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Re: Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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404 on all those links. am i doing it wrong?

or may be Great Firewall does it right :) Btw, can NSA splitters function as such as well? Or [selectively] replace real traffic with artificially generated one? (I mean pure splitter wouldn't, yet why it would be just a pure splitter? why limit themselves to read-only capabilities only? May sound like a new tin foil hat frontier for some ... yet i think we do need one at least as a guide post into the future as the reality has already moved well past the previous one)

Re: Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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

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.

Re: Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails

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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

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