Anyone relying on the CIA for tech support got a nasty surprise this morning, as documents published by Wikileaks revealed a secret project to siphon out data through its technical liaison service, dating back to 2009.
The program, called ExpressLane, is designed to be deployed alongside a biometric collection system that the CIA provides to partner agencies. In theory, those partners are agreeing to provide the CIA with access to specific biometric data — but on the off-chance those partners are holding out on them, ExpressLane gives the agency a way to take it without anyone knowing.
ExpressLane masquerades as a software update, delivered in-person by CIA technicians — but the documents make clear that the program itself will remain...
from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/24/16197694/cia-fake-software-update-hacking-wikileaks-vault-7
from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-cia-built-fake-software-update.html
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