Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists. 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.
But wikileaks, which released the documents, has called it the largest release of confidential cia intelligence documents ever. 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. Are they real and are they a risk?
On tuesday, wikileaks released a huge cache of documents it said were descriptions of cia cyber tools used to break into smartphones, computers and internet. 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. Wikileaks has released a huge set of files that it calls year zero and which mark the biggest exposure of cia spying secrets ever.