The New York Post Editorial
Board offers a piece on the WikiLeaks release of a trove of classified CIA information.
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange (seen in the above photo) claim they act for the public good, but their release of CIA documents proves
yet again that they lack a moral compass.
The group posted a massive
cache of stolen CIA documents online Tuesday, revealing agency cyber-tools for
hacking smartphones, Samsung TVs, computer-operating systems, even
vehicle-control systems in new cars and trucks. Officials say the info looks
like the real thing.
There’s no question the
document dump — apparently the largest leak in CIA history — will harm US
efforts to collect vital information needed to keep the nation safe.
“This essentially gives our
enemies a playbook on how we go about our clandestine cyber operations,” one
ex-CIA agent said. Plus, the agency must now assess whether its tools still
work and, if not, come up with new ones. That’ll cost a mint.
An even higher priority is
figuring out how the agency lost the material. WikiLeaks says it came from a
“high-security network” at the CIA and was given to the group by an
ex-government hacker or contractor. But who knows? Maybe the agency itself was
hacked.
There are positives here,
too. It’s reassuring to know, for instance, that the agency has such
“wonderful” tools at its disposal, as ex-CIA director Michael Hayden put it.
“There are some bad people in
the world who have Samsung TVs,” he said. “You want us to have the ability to
actually turn on that listening device inside the TV to learn that person’s
intentions.” Kudos to the cyber-spooks who put their remarkable talents to use
to develop these tools.
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