Information security

Former CIA chief: WikiLeaks hurts ties with Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley and the CIA might need some more counseling sessions.

The shaky relationship between the spy agency and the tech industry had been improving, at least until WikiLeaks jumped in, according to former CIA director David Petraeus.

Petraeus, who was briefly considered for the post of President Trump's national security adviser, said WikiLeaks' release of thousands of documents allegedly showing the CIA's hacking tools could be as crushing as Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA in 2013.

"This will damage the relationship that was being re-established with IT companies in the wake of the Snowden revelations," Petraeus told KPCC on Wednesday. "They did enormous damage to those relationships and there was a rebuilding process that was going on. I'm afraid that this could set that back a bit."