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Does WikiLeaks need its 'defenders'? Or does it have its own cyber insurance? | Leak prevention - InfoWorld
Vengeful denial-of-service attacks on PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa in support WikiLeaks amount to an unprecedented cyber war. The "anonymous" vigilantes no doubt see themselves as valiant defenders of WikiLeaks and its freedom to let loose whatever it wants to disclose.
But does WikiLeaks really need help? As has been previously reported, WikiLeaks has taken out an insurance policy in the form of a 1.4GB AES-encrypted file that was originally released on various BitTorrent sites and is still available.
Nobody knows what that file may contain except the creators. If I was planning this out, that big encrypted archive would contain several smaller encrypted archives. Each would have a different key, with inflammatory file names like "Proof of 9/11 coverup" or "Missing White House Emails, 2000-2007." There'd be little sense in making this insurance file a one-shot deal.
Vengeful denial-of-service attacks on PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa in support WikiLeaks amount to an unprecedented cyber war. The "anonymous" vigilantes no doubt see themselves as valiant defenders of WikiLeaks and its freedom to let loose whatever it wants to disclose.
But does WikiLeaks really need help? As has been previously reported, WikiLeaks has taken out an insurance policy in the form of a 1.4GB AES-encrypted file that was originally released on various BitTorrent sites and is still available.
Nobody knows what that file may contain except the creators. If I was planning this out, that big encrypted archive would contain several smaller encrypted archives. Each would have a different key, with inflammatory file names like "Proof of 9/11 coverup" or "Missing White House Emails, 2000-2007." There'd be little sense in making this insurance file a one-shot deal.
