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I didn't realize Twitter and Reddit were suppressing discussion of the blueLeaks data. It's an interesting position to take. If you can discussion of all leake

by ideals 6y ago

I didn't realize Twitter and Reddit were suppressing discussion of the blueLeaks data. It's an interesting position to take. If you can discussion of all leaked data dumps do you draw the line when it is about state actors? Can you discuss Equifax hack, that is about personal information as well, but was done by state actors?

wyxuan 6y ago
Discussion is okay. Twitter and Reddit will allow you to post this link. Doxxing (which posting the denial of secrets link that is discussed could be construed as) is not okay. if you linked a pastebin containing all the info from equifax it would be taken down for example.
rndgermandude 6y ago
Wikileaks actually redacted a lot of (personal) data to protect people (tho some people like to claim again and again they did not). BlueLeaks, it appears, does not, and contains home addresses and other personal information of cops. Create transparency, investigate and show police misconduct? Great! Put cops and their families at risk? Nope!
- throwawayway9 6y ago
  Cops put countless minority and other less-privileged persons lives at risk every single day. Worlds smallest viola.
- anonymousiam 6y ago
  The Julian Assange "poison pill" link was posted on Twitter, and later the password to the archive was also posted. This provided FULL UNREDACTED versions of all the leaked info.
  - throwawayway9 6y ago
    Could you please enlighten us about this "poison pill" link?
    - rangibaby 6y ago
      Google “Wikileaks insurance”
      - throwawayway9 6y ago
        I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but the insurance files it references are from 2010?
        rangibaby 6y ago
        Yes, the insurance file contained unredacted versions of documents Wikileaks had previously shared redacted versions of.
  - rndgermandude 6y ago
    No, no password for any of the so called "insurance files" was ever released, as far as I know and can google. All I can find are recent (2019, 2020) articles talking about the files and how no password was ever revealed. Relatedly, Assange described the files not as "dead man switches" to be unleashed in case of his arrest, extradition, killing as the media liked to portrait it, but instead said that the insurance files contained (unredacted) data that wikileaks intended/intents to release later anyway, in redacted form, and that the encrypted unredacted data was put online to be backups if wikileaks lost the data e.g. due to a raid. The remains of wikileaks activists could then recover the files from the torrents or other people who downloaded the torrents, and could decrypt them to get the data back (but wouldn't release the password into the wild). Of course, that's what he/they said, and he/they might have lied. But so far we don't know, because no password has been released.
    - anonymousiam 6y ago
      Somehow I got the password, but I never decrypted the archive. I remember reading about how it was leaked many years ago. Perhaps somebody has gone through and "cleaned" the archives so it's no longer visible...

by ideals 6y ago

wyxuan 6y ago

Discussion is okay. Twitter and Reddit will allow you to post this link. Doxxing (which posting the denial of secrets link that is discussed could be construed as) is not okay. if you linked a pastebin containing all the info from equifax it would be taken down for example.

rndgermandude 6y ago

Wikileaks actually redacted a lot of (personal) data to protect people (tho some people like to claim again and again they did not). BlueLeaks, it appears, does not, and contains home addresses and other personal information of cops. Create transparency, investigate and show police misconduct? Great! Put cops and their families at risk? Nope!

throwawayway9 6y ago
Cops put countless minority and other less-privileged persons lives at risk every single day. Worlds smallest viola.
anonymousiam 6y ago
The Julian Assange "poison pill" link was posted on Twitter, and later the password to the archive was also posted. This provided FULL UNREDACTED versions of all the leaked info.
- throwawayway9 6y ago
  Could you please enlighten us about this "poison pill" link?
  - rangibaby 6y ago
    Google “Wikileaks insurance”
    - throwawayway9 6y ago
      I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but the insurance files it references are from 2010?
      - rangibaby 6y ago
        Yes, the insurance file contained unredacted versions of documents Wikileaks had previously shared redacted versions of.
- rndgermandude 6y ago
  No, no password for any of the so called "insurance files" was ever released, as far as I know and can google. All I can find are recent (2019, 2020) articles talking about the files and how no password was ever revealed. Relatedly, Assange described the files not as "dead man switches" to be unleashed in case of his arrest, extradition, killing as the media liked to portrait it, but instead said that the insurance files contained (unredacted) data that wikileaks intended/intents to release later anyway, in redacted form, and that the encrypted unredacted data was put online to be backups if wikileaks lost the data e.g. due to a raid. The remains of wikileaks activists could then recover the files from the torrents or other people who downloaded the torrents, and could decrypt them to get the data back (but wouldn't release the password into the wild). Of course, that's what he/they said, and he/they might have lied. But so far we don't know, because no password has been released.
  - anonymousiam 6y ago
    Somehow I got the password, but I never decrypted the archive. I remember reading about how it was leaked many years ago. Perhaps somebody has gone through and "cleaned" the archives so it's no longer visible...