Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers

[Poll_Blind]

Source: Forbes

Someone is trying to spring a leak in Wikileaks.

As the whistle-blower organization prepared earlier this week for a Saturday press conference that some believe will announce a major release of secret data regarding the Iraq war, a staffer wrote Wednesday on the organization’s twitter feed that its “communications infrastructure is currently under attack,” adding the cryptic message “Project BO move to coms channel S. Activate Reston5.”

Read more: blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/10/22/wikileaks-hacked-by-very-skilled-attackers/

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Much more at the link. Worth visiting.

:popcorn:

About 14 hours until the 10AM European press briefing. Daniel Ellsberg, famed for his release of the Pentagon Papers will be present at the press conference and may actually speak. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! did an interview with Ellsberg today. Worth reading.

Maybe we've got a S.E.A.L. team in London who are just going to bomb the whole press conference? National Security and all. They could say they mistook the press briefing for an Afghan Wedding.

PB

[Myrina]

1. Well. Obviously some gov't somewhere is pretty scared of this presser ...

:tinfoilhat: Any ideas? ;-)

[sofa king]

17. Oh yes, I have an idea.

I've been saying it for years, and I'll keep saying it:

* After the invasion of Iraq, the nation's trucking industry was practically cornered by Kellogg, Brown and Root, at the time a subsidiary of Halliburton and closely associated with Vice President Dick Cheney.

As they say in their own words:

The U.S. military has command and control of all KBR's convoys in Iraq, supplying pre-trip threat assessments, determining routes and providing security for all of these convoys. To avoid jeopardizing future convoys, we will not detail the specific security measures that are currently in place. KBR continues to work closely with the military to improve the safety and security of our employees in the region while delivering the essential support services required by the military.

* The U.S. military was also actively pursuing a policy of snap traffic control points, to search for insurgents.

* At the same time, throughout Iraq, up to 56 people a day were dying from gunfire and executions.

* Virtually every week in 2006 and 2007, we read news stories of large numbers of bodies being dumped at various spots in Iraq, especially Baghdad. It began to trail off just in time for the 2008 election season:

Bodies found in Baghdad (usually executed after torture) have shown the steepest decline, from nearly 1,000 reported in January to around 120 in December 2007 .

* The bodies were being dumped in numbers best explained by being transported by the truckload.

* I'd be happy to be corrected, but I believe that in 2006 and 2007, no trucks transporting bodies were ever intercepted by the random traffic control points.

* But Kellogg, Brown and Root was caught hauling bodies, and then using the same truck to serve ice to the troops. They have also been accused of sickening troops by inexpertly burning bodies.

* The United States has plenty of practice running "neutralization" campaigns, most notably the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program">Phoenix Program in Vietnam. According to one estimate, 26,000 people were effectively murdered in an attempt to tear down the Communist leadership network there.

* There appears to be clear circumstantial evidence that a similar operation was conducted without the knowledge of the American people in Iraq from roughly 2005 to the spring of 2007.

But, for the moment, there is no definitive proof....

[Pavulon]

19. So you are saying the US killed them and then drove them? You are misrepresenting

why bother its was a war we could kill them on the spot and save the fuel. You thing someone from KBR stuck with the shit job of loading bodies all day would never take a picture.

You cant take a dump anymore without someone posting a video.

Your link talks about medical waste not bodies.

[defendandprotect]

32. Echoes of Phoenix Program...neutralizing ....

Echoes .... close to echoes of Nazi Germany and Hitler --


and there have also been reports that they were underreporting deaths of

our own troops -- easy to cover when a blackout of coverage on returning bodies!

[Turborama]

2. Reston5 activated

Thanks for the heads up!

[Champion Jack]

3. No shit, if it was only reston4 I would be worried

[kgnu_fan]

21. LOL!

[stray cat]

4. A wikileak hacks wikileak?

[kgnu_fan]

24. is a possibility... you know what $$$ can do

[Pavulon]

5. Play with fire...

seriously what do these people expect to happen, free coke and swedish hookers?

