Claims are not proofs. So no, there's no evidence.
The constitution of America was created to protect the people from government. That is why we flourish as a society.
Wikileaks is doing the same.
Wikileaks is not a US entity. Assange is not American. He couldn't careless about our rights or the US constitution of all things.
Combine this with the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and massively-powered computers can be doing the monitoring 24-7, and raising red flags when something is noticed. Then the "manpower" steps in to take a closer look.
That's science fiction for now.
Alot of it depends on how you view things. They certainly have a record of outing things the U.S. government (and many others) does not like. But it seems they just publish stuff others have given them. Kind of like how we found out about all the mass surveillance of the population done by the U.S. government when Mr. Snowden got that information out.
As security experts have said over and over - when it comes to computers, either everyone can be secure or nobody can. I'd much rather have all the exploits outed and our collective systems and security (for the country) made secure - from a strategic standpoint. Our intelligence agencies can operate around those barriers and still do their jobs (like they did before this was available to them), they're good....its just alot easier for them if there are holes in everyone's computer systems & they want to keep that.
From the standpoint of getting these holes patched for everyone, then this is good thing - this also proves the experts points about these security holes...they aren't just for our own use, they get out one way or the other to others who wish to do bad things to us via the weakened security of computer systems in our country (despite being very convenient for our 3 letter agencies to use as weapons...again their narrow focus). JMHO...
While I agree with you, the problem is that the public is being played for fools and people are just walking into it. There's a huge difference between Snowden and Assange. Snowden is an American citizen who exposed NSAs surveillance tactics to bring about a moral argument on the righteousness of it. Assange is a foreigner who selectively publishes documents that expose the US and it's citizens to foreign attacks. Snowden was a whistleblower. Assange is a cyber criminal. There's a huge difference between them that people are failing to grasp.
The reason for this is the propaganda Assange runs. Assange has no ties to the US. None whatsoever. He is no different than Osama bin Laden. Assange just selectively publishes hacked documents that were given to him presumably by foreign governments. And he has said publicly that he withholds publishing documents if they don't align with his motives. So he's a foreign national who publishes documents only pertaining to the US... hmm.
The reason it's worked so far is because of how he publishes them. He takes non-newsworthy items, hypes them, then publishes a massive hoard of documents at once. So in a mad rush, people scramble to dicipher their meaning. Well, he also published his own analysis of this hoard of documents. So out of haste, people take his analysis instead of doing their own. But weeks later, when all the documents are analyzed by private security firms, it turns out, the leak was just ********. This is EXACTLY what happened with the Vault 7 leak. Assange leaked a massive hoard, along with his own analysis. People took him at his word because it was too big to analyze in one day. Weeks later, private security firms released their own analysis saying all the leaks were stuff that was already known to them and the public. Most were old loopholes that were long plugged or already known and in no way a threat to Average Joe. But by then people had moved on. I kid you not. This is what happened. Go back and read the official comprehensive analysis, not the newsbites.
I will say that on your last point, the intelligence agencies need to better protect themselves. There's no excuse for that.
"Intelligence Community partners" seems to imply collusion or coercion of the freight forwarders and shipping companies because the spooks need to know when and to whom shipments are being sent.
One way Cisco could avoid this massive octopus would be to offshore their production from the USA.
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Actually neither the CIA nor the NSA have a remit for domestic spying, that's the FBIs job.
Problem is that it is ever more difficult to prevent these agencies from doing domestic work and catching them at it.
Risk is that these agencies, with cyber exploits are much more able to scale their activities both horizontally and vertically against domestic targets.
This is how turn-key surveillance becomes available to a potentially despotic administration.
While this is true, it's also true that the intelligence agencies are a machine in and of itself. A despot can't really mold them at will, at least in the US. They are a separate entity that the president doesn't really have command over.
Just because Wikileaks embarrasses the US Government by exposing stuff the same Government would rather not be exposed, does not make it an enemy. Mr Trump has caused more embarrassment to the US internationally than Wikileaks has thus far. Trump has certainly made America great again; a great laughing stock.
You have to ask yourself what is Wikileaks, more specifically Assange's, motive. Assange has no relation to the US whatsoever. He's as foreign as Osama bin Laden. So he's certainly not doing it to protect your rights.
