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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 t
by 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 agoSomehow 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...