Weve had the Chelsea Manning leaks, then came edward snowdon, and today another huge wikileaks data dump theyre calling it vault 7, and they say its from a division at the heart of the cia. Thousands of documents, millions of lines of code and, if it is all genuine, it shows the extraordinary array of hacking and spying tools available to the cia. Some of that wont be a surprise. Some of its colourful the ability to infect a samsung tv and turn it into a microphone that records conversations, for example. The british apparently helped with that one, by the way. The cia wont confirm the authenticity of any of it, but there are two big questions. Is it reasonable for the cia to have these abilities . Wikileaks suggests its overreach. But the second is, cant the cia guard any of its own secrets . If it is incapable of doing so, should it harbour software that could allow massive abuse by those with Malign Intent . Well heres david grossman. The documents are purportedly from the cias cent
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