Wikileaks Vault 7 Release: Dark Matter
After the initial Vault 7 release, and even after Snowden in 2013, this is barely news. Our devices are not secure.<p>Apple portrayed itself as a guardian angel for keeping the FBI of our devices for the past two years, while conveniently forgetting to mention that it has been installing iPhone backdoors for the CIA since 2008. edit: I misread the release, it is possible that they are installed after the fact, and apple is not complicit<p>The fact that to most of us this isn&#x27;t &quot;news&quot; suggests there is a very deep and intangible flaw in our society. For the people paying attention, government hacking is the number one flaw in our democracy. It suggests that we aren&#x27;t in a democracy at all.<p>Right now I am sitting in a classroom with 63 other students. Half of them are &quot;taking notes&quot; on their laptops while the other half are using a notebook or sleeping. Each student has a cell phone, each cell phone has a microphone and two cameras. In this room there are 63 microphones, 126 cameras, and approximately 30 open laptops, each with their own camera and microphone.<p>The CIA is collecting data from these devices as I am writing this. But it is hard to find anyone that actually cares. The narrative that is being pushed by traditional media and social media is that this is standard.<p>Just ordinary national security. To keep us safe.<p>Don&#x27;t pay attention to wikileaks. They are a threat.<p>This three letter agency is much different from that three letter agency, so that three letter government agency can&#x27;t do this, but this three letter agency can.<p>Also, Russia.