These are some shocking allegations, to be sure, but the more you read the crazier it sounds. We can almost hear the Mission: Impossible(c) theme music playing in the background!
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized “zero day” exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.
The data dump contains information detailing the CIA’s global hacking program, the large collection of malware utilized by the CIA, and their “Zero Day” weaponized exploits which could be used to hack “Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”
Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency’s hacking division freed it from having to disclose its often controversial operations to the NSA (its primary bureaucratic rival) in order to draw on the NSA’s hacking capacities.
By the end of 2016, the CIA’s hacking division, which formally falls under the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other “weaponized” malware. Such is the scale of the CIA’s undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook. The CIA had created, in effect, its “own NSA” with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified.
What the result of this information will be we cannot know now. In the future, if the Wikileaks CIA information is indeed true, we can only assume the outcome will be catastrophic – or quickly hushed-up for future generations.
Honestly, we do not like to think badly of any agency but the information over on Off Grid Survival is thoroughly engrossing and gives us chills. If ever there was a reason to take off blinders this is it.
Losing control of anything is bad enough but when the information obtained is obscure it really makes any man, woman, prepper, survivalist and living being ion this world we call earth think twice about what we thought was normal and true. All we can say is be prepared for more SHTF!