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So we all know it’s been pretty quiet round these parts. Why? WikiLeaks recently published a mysterious encrypted 1.4GB file titled insurance.aes256 on their Afghan War Logs page, with no explanation. While much speculation has been going on as to the origins and purpose of the file, much of it saying that it is insurance against WikiLeaks being taken down by the United States government, and contains terrible secrets. This annoyed me… so I got busy. Anyone can download the actual insurance.aes256 file direct from WikiLeaks’ own servers here: and various other P2P and file-sharing hosts all over the internet.
So, in effect, Wikileaks is attempting to hold the U.S. An Analogy Not cool. "Operation Payback" attacks to go on until "we stop being angry" The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against anti-piracy websites have gone on for a week now, with the lawyers behind the "US Copyright Group" being the latest target. And the anonymous Internet users behind "Operation Payback" aren't done acting out; in an interview yesterday with the security experts at Panda Labs, one of the organizers said that Anonymous' attacks will continue "until we stop being angry. " Judging from the list of things that make him (?) Angry, this could take a while. The law firm of Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver was one of the newest targets of the attacks, organized a week ago to take down antipiracy organization around the world.
Already hit: the RIAA (US), BPI (UK), MPAA (US), AFACT (Australia), BREIN (Netherlands), Aiplex (India), and Websheriff (UK). One of the smaller sites actually yielded the biggest bounty; the UK "P2P settlement letter factory" ACS Law gave up several hundred megabytes of private e-mails after being taken offline by the attack.