Tag: Mass-Snooping

NOVANEWS By Moon of Alabama   The WikiLeaks stash of CIA hacking documents shows tools used by the CIA to hack individual cell-phones and devices. There are no documents yet that suggest mass snooping efforts on a very large scale. Unlike the NSA which has a “collect it all” attitude towards internet traffic and content the CIA seems to be more interested in individual hacking. This suggests that the CIA can not decipher the modern encrypted communication it adversaries use. It  therefore has to attack their individual devices. But it does not mean that the CIA can not engage in mass snooping. The New York Times description is wrong: Some technical experts pointed out that while the documents suggest that the C.I.A. might be able to compromise individual smartphones, there was...