Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails

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Post by bmaeser » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 8:53 PM UTC

Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails
pastebin.com

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Post by yuvadam » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

Any other mirrors online?

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Post by zekenie » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

anyone found anything interesting in the emails? it just says they're evil, and the download's slow.

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Post by bmaeser » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

zekenie wrote: post #3

anyone found anything interesting in the emails? it just says they're evil, and the download's slow.

that is a lot of data. i think journalists will sum it up for you, if there is something interesting.

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Post by dfc » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:42 PM UTC

Its unfortunate that they were not distributed via bittorrent and/or a tor hidden service. The files are large enough that downloading them with the "free download" option is a terribly long wait. I do not understand how this has so many upvotes after being up for such a short time. Have that many people actually downloaded the files already?

Does anyone have any guesses about the string at the end of the announcement? Is that something Anonymous normally does?

  6693b5c82009cdf9a2abf2fc80d0aeab25aa8a3a5d5d33ec24dd1c5a3038fee0b10a8460d4b3cf922ce77e2abda13ca6d3fd0c18081be3c7626587c767fb7d7b

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Post by dfc » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:45 PM UTC

bmaeser wrote: post #4

zekenie wrote: post #3

anyone found anything interesting in the emails? it just says they're evil, and the download's slow.

that is a lot of data. i think journalists will sum it up for you, if there is something interesting.

That is a strange philosophy/view-point for HN...

Re: Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails

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Post by 46Bit » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

bmaeser wrote: post #4

zekenie wrote: post #3

anyone found anything interesting in the emails? it just says they're evil, and the download's slow.

that is a lot of data. i think journalists will sum it up for you, if there is something interesting.

To risk being viewed as that crazy paranoid commentator: Scientology is no stranger to lawsuits. They may well discourage publishing such at risk of expensive, drawn-out legal action.

Re: Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails

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Post by deno » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #5

Its unfortunate that they were not distributed via bittorrent and/or a tor hidden service. The files are large enough that downloading them with the "free download" option is a terribly long wait. I do not understand how this has so many upvotes after being up for such a short time. Have that many people actually downloaded the files already? Does anyone have any guesses about the string at the end of the announcemen…

It’s not straightforward to distribute via Bittorrent anonymously.

Re: Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails

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Post by zekenie » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

bmaeser wrote: post #4

zekenie wrote: post #3

anyone found anything interesting in the emails? it just says they're evil, and the download's slow.

that is a lot of data. i think journalists will sum it up for you, if there is something interesting.

i mean, has anyone even gotten a chance to look at what's in the folder?

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Post by javajosh » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:50 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #6

bmaeser wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that is a lot of data. i think journalists will sum it up for you, if there is something interesting.

That is a strange philosophy/view-point for HN...

Au contraire. Journalists are highly motivated to plough through the data for the scoop. ("Data scoop" is certainly an interesting development in our 21st century, btw!) I'm happy to let a highly motivated person do the ploughing, and give me the highlights, especially about a subject as marginally interesting as Scientology.