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by 1cvmask 1717 days ago
One of the most important revelations in the Vault 7 was the CIA's false flag tooling to ascribe cyberattacks to say Russia, China etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

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This is news to me. Do you know of a good article that summarizes Vault 7?
Yeah, but that doesn't say what you think it says:

> Cybersecurity writers, such as Ben Buchanan and Kevin Poulsen, were skeptical of [the false flag theories]. Poulsen wrote, "The leaked catalog isn't organized by country of origin, and the specific malware used by the Russian DNC hackers is nowhere on the list."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#False_flag_theories

It doesn't take CIA tools to change the properties of a Word document though
Even if that one hack was carried out by Russia, the CIA still have tools to create false flag attacks.