Televisions, smartphones and Internet-connected vehicles are all vulnerable to CIA hacking, according to the Wikileaks documents released Tuesday. By targeting devices, the CIA could gain access to even well-encrypted communications, on such popular apps as Signal and WhatsApp, without having to crack the encryption itself. The Wikileaks reports appear to acknowledge that difference by saying the CIA “bypassed” as opposed to defeated encryption technologies. Encryption tools such as Tor were strengthened. The Wikileaks documents suggests that the CIA may have reached the same conclusion.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2017 18:58 UTC