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WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web
Yahoo ^ | July 5, 2010 | Rapahel Satter

Posted on 08/05/2010 5:04:07 PM PDT by redhead

LONDON – Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named "Insurance" to its website, sparking speculation that those behind the organization may be prepared to release more classified information if authorities interfere with them.

At 1.4 gigabytes, the file is 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000 secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan that WikiLeaks dumped onto the Web last month, and cryptographers say that the file is virtually impossible to crack — unless WikiLeaks releases the key used to encode the material.

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To: Gene Eric

all kidding aside now...you have a valid notion.


21 posted on 08/05/2010 5:32:16 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Cementjungle

LOL


22 posted on 08/05/2010 5:33:16 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: redhead

If Wikileaks can so easily obtain this info, do you honestly believe that Chinese intelligence and Al-Qaeda are any less capable? Really?


23 posted on 08/05/2010 5:33:35 PM PDT by sourcery (Nazi is to Jewish as Progressive is to any combination of rich, white, male)
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To: Deaf Smith
I always thought we had Spooks to take of these things.

EXACTLY!!!


24 posted on 08/05/2010 5:34:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

the same hackers that sit in chat rooms waiting to buy dumn Americans credit card/bank info. for 4 dollars?


25 posted on 08/05/2010 5:35:15 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

This should be a big wake-up call (which shouldn’t have been needed in the first place) to the Army and all other US organizations (FBI, etc.) NOT to store sensitive information
on computers; and

in some instances—such as the names of confidential informants, spies, etc.—not to put those names into any written document AT ALL.


26 posted on 08/05/2010 5:36:04 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: redhead

No blindfolds. No last meals.


27 posted on 08/05/2010 5:37:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...cryptographers say that the file is virtually impossible to crack -- unless WikiLeaks releases the key used to encode the material.
I think this shows that some cryptographers have a great sense of humor. :')
28 posted on 08/05/2010 5:38:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: CondorFlight
One of the last paragraphs of this long article...

"Manning, currently jailed on suspicion of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks in a previous case, has been quoted as saying that the cables would expose "almost criminal political back dealings" and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would "have a heart attack" when the files went public.


29 posted on 08/05/2010 5:39:17 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Jim Robinson

I also do not want to see the Administration (”never waste a crisis”) use this as an excuse to gain some kind of oversight/censorship over the NET.

Believe, me, they want to do it; let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot with an overreaction to hackers.


30 posted on 08/05/2010 5:39:58 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: lovesdogs

No serviceman or woman would likely be at risk if it is SOS Clinton back door deals.


31 posted on 08/05/2010 5:42:57 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: redhead

Give me a break.

This is happening on purpose. You are witnessing the self destruction of The United States. This is no longer a joke. Do not fool yourself into believing this is all happening sans reasoning.

I live in Georgia. Hunker Down my friends it is going to get catastrophic from here.


32 posted on 08/05/2010 5:43:11 PM PDT by Dacula (So long and thanks for all fish.)
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To: Michael Barnes

If we had the will that server would be a smoking ruin by now.


33 posted on 08/05/2010 5:44:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: redhead

It’s encrypted photos of Obama’s real BC !!!!!!!!!!

Don’t tell anyone.


34 posted on 08/05/2010 5:48:39 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: StolarStorm
"impossible to crack"

Which means that some 15 year old kid will crack it by next week.


35 posted on 08/05/2010 5:50:32 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: redhead
Good thing they didn't post photos of an Iphone prototype — the feds would have confiscated all of their computers, shot their dogs and had them locked up in a secret prison within 24 hours.
36 posted on 08/05/2010 5:56:08 PM PDT by sbMKE
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To: lovesdogs

Meaning it is most likely POLITICAL and not involving our troops, I hope and pray.

“almost criminal political back dealings”

What could be ALMOST politically criminal?


37 posted on 08/05/2010 5:59:26 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: FoxPro
Attack them with a huge denial of service,

Negative. Let them go, track the downloaders and go all cold-war umbrella on them.

/johnny

38 posted on 08/05/2010 6:04:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Blood of Tyrants


You wont believe how many things this code unlocks.
39 posted on 08/05/2010 6:12:59 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: Deaf Smith

There are guys over at No Such Agency that eat this stuff for breakfast. It will be broken within the week.


40 posted on 08/05/2010 6:21:09 PM PDT by red-dawg (We have learned to stop terrorism on planes by ourselves, it's time to do that in D.C.)
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