factor:
"Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive."
It is not about WHAT this software can do, it's about WHO controls it.
As a non-US citizen completely devoid of american exceptionalism, I wholeheartedly welcome anyone opposing the proliferation of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stolen/copied weaponized software.
After all, if even the CIA themselves can't keep track of who has what, there should be no doubt in anyones mind that a lot of these tools have been bought, sold and used by people with anything but the general public's best interest in mind.
The only way to 'fix' a vulnerability is to expose and patch it, so the hacker has to start over. For that reason alone I hope Wikileaks goes even further than they already have.
Beyond that, I still disagree that these leaks brought 'nothing new' to the table.
Was it general knowledge that TVs were not only hackable, but effectively hacked? Or that the tech existed to make a hack look like that of another state actor?
Before, these things were educated guesses at best, conspiracy theories at worst.
Now they are actual proven facts.
I can't wait to see the other 99% of Vault7.