Today, september 7th 2017, wikileaks publishes four secret documents from the protego project of the cia, along with 37 related documents (proprietary hardware/software manuals from microchip technology inc.). The project was maintained between 2014 and 2015. The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists and other adversaries.
Wikileaks’ latest release details what it claims is the cia’s hacking activities, including compromising phones, tvs, cars and becoming an nsa with less accountability. Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. But wikileaks, which released the documents, has called it the largest release of confidential cia intelligence documents ever.
Vault 7 is a series of documents that wikileaks began to publish on 7 march 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the united states central intelligence agency (cia) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. Such disclosures not only jeopardize u.s. Wikileaks claimed that the trove of cia information it had obtained, which it called vault 7, included “several hundred million lines of code”, including many of the agency’s cyber weapons. Wikileaks has released a huge set of files that it calls year zero and which mark the biggest exposure of cia spying secrets ever.
Personnel and operations, but also equip our adversaries with tools and information to do us harm.