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Seems wrong to assume that this dump hasn't been tampered with or has implicit biases...
by arcaster 8y ago
Seems wrong to assume that this dump hasn't been tampered with or has implicit biases...
- ceejayoz 8y agoSeems like that'd be fairly easy for Wikileaks to show if it were the case.
- ne0n 8y agoIt's right there in the article. > “When Emma contacted me saying the source sent her the same docs too, I took a hash of my original HTML file and it checked out, so she has a copy of the same file as me,” Lee told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message. A hash is a cryptographic fingerprint of a file; if someone has tampered the file at all, those hashes won’t match. > Lee said his source provided an HTML file of the DMs, and then Lee logged into the Twitter account himself and downloaded the direct messages with an automated tool. > “I confirmed that they were authentic (Twitter itself would have had to doctor them) and that the source didn't modify the content in the copy he gave me,” Lee told Motherboard.