FLASHBACK: WikiLeaks Released ‘Vault 7’ Disclosures Showing CIA’s Terrifying Hacking Capabilities Six Years Ago Today
On this day six years ago, the WikiLeaks released its “Vault 7” disclosures showing the hacking capabilities of the CIA.
What is Wikileaks Vault 7 Release?: The CIA Hacking Toolbox | Wall Street Journal [2017]
On 7 March 2017 Julian Assange and WikiLeaks began publishing the Vault 7 release – Assange faces a 175 year sentence if extradited for his truthful reporting #Vault7 pic.twitter.com/Vqr6crBhRY
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 7, 2023
The disclosures showed that the CIA is capable of hacking smartphones, computer operating systems, automobiles, messenger apps and smart TVs.
The release consisted of 8,761 documents reportedly coming from the CIA’s Center of Cyber Intelligence. It showed how the CIA could hack phones in order to bypass encrypted apps by accessing the information before the user can send the data. They can also tap into the microphone and video recording devices on phones even when they are powered off.
The CIA also developed a hack that puts Samsung Smart TVs in a fake off mode, which deceives an individual into thinking they are not being recorded when they actually are. The CIA can also leave false bread crumbs that will make it look like the hack is done by an adversary, such as Russia or China, if they are caught after the fact.
All of the Vault7 files can be found here.
Big League Politics has reported on the criminal activities of the CIA, which bordered on treason as the agency and its personnel worked to undermine President Trump’s America First agenda from within:
“Former CIA director and Deep State-linked career bureaucrat John Brennan praised the willful insubordination of the “intelligence community” when speaking at an event at the National Press Club with other military-industrial complex figures on Thursday…
Brennan’s remarks make it clear that the career national security bureaucratic elite couldn’t care less about fulfilling their traditional role of carrying out the democratically elected President’s policy. The Deep State instead seeks to impose an unpopular and stale agenda against the wishes of the President, preventing the American people any real say in directing the national security policy of their own country.
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