Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car

Posted by voxleone 12/15/2025

Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car(currentindia.com)

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alsetmusic 12/15/2025|

My taxes at work.

dennis_jeeves2 12/16/2025|

Those tax dollars do work very hard indeed.

pureagave 12/15/2025||

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

pureagave 12/15/2025||

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

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

DANmode 12/15/2025|||

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

47282847 12/15/2025||

> 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 12/15/2025|||

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 12/15/2025|||

They're reminding you that they own you.

bell-cot 12/15/2025||

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

jjtheblunt 12/15/2025||

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.

DANmode 12/15/2025||

Wait, when (and how) did toxoplasmosis and bartonella amongst cat owners get debunked?

jjtheblunt 12/15/2025||

i am glad you responded, because i just went looking anew and could not find it being debunked...and don't remember what i had seen last time around.

evidently not debunked, as i just (first time in months) went re-reading CDC etc...but the punchlines i remembered from months ago include the only reservoir being cats, who clear the infections themselves, and healthy immune system humans generally have no symptoms.

"Cats can only release the infectious oocytes for between one and three weeks after they become infected, after which they can no longer spread the parasites."

what's interesting, and to your point, is the lack of insight as to why some people have side effects like bipolar and schizophrenia.

DANmode 12/16/2025||

PSA: healthy immune system humans are vastly over counted.

jjtheblunt 12/16/2025||

yeah: a friend and i were talking about that the other day while dog pack walking...it's sad

barfoure 12/16/2025||

Top comments in this thread have a serious “my hands are registered as deadly weapons” energy to them. Nonsensical LARPing.

diggyhole 12/16/2025|

Someone in a quarter zip with pants from 5.11 tactical talked to me at conference once. From then on I decided to burn all my poop, walk everywhere with a face mask, only communicate with smoke signals and only use cash.

barfoure 12/16/2025||

It hurts to read.

tldrthelaw 12/15/2025|

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KingLancelot 12/15/2025|

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