New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7

Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by LMYahooTFY on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:14PM (#17377932)

I read the indictment, but I don't see how you can be certain it was not planted.

He apparently saved IRC logs of their entire quest to obtain child porn....?

Using his name as a handle?

Impossible? No, but do you really think this is not questionable at all?

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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by Cacti on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:30PM (#17378025)

Did you read the part about the VM he was (allegedly) hiding?

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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by zeth___ on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:49PM (#17378175)

"Yes your honour, we totally found this."

"No your honour, we lost the evidence since then."

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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by Cacti on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:15PM (#17378318)

Do you actually have an argument as to how they would fake the VM in a manner that would withstand the analysis of the defendants experts?

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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by valuearb on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:25AM (#17379686)

Can't the CIA hide trojans on unused sectors of storage that can't be detected by any known anti virus program?

You don't think they can't fake a VM?

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