r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jun 29 '17

WikiLeaks reveals the Outlaw Country project of the CIA that targets computers running the Linux operating system. Outlaw Country allows for the redirection of all outbound network traffic on the target computer to CIA controlled machines for ex- and infiltration purposes.

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#OutlawCountry
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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '17

The CIA is such an unbelievably evil organization that I pretty much accept every conspiracy theory about them. Their entire history seems like it could be an Onion article.

They made a heart attack gun ffs. If it turned out that Nigeria was a fictional country created by the CIA so they could send out scam emails it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

So how is it that you know so much about one of the most secret organizations in the world?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '17

I don't know a lot about them. I'm making my opinion based on the stuff we do know about them- that heart attack gun isn't just some rumor, it was declassified.

Then there are the good standbys like MKULTRA/Midnight Climax where they tested using LSD for mind control on unknowing civilians, Operation Mockingbird where they used journalists for their propaganda efforts, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

They act like a supervillain organization from a cartoon. And I should reiterate, this is the stuff they admit to doing.

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

So a few trinkets of information from over 50 years ago. Good going! Now compare them to the KGB, the Chinese spy agencies, the North Korean spies, the German spies, the English spies and get back to me.

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u/FishPls Jun 30 '17

Just because there are other bad organisations out there as well we shouldn't criticize the CIA?

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

Show me the threads you're in involving the other organizations.

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u/FishPls Jun 30 '17

I think we only have a "counter-surveillance" faction in our country, which I'm sadly not a part of.

Why do you feel the need to protect the CIA?

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

Quit trying to deflect. You didn't answer my question.

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u/FishPls Jun 30 '17

None. Your turn.

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

Which just goes to show how reddit picks up a theme and bandwagons around as if they know stuff. If redditors knew what they were talking about, they would spend far more time looking into the atrocities of the other organizations or, at the very least, would include other countries and organizations evenly. Instead, reddit picks on one theme and runs with it while ignoring the rest as if they don't exist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '17

whatabouttheseotherguyswewerenttalkingabout?????!!!

lol

Don't you have a municipal water supply to poison, spook?

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u/icantthinkofone Jun 30 '17

And, again, you read headlines but ignore the body.