(March 8, 2017 at 8:48 am)chimp3 Wrote: Last year there were news reports of hackers being able to use these unsecured devices - toasters, thermostats, X-Boxes- to access computers and phones. If hackers can do it , why is it news that spys can do it?
I think the revelation is less that they can do it and more about how aggressively they've done it(not that that's all that surprising either). The other big thing was that they lost control of their software and have no idea who now has their hundreds of millions of lines of code they wrote to hack people. The 'C' in CIA has never stood for competency.
It seems pretty clear to me that the timing of this leak dropping while Trump is taking so much heat over the Russians and his Obama wire-tapping claim was no coincidence.
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