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Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by ryanlol »

krapp wrote: post #119
formula1 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure who you think works at wikileaks but I assure you no one gets paid to set on the computer and check every single email. I doubt anyone gets paid at all. This isnt some fortune 500 competitor, this is a group of people that are attempting to give power to the commoners.

>but I assure you no one gets paid to set on the computer and check every single email No one gets paid to to that anywhere, because it's been possible to automate that for a very long time. It doesn't take the resources of a Fortune 500 company, either.

Why should the malware be removed? Going through government email dumps seems like a great way to locate the next stuxnet.

If the detection is as easy to automate as you claim, I'm sure the users antiviruses will take care of it.

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by ryanlol »

Twirrim wrote: post #85
moolcool wrote: post #74

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Is it a lack of attention? I don't think a virus in a collection of leaked emails is a major threat since you'd be a fool to execute it. On the other hand, it might be useful for researchers if the virus was written to specifically target somebody.

It would hardly take any time to run the trove through a virus scanner, and it wouldn't even need someone to be sitting over it nannying it through the process.

But why? There's no legitimate reason for wikileaks to do that.

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by belorn »

dmix wrote: post #14

So a spammy email in one of the thousands leaked happened to contained malware? And this is newsworthy why? People here are using this to question Wikileaks integrity but it seems like a minor mistake given the contents of the dump. This has happened before in hacker dumps on a number of occasions but this one isn't even malicious (targeting wikileaks users). I don't open random zips from spam emails on my machine an…

Many nations has policies that require government employees to save and store any corresponding they make, and to offer the public the ability to get copies. I wonder how much malware exist in those archives.

If a member of the public requested a copy and had their computer infected by a virus, is that the governments fault?

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by belorn »

somenomadicguy wrote: post #8

I read through about 1/2 of the AKP "leaks", it was a tremendous waste of time for anything but improving comprehension of Türkçe. At a point in time, I truly believed Assange's goals were justice and transparency, now I am beginning to feel like he has his own political agenda, and is making sophomoric attempts to affect political change. In 2016 Wikileaks's agenda seems to be: - Anti-Hillary - Anti-Hillary - Pro-Tr…

Assange's goal, as written down a long time ago, is to publish enough leaks to make secrecy costly, cumbersome and inefficient.

Is there any evidence for leaks that would have such effect but which wikileaks is not publishing?

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by leephillips »

devin wrote: post #120
trendia wrote: post #88

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I think you're taking Assange's words out of context. He was talking about the release itself, in that it showed how the DNC actively worked to hamper Bernie's efforts despite being a "neutral" organization. (Neutrality is one of the conditions for the DNC to receive tax breaks for their convention). > Why not delete malware from your servers once a security researcher has located it for you? Assange has repeatedly s…

> Assange has repeatedly said that they do not filter or edit in any way the contents of their leaks. That means that they don't remove credit card information, social security numbers, or malware. This is not true. They redacted all but the last 4 digits of the credit card numbers. > They could release an edited version and achieve transparency, but... They _do_ edit. They removed all but the last 4 digits on credit…

I believe that in the cases where only the last four digits were in the record, that was not due to Wikileaks' redaction - that's just what was in the file. They did not do anything to the SS numbers, for example.

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by MaysonL »

jazzyk wrote: post #48
mtgx wrote: post #19

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Because there's a growing campaign trying to paint Wikileaks as a the "bad guys" (again). Combine that with the fact that most people don't want Trump to win, so they're automatically on Clinton's side, and with Clinton's deflection of the DNC hack documents that pointed to election rigging towards who hacked the DNC, and that anti-Wikileaks campaign is suddenly a lot more effective. So now when other sites write abo…

>Combine that with the fact that most people don't want Trump to win Just to bring you back to planet Earth, all the latest polls show the two major candidates in dead heat.

Well no, most of them have Clinton up by a few, and adjusting for their historical bias, by a little more than that. See

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/n...

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by trendia »

grandalf wrote: post #28
MichaelGG wrote: post #17

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Could the anti-Hillary agenda simply be that he has leaks on her? The DNC stuff was damning, as was the reaction. (Bad actor resigns, gets immediately hired without reprimand?) He's said negative Trump stuff - how has he been positive there? If someone brought internal Trump emails, do you think WL wouldn't publish them? If this had been flipped, and he had only published anti-Trump stuff, would you be making the sam…

You are right to question this. His comment parrots the opinion of the HRC campaign which there is zero evidence for.

I think people's opinions are polarized this year because of the election. If Wikileaks had only released information on the Malaysian Prime Minister, for instance, I doubt that we'd be seeing the same kind of strong opinions about them.

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by forgottenpass »

pessimizer wrote: post #105
forgottenpass wrote: post #66

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Claiming someone is alt-right is starting to have the feel of McCarthy era claims of communism. I don't know what they stand for. But I visit generally progressive-leaning places on the internet and know I'm supposed to hate them. I still haven't even figured out who the "reactionaries" are or what they believe in. I think what happened is some people used the wrong word when talking about "contrarians" and through a…

The alt-right is what happened when 4chan trolls, MRAs/PUAs, and Stormfront had a baby called 8chan.net/pol/ It's a small group of maybe 10,000, of which 5,000 don't even take the positions seriously, just love to troll millennial college "activist" consumer-types. The Clinton speech about the alt-right will have the same effect as Geraldo Rivera's goofy coverage of Neo-nazi skinheads in the 80s - multiplying their n…

It's a small group of maybe 10,000, of which 5,000 don't even take the positions seriously

Then why the fuck is anyone talking about them? Is the left really so terrified of taking positions or believing in anything at all that they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel like this for something to talk about?

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by krapp »

ryanlol wrote: post #121
krapp wrote: post #119

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>but I assure you no one gets paid to set on the computer and check every single email No one gets paid to to that anywhere, because it's been possible to automate that for a very long time. It doesn't take the resources of a Fortune 500 company, either.

Why should the malware be removed? Going through government email dumps seems like a great way to locate the next stuxnet. If the detection is as easy to automate as you claim, I'm sure the users antiviruses will take care of it.

>Going through government email dumps seems like a great way to locate the next stuxnet.

Which, if everyone reading these dumps was a researcher looking for the next stuxnet, would be a good point. But by that rationale, we might as well not bother with security anywhere on the internet just to maximize the chance of an interesting infection.

The malware should be removed because it's malware, no other rationale is necessary.

Re: Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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Post by grandalf »

trendia wrote: post #127
grandalf wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right to question this. His comment parrots the opinion of the HRC campaign which there is zero evidence for.

I think people's opinions are polarized this year because of the election. If Wikileaks had only released information on the Malaysian Prime Minister, for instance, I doubt that we'd be seeing the same kind of strong opinions about them.

True. It's odd, though, because even if I did plan to vote for one of the major party candidates, I'd still want to know anything that shed light on corruption they were involved in, character flaws, etc.

It's odd to see people fighting to suppress information about the so-called "good guy" when in fact they ought to be considering why they would vote for someone who was involved in such things. Maybe most people just want to feel loved and protected by a powerful warlord.

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