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Zach Epstein
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On Wednesday, a security expert noted that hundreds of millions of Android users are at risk following recent revelations resulting from the cache of top-secret CIA documents exposed by WikiLeaks. The documents appear to detail various hacking tools used by the CIA to exploit vulnerabilities in smartphones, tablets, computers, wireless routers, cars and other devices, allowing the agency to spy on people without their knowledge.
In typical WikiLeaks fashion, the site was far more concerned with exposure and making a splash than it was with actually helping anyone. So instead of working with the companies impacted by the vulnerabilities detailed in the CIA documents, as is customary when software vulnerabilities are identified, WikiLeaks simply released approximately 8,000 pages of allegedly leaked documents. Now companies are left to pick up the pieces as quickly as they can, and Google is the latest to address the massive leak.
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