[pureagave]

This was all released many years ago in the Vault 7 drop. What's new here?

[pureagave]

Release thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939422

Trial for leaker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226066

[DANmode]

You mean for you, or the average reader saying “What’s a Vault 7 drop”?

[47282847]

> Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's software capabilities, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs, web browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, the operating systems of most smartphones including Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and computer operating systems including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

> In July 2022, former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted of leaking the documents to WikiLeaks, and in February 2024 sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

[Bender]

Just a reminder they can car accident anyone anywhere from anywhere and having an old car will not save anyone when a Tesla with AI enabled cloud cameras is approaching head on.

[greenavocado]

They're reminding you that they own you.

[bell-cot]

Probably nothing. Think of it as a PSA being re-run every X days.

[jjtheblunt]

that's like the every 6 months proposed new revelation that everyone around cats is supposedly schizophrenic from toxoplasmosis gondii, which a day or two later is debunked. then "goto 10" and the cycle starts anew.