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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Another Trump Effect On Americans?


July gun sales plummet 26 percent, NICS data shows


(Source: NICS/Guns.com)
Estimated gun sales plummeted 26 percent in July compared to last year as manufacturers and retailers predict a return to the industry’s “seasonal trends” in the non-election year.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation processed just north of 1.7 million applications through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System last month.
Guns.com estimates about half resulted in a gun transfer, though federal background check data itself remains an imperfect, albeit the best, proxy for the industry to track sales. Summer remains a historically slow period for gun sales.
July 2017Despite the dip in sales, last month’s estimated 845,000 sales came in just 30,000 less than July 2015 and a 100,000 higher than July 2014 and 2013, according to federal data.
Dealers processed checks for 480,124 handguns, federal data shows, representing a 16 percent decline from June. Sales of long guns remain flat compared to June, topping 322,000.
The market saw a sudden shift in demand following last year’s presidential election. With Republicans in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, many believed gun sales would drop to significantly, but the industry  has managed to keep sales relatively high with discounting and promotions. Gun sales so far this year are trailing 2016, the biggest year in NICS history, by about 10 percent.

Is Dumbo Spy Program Reveal Damaging To US?



WikiLeaks exposes another huge spy

 secret from the CIA


WikiLeaks has struck again, exposing another national security secret from the CIA Thursday morning. The latest leak is documentation from a CIA project called Dumbo, which allows the CIA to take over webcams and gain physical access to computers.
In the announcement, WikiLeaks released the following explanation:




WikiLeaks has struck again, exposing another national security secret from the CIA Thursday morning. The latest leak is documentation from a CIA project called Dumbo, which allows the CIA to take over webcams and gain physical access to computers.
In the announcement, WikiLeaks released the following explanation:
“Today, August 3rd, 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Dumbo project of the CIA. Dumbo is a capability to suspend processes utilizing webcams and corrupt any video recordings that could compromise a PAG deployment. The PAG (Physical Access Group) is a special branch within the CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence); its task is to gain and exploit physical access to target computers in CIA field operations.
“Dumbo can identify, control and manipulate monitoring and detection systems on a target computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system. It identifies installed devices like webcams and microphones, either locally or connected by wireless (Bluetooth, WiFi) or wired networks. All processes related to the detected devices (usually recording, monitoring or detection of video/audio/network streams) are also identified and can be stopped by the operator. By deleting or manipulating recordings, the operator is aided in creating fake or destroying actual evidence of the intrusion operation.
“Dumbo is run by the field agent directly from an USB stick; it requires administrator privileges to perform its task. It supports 32bit Windows XP, Windows Vista, and newer versions of Windows operating system. 64bit Windows XP, or Windows versions prior to XP are not supported.”
In March, WikiLeaks released a stash of CIA documents, described as the “largest ever publication of confidential documents.” WikiLeaks stated that the CIA recently “lost control” of all its hacking secrets, including several hundred million lines of code, giving the hacker possession of the CIA’s entire hacking capacity. The data was then reportedly shared with other hackers, one of whom shared portions of the documents with WikiLeaks.
The entire CIA leak has been titled “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, and they continue to release it all out to the public.  At least 20 batches have been released so far.



RELEASE: CIA project 'Dumbo' to switch off security webcams and corrupt recordings to hide physical intrusions https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Dumbo 
“Today, August 3rd, 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Dumbo project of the CIA. Dumbo is a capability to suspend processes utilizing webcams and corrupt any video recordings that could compromise a PAG deployment. The PAG (Physical Access Group) is a special branch within the CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence); its task is to gain and exploit physical access to target computers in CIA field operations.
“Dumbo can identify, control and manipulate monitoring and detection systems on a target computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system. It identifies installed devices like webcams and microphones, either locally or connected by wireless (Bluetooth, WiFi) or wired networks. All processes related to the detected devices (usually recording, monitoring or detection of video/audio/network streams) are also identified and can be stopped by the operator. By deleting or manipulating recordings, the operator is aided in creating fake or destroying actual evidence of the intrusion operation.

“Dumbo is run by the field agent directly from an USB stick; it requires administrator privileges to perform its task. It supports 32bit Windows XP, Windows Vista, and newer versions of Windows operating system. 64bit Windows XP, or Windows versions prior to XP are not supported.”
In March, WikiLeaks released a stash of CIA documents, described as the “largest ever publication of confidential documents.” WikiLeaks stated that the CIA recently “lost control” of all its hacking secrets, including several hundred million lines of code, giving the hacker possession of the CIA’s entire hacking capacity. The data was then reportedly shared with other hackers, one of whom shared portions of the documents with WikiLeaks.
The entire CIA leak has been titled “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, and they continue to release it all out to the public.  At least 20 batches have been released so far.




RELEASE: CIA project 'Dumbo' to switch off security webcams and corrupt recordings to hide physical intrusions https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Dumbo