[ret5hd]

6. Just wait till they find out Pavulon is agravated...Reston5 will look like childsplay!

:rofl:

[The abyss]

8. You caused me to snort coffee all over my new keyboard!

LOL

[Pavulon]

14. Guess that means their aspens are turning..

i could give a shit if he wins the nobel peace prize or ends up like gerry bull.

[LanternWaste]

27. I imagine he gives your lack of concer...

I imagine he gives your lack of concern the weight and the credibility it warrants...

[Pavulon]

29. He is probably more concerned with Wired, seems to have a hard on for them..and schmitt

his latest tweetings mention them by name. schmitt did not want blood on his hands and quit.

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/exposed-wikileaks%27-secrets?page=all

[Arctic Dave]

7. I was thinking the same thing about the MIC.

It wasn't going to be coke and hookers forever.

Who would have thought that lying, murder and theft would eventually wear thin on people.

[bigmonkey]

9. I don't think they're complaining, they're reporting.

Your metaphor suggests it's "natural" for this to happen. It's not, it's actually, or should actually be, criminal.

[Pavulon]

13. They are playing spy with stolen classified documents. They are not in the US

the people they are poking in the eye do stuff like stuff jihadi's living in italy in the boot of a car and fly them out of the country. Like I said, the days of groupies and swedish hospitality may be drawing to an end for them.

They are an intelligence agency without a state to protect them, thats like a toddler playing in the interstate.

[bigmonkey]

20. You are evidently on the spooks' side?

It's natural for nation-states to crush citizens? It's shameful, I think, to support such crap by pretending it can't be helped. Try again.

[Pavulon]

22. So your ok with me selling classified data I had

on naval reactors, feed water pump design, later 4 axis precision machining of semisolid plastics, or giving it away for the lulz. I mean China needs that to develop a better two stage thermonuclear weapon.

Even though I signed a document that clearly stated it was a felony to do so, I guess its all good for me to disclose. Even though they probably stole it ten years ago from LANL..

Its not whistle blowing, its a crime. What the fuck does Iceland's diplomatic cables have to do with the war?

Lets be quite clear there is information that will prompt a nation to kill you for disclosing. For either cost of replacement or danger to other agents lives.

Assanges' buddy already quit so he would not have blood on his hands, made it quite public.

This is not play time its reality, he should expect a response. Note his lack of fucking with china or russia, they would kill his family (mom and kid back in oz), straight up.

He will poke the CIA but not people who will dose him with polonium to die a horrible death.

Remember that, they might as well have left a signed card.

[The abyss]

25. Give it a rest Pavulon

You have been absorbing the plots to way too many spy novels.

[Pavulon]

26. Haven't read the one where the guy dumps 300,000 docs for lulz yet..

to get his ego stroked. Because he hates the army, everyone I ever met hated the army. It was like the sun rising in the east. That's a new one, spy for lulz. Like I said the 10 / 10 form is pretty clear. Ten years, 10,000 dollars for violating. You have to sign it, you know like a contract.

Read a fucking paper. Hey whatever happened to that guy who was going to dump the NSA's BOM in a telco closet because he did not get a promotion? Did that ever make it to federal court? Any progress on that gentleman from MI6 found stuffed in a travel bag yet? Poor julian, cant stay in sweden anymore after his unfortunate criminal activity.

Reality is far more interesting than fiction.

[ooglymoogly]

34. When cornered; let loose the red herrings and arm the

straw men for battle.

[Pavulon]

37. Poor gerry bull, decisions have consequences(nt)

[ooglymoogly]

39. Perhaps you or one of your straw men

can pull the trigger; just imagine the joy.

[Pavulon]

40. No we are not china or russia, he is all set. Wake me up when he starts fucking with putin

poor assange will not be worrying about some rape but how much polonium was in his corn flakes. He knows he is safe messing with the US.

I hope this fucker does not die in a plane crash or passing a difficult turd, imagine the tin foil response.

