This week there was a big leak on the CIA, it has renewed everyone's fears on privacy and rightly so. The big leak this week is being called vault 7 and it is only the “tip of the iceberg”, according to wikileaks. The first few reports point to an issue that has been plaguing the United States for a while now. It seems more information has come out and it all points to the CIA purposely infecting millions devices from United States citizens. Samsung TV’s and consumer smart phones have been just a couple of the targeted devices. Furthermore some documents point to the CIA deliberately finding flaws in some smartphone operating systems and never reporting them, in order to use them later when needing to access information. This is completely unacceptable and unethical. We the people should immediately demand an investigation into these accusations. The fact that the CIA thinks they can just go about anyway they want to get the information they need then they have a bad time coming. I jozy will not allow for this type of behavior, I will be a social warrior and make sure that people know what is going on. For example, I will start spreading the word and making sure everyone is aware of the deeds that the CIA are doing. I’m joking of course, but seriously this is pretty bad. We love to talk about how free America is, land of the free as we call it. Yet our own government is actively conspiring against its citizens and constantly hiding critical information from us.
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Martin Almaraz
3/11/2017 07:18:27 pm
The vault 7 leak is super interesting. I was first introduced to it while reading reddit the other day and simply skimming through it was absolutely mind boggling. I know that it is only emails that were leaked, but there was an absolute crazy amount of information that is now readily available, including a re-usable license key for sublime text! Another thing that was very surprising is that wiki leaks says that what they leaked was less than 1% of what they have, and they are planning to release more as time goes on. Lastly, another thing that has surprised me is the lack of out lash from the public from these leaks, there does not seem to be very much news coverage on the media or even other outlets online other than a few forums, which I find suspicious.
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Matthew Provo
3/13/2017 02:33:03 pm
Hi, I was excited to see that someone posted about this topic. Like many people, I had thought that many of these surveillance activities were taking place but to have it now confirmed makes my mind race in many different directions. Like you had mentioned this is only the tip of the ice berg, I am excited/scared to what comes next.
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Samuel Villavicencio
3/17/2017 05:03:55 pm
While I am a skeptic of the government and their decisions regarding digital security, I think that it is important to consider the ethical implications of their actions. For example, it is unethical that they track computer usage of the majority of the population given that they do not do the same for government officials or other high profile individuals.
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5/21/2017 12:50:51 am
The worst part is that this isn't even the worst the government is doing. There is another program that was leaked about called PRISM that lets the government tap into servers like nothing. Theyre collecting to much data that we dont know about, and we have no clue what theyre doing with it.
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