Julian Assange Accidentally Uploaded His Secret Files to the Internet

[kpete]

Julian Assange Accidentally Uploaded His Secret Files to the Internet

People inadvertently put things on the internet they don't want revealed all the time. But you'd think Julian Assange would avoid such an amateur mistake. Not so: He accidentally uploaded all of his precious State Department cables, unredacted, to the internet.

Assange and Wikileaks have made much of the fact that they worked with media outlets like the Times and the Guardian to responsibly and gradually release the 250,000 State Department cables allegedly leaked to the group by imprisoned Army private Bradley Manning. But if reports are to be believed, that effort was for naught: All of the raw cables are floating around the internet, including names of informants and sources that could put their lives in danger.

According to Der Spiegel:

Since the beginning of the year, an encrypted file has been circulating on the Internet containing the collection of around 251,000 US State Department documents that WikiLeaks obtained in spring 2010 and made public in November 2010.

MORE:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783084,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783084,00.html

[snagglepuss]

1. Was this accidentially on purpose? What do you make of it?

[Electric Monk]

3. I accidentally the whole thing!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

[mike_c]

2. um, I suspect that when Julian Assange encrypts a file...

...it's unlikely to make available any "names of informants and sources that could put their lives in danger." :rofl:

Seriously. This is just bad journalism.

[EFerrari]

5. The so called MSM hates Wikileaks because it makes them look like @ssholes

which they are.

[EFerrari]

4. WL: There has been no leak at Wikileaks

@wikileaks WikiLeaks
There has been no 'leak at WikiLeaks'. The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual.
4 hours ago via web

http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108261633859649536

[Pharaoh]

6. this smells

like a US government set up...........

Then, in the spring of 2011, Assange's external contact made public the password that he had received from Assange without realizing that this would allow access to the unredacted US cables. The slip-up remained undetected for several months. Members of OpenLeaks, the rival whistleblower organization recently set up by Domscheit-Berg, have now drawn attention to the lapse. They say it proves Domscheit-Berg's allegation, which he has been making for months, that data held by WikiLeaks is "not secure."


Hard to know exactly what is really going on in this wholly corrupt system. I certainly have a difficult time believing the US government or the MSM.