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| WikiLeaks will give tech companies exclusive access to CIA hacking tools - Assange | |
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| WikiLeaks is holding a press conference to address the CIA following the whistleblowing site’s latest leak. Known as ‘Vault 7’, the data dump allegedly revealed the extent of hacking capabilities developed by the CIA. | WikiLeaks is holding a press conference to address the CIA following the whistleblowing site’s latest leak. Known as ‘Vault 7’, the data dump allegedly revealed the extent of hacking capabilities developed by the CIA. |
| Ahead of the Thursday press conference, the organization asked people to tweet their questions about the leaks using the hashtag #AskWLwikileaks. | Ahead of the Thursday press conference, the organization asked people to tweet their questions about the leaks using the hashtag #AskWLwikileaks. |
| WikiLeaks claims it has so far released less than one percent of the trove. | WikiLeaks claims it has so far released less than one percent of the trove. |
| READ MORE: WikiLeaks says just 1% of #Vault7 covert documents released so far | READ MORE: WikiLeaks says just 1% of #Vault7 covert documents released so far |
| Speaking in a Facebook livestream, Assange said the leaked information originated from an isolated computer, separated from others in the network, at CIA headquarters in Virginia. He described the loss of the information as a “historic act of devastating incompetence.” | Speaking in a Facebook livestream, Assange said the leaked information originated from an isolated computer, separated from others in the network, at CIA headquarters in Virginia. He described the loss of the information as a “historic act of devastating incompetence.” |
| Assange questioned whether the loss of the information was known to former US President Barack Obama and current president Donald Trump before being revealed by WikiLeaks. He also questioned if the loss had been shared with companies such as Apple and Google, which were made vulnerable by it. | |
| “WikiLeaks has a lot more information,” Assange said, adding that “we have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed out.'' | |
| “Once this material is effectively disarmed we will publish additional details about what has been occurring,” Assange added. | |
| Answering a question that he admitted came from himself, Assange said WikiLeaks “fights for the rights of publishers, sources and media accuracy” and that the cyber weapon details being published were used to investigate journalists. “We want to secure communications technology because without communications technology journalists cannot hold the state to account,” Assange said. | |
| CNN asked whether it was legal for the CIA to do this, per US law, provided the hacking techniques are used overseas. | |
| “It is an unusual time in the United States to see an intelligence agency so heavily involved in domestic politics,” Assange said, when asked if the CIA was experiencing turmoil within its ranks. | |
| When questioned about redactions, Assange said 78,000 pieces of information were withheld, consisting of IP addresses of both target and attack machines. The IPs will be investigated and identified before the redaction is removed. | |
| “Potentially billions of dollars of damage” has been done by the CIA to tech companies, Assange said, adding trust has been damaged by the revelations, in both the US government and US exports. | |
| Assange said further material to be released would be recent but would not identify a time from which it came. He said WikiLeaks have more material on the “throwing off” mechanism used by the hacks to cover their traces. Tuesday’s leak revealed details of the CIA’s ability to hide its own hacking fingerprint and attribute it to others. | |
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