In a series of tweets, Snowden notes that "what @Wikileaks has here is genuinely a big deal", and makes the following key observations "If you're writing about the CIA/@Wikileaks story, here's the big deal:
first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe" and adds that "the CIA reports show the USG developing vulnerabilities in US products, then intentionally keeping the holes open.
Reckless beyond words."
He then asks rhetorically "Why is this dangerous?" and explains "
Because until closed, any hacker can use the security hole the CIA left open to break into any iPhone in the world."
His conclusion, one which many of the so-called conspiratorial bent would say was well-known long ago: "
Evidence mounts showing CIA & FBI knew about catastrophic weaknesses in the most-used smartphones in America, but kept them open -- to spy."
To which the increasingly prevalent response has become: "obviously."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/snowden-what-cia-revelations-show-reckless-beyond-words
