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Assange: "Cache of cyber weapons was passed around "out of control" by contract hackers."
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Assange accuses CIA of “historic act of devastating incompetence”
"It looks like not only is [the CIA arsenal] being spread
around contractors and former American computer hackers for hire,
but now maybe around the black market
or being used by these American hackers
who sometimes, you know cross both sides of the fence."
While WikiLeaks was not yet publishing the tools themselves,
he and WikiLeaks would share the exploits with the targeted companies
in order to help them protect against attacks.
Assange then
accused the CIA of covering up the leak
and causing damage to those companies with what he claimed was
"what appears to be the largest arsenal of Trojans and viruses in the world,
that attacks most of the systems that
journalists,
people in government,
politicians,
CEOs,
and average people use."
Reuters yesterday,
reported the CIA had been aware of a breach at the end of last year.
He said such stories show
it was clear the CIA knew
"that it had lost that material,
or that we had that material,
and has not disclosed that—to the public at least,
CIA had not warned the public that there's [a] loose weapons arsenal out there…