Posted on 03/23/2017 7:34:38 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A new WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak titled “Dark Matter” claims that the Central Intelligence Agency has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers. The documents are expected to be released after a 10 a.m. EDT “press briefing” that WikiLeaks promoted on its Twitter.
And here is the full press release from WikiLeaks:
Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Dark Matter", which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac Computer firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain 'persistence' on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware.
Among others, these documents reveal the "Sonic Screwdriver" project which, as explained by the CIA, is a "mechanism for executing code on peripheral devices while a Mac laptop or desktop is booting" allowing an attacker to boot its attack software for example from a USB stick "even when a firmware password is enabled". The CIA's "Sonic Screwdriver" infector is stored on the modified firmware of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter.
"DarkSeaSkies" is "an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an Apple MacBook Air computer" and consists of "DarkMatter", "SeaPea" and "NightSkies", respectively EFI, kernel-space and user-space implants.
Documents on the "Triton" MacOSX malware, its infector "Dark Mallet" and its EFI-persistent version "DerStake" are also included in this release. While the DerStake1.4 manual released today dates to 2013, other Vault 7 documents show that as of 2016 the CIA continues to rely on and update these systems and is working on the production of DerStarke2.0.
Also included in this release is the manual for the CIA's "NightSkies 1.2" a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the Apple...
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Does Tim Cook know about this?
Is he complicit?
Enquiring minds want to know..............
Oh yeah without a doubt....
was this shared with the DNC hackers as well
as Iran and the Moslem Brotherhood?
did the EXEMPT think they would be exempt on this one, too?
did they good loveint on the NSA? like they did on the
blackrobes?
Close this anti-freedom, unconstitutional organization immediately. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Wow.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
What part of this do they not understand?
CIA operatives need to go to JAIL
Wonder if all them free obamaphones were wired for sound.
This seems like a multi-piece type of ‘bug’ that each piece is programmed to ‘look’ for the other pieces then join hands, when ‘called’................
I would expect any electronics mass produced in China has PLA mandated backdoors in addition to anything the CIA adds.
So a quick translation of this is there embedding this in the bootstrap firmware...
The code that starts the computer up sets all the parameters and loads the operating system in
I tend to believe that all of them are in on it.
That’s probably the back doors being piggybacked.
Samaritan lives.
BTW:
To those in the CIA listening I have encryption that is cheap and unbreakable at hand. You know it and I know it.
So a) you think all of the bad guys are stupid or b) you get your jolly’s reading other peoples mail.
a) is demonstrably untrue so it must be b)
2008.. socialism weds globalism. I still have my old iPhone 4.. still works perfect, just has a small screen so I like my Note 4 big screen.
Okay we need an app that’ll fully embrace this firmware and transmit a constant “FU CIA” 24/7 for them to digest. A couple thousand phones barking at the CIA ought to annoy the $h!+ out of them at the very least.
Cook is a hard core communists Democrat. Isn't that what these types of Democrats do.
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