The CIA named a hacking tool after a character from Final Fantasy VII
Reminding us that there’s nothing stopping the shadowy surveillance figures employed by the U.S. government from also being absolute fucking dorks, a recent WikiLeaks dispatch revealed that the C.I.A. has a hacking tool named after a character from Final Fantasy VII. Specifically, the agency at one point employed a tool called “Aeris,” which served two major purposes: implanting viruses into systems running Linux, and enraging fans pissed off that the Agency didn’t use the character’s original Japanese name, “Aerith.”