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The technology used by the CIA and NSA is all stuff people on HN can totally grok. That's kind of exciting and disappointing at the same time.

Some people on this site could probably do better than the CIA and NSA is doing. Some people here probably wrote some of leaked stuff. Hah!

I like the way the teams are broken up by device target but I think they should probably have an even more decentralized setup. Or maybe just more teams doing the same work. Wikileaks tries to make a political point about wasted effort, but more people means more exploits found, etc.

Saw this at a glance:

> Add to your Vim configuration:

    " :w!! 
    " write the file when you accidentally opened it without the right (root) privileges
    cmap w!! w !sudo tee % > /dev/null

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_4849889.html

Much of it is like this, little recipes ranging from building EFI executables to setting up a Debian machine and so on. Like collected stackoverflow answers.

It's interesting to see how they write up these little how-tos in a way that gets the reader very quickly up to speed and hacking on a particular problem.

> The technology used by the CIA and NSA is all stuff people on HN can totally grok.

Yep, the typical stuff: CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Python, Ansible, Packer(.io), vim, Sublime Text, SourceTree, Git, ...

Plenty of references to Stack Overflow, Reddit, and such too.

And this whole thing seems to be a Confluence dump.

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