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WikiLeaks: Proof CIA Disguises Their Hacks

(ZHEWikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release contains a batch of documents, named ‘Marble’, which detail CIA hacking tactics and how they can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The tool was in use as recently as 2016.  Per the WikiLeaks release:

On Syria Analysts and “Experts” Who Have Never Stepped Foot Inside the Country

Not an “expert” or “analyst”: Me (left) with my buddy on one of many visits to Maaloula. Would you be surprised to learn the think-tank and media “expert” community is often dominated by people who have never stepped foot in the countries of their expertise? I’VE BECOME INCREASINGLY ALARMED at the number of “experts” and … Continue reading On Syria Analysts and “Experts” Who Have Never Stepped Foot Inside the Country →

Porkins Policy Radio episode 42 The Homeland Hackers

Today Tom and I spoke to the now world famous “Homeland Hackers.” Heba Amin, Don Karl, and Caram Kapp sat down with us to discuss how they got the opportunity to work on the show and how they subverted it by filling the set with Arabic graffiti saying, among other things, “Homeland is racist” “Homeland is not a show” and of course our personal favorite, “Homeland is a watermelon.” We began the conversation by discussing how in fact they were chosen by the set designer to work on episode 2 of season 5.  The artists described how the production did little to no research into what would be in