WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File. In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.”
The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file’s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site. WikiLeaks, on Sunday, posted several files containing the 77,000 Afghan war documents in a single “dump” file and in several other files containing versions of the documents in various searchable formats. Cryptome, a separate secret-spilling site, has speculated that the new file added days later may have been posted as insurance in case something happens to the WikiLeaks website or to the organization’s founder, Julian Assange.
It’s not known what the file contains but it could include the balance of data that U.S. U.S. See also. Wikileaks Afghan War Diary Mirror. Ongoing non-secret discussion of information security, a/k/a information secrecy, a/k/a information perfidy (Cryptome was established to publish materials on this topic). Comments welcome: cryptome[at]earthlink.net. 7 August 2010. Mike sends: Just read your "advice" at the end of Your prose is sophomoric & unintelligible.
What meds are you on? Cryptome: Mike, surely you are smarter than to just insult, contribute something for publication. 7 August 2010 Is Wikileaks Bluffing NSA to Spill Its AES Backdoor Secrets At the center of the drama was the posting last week of a massive 1.4 gigabyte mystery file named "Insurance" on the WikiLeaks website. The NSA has the largest collection of supercomputers in the world.
At the more extreme end, the NSA, the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies — including the newly created Cyber Command — have probably reviewed options for using a cyber attack against the website, which could disrupt networks, files, electricity, and so on. 6 August 2010. Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That. View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks?
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the Pentagon that WikiLeaks “return” its entire cache of published and unpublished classified U.S. documents. Last month, WikiLeaks released 77,000 documents out of 92,000, temporarily holding back 15,000 records at the urging of newspapers that had been provided an advance copy of the entire database.
On Thursday, Assange said his organization has now gone through about half of the remaining records, redacting the names of Afghan informants. That suggests the final release could still be weeks away. Pundits, though, are clamoring for preemptive action. But a previous U.S. But that wouldn’t do much good either. WikiLeaks Insurance File. La mystérieuse "assurance" de Wikileaks. WikiLeaks s'offre une assurance vie cryptée.