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March 12, 2017
Expect privacy. this compromises our basic freedom. if this was false, if if this leak was a fun of phony baloney, the clinton campaign wouldve done what the cia would have done they wouldve come out with a strong denial. the clinton campaign said, i dont remember sending those e-mails, it wasnt me. it says essentially that all this stuff is true, government has a capability and theyre addicted to spying on you and that is wrong. >> but the spine is fun. team hackers have had this technology for...
March 12, 2017
Expect privacy. this compromises our basic freedom. if this was false, if if this leak was a fun of phony baloney, the clinton campaign wouldve done what the cia would have done they wouldve come out with a strong denial. the clinton campaign said, i dont remember sending those e-mails, it wasnt me. it says essentially that all this stuff is true, government has a capability and theyre addicted to spying on you and that is wrong. >> but the spine is fun. team hackers have had this technology for...
March 11, 2017
Protecting their social networks than they were in protecting national secrets. theres glory to be had among the hacker community for counting stealing stuff from the government. that glory should be taken away. pete: nasa rule changes 8 days before leaving office did. that make us, more susceptible in place by protocols in place. >> of course it did. there is a reason why something is considered classified and come part mejt meantized. the reason is not to keep information from the public for t...
March 10, 2017
The fact is any internet connected device at home is now suspect to a hacker having some form of control over it. steve: forget about the cia. it might be somebody who knows your password. >> true. which brings me to this. if you have a smart phone like android or iphone. this has never been more important to use incredibly strong password. especially the password on your home wi-fi network. bolster up that password and make it super strong. the most critical thing is to keep all of the software...
March 10, 2017
Saw this traffic and then they began to work together. so but its -- its just little bit odd that there is so much traffic from this one bank and not from other places. >> now -- >> so you said -- >> yeah, the other thing i want to mention is if there was -- if this was a real intelligence operation of any sort or any sophisticated hacker, they would never be doing 2800 lookups. so in terms of a theory that maybe this is about some you know, conspiracy between the russian government and the trum...
March 10, 2017
Or mal wear or a fishing attempt not coming from the trump organization, but a hacker who sent a fake e-mail like the fake bank e-mails. its legitimate, but not natural to do it 2800 times. very unnatural that it would only come from one bank in response to spam that should have gone all over the world. it raises questions. three other areas that i have questions. the information doesnt lineup with what we expect as normal. >> would you expect if they had been able to find this pinking, would th...
March 10, 2017
Its just a little bit odd that there is so much traffic from one bank and not other places. >> the other thing i want to mention is if this was a real intelligence operation of any sort or sophisticated hacker, they would never do 2800 look ups there is a theory that. >> if anybody is trying to cover their tracks and have a secret channel, this is not the way to do it. >> exactly right. they would be using a vpn or try to hide the activity that is not the case.
March 10, 2017
At home and i am the guy at home who takes precautions. first you want to do whether you have a samsung, doesnt matter the brand, it is whether it is connected. if you have a connected tv you want to go to the menu and you will find the settings that say turn off smart tv interaction. another thing to opt out of, tracking, would allow you to disable aspects of its history of what you searched for. many remotes from microphones, you can disable those and disable voice commands. >> they can listen...
March 10, 2017
Figure out is it spam or a trojan horse or malware, getting somebody to click on something that may not be coming from the trump administration or from a hacker who sent the fake e-mail, like the fake e-mail attempts. it is not very natural, it would only come from one bank, and should not go all over the world. it raises questions, there are areas where the story doesnt line up. you know the information doesnt line up from what we expect as normal. >> would you expect -- if computer experts had...
March 9, 2017
>> shannon: the hunt is on as the fbi tries to track down the mole or hacker who leaked thousand of cia documents to wikileaks. exposing methods and tactics and right now wikileaks founder juliana assange is talking live about it. im shannon bream in for martha maccallum. >> bill: im bill hemmer. its playing out in the spotlight but its cloak-and-dagger after being called the largest hack in cia history. heres sean spicer white house press secretary about it yesterday. >> the president is extrem...