Poor bradley, gets to rot in supermax whilst assange has to be careful which two swedish groupies to bone. See who got the shit end of that deal.

[inwiththenew]

48. His next "leak" is supposedly about Russia and China

An official at the FSB apparently had this to say

"It's essential to remember that given the will and the relevant orders, (Wikileaks) can be made inaccessible forever,"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599202828300

[The abyss]

42. Pavulon likes to play at being some sort of government insider/ex-intelligence guru.

His fantasies include James Bond scenarios.

With the right mind set he can be kind of fun to read. :-)

[Pavulon]

43. No I have a library card and read these things called newspapers

and news wires.. Reality is more interesting than fiction.

[ProudDad]

45. Aw, gee...

Maybe I ought to take him off "Ignore" just for a laugh? :rofl:

[marshall]

10. Where do they think links come from?

The playa got played.

[kgnu_fan]

11. more than a few hackers are informants who lurk in places

[Pavulon]

15. Plenty of informants are "hackers" this all started with social engineering

some 20 year old moron into spending the rest of his life in federal custody. Assange gets the lulz manning, not so much.

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. comms channel S Reston5

roger.... switching....

[kgnu_fan]

16. Whatever it takes to stop this war waged by Military Industrial Complex for theft, murder and

corruption. Destroying and stealing other people's resources and property.... Stop this war!!!

[Pavulon]

18. The one in Iraq that obama stopped like he said he would?(nt)

[24601]

46. "Whatever it takes" is a big blank check. Thanks for accepting

me as absolute dictator for life. Unless of course you didn't mean it.

[kgnu_fan]

23. Ellsberg: Obama ending the war in Iraq, or that it has ended even, is a conscious lie

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/22/wikileaks_prepares_largest_intel_leak_in

<snip>
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Well, that promise has gone the way of his promise to close Guantánamo and a number of other promises. In no way, in the general defense and homeland security area, is he less opaque, more transparent, than Bush. And as I say, he’s being even more aggressive in pursuing prosecution.

One other aspect of that is that—my understanding—is that the impression he’s giving that he’s ending the war in Iraq, or that it has ended even, the war described by these 400,000 documents, is, I think, a conscious lie. I think it’s as much of a lie as Lyndon Johnson’s, when I was working for him and he underestimated for the public the scale and the duration of the war we were getting into. I’ll predict, without having seen these documents—I will make a bet here, I’ll stick my neck out—that there’s no hint in those 400,000 documents, which go up into this year, that President Barack Obama intends to remove our bases from Iraq, next year or the year after or any time in his term. I’ll bet there isn’t even a contingency plan for turning over those bases to Iraqis. And that means that rather than doing what he’s promised, which is to get all American troops out by the end of next year, I think there will be tens of thousands there whenever he leaves office, whether it’s in 2013 or four years after that.

[Pavulon]

28. How many US troops were killed there this month... 1 thats right one guy, link to reality included

I believe more people were killed in Fayetteville in motorcycle accidents this month.

http://icasualties.org/iraq/index.aspx

[kgnu_fan]

30. Well, Julian had an idea that works

http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.

Please donate to WikiLeaks at https://donations.datacell.com/ to defend this information.

[boppers]

31. LOL, it's spawned a hastag meme.

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Reston5

[glitch]

33. K & R nt

[kgnu_fan]

35. Kick and cheer for our brave man with heart of gold

[Pavulon]

36. Bradley Manning? He is the one set to live his life in federal custody

Assange just has to be careful about who he screws to avoid rape allegations. Guess that counts a brave..

[kgnu_fan]

38. Do you see a pattern of stalking in this thread? Please remove this ugly bug.

[underpants]

41. Hmm don't know sounds fishy or PR which is the same

a double story or Ellsberg gets cover for this

[ProudDad]

44. How the hell did the dweebs from CNN do it? (n/t)

[Pavulon]

47. Not even a 6 day news cycle on this story. Lots of work for a few days

exposure..