Scary.
They can hack into smart cars and stage assassinations. That’s pretty dang creepy.
They apparently left something open on all iPhones, a port or a backdoor or something, and now ANY hacker in the world can get into anyone’s iPhone. They won’t close it, either.
As a response to what @cookieman said, the fact that the government is spying on us is nothing new, obviously. I don’t know about you guys, but I never thought they could hack cars or TVs. The fact that now anyone can hack into your smartphone,TV, or car makes it an even bigger deal.
All of this was hacked (not by Wikileaks) and now unknown people have access to instructions and codes on how to hack an iPhone, smart car, or TV. That is an even bigger issue because not only are we unaware of who has this information, we are now even more vulnerable to attacks. Both cyber and physical. If they can hack into a civilian’s car or iPhone, they can probably do it to a CIA agent also. Some documents that were released talk about putting a TV in a “Fake-off” mode to give the illusion that it’s turned off, but in reality, is recording everything. On Wikileaks, only parts of the codes were released, but unauthorized people have the full code.
As a side note, just to make you guys aware, WIkileaks aren’t a group of hackers. They get all their information from confirmed people on the “inside” In this case, a CIA agent leaked all this information to Wikileaks, and Edward Snowden has said that only an insider would know most of this information.
For the most part, it really isn’t that new. Like I said, almost everybody is aware that the government can watch us. But now any hacker that has access to the full codes and things can watch us, and we don’t know who or why they are watching us. Which is considerably worse than the government watching us.