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Is anyone actually surprised? Even military has USCYBERCOM. What do you think their type of 'weapons' are? My only surprise it that this has leaked.



I'm surprised so much of this work done by NSA is being duplicated by the CIA. Not just a waste of tax payer money but also an even larger risk of lacking oversight than NSA. We all knew NSA was doing this stuff and dug into their oversight mechanisms. But the CIA is a larger and better funded organization than the NSA, so the implications of this are as large as the Snowden stuff.

Not to mention that before Obama left office he made intel sharing between these agencies and domestic agencies even easier. So this can't easily be dismissed as 'not surprising that spy agencies are hacking foreign entities'.

This just provides further insight into how widespread these powerful tools are within the US government.

Whether it's surprising or not is not really the only relevant question.


I am surprised it took this long to leak. There is no possible way they didn't expect this to happen eventually.




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