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Wikileaks Unveils 'Cherry Blossom' – Wireless Hacking System Used by CIA

37 pointsby Nitishshah700almost 8 years ago

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jwtadvicealmost 8 years ago
I really hope that Wikileaks:<p>A. Works with companies to get these vulnerabilities patched. I know that US media outlets are paid to be hard on Wikileaks when it does this to harm its reputation, but the campaign of negative publicity is less important overall than the quality work getting vulnerabilities fixed and for it actually improves the reputation over the long term with those who are familiar and closer to the security field.<p>B. After the vulnerabilities are patched, release the source code and documentation for these vulnerabilities to expose the companies, techniques and to corroborate the editing done for the story. The security community will grow from these examples and the public will have better information about what companies to avoid.<p>C. Publish more good journalism about the types of cyber-weapons wielded by intelligence agencies.
jwtadvicealmost 8 years ago
I would really like to know more about the involvement of the Stanford Research group in enabling these exploits. Speculating on a whim here, but it wouldn&#x27;t seem like much research would be needed with the exception of perhaps either WEP&#x2F;WPA injection&#x2F;extension&#x2F;decryption attacks OR wireless frame injection attacks that exploit the data link layer.