What You Need To Know About The Vault 7 WikiLeaks Release

Article by Tyler Durden, May 8, 2017, ZeroHedge

"People have such a low expectation of their government now, and have become so accustomed to the government routinely violating their civil liberties, that there’s hardly any public outrage anymore about these spying scandals."

"Yesterday Wikileaks released 8,761 CIA documents [see link below on tools] detailing the agency’s hacking of smart phones, routers, computers, and even televisions. These files reveal that the CIA can and has hacked devices that were supposedly secure– iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. The documents further reveal that the CIA is deliberately infecting personal computers with spyware, including Windows, Mac OS/X, Solaris, Linux, and other operating systems.

They’re also hacking WiFi routers to deploy software that monitors Internet activity, and have even figured out how to bypass anti-virus software so that their spyware cannot be detected. They’ve also managed to make the rest of the world believe that Russian hackers, not the CIA, are behind all this malware and spyware. It’s like a restatement of that old Mission: Impossible line– 'Should any of your IM force be caught or killed… we’ll blame Russia.'

The CIA is pretty shameless about its activities, nicknaming its various hacking programs “Assassin”, “Medusa”, and 'Brutal Kangaroo'. One of the deepest revelations is that the agency is able to hack Internet-connected televisions, including Samsung smart TVs, through a program called 'Weeping Angel'.

Basically the CIA can turn your [Smart] TV into a listening device, recording conversations in the room and transmitting the audio to a CIA server. Even if you think the TV is off, it’s not. CIA hackers have been able to spoof the on/off display and set the television to a 'false off' mode.

Bottom line, no device that’s connected to the outside world is truly safe. And future Wikileaks publications may show that the intelligence community is hacking home automation devices, Internet-connected automobiles (including driverless vehicles), and artificial intelligence like Amazon’s Alexa.

" . . . university students are too busy protesting against ideas they don’t want to hear about."

It’s hard to be shocked at this point that the government is spying on its own allies and citizens. This is just the latest in a pattern of brazen surveillance and flagrant Constitutional violations on the part of the US intelligence community. But that’s precisely what I find MOST concerning - the LACK of concern over these new CIA documents. People have such a low expectation of their government now, and have become so accustomed to the government routinely violating their civil liberties, that there’s hardly any public outrage anymore about these spying scandals.

More importantly, the lack of concern is indicative of what freedom means in the Land of the Free today. Here’s a great example– Young people are traditionally the most politically charged activists in the country. But where are the protests across university campuses demanding freedom and privacy? It’s not happening. That’s because university students are too busy protesting against ideas they don’t want to hear about.

At Middlebury College last week, a small liberal arts school in Vermont, a small mob of student protestors physically assaulted a conservative speaker because his ideas offended them. They couldn’t simply skip the lecture and allow interested students to attend.
No, they had to engage in violent censorship, oppressing any idea that doesn’t conform to their narrow agenda.

The only thing these cry bullies are interested in hearing is apologetic white men groveling over their privilege. This is the new reality in the Land of the Free: freedom has deteriorated into some gender studies professor’s socialist fantasy. Constitutionally guaranteed liberties have become irrelevant.

Forget about “free speech”.

Any intellectual dissent from the intolerant Social Justice view is now considered “hate speech”. And the Fourth Amendment, which establishes 'the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures,' has become a distant memory.

As a child who grew up in the 80s during the height of the Cold War, I imagine there would have been widespread disgust if a similar scandal had been exposed. Spying on citizens and allies? That’s what the Soviet Union did. But today, everything else is more important:

Transgender bathrooms. Silencing hate speech. Forcing elementary school children to feel guilty about their white privilege. Political correctness in extremis. #everyone-else-but-white-people’s-lives-matter.

This is what dominates the social conversation now in the Land of the Free.

Privacy is no longer a Western value.

After all, people narcissistically upload their entire lives to social media (as if anyone cares what they’re having for dinner) so that Mark Zuckerberg can auction our details to the highest bidder. And it is precisely this decline that I find most disturbing. Some people hold the idiotic belief that, 'If I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear.'

This is dangerous logic, for so many reasons. Even the use of the word ‘hide’ is ridiculous… as if the fact that I don’t upload photos of my nether regions to Instagram means that I’m 'hiding' something. We all keep things private.

It’s why we wear clothing, don’t discuss our personal finances in polite company, and worry when our social security number is stolen. But more importantly, if it doesn’t matter that the CIA is monitoring people’s most intimate moments, then does anything matter? They keep moving the line, probing deeper and deeper into our lives and enveloping the nation inside an Orwellian surveillance state.

And it doesn’t stop… because we’re in the midst of a complete breakdown of western values.

Above article by Tyler Durden, May 8, 2017, ZeroHedge

Vault 7: Stunning List Of CIA Hacking Tools Revealed - Wikileaks

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Julian Assange 2017 Interview On The Project

WikiLeaks Offers CIA Hacking Tools To Tech Companies - Reuters

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Announced For Australian Appearance in 2017 - ThinkInc

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Addendum

In all the leaks Assange has allowed over the years, no one seems to have been able to prove that any of them were embedded with lies or agendas other than to expose corruption of government officials caught with their hands again in that age-old proverbial cookie jar.

This became laughingly apparent when Democrats were caught up in their own sewer of deception, having looked like heroes from the waist up. But when exposed by Assange, they were actually scum bags from the waist down caught standing in cess pools the public didn't know existed.

That digital sewer exposed by Assange in 2016, his acting like America's fourth estate, would swamp the Democrat Party's presidential boat. The liberals didn't like getting caught in their own lies, crying foul because someone outside their bought-and-paid-for mainstream media elites was still able to expose the crap they thought had been flushed down the toilet and away from the eyes of the American voter.

Therefore, progressives never saw the black swan coming that would expose their control of a deceptive 21st century modern digital world we all had hoped would move mankind up the ladder. Ironically to the rest of America that swan was viewed instead as white, protecting not only the sovereignty of a nation but at the same time becoming our founder's hope of a free media that would expose liars, rats and elitists toads. Many of those toads were found in Hollywood, such as Cate Blanchett reporting that a moral compass had been installed in her vagina.

It is obvious now why Americans no longer trust their government and the elites who influence and run it. So when Assange released those monumental files a few days ago on the CIA, Americans weren't sure if it was a treasonous act or a warning of how a government of "We the People" could actually be spying on Americans who sat peacefully in their own living rooms, not realizing to the CIA they were to become the entertainment. - Webmaster, FreedomIsKnowledge