Re:Ask HN: Were the latest Wikileaks releases really new inf...
by r721 on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:16AM
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Yeah, it seems many security researchers are not impressed:
Bruce Schneier: "One, there is absolutely nothing illegal in the contents of any of this stuff. It's exactly what you'd expect the CIA to be doing in cyberspace."
Bruce Schneier: "One, there is absolutely nothing illegal in the contents of any of this stuff. It's exactly what you'd expect the CIA to be doing in cyberspace."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/03/more_on_the_c...
Robert Graham: "Most of this dump is child's play, simply malware/trojans cobbled together from bits found on the Internet."
http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/03/some-comments-on-wikileaks...
the grugq: "The article sadly misses the point about how lame the contents are. The only interesting story is "why" not "what.""
https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/839183932763471872
Nicholas Weaver: "The actual data dumped by Wikileaks isn't really that significant, but some entertainment. That it was dumped at all is Yuge."
https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/839179237433176065