@Paul Wagensil
"1) When has WikiLeaks ever dumped material belonging to the Russian intelligence services?"
Are you suggesting that they need to release Russian intelligence documents in order to prove they don't work for Russia? Given your tone in the article, and using your logic there would be no way for them to 'prove' this, hence why you making the claim is disingenuous, as the claim can be neither proved or disproved.
But if you want some wikileaks on Russia, here are some:
https
/wikileaks.org/Syria-Files.html
(There are more, but I can't be bothered to wade through several thousand pages of the "russia runs wikileaks" propaganda that has been released in the last two months - But anyone who was paying attention knows this question you are making is deceptive and misleading).
"2) Who benefits from this new release?"
The average citizen. The odds are that the Russians, the Chinese, the Brits, and our own intelligence agencies already knew about a large portion of this stuff. Now, the average person can understand why we shouldn't just take the word of the us intelligence community about cyber espionage - namely because a large number of state and non state actors have access to the techniques described in the leak.
One final note on your advice: "run antivirus software where possible" - Somebody didn't do their research on this one- the leaks describe ways to subvert / corrupt anti-virus software such as McAfee - so this isn't necessarily helpful if someone is running anti-virus software that can be hacked.
"1) When has WikiLeaks ever dumped material belonging to the Russian intelligence services?"
Are you suggesting that they need to release Russian intelligence documents in order to prove they don't work for Russia? Given your tone in the article, and using your logic there would be no way for them to 'prove' this, hence why you making the claim is disingenuous, as the claim can be neither proved or disproved.
But if you want some wikileaks on Russia, here are some:
https
/wikileaks.org/Syria-Files.html (There are more, but I can't be bothered to wade through several thousand pages of the "russia runs wikileaks" propaganda that has been released in the last two months - But anyone who was paying attention knows this question you are making is deceptive and misleading).
"2) Who benefits from this new release?"
The average citizen. The odds are that the Russians, the Chinese, the Brits, and our own intelligence agencies already knew about a large portion of this stuff. Now, the average person can understand why we shouldn't just take the word of the us intelligence community about cyber espionage - namely because a large number of state and non state actors have access to the techniques described in the leak.
One final note on your advice: "run antivirus software where possible" - Somebody didn't do their research on this one- the leaks describe ways to subvert / corrupt anti-virus software such as McAfee - so this isn't necessarily helpful if someone is running anti-virus software that can be hacked.
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