WikiLeaks: CIA can hack into phones, TVs — everything
Timothy Carone, a data analytics expert, says the WikiLeaks release reinforces the idea that all information in our lives can be acquired and leveraged in ways most people don't even think about.
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The crusading website WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday it says detail CIA tools for hacking into web servers, computers, smartphones and even TVs that can be turned into covert microphones.
The website claims the CIA Center for Cyber Intelligence "lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal," more than several hundred million lines of code that provide "the entire hacking capacity of the CIA."
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Timothy Carone, a Notre Dame professor who specializes in data science, says the release reinforces the idea that all information in our lives can be acquired and leveraged in ways most people don't even think about.
"Probably the most disturbing part of the story was that this information was being shared between former U.S. government hackers and contractors with no oversights and no authorization," he said.
Read the entire story on the USA Today website.
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