Out of Pod Experience

Interestingly it seems Wikileaks, who have been working on the databases leaked by Manning and Snowden, have encrypted a large series of files and seeded them throughout the internet. Piratebay, and other Bittorrent networks ect. WLinsurance files A.B and C, which are 3.32, 46.4 and 325GB respectively. Given all of them are encrypted with AES256, a single 32 character tweet, note in the paper of whatever could decrypt the entire directory.

It appears that this is a response to either Greenwalds partner being detained in Heathrow Airport under anti terror legislation and his equipment confiscated, with no access to a lawyer. It should be noted that this was a Brazilian citizen and was returning form collaborating on a documentary on the subject in Germany.

So, its a catch 22 in some respects, either Wikileaks/The Guardian finish analysing and redacting in their own time or the Authorities get more aggressive and one file is decrypted.. then another... and another. And I don't think we need to go into what the hell takes up 325GB, video most likely or a significantly verifiable database sample of mass communications is most likely.

oh, and the little kerfuffle over the Cables showing the Saudi's wanted the US to take more direct action over Iran over the last batch of Cables....

The Register

How deep does the rabbit hole go

Financial Times
Telegraph

Clever, it appears that they do not trust carrying encrypted files around, especialy top countries where encryption you do not decrypt immediately for the Police gets you a prison sentence, and a repeat of the request to decrypt. Methinks the files are to keep it mirrored on the internet and accessable to the reporters working on it. Download the important bit from bittorrent, decrypt, work with, delete, shred drive. Clever.

fuldog ‏@fuldog 11h

Foolish journalists. If they kept themselves to reporting on things like the royal baby's bowel movements no authority would bother them.

We elect ministers of Parliament locally, who are then members of a party which selects/votes by its own internal means the leader of the party, who then establishes the cabinet.

Thing is, virtually nobody cares for it, and votes for the party regardless of the representative, and Westminster goes along with this too, I think this is the standard for the Westminster parliamentary system