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Authentic. not necessarily somebody from the inside of our own intelligence community. >> eric, you asked people if they want to contact you securely, which many people may want to do, particularly with journalists, that they should use apps like signal or whatsapp which are encrypted. wikileaks says the cia and british intelligence are capable of bypassing the security in those kinds of apps even before the app itself can encrypt it. i didn't know before these leaks that that was possible. what's your take on this? >> well, ali, the key thing here is that if you can compromise the phone direc...

Contain the agency's secret tools for hacking common electronics like phones, computers and some smart tvs. nbc news has not verified the documents and the cia won't comment on their authenticity. joining me is eric geller, a cybersecurity reporter for politico pro and tara mahler, a former cia military analyst now the spokesperson and senior policy adviser for the counterextremism program. thank you for being with us. tara, we haven't got confirmation of this yet, though people are talking about it as if it's true. as a former cia analyst, what do you think about this? do you think it's true?...