{"id":67958,"date":"2017-03-07T18:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67958"},"modified":"2017-03-07T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:12:58","slug":"snowden-vault-7-is-genuinely-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67958","title":{"rendered":"SNOWDEN: &#8220;Vault 7 is genuinely a big deal.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Edward Snowden: WikiLeaks document dump on CIA hacking capability &#8216;looks authentic&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>By DANIEL CHAITIN<br \/>\nWashington Examiner<\/p>\n<p>Snowden replied to this tweet with a &#8220;PSA,&#8221; saying that it &#8220;incorrectly implies CIA hacked these apps \/ encryption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Snowden says the Vault7 documents show that iOS and Android smartphones got hacked, which he said is a &#8220;much bigger problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WikiLeaks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vault7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vault7<\/a> confirms CIA can effectively bypass Signal + Telegram + WhatsApp + Confide encryption<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h5wzfrReyy\">https:\/\/t.co\/h5wzfrReyy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/839120909625606152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a separate tweet, Snowden said he is still parsing through the documents, many of which include long strings of code. But from what he&#8217;s seen so far, Snowden said that what WikiLeaks &#8220;has here is genuinely a big deal. Looks authentic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Still working through the publication, but what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wikileaks<\/a> has here is genuinely a big deal. Looks authentic.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/839157182872576000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Snowden explained that program and office names in the documents &#8220;are real,&#8221; and could only be known by a &#8220;cleared insider.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What makes this look real?<br \/>Program &amp; office names, such as the JQJ (IOC) crypt series, are real. Only a cleared insider could know them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/839159736977227777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you&#39;re writing about the CIA\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wikileaks<\/a> story, here&#39;s the big deal: first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYi0NC2mOp\">pic.twitter.com\/kYi0NC2mOp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/839168025517522944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The CIA reports show the USG developing vulnerabilities in US products, then intentionally keeping the holes open. Reckless beyond words.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/839171129331830784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia since 2013 after he leaked secret information from the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance programs. As recently as January, Russia said it would extend Snowden&#8217;s asylum to 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;playlistId=19132&#038;siteSection=ndn&#038;videoId=32087675\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/edward-snowden-wikileaks-document-dump-on-cia-hacking-capability-looks-authentic\/article\/2616670\">http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/edward-snowden-wikileaks-document-dump-on-cia-hacking-capability-looks-authentic\/article\/2616670<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden: WikiLeaks document dump on CIA hacking capability &#8216;looks authentic&#8217; By DANIEL CHAITIN Washington Examiner Snowden replied to this tweet with a &#8220;PSA,&#8221; saying that it &#8220;incorrectly implies CIA hacked these apps \/ encryption.&#8221; Instead, Snowden says the Vault7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}