Les confusions d’un dissident de WikiLeaks. Entre WikiLeaks et son ex porte-parole, le divorce semble consommé.
Dans un entretien accordé à OWNI, Daniel Domscheit-Berg énonce les raisons qui l'ont conduit à détruire 3 500 documents secrets. Ceux-ci concerneraient notamment Bank of America. La guerre est déclarée. Après plusieurs mois d’une médiation impossible, WikiLeaks a décidé de solder le passif avec Daniel Domscheit-Berg, l’ancien porte-parole de l’organisation.
En l’espace de quelques jours, les observateurs attentifs du site le plus célèbre de l’année 2010 ont compris pourquoi celui-ci avait subitement ralenti son activité et retardait l’échéance de son prochain coup d’éclat: DDB, comme on l’appelle désormais, a détruit 3 500 documents confidentiels transmis par des sources anonymes. J’ai détruit ma copie de 3500 documents transmis à WikiLeaks entre janvier et septembre 2010. Sur les raisons d’un tel comportement, Domscheit-Berg reste évasif: Il n’y a jamais eu de documents sur la Bank of America dans ceux que j’avais.
ASSANGE. Wikileaks - Wikileaks. File-sharing software reveals user's private info - Technology & science - Security. Thousands of Americans may unwittingly be sharing personal medical and financial information stored on their home computers when they use file-sharing software, according to a new study.
"The issue has been bubbling for a couple of years," said lead author Khaled El Eman, a senior scientist at the University of Ottawa's Electronic Health Information Laboratory. "In the past we knew there was a problem. We just didn't know how big it was. We also wanted to see if anyone was actively searching for this information. " El Eman and his colleagues found evidence of outsiders actively searching for files containing private health and financial information on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks such as Gnutella, eDonkey and BitTorrent.
"Very simple search terms such as 'medical records' or 'credit card' were quite effective in returning sensitive documents," El Eman told TechNewsDaily. "It's a total no-brainer," he said. "There are around 250 known P2P file-sharing programs," he said. Claim: WikiLeaks Published Documents Siphoned Over File Sharing Software.
Music and movie pirates may not be the only ones trolling peer-to-peer networks for booty.
The secret-spilling site WikiLeaks may also have used file sharing networks to obtain some of the documents it has published, according to a computer-security firm. The allegations come from Tiversa, a Pennsylvania peer-to-peer investigations firm, that claims it passed information of WikiLeaks’ file sharing activity to U.S. government officials, according to Bloomberg. Tiversa asserts that on Feb. 7, 2009 it monitored four computers based in Sweden, where WikiLeaks’ primary servers were based, as they conducted 413 searches on peer-to-peer networks seeking Microsoft Excel files and other data-heavy documents, some of which were subsequently published online by WikiLeaks.
If the allegations are true, it would not be the first time that WikiLeaks published documents that were obtained through hacking or online surveillance rather than from a whistleblower or other insiders. See also.
LAMO. Jacob Appelbaum. Bradley Manning. SPIN-OFFS / MIRRORS / SUPPORT.