Takin' umbrage to UMBRAGE

While my taking umbrage implies, for example, that  I find the bizarre claims of Russia hacking the US election without evidence, offensive- (Too bad Wikipedia doesn’t take umbrage to such absurdity)
 
The CIA's UMBRAGE Program takes an entirely different type of offence:a transgression of the law; the act of attacking- to a whole new level
 

Sadly, no. This is serious stuff

The CIA’s UMBRAGE programme could provide us all a glimpse into how it was the CIA, er I mean, Russia hacked the US election. If we are to believe the claims at all. Could UMBRAGE be employed in other situations? Seems likely. Thoughts?

To understand the direction we're heading in let’s define “umbrage” as employed by the CIA programme

 5.a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

Umbrage... A shadowy appearance or semblence of something- semblance, of course, being related directly to resemblance.A shadowy appearance resembling something- umbrage

WikiLeaks files detail CIA 'UMBRAGE' project, which would allow spies to pin attacks on other countries

The program allows the CIA, to pin a hack on others, by leaving a shadow/y appearance resembling something....done by another.

"The CIA had a special programme allowing it to trick people into thinking they had been hacked by other countries, according to WikiLeaks.

The agency was cataloguing the hacking methods of outside cyber attackers, including those from Russia, according to files published by the organisation. Once it had them catalogued, it could use them to break into other countries or people's computers or phones – making it look like a different country had done so.

The project, called UMBRAGE, is just one of a range of different hacking tools that appear to be have been revealed by the leak

UMBRAGE works in part by getting around the problems of those hacking techniques. Any cyber attack inevitably leaves a trace of how it was done – but by cataloguing other hackers' tricks, those traces could look like they come from someone else entirely.

"The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation," WikiLeaks wrote in its release. "With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from."

The UMBRAGE project includes a variety of cyber weapons, including tools that can allow data to be deleted, webcams to be spied on and various other survey techniques, according to the documents"

 Therefore the CIA could have been the party responsible for the DNC hacks and subsequent email leaks blamed on the Russians - and isn't choosing the bear such an obvious moniker... I don't know? Why not pick vodka ;)

Wikipedia:

 In October 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama used the red phone line to directly contact Putin and issue a warning to him regarding the cyber attacks.^[8] Russian officials have repeatedly denied involvement in any DNC leaks or hacks.^[9][10][11]

"In June 2016, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) first stated that the Russian hacker groups Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear had penetrated their campaign servers and leaked information via the Guccifer 2.0 online persona.^[24][25]"