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Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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Re: Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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Post by kid0m4n »

Oh, this is so classy: https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=8402

Quote:

Oh, they have enough weapons. Now the serious game begins as Reva pointed out. The investigation of the attack is not interesting. I suspect the findings have already been reached before the first investigator got to work. Now the question is how India responds. God willing, the Indian response will make us a lot of money.

This after the devastating terrorist attack in Mumbai which killed 164 people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks

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Post by patmcc »

Amadou wrote: post #8
letney wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are a DoD employee or contractor, then the answer is 'yes'. [1] http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/06/dod-classified/ (assuming there is classified information in the documents)

The Stratfor documents were accessed through the internet. If anything in there is classified someone at Stratfor should be facing a criminal investigation for storing classified documents on an unclassified system.

That doesn't mean it isn't also a crime to access the classified files (in certain circumstances, as above).

That's the great thing about the US government now - everything's a crime, oh boy!

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Post by baddox »

icpmacdo wrote: post #6

Would it be a crime if I were to read one of the emails?

The real question is, what does it really mean for something to "be a crime," and does it really matter? If you mean could the US government do anything it wanted to you because you read one of the emails, then the answer is a definite yes.

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Post by r00fus »

Is it more, or do these leaks paint StratFor as something along the lines of a "conflict investment firm" on the lines of Richard Morgan's Market Forces [1]?

Jacket cover description excerpt: "A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils."

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40450.Market_Forces

Re: Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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Post by jlgreco »

dmix wrote: post #9
icpmacdo wrote: post #6

Would it be a crime if I were to read one of the emails?

It may be a crime to link directly to a zip file containing the data in an IRC chat, as we saw with Barrett Brown [1]. That made me reconsider even posting this Wikileaks page to HN (yay chilling effect). But I'm not aware of any criminal law preventing you from reading published content on Wikileaks or submitting a link to them on a social media site. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown

Any chance they could get you for downloading copyrighted emails without a license?

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Post by socillion »

dmix wrote: post #9
icpmacdo wrote: post #6

Would it be a crime if I were to read one of the emails?

It may be a crime to link directly to a zip file containing the data in an IRC chat, as we saw with Barrett Brown [1]. That made me reconsider even posting this Wikileaks page to HN (yay chilling effect). But I'm not aware of any criminal law preventing you from reading published content on Wikileaks or submitting a link to them on a social media site. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown

That zip file contained 5,000 stolen credit card numbers, along with CVVs and ID info.

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Post by hansjorg »

kid0m4n wrote: post #11

Oh, this is so classy: https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=8402 Quote: Oh, they have enough weapons. Now the serious game begins as Reva pointed out. The investigation of the attack is not interesting. I suspect the findings have already been reached before the first investigator got to work. Now the question is how India responds. God willing, the Indian response will make us a lot of money. This after…

It's just business. Conflict is extremely profitable. Unfortunately, 164 people is a drop in a bucket in an ocean.
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