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Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by caffeinewriter »

nchelluri wrote: post #25
user837728 wrote: post #11

This is technically accurate since I found out myself this week when browsing the AKP email leak. Some of the attachments in the emails were clearly malware of some sort. See for example: https://wikileaks.org/akp-emails/emailid/27482

The exact same thing happened to me when I was downloading a email containing a MIME base64 encoded PDF. I was curious as to what it was so I clicked the download button and Chrome warned me that it was malicious. Funny, it doesn't give that same warning on this URL now. I've downloaded it and base64 decoded it but I'm slightly afraid to open it; I don't know how I'd do it safely. On a VM with no internet connection…

Submitted it to Hybrid Analysis, and this particular attachment appears to be benign, and is in fact an e-ticket for American Airlines. Doesn't seem to contain any embedded malware readily apparent in the analysis.

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/043de244fc5ca9fd20a96...

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by HillRat »

dragonwriter wrote: post #8
dljsjr wrote: post #6

I'm not sure that this is completely tin-foil hat worthy. I was working at a defense contractor in 2010 when the big leak of all the cables occurred, and was forced to learn a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise, including something that maybe a lot of people don't fully grasp: When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being le…

> When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being leaked does not dissolve its restricted status. In other words, if you are a regular US citizen and you go to Wikileaks and look at something that is classified without having the proper security clearance, then you're now on the wrong side of the law. I'm pretty sure this is wrong:…

This, plus the fact that the DNC is not a government agency and thus classification is not a concern.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by yuhong »

Sylos wrote: post #31

I figure this link needs to stand here somewhere, even if it's just for someone trying to understand the political implications that this could have: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

And while I don't take all of the claims at face value, I do wonder why Google supports the TPP.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by kerkeslager »

dljsjr wrote: post #6

I'm not sure that this is completely tin-foil hat worthy. I was working at a defense contractor in 2010 when the big leak of all the cables occurred, and was forced to learn a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise, including something that maybe a lot of people don't fully grasp: When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being le…

> When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being leaked does not dissolve its restricted status. In other words, if you are a regular US citizen and you go to Wikileaks and look at something that is classified without having the proper security clearance, then you're now on the wrong side of the law.

I'm curious if you have any credible source (not part of the government) for this. This sounds very much like something government actors want people to believe.

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