WikiLeaks ‘to share CIA hacking tools’ with tech firms
Julian Assange says anti-secrecy group to work with companies to help defend them against the CIA’s hacking tools. WikiLeaks will hand over details of hacking secrets used by the CIA to technology companies to allow them to find software flaws and fix them, founder Julian Assange has said. Despite the efforts of Assange and his ilk, CIA continues to aggressively collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect America from terrorists, hostile nation states and other adversaries.” The CIA has so far declined to comment directly on the authenticity of the leak, but in a statement issued on Wednesday it said such releases are damaging because they equip adversaries “with tools and information to do us harm.” It was not clear how WikiLeaks planned to cooperate with tech companies, which had asked to work with it and which would accept Assange’s offer. “It’s quite an unlikely collaboration considering that in the past WikiLeaks has been a harsh critic of Google and Facebook,” Al Jazeera’s Charlie Angela, reporting from outside Ecuador’s embassy, said. “And there are questions as to how useful this collaboration will be considering that US intelligence officials say much of the data and documents published detailed techniques that are over two years old, a lot of the software has already been outdated and those flaws have been fixed.” LISTENING POST: Journalism in the age of surveillance The WikiLeaks disclosures describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features for computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs.
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