WikiLeaks reveals CIA's Protego project: a PIC-based missile control system

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11 points·tgragnato··4 comments

I'm generally in support of WikiLeaks, but this is a really good example of why they often get such a bad rap. As far as I can tell, there isn't anything remotely illegal or unethical about this project (aside from war itself but that's an entirely different argument).

In this day and age its absolutely essential that we hold our governments accountable when they infringe on our liberties or engage in illegal activity. That said, I can't see any reason to leak sensitive documents regarding technical details of how missiles operate (even if the project was ultimately canned).

> As far as I can tell, there isn't anything remotely illegal or unethical about this project

This applies to the other Vault 7 releases as well. It is very odd as there is no clear message or motive on their end, just dumping of info which could potentially cause harm (diplomatically, or to actual personnel in the two cases where they did not properly redact CIA employee names).

That might be a little extreme. Vault 7 demonstrated that the US government has been hoarding vulnerabilities to consumer electronics which allows spying without warrants and leaves the owners at risk.

Title is misleading, this isn't a CIA project:

>The Protego project is a PIC-based missile control system that was developed by Raytheon.

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