WikiLeaks' Assange will release encrypted 'doomsday file' if arrested

NY Post ^ | 12/5/10 | NEWSCORE

[Nachum]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.

One of the files identified this weekend by The (London) Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file -- has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia.

Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets.

The military papers on Guantanamo Bay, yet to be published, believed to have been supplied by Bradley Manning, who was arrested in May. Other documents that Assange is confirmed to possess include an aerial video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP files and Bank of America documents.

One of the key files available for download -- named insurance.aes256 -- appears to be encrypted with a 256-digit key. Experts said last week it was virtually unbreakable.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Regarding “shutting down the internet”. How are they going to do this technically?

[April Lexington]

Those tens of thousands of supporters may be facing some very serious legal consequences. Martyrdom of the Useful Idiots...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Sounds like he’s a little full of himself. Well, spending the rest of his natural life in ADX Florence, Colorado, he will lots and lots and lots and lots of time to ponder the error of his ways. And lots and lots....

[Red Dog #1]

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.” Tuco in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

[April Lexington]

Please to keep in mind that wuss at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave hasn’t really complained about this whole thing or done much about it...

[23 Everest]

Mr. Assange - I’m afraid you don’t have the slightest idea of who the F you are dealing with.

Sounds very familiar to a line from Beverly Hills Cop. “I suggest you crawl back under the rock you came from” Good movie, with Eddie Murphy.

[April Lexington]

Can one of the lawyers in FR tell me if this is extortion or Blackmail. It is surely one or the other.

Actually, I'd consider it more of a cluster f*ck...

[RummyChick]

interesting posts at this site..don’t know if any of it is true

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/who-will-be-first-decrypt-wikileaks-insurance-file

- Julian Assange childhood troubled, under tutelage of parental figures involved with CIA-mind-control-experiment-type application of severely mind-altering drugs upon children

- Wikileaks has unusual super good access to corporate media, NY Times and UK Guardian, both shills - mouthpieces for US and UK governments and establishment, media with fake ‘progressive’ image but refusing to carry much anti-gov’t reporting, however nice open door for Wikileaks

- Board members of Wikileaks from CIA-entities, including ones tied to CIA-Google contracts and funding, and to CIA’s front NGO ‘National Endowment for Democracy’

[April Lexington]

Will somebody explain to me why the big fuss over Assange? There are supposedly hundreds of thousands of documents in these files. What about all the people who have helped him get those files. I would think they are the real traitors for leaking the classified stuff from all the different agencies. It would take many, many people to do so yet nobody says anything about them. Why?

Please to ponder the meaning of George Soros' Open Society... This is how it works. No secrets. Just info dump on anyone you hate (which, in his case, is everybody on the planet)...

[FS11]

Go ahead and make my day, Julian, and that goes for you too, BO.

By leaking State Department Cables, BO has made himself public enemy #1 of all Diplomats worldwide and subjected himself to a lawsuit to legally remove him from office directly before SCOTUS.

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-aka-obama-directly-before-scotus.html

[23 Everest]

Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy & Judge Reinhold.

Art dealer Victor Maitlen, tells Axel (Murphy), “I’m afraid you don’t have the slightest idea of who you are “F”ing dealing with.

Whew, glad that’s over with.

[23 Everest]

do ya feel lucky punk, well do ya? To be honest I can’t remember either. Did I shoot 5 times or six? LOL

[dragnet2]

All these people calling for this guys arrest, death etc, should ask themselves, if this is all so top secret and the release of this information is so utterly damaging, how is it that thousands of documents were all released so easily?

[ProudFossil]

Governments cannot function without certain levels of information security. Negotiations would become impossible, wars will result and with them, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of deaths -- not to mention economic chaos.

I will counter example your statement. World War II started in earnest after the British government negotiated with Hitler. Do you remember the statement "I believe it is peace for our time..." by Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of Britain on September 30, 1938? This was regarding the Munich Agreement and the Anglo-German Declaration. How many died because of that negotiation? I have heard upwards of 30 million.

So IMHO negotiation is diddly squat, especially in today's world.

[Brilliant]

“His doomsday file will not have anything bad about Obama.”

I don’t know... That might be the reason Obama has gone easy on him.

[ElkGroveDan]

Ummmmm...pretty much we do NOT do that here.

Yes in America we do in fact do that. CIA disinformation is just as important as all the other aspects of espionage combined. In fact we've been doing it since the Revolutionary War.

[beef]

This is really a pretty stupid tactic. How long is it going to take for Al-Qaeda to take him out and trigger the document release? They would do it just to just to dig at the West. This idiot may well have written his own death warrant.

[Bobalu]

If you are going to create an encrypted data file for insurance you should provide the key to whoever it is you need protection from. Otherwise you run the risk that they may think it is a bluff. It is very possible that the government was provided the key so they could see what the file contained.

Why not give your adversary the key? They already have access to the secret info anyway....what is important is that they know that you also have access to it and could dump it on the public at any time.

It is extremely unlikely that AES256 has been broken by anyone.

[FS11]

To: Frantzie
“His doomsday file will not have anything bad about Obama.”

I don’t know... That might be the reason Obama has gone easy on him.

55 posted on Sunday, December 05, 2010 4:19:02 PM by Brilliant

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Frantzie, is correct. Assange’s major mistake is that he allowed BO to have control of all the WikiLeaks.

So now we can sit back and see who blinks first. Regardless, BO did himself in with his WikiLeaks.

By leaking State Department Cables, BO has made himself public enemy #1 of all Diplomats worldwide and subjected himself to a lawsuit to legally remove him from office directly before SCOTUS.

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-aka-obama-directly-before-scotus.html

[MamaDearest]

His doomsday file will not have anything bad about Obama.

How could it when Julian's attorney is tied to George Soros who pulls Obama's puppet strings? It's all interconnected for whatever vile or unintended ignorant or not so ignorant purposes they all together have/had.

Does anyone believe Soros would have his protoge president blackmailed and get away with it? Something with these Wikileaks is not adding up. Is Julian going to be the second most unfindable person on the planet after Bin Laden? (sorta sarcasm).