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Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild?
by tootie 6y ago
Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild?
- dleslie 6y agoIIRC, that was the Guardian, who was provided the key in trust in order to help publish the data.
- 9387367 6y ago> Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild? No. > WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange phoned the White House to warn lives would be put at risk by the publication of cables online, a court has heard. > On 25 August, 2011, German news outlet Der Freitag revealed that it was possible to access the unredacted database of cables by using a mirror site and a 58-key password that had been published in a book by The Guardian earlier in the year. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wikileaks-julian-assange-white-house-hillary-clinton-chelsea-manning-a9359191.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wikileaks-...
- mike00632 6y agohttps://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html No. Wikileaks did indeed accidentally give out the decryption key to the encrypted trove they published from the Manning leaks. There is probably still a torrent available of the full, unredacted scrape of Secret data from the SIPR network.