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Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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I wonder what are the risks associated with downloading and sharing such torrents. Evidently, anyone getting them becomes a highly visible target and once the content of these torrents is known, you could become involved in the distribution of classified data. Even if the content is not known, it could be viewed as an 'unfriendly' act and could make you become a "target of interest" to some zealous 3-letter agency...…

only one way to find out!

Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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I almost thought this comment was going to be a parody of the other! I'm kinda curious though. At $87/hour, she worked about 250 hours, which works out to be about 57 hours a week. If she only works a few hours at her laptop, the fuck is she doing the rest of the time?

Living the high life and spending it all!

No, no, I meant the 3 hours per month on her laptop, and the 57 hours per week she's working, but not on her laptop. Maybe she's a ho (a busy one at that!) that does her own bookkeeping and accounting!

Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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The problem with doing that is that the US government might release the information themselves, just dampened a bit with some PR, so the insurance files aren't worth anything and so WikiLeaks don't get the credit.

Which would generally imply that they're not very good insurance files. I had the last one for a bit, and deleted it just now because I'm seriously doubtful these things are anything more then /dev/urandom piped into a file.

If these ever did get released and were damaging, the media/propaganda machines around the targeted governments would be doing dampening/PR anyway. So if that can largely stop the damage, they certainly wouldn't be any good as insurance, whoever releases them.

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I wonder what are the risks associated with downloading and sharing such torrents. Evidently, anyone getting them becomes a highly visible target and once the content of these torrents is known, you could become involved in the distribution of classified data. Even if the content is not known, it could be viewed as an 'unfriendly' act and could make you become a "target of interest" to some zealous 3-letter agency...…

And what if I'm not a USA citizens, they are watching me anyway. Anyway, if I were on the NSA's office, watching everyday comments on Hacker-News I'd already have targeted half it's crowd potentially dangerous to the security of the country, just for being so interested in national security matters. Those Geeks!!!

"Anyway, if I were on the NSA's office, watching everyday comments on Hacker-News ..."

Wait, wait. You're saying there's a way to get paid to read HN all day? Where do I sign?

Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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I don't understand why they don't post it on their own site.. but well.. here is twitter: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/368426845735120896

Thanks, I can't access Facebook from here. Might as well post the direct torrent URLs: 3,6GiB (20130815-A): http://wlstorage.net/torrent/wlinsurance-20130815-A.aes256.torrent magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0a092ac0f9b56c886c41335ca36f34aaed6b80c&dn=wlinsurance-20130815-A.aes256&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A80%2Fa…

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Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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I wonder what are the risks associated with downloading and sharing such torrents. Evidently, anyone getting them becomes a highly visible target and once the content of these torrents is known, you could become involved in the distribution of classified data. Even if the content is not known, it could be viewed as an 'unfriendly' act and could make you become a "target of interest" to some zealous 3-letter agency...…

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Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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post #44
post #34

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And what if I'm not a USA citizens, they are watching me anyway. Anyway, if I were on the NSA's office, watching everyday comments on Hacker-News I'd already have targeted half it's crowd potentially dangerous to the security of the country, just for being so interested in national security matters. Those Geeks!!!

"Anyway, if I were on the NSA's office, watching everyday comments on Hacker-News ..." Wait, wait. You're saying there's a way to get paid to read HN all day? Where do I sign?

> Where do I sign?

Follow the path to the dark side [1]. They have cookies.

[1]: https://www.nsa.gov/psp/applyonline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...

Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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I don't understand why they don't post it on their own site.. but well.. here is twitter: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/368426845735120896

Thanks, I can't access Facebook from here. Might as well post the direct torrent URLs: 3,6GiB (20130815-A): http://wlstorage.net/torrent/wlinsurance-20130815-A.aes256.torrent magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0a092ac0f9b56c886c41335ca36f34aaed6b80c&dn=wlinsurance-20130815-A.aes256&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A80%2Fa…

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Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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This seems like a good plan to me, but can any crypto pros poke holes in it?

Clearly, just use a standard solution (PGP). Don't do this with a weak passphrase, and use key-strengthening (bcrypt etc.) just in case. Assange is pretty good at crypto, so I'd expect Wikileaks to broadly get this right. Also, they already got in trouble for reusing a password ( http://boingboing.net/2011/08/31/wikileaks-guardian-journali... ), so I'm pretty sure they won't do that again...

> Assange is pretty good at crypto

Not really. He gave a moron the password to a publicly distributed insurance file instead of making a new encrypted file just for him.

Re: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

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That's funny hijackson, because My roomate's mother makes $87 hourly on the laptop. She has been fired for 7 months but last month her pay was $21739 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here=====>>>>>=====w­w­w.j­o­b­s­3­4.c­o­m

I almost thought this comment was going to be a parody of the other! I'm kinda curious though. At $87/hour, she worked about 250 hours, which works out to be about 57 hours a week. If she only works a few hours at her laptop, the fuck is she doing the rest of the time?

Working on her desktop?

Or maybe, to paraphrase a sibling comment, she's working on the blacktop?

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