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Re:WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents by sverige on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:01PM (#13812846)
And the bonus to the CIA ignoring the deal the Obama administration made with Big Tech to disclose vulnerabilities is that now (apparently) all of the tools the CIA had accumulated are out in the wild, instead of being fixed.
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Re:WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents by sqeaky on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:22PM (#13813061)
I don't know why Obama allowed this, could he have had the CIA shut this stuff down he was the Chief Executive?

I wonder what this administration will do with this knowledge. It will be interesting to see trump respond too, rather than manufacture news.

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Re:WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents by sverige on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:32PM (#13813171)
Frankly, I am not sure if anyone in the White House has been able to truly control the intelligence agencies since the first Bush. And I say that only because he was a former CIA director, so he had a better chance of knowing where the control levers were hidden.
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