The entire archive of the CIA material consists of several hundred million lines of computer code, it said. Among other disclosures, the WikiLeaks release said that the CIA and allied intelligence services had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect "audio and message traffic before encryption is applied." A CIA spokesman, Dean Boyd, said, "We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents." According to the WikiLeaks release, the large number of techniques allows the CIA to mask the origin of some of its cyberattacks and confuse forensic investigators.

Source: India Today March 08, 2017 07:07 UTC