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WikiLeaks Releases What It Calls CIA Trove Of Cyber-Espionage Documents

WikiLeaks Releases What It Calls CIA Trove Of Cyber-Espionage Documents Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Updated 5:15 p.m. Sponsor Message Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told MSNBC that if WikiLeaks' account was true, the document dump would be "very, very damaging." Weaver calls that story "implausible," and raises the possibility that someone from outside the U.S. government compromised the CIA's systems to acquire the documents. The alleged CIA documents show techniques developed specifically for "embedded systems" — which the files describe, in non-technical terms, as "the Things in the Internet of Things." Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, says the documents suggest the CIA "deliberately maintained vulnerabilities" in widely used devices.

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