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Lamo tells us he sent the logs to Wikileaks "To see if they'd be true to their ethos, and publish something, even if it incriminated a source, or if they'd cov
by tbrownaw 16y ago
Lamo tells us he sent the logs to Wikileaks "To see if they'd be true to their ethos, and publish something, even if it incriminated a source, or if they'd cover it up. I wanted to pose a catch-22.
Um, yeah...
We have since established contact with Nadim Kobeissi, a hacker whose conversations with Adrian Lamo were also leaked.
These are being presented as Wikileaks choosing to identify people who send data to them. While it's a bit difficult to parts what exactly happened, it sounds more like it was really that Wikileaks got hold of some of Lamo's IM sessions and published those. Which seems quite reasonable, given that he's apparently selling people out and spinning inconsistent stories about why.
- tptacek 16y agoNadim alleges that he's the one who provided Assange with the IM transcripts, and that Assange outed him along with the transcripts.
- rbanffy 16y agoIs he absolutely sure he was the only one who could provide Assange the transcript?
- tbrownaw 16y agoSo, you provide a private chat transcript to someone who is in the business of making things public... and then complain that by making that transcript public, they have identified who sent it to them. Please tell me that's not accurate, because it's completely retarded.
- tptacek 16y agoI like this logic. "Anything you tell Julian Assange is fair game". Why, Manning could rightly have expected to be outed directly!
- tbrownaw 16y agoNo, it's the difference between "someone sent me this file" (should always be expected) and "so-and-so sent me this file" (should not be expected). If the file you sent is something that by its intended contents (as opposed to hidden metadata etc) could only have come from you, then WTF are you doing sending it in for publication if you don't want people to put two and two together?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoI don't think he intended for it to be published. He may have made this insufficiently clear, though...