Posted on 03/07/2017 10:48:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
THE CIA developed a system with MI5 to turn Samsung Smart TVs into a bugging system, activated when the owner or user thought they were switched off, the Wikileaks organisation has shockingly claimed.
The sinister plan is just one of an array of surveillance, hacking, and other techniques allegedly deployed by the US Central Intelligence Service (CIA) that are revealed in documents released by the whistle blowing organisation today, it has said.
WikiLeaks today began its new series of leaks on the CIA, code-named "Vault 7", and described as "the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency".
The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina, according to Wikileaks.
But Wikileaks says it has proof of the CIA using consumer technology such as smart phones, PCs, and even TVs to hack into personal accounts or even spy on people.
The Wikileaks statement added: "'Year Zero' introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponised exploits against a wide range of US and European company products, including Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.
"The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell's 1984, but 'Weeping Angel', developed by the CIA's Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realisation.
"The attack against Samsung smart TVs was developed in cooperation with the United Kingdom's MI5/BTSS. After infestation, Weeping Angel places the target TV in a 'Fake-Off' mode, so that the owner falsely believes the TV is off when it is on.
"In 'Fake-Off' mode the TV operates as a bug, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the internet to a covert CIA server."
Wikileaks says it has been provided with portions of a CIA archive of its hacking arsenal after it "lost control of most of it".
It includes malware, viruses, trojans, weaponised "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation, it said.
Wikileaks added: "This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA.
"The archive appears to have been circulated among former US government hackers and contractors in an unauthorised manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive."
Wikileaks said by the end of 2016, the CIA's hacking division, which formally fell under the agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other "weaponised" malware.
The statement added: "Such is the scale of the CIA's undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilised more code than that used to run Facebook.
"The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified."
WikiLeaks said a statement from its source asked "policy questions that urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA's hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency".
"The source wishes to initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons," it added.
Wikileaks said: "Once a single cyber 'weapon' is 'loose' it can spread around the world in seconds, to be used by rival states, cyber mafia and teenage hackers alike."
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor, said: "There is an extreme proliferation risk in the development of cyber 'weapons'.
"Comparisons can be drawn between the uncontrolled proliferation of such 'weapons', which results from the inability to contain them combined with their high market value, and the global arms trade.
"But the significance of 'Year Zero' goes well beyond the choice between cyberwar and cyberpeace."
The CIA has yet to publicly respond.
A CIA spokeswoman told Express.co.uk: "We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents.”
Some use TV for their phone.
This is exactly the reason we don’t use “smart” items. No reason for all of our electronics to have cameras, speakers and the ability to monitor everything we do. It’s so damn creepy.
The gov’t knows I still watch Hogan’s Hero’s and Gilligan’s Island (because of Mary Ann).
The smart tv is one that doesn’t permit the boob tube talking heads to enter a house in the first place.
Democrat run media is unwelcome in my parts.
It is a propaganda server and little else.
>>>“Smart” devices can suck my ###...i can get up and change the thermostat
President Barack Obama said you CAN’T because someone in the third world (or even NYC) doesn’t have central air conditioning and your First World status is evil. You must suffer for the planet (and the Marxist Socialist agenda).
Mr. Obama outright said that America’s lifestyle was too good and that we would have to make sacrifices. He wanted a decline in the American standard of living. No shortages, it was the disparity of lifestyles that got to him.
And then he proceeded to set the White House thermostat as high as he wanted and his staff defended it by saying that he was from Hawaii and not used to the cold weather (even though he’d lived in Chicago for decades).
Stalinists lie. Always
; At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
this has tainted the fruit of every single tree that ever bore electronic evidence.
and made for some ‘interesting’ discovery motions for anyone who wants to explore tort for wrongful conviction...
because there IS no chain of custody for ANY electronic data.
So I got a new computer about 1.5 years ago and I taped AND put a blanket over the danged thing then slap in a clipped microphone just to be sure. Not that I have anything to hide, it's just I like my dagumed privacy.
Look at what else they produce.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성전자; Hanja: 三星電子
(Literally "3 star electronics") (stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea.
[1] Through extremely complicated ownership structure with some circular ownership,[3] it is the flagship division of the Samsung Group, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.[4] It is the world's second largest information technology company by revenue, after Apple.[5] Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 370,000 people.[6] Since 2012, Kwon Oh-hyun has served as the company's CEO.[7][8]
Samsung has long been a major manufacturer of electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, chips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and Nokia.[9][10]
I’m confident Obama’s campaign used cia collected data for their 2012 campaign.....
“After the voters returned Obama to office for a second term, his campaign became celebrated for its use of technology—much of it developed by an unusual team of coders and engineers—that redefined how individuals could use the Web, social media, and smartphones to participate in the political process.” https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-used-big-data-to-rally-voters/
Have you gone Winston?
Long since.
I have one of the early Samsung Smart TV’s...
Honestly, we do have one but virtually never watch it.
I dust it on occasion.
Obeyme isn’t living in a hovel. Nice house, lots of square footage, A/C and heat. He gets a point for moving ValJar in with him so she’s decreased her footprint. Bet his smart tv is capturing a lot of wild and crazy action.
Anyone have this happen? You look up a company online and within minutes your phone rings and the ID says it’s that company?
If smart tvs spy on you, then what’s the point of the Neilsen ratings or is that only a prop these days?
Never had that happen to me, but our smart TV isn’t connected to the internet.......................
I am also. Plus I was verbally active in the TEA party and the IRS came after me and I’m on a disability pension, go figure. Maybe we’ll finally prove in courts not only was Hilda stealing classified information but Obama was running a seriously hate-America police state from OWS-ACORN-CAIR-Muslim Broterhood-Iran-Libya-Egypt-Arab Spring-Soros-BLM...did I miss only 35 others?
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