The CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control your car, according to a trove of documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday which it said came from the US spy agency.
WikiLeaks said the documents show that the Central Intelligence Agency is rivalling the National Security Agency, the US government's main electronic spying body, in cyber warfare, but with less oversight.
The group posted nearly 9,000 documents it said came from the CIA, calling it the largest-ever publication of secret intelligence materials.
The CIA would neither confirm nor deny the documents were genuine, or comment on their content.
"We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents," said spokesman Jonathan Liu in an email.
WikiLeaks claimed that a vast trove of CIA documents representing "the majority of its hacking arsenal" had been leaked within the cyber security community - and that it had received, and released, a part of them.
"This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA," it said.
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