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Wikileaks drops another load

CapelDodger said:
As Trump goes to war with his intelligence services WikiLeaks produces material to discredit the CIA - not the content so much as the leaking of it. Mouth-watering stuff for a conspiracy theorist.
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It's pure conspiracy nonsense. You have to love the reasoning behind the theory: the CIA hacked DNC/Podesta, then attributed it to Russia, then leaked it to Wikileaks to get Trump elected because he's openly hostile towards them.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Yep, that's the CIA for you - selfishly keeping all those juicy secrets to themselves - why do they do it?

Or perhaps they didn't think they had a right to influence the elections - unlike the FBI.

Besides, plenty of evidence of Trump's corruption and general unfitness for the job was already public - yet the deplorables still voted for him. So I doubt it would have made much difference...
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C'mon. are you seriously saying that the CIA wouldn't release evidence of Trump corruption if they had some because they didn't think they had the right to influence the election?
 
TheRealnz said:
C'mon. are you seriously saying that the CIA wouldn't release evidence of Trump corruption if they had some because they didn't think they had the right to influence the election?
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That is another reason to dislike Trump: He has all the conspiracy kooks on his side and has mainstreamed paranoid nonsense.
 
Darat said:
The Samsung listening is just like Alexa and the Google hub, to be able to act on what you have said they need to be "always listening" there is nothing nefarious about it, it's a feature.
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Those things are basically the owner asking people to listen in on them.

From what I've heard so far, there's next to nothing new in this leak. Wow, Android phones are vulnerable, especially older ones - you know, like the one Trump likes to use, that security experts have been alarmed about the entire time. Wow, most of the "things" in the "internet of things" are easy to hack - which is why fridges in Sears keep displaying porn sites on their displays.

One thing that gets old fast very quickly is people (including manufacturers) being absurdly lazy about security, and then whining when it turns out that the CIA knows about it. There are things the CIA does that I dislike (eg. using armed drones - that should be military only IMO), but this is much more about us demanding better from many manufacturers than the horrible federal government.
 
TheRealnz said:
C'mon. are you seriously saying that the CIA wouldn't release evidence of Trump corruption if they had some because they didn't think they had the right to influence the election?
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I would expect the CIA to report it to the president first and let him decide what to do about it, not just release it to the general public.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
I would expect the CIA to report it to the president first and let him decide what to do about it, not just release it to the general public.
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That's a reasonable assumption under a normal presidency.

This is not normal.
 
ChristianProgressive said:
Wikileaks is doing the dirty work for them. Assange is essentially a FSB asset.
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I wouldn't necessarily say that (although I have my suspicions), but he's clearly a chump.

And I doubt that he's behind these latest, remarkably well-timed, leaks in any case.

This is distraction, plain and simple.
 
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