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This seems to be counter to the goals of the attackers, no? Problem: Site is disseminating information that you view as confidential at a slow rate. Solution:
by etherael 16y ago
This seems to be counter to the goals of the attackers, no?
Problem: Site is disseminating information that you view as confidential at a slow rate.
Solution: DDoS / otherwise stop the site.
Catch: The entire archive of unfiltered content is already widely disseminated via a non-DDoSable channel and in the event that you ever actually manage to succeed at your stated goal there is almost certainly a dead man's switch to trigger distribution of the cryptographic key to unlock said information.
It seems to me that by pushing this option you just bring the "enemy" closer to the nuclear option of simultaneous, mass, unfiltered release. Unless you think they're bluffing with the insurance file, I suppose? Doesn't sound like a good risk to take.
- dandelany 16y ago>by pushing this option you just bring the "enemy" closer to the nuclear option of simultaneous, mass, unfiltered release Perhaps, but maybe this is the goal. Wikileaks' stated reason for staggering the release of the material is "to ensure that there is time for them to be written about, commented on and discussed widely in public". Maybe someone knows there's a scandalous cable somewhere in there and believes they can minimize the chance of it being noticed by the media by hiding it in the deluge of a simultaneous release.
- exit 16y agoi doubt the attackers care what wikileaks disseminates, except insofar as it makes them a high profile target.
- eli 16y agoBuncha bored kids, no doubt.