Re The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache - The New York Times

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden () gmail com>
> Date: March 10, 2017 at 6:10:12 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden () gmail com>
> Subject: The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache - The New York Times
>
> Good article in NYT:
>
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html?ref=opinion 
> > <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html?ref=opinion>
>
> I especially like
>
> "In their haste to post articles about the release, almost all the leading news organizations took the WikiLeaks 
> tweets at face value. Their initial accounts mentioned Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted apps by name, and 
> described them as “bypassed” or otherwise compromised by the C.I.A.’s cyberspying tools.
>
> Yet on closer inspection, this turned out to be misleading. Neither Signal nor WhatsApp, for example, appears by name 
> in any of the alleged C.I.A. files in the cache. (Using automated tools to search the whole database, as security 
> researchers subsequently did, turned up no hits.) More important, the hacking methods described in the documents do 
> not, in fact, include the ability to bypass such encrypted apps — at least not in the sense of “bypass” that had 
> seemed so alarming. Indeed, if anything, the C.I.A. documents in the cache confirm the strength of encryption 
> technologies.”
>
> These attacks are targeted attacks.  They do not for mass surveillance, and encryption continues to provide good 
> protection against mass surveillance.
>
> Bob
>
> p.s. The comments about what Wikileaks are doing is also interesting.



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