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Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables

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Re: Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables

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Post by jasonkolb »

joering2 wrote: post #4

Am I the only one genuinely afraid of clicking any of cables with keyword SECRET ?

You need to check out the Tails project (https://tails.boum.org/) which is a version of Debian I believe tailored to be completely anonymous. The browser uses TOR by default, I don't even know if you can disable it. Lots of other goodies too, including making browser fingerprints pretty meaningless.

Also, I know it's technically kind of bad form but if one wanted to run Tails easily you can use VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) to easily fire up a throwaway instance of Tails quickly and easily.

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Post by rdtsc »

Usual disclaimer applies for those with a clearance: by accessing classified documents on your home computers you could get yourself in serious trouble (in theory). In light of this particular situation I don't know if anyone has ever been punished but you should be careful.

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Post by rdtsc »

joering2 wrote: post #4

Am I the only one genuinely afraid of clicking any of cables with keyword SECRET ?

If you have a clearance you should absolutely not be clicking on it (if you are also paranoid and don't want to possibly fail your polygraph test -- "have you accessed or downloaded classified documents on your personal computer...?" er...oops).

Otherwise if you don't hold a clearance, I don't think they can do anything to you (however, I am not a lawyer so don't take this as a legal advice etc etc...)

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Post by patdennis »

l33tbro wrote: post #14

Does anyone know the verification process Wikileaks uses? Ie, if I anonymously send them some "cables", how do they know I'm not trolling them with disinfo?

The modern cables are from a single source, and that source is in a military prison.

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Post by jmcgough »

columbo wrote: post #9

This stuff is fun: Commercial Opportunities in Iraq Oil Sector: https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BAGHDA00111_b.htm... Earliest record for Megabyte https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973OECDP12963_b.html Opening up a 50 kilobit connection in moscow: https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976MOSCOW16762_b.htm... US shipping a Graphical Display Unit to the USSR in 1973 https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cab…

"The original series, which ran from 1971 to 1977, was so popular in Romania it was broadcast there twice a week. When ``Columbo`` stopped production in the U.S., suspicious Romanians thought their government had canceled the show because of import quotas. Fearing riots, the Romanian government begged the U.S. State Department to have the show`s star, Peter Falk, make a public-service announcement explaining the real reason for the demise of ``Columbo.`` Falk obliged and taped a TV spot, which he read phonetically in Romanian."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-04-02/features/89033...

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Post by tokenadult »

I have an American friend (we met when we were both living overseas) who has been all over the world because he works for the international travel industry. He hasn't lived in the United States for at least a decade. If I remember correctly, he hasn't even visited the United States for at least four years. He and I have both long been skeptics about the United States Department of State and especially the Foreign Service. But after the Wikileaks release of many United States diplomatic cables, he told me that his respect for the United States Foreign Service had increased enormously. The members of the Foreign Service are actually quite astute about what a clash in values is involved in maintaining peaceful, normal diplomatic relations between their free, democratic country and many other countries around the world. Diplomatic business has to go on day by day even while countries are painfully slow in their evolution to civil liberties and representative governments.

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Post by mpyne »

rdtsc wrote: post #12

Usual disclaimer applies for those with a clearance: by accessing classified documents on your home computers you could get yourself in serious trouble (in theory). In light of this particular situation I don't know if anyone has ever been punished but you should be careful.

It's the reason I've never actually seen anything WikiLeaks has published since Manning hit the airwaves. :-/

Re: Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables

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Post by mpyne »

derrida wrote: post #7
joering2 wrote: post #4

Am I the only one genuinely afraid of clicking any of cables with keyword SECRET ?

It's public domain now, but if you don't trust the law to let you read and write freely, use Tor https://www.torproject.org/

Do you mean public domain as in "unclassified", or public domain as in "publically accessible"? Because those are far different.
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