WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web

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WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press Writer


LONDON (AP) -- Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named "Insurance" to its website, sparking speculation that those behind the organization may be prepared to release more classified information if authorities interfere with them.

Bloggers have noted that it's 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000 secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan that WikiLeaks dumped onto the Web last month. Contributors to tech sites such as CNet have speculated that the file could be a way of threatening to disclose more information if WikiLeaks' staffers were detained or if the site was attacked, although the organization itself has kept mum.

"As a matter of policy, we do not discuss security procedures," WikiLeaks said Thursday in an e-mail response to questions about the 1.4 gigabyte file.

Editor-in-chief Julian Assange was a bit more expansive - if equally cryptic - in his response to the same line of questioning in a television interview with independent U.S. news network Democracy Now!

"I think it's better that we don't comment on that," Assange said, according to the network's transcript of the interview. "But, you know, one could imagine in a similar situation that it might be worth ensuring that important parts of history do not disappear."

Assange, a former computer hacker, has expressed concern over his safety in the past, complaining of surveillance and telling interviewers that he's been warned away from visiting the United States.

Since the publication of the Afghanistan files, at least one activist associated with the site has been questioned by U.S. authorities. Programmer Jacob Appelbaum, who filled in for Assange at a conference last month, was reportedly detained and questioned about the site by officials after arriving in the U.S. on a flight from the Netherlands.



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHANISTAN_WIKILEAKS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME


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Shouldn't we all find some way to say "thank you" to WikiLeaks --

and all contribute to them?

[Parker CA]

1. 20x larger than the 77k documents already released. There must be some serious stuff in there. K&R!

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Probably multi-media files as opposed to documents

With faces/voices they didn't want to make public.

[marylanddem]

2. Julian Assange is a hero

this is journalism. real journalism.

[Electric Monk]

3. Again? Is this another one?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4486591&mesg_id=4486591

164 recs, from Saturday July 31.

[ljm2002]

4. The K and the R. n/t

[Pavulon]

6. The CIA does not need your money...

either a honeypot or a fast way to get attention.

[cbdo2007]

7. I'd be scared if I was the Wikileaks. Our govt. has done a lot of bad to people for a lot less.

Not that I don't believe in transparency...I guess I"m just glad it's them leaking this stuff and not me, cause they know people are going go be after them.

[earth mom]

8. I am so glad they are doing this. I hope they do the same thing with the BP ECOCIDE in the gulf.

Expose ALL the goddamn bastards! :grr:

[LAGC]

9. Let's not forget about the alleged leaker who made it all possible.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8882876