Wikileaks & D-Notice

[Sysman]

Wikileaks is probably how they leak things these days.

It's certainly coming from somewhere.

Why can’t the authorities track down the Wikileaks leakster?

It is time to ask questions that no-one has asked yet, about Wikileaks. With thousands and thousands of files leaking onto the world wide web, how come no-one has tracked down who or what is leaking this stuff? This is a lot of data. Data can be tracked.

Something happening at 22:30 CET tonight

and just for fun:

• Rights Groups slam short consultation on RIPA changes
• Wikileaks claims D Notice issued to UK press over leaks - "I am a UK editor, but haven't received my D Notice yet...."
• UK police want power to shut down websites

[NickFitz]

So, about this Aussie Wikileaks bloke, 'Assange'...

I had a google around, and found that this 'insurance' file was meant to be his own insurance to make sure he wasn't killed by the likes of the CIA, MI6, etc.
So, if he's not dead and they're going to release the files anyway, what will happen to Assange?

I just imagine snipers training their cross-hairs on him 24x7, awaiting the 'kill' codewords from the CIA.

Nobody has said that the new stuff they're supposedly going to release is the contents of the insurance file.

[OwlHoot]

I had the wrong end of the stick before, thinking that a mole had released the encrypted files to Wikileaks.

In fact what happened, AIUI now, is that Wikileaks themselves are disseminating the encrypted file as the "insurance", the idea being that if Assange is mysteriously topped, or killed by a lightning bolt or something, then the decryption key will be released.

[NickFitz]

I had the wrong end of the stick before, thinking that a mole had released the encrypted files to Wikileaks.

In fact what happened, AIUI now, is that Wikileaks themselves are disseminating the encrypted file as the "insurance", the idea being that if Assange is mysteriously topped, or killed by a lightning bolt or something, then the decryption key will be released.

Although lots of bloggers with over-active imaginations have represented it as insurance against CIA assassination plots and so forth, WikiLeaks (and Assange himself) have always presented it more along the lines of insurance against attempts to shut them down.

The insurance file supposedly contains material that they have yet to release and if it seems that the powers-that-be are about to be successful in getting them shuttered once and for all then they'll release the key, meaning the information will still see the light of day as hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people all over the world will have it.

I've got a copy of it here somewhere...

[MarillionFan]

The insurance file supposedly contains material that they have yet to release and if it seems that the powers-that-be are about to be successful in getting them shuttered once and for all then they'll release the key, meaning the information will still see the light of day as hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people all over the world will have it.
I've got a copy of it here somewhere...

I could do with something like that for when RealityHack is moderating!!!

Interestingly Wikileaks is down. Probably due to the number of hits on it, but you never know!!!

[Sysman]

Interestingly Wikileaks is down. Probably due to the number of hits on it, but you never know!!!

Not down, but extremely slow.

Wikileaks claims it's being DDoSed to death