Anyone else following the wikileaks story as it unfolds?

 

It's all been rather interesting of late. First the video, then the thousands of documents, and now the Insurance file mystery.

 

Wikileaks posted a 1.4gb aes 256 encrypted file named "Insurance" on the site with little explanation. I watched a video earlier today where vaguely said something about not wanting to lose history, but gave no other hints to what the file is.

 

Ooh it's all so interesting.

I kinda just wish all this stuff would go away. Wikileaks was an interesting (and kinda important) site and all this controversy and hype and shit just distracts from what they should be doing (leaking shit).

They need to separate out the politically neutral (in a particular way at looking at things) activity of leaking stuff from their activist/attention whoring/politically loaded stuff. Otherwise they compromise their former, their stated raison d'etre for the latter.

Yeah I agree, and also if stuff like this is going to get leaked then the people who it is getting leaked from aren't ever going to become more transparent. Wikileaks is probably just going to push them into further secrecy.

Are any other hints needed?

If Julian is arrested/etc, the key gets released, and more data is released - presumably stuff that it worse/more confidential than this stuff.

(Or it's a bluff, and the file is just a big gay zombie porn film.)


Anyway, I've been vaguely aware of the whole stuff, and am kinda interested, but - well, as Xen says, it's mostly just hype.

*shrug*

It'd be nice if all this did have positive effect, but doubtful that it will.

I like wikileaks and I follow it regularly, but yeah - I'd be a lot happier if they just RELEASED stuff without all the spin they put on it. I just want the facts, not the rest.

Being conspicuously in the public eye is their best (and really only) insurance against rendition/death squads/whathaveyou.

 

There is only one way to do that.

You make a good point there. (nj?)

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/08/05/HP/A/36637/Defense+Department+Press+Briefing.aspx

 

ooooh.

 

(that guy seems like a reet dick, tbh)

 

Edit:

 

Oh god, he really really IS a dick. "Return the documents". Destroy all copies? Yeah, and all the thousands and thousands of copies people downloaded from the website to archive..

American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of your Mum.

And you meant it to sting, didn't you, Rendlibobs?