{"id":24062,"date":"2017-03-07T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24062"},"modified":"2017-03-07T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T02:24:33","slug":"vault-7-cia-hacking-tools-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/07\/vault-7-cia-hacking-tools-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks has a very troubling release of information described on their web site in the article <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/ciav7p1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell&#8217;s 1984, but &#8220;Weeping Angel&#8221;, developed by the CIA&#8217;s Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realization.<\/p>\n<p>The attack against Samsung smart TVs was developed in cooperation with the United Kingdom&#8217;s MI5\/BTSS. After infestation, Weeping Angel places the target TV in a &#8216;Fake-Off&#8217; mode, so that the owner falsely believes the TV is off when it is on. In &#8216;Fake-Off&#8217; mode the TV operates as a bug, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the Internet to a covert CIA server.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t own this model TV (I don&#8217;t think), but I did discover that I have had some CIA malware installed on my computers for years.  I am not about to mention which tool I have, but the CIA knows I have it, I am sure.  I am only half-way through reading the article, so there may be other pieces of their software that I have installed on my computers. <\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear, the &#8220;mal&#8221; in malware means &#8220;bad&#8221;.  I wouldn&#8217;t have installed the piece of software if I had known it was malware.  I will sit tight on it until I hear from the people who supply my anti-virus software or some other credible source. As long as I have had the software, whatever damage it can do, if any, has probably already been done.<\/p>\n<p>Upon a little investigation, I think I  have determined my worries about a particular piece of software are ill-founded.  What a relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks has a very troubling release of information described on their web site in the article Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed. The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell&#8217;s 1984, but &#8220;Weeping Angel&#8221;, developed by the CIA&#8217;s Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24068,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}