On March 7th, WikiLeaks released 8,761 secret documents about the CIA's extensive hacking program. This is an enormous amount of information ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶. To make sense of the Vault 7 documents, the WLResearch Community is starting a collaborative research effort- the WL Research Challenge.
This is an experiment in crowdsourced investigations. For our first challenge, we've compiled questions, research tasks, and findings on the WL Research Community wiki. We'll be giving out WLRC wiki accounts to people who contribute research for this challenge. We do want to maintain a high level of quality with these investigations, so whenever possible, please cite documents for your findings. We hope to hold more Research Challenges, though we will change the format as we test what works best. Do share ideas on how to make the Research Challenge more effective, interesting, or fun {◕ ◡ ◕}
Questions for Research Challenge #1
1. What are the funniest codewords in Vault 7 - Research Thread
2. Verifying and contextualizing Vault 7 documents - Research Thread
3. Mapping the CIA's secret hacking divisions - Research Thread
4. Identifying connections between hacking tools - Research Thread
5. Are there connections between NSA surveillance programs and CIA hacking tools? - Research Thread
6. What products are vulnerable to CIA hacking? - Research Thread
7. Why is this series of leaks called Vault 7? Research Thread
Organizing Discussion & Results
Each question above links to a thread. Please post research you do in the corresponding thread or ask general questions here. If you want to contribute on Twitter, we'll be using the #ResearchWL hashtag to track findings.
Additonal Questions
We also need more good questions- those listed below are just a starting point. If you have a question about the documents, please speak up! (✿◠‿◠) We'll also add suggested questions and research tasks to this post, future posts, and the wiki.
Edited for brevity
Submitted March 08, 2017 at 10:16PM by ThatWikiDude http://ift.tt/2n8Gm5N