Talk:Michael Hastings (journalist)/Archives/2017

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Vault 7

From WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 series “Year Zero” press release: "As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations." Is it important to include this in the article? --87.156.234.164 (talk) 18:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Hastings died in 2013, so, no. The CIA looking into the possibility over a year later is not relevant to the article. Perhaps more important, though, adding this detail would be synthesis: We need a reliable source to make the connection between Hastings and this Wikileaks passage before it goes into the article. We WP editors can't make that speculative connection. -Jordgette [talk] 20:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Problems with the March 20 2017 attempt to add this material: (1) A discussion board on a website (eetimes) is not a reliable source. (2) As far as I can tell, David Proffer is not notable as a car researcher. (3) www.911forum.org.uk is not a reliable source. -Jordgette [talk] 01:24, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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