Egann
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Post by Egann on Mar 16, 2017 17:16:51 GMT
I know I promised the Obama Retrospective thread. I'm working on a good first post--and I was distracted by a recent mission trip--but WikiLeaks dropped something on us I want to talk about first.
The Vault7 Year Zero leaks contains a huge amount of unpleasant stuff. We were aware the government was watching the internet, but we're now talking remote spying on all Android or Apple smartphones, hacking car computers remotely to cause crashes--potentially abusable to assassinate political enemies in a plausibly deniable manner--and even a proposed meme warfare center of the CIA. There's also almost nothing about this in the major news streams I've seen. It's like no one is talking about this.
Despite that, several internet places have good commentary. I think this is one of the better bite-sized "bare bones plus commentary" vids, but I also like a fair bit of Sargon's work.
Discuss. I doubt this surprised many of us, but it's still sad to see confirmation.
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Post by SteveT on Mar 19, 2017 23:19:18 GMT
So this is the kind of link I don't click for a few different reasons, but I have to agree with your last sentence. Not a surprise, but that doesn't mean I like it.
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Jinn
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Post by Jinn on Apr 10, 2017 10:08:39 GMT
There's also almost nothing about this in the major news streams I've seen. It's like no one is talking about this. So one month later. I mean dude. Confirmation of living in the reality of a Orwellian-styled surveillance state is not even near to life changing news... like having to pull a Kylie Jenner pepsi ad. Pshhh.
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