Leaks and Tools from CIA and NSA keeps popping up on the internet these days. Quite scary what they are capable of doing!
List of from wikileaks of effected wifi devices: https://wikileaks.org/vault7/document/WiFi_Devices/WiFi_Devices.pdf
Home routers from 10 manufacturers, including Linksys, DLink, and Belkin, can be turned into covert listening posts that allow the Central Intelligence Agency to monitor and manipulate incoming and outgoing traffic and infect connected devices. That's according to secret documents posted Thursday by WikiLeaks.
CherryBlossom, as the implant is code-named, can be especially effective against targets using some D-Link-made DIR-130 and Linksys-manufactured WRT300N models because they can be remotely infected even when they use a strong administrative password. An exploit code-named Tomato can extract their passwords as long as a default feature known as universal plug and play remains on. Routers that are protected by a default or easily-guessed administrative password are, of course, trivial to infect. In all, documents say CherryBlossom runs on 25 router models, although it's likely modifications would allow the implant to run on at least 100 more.
At this point we can basically never assume to be anonymous anymore, not matter what browser (Tor) or whatever we are using.
Link to arstechnica reporting on this with additional information if you are intersted.
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You may not be able to be anonymous, but you can still protect yourself from potential prosecution for something you did or didn't' do through full disk encryption and if you don't know how to, I can show you!
Never trust a government, especially one ruled by people who want to crush any threat to their power, which unless you're a good slave who works a 9-5 and questions nothing, that's you.
thas why i dont use the internet, wait , what? i am screwed now.
That's why SSL and encryption should always be used. The only thing giving CIA and NSA power is the lack of people's awareness about encryption. Once encryption becomes 100% mainstream, those intelligence agencies will be put out of business.
Nope. Just will have their budgets doubled again and again until the collect and crack everything.
Let them hoard until their servers explode with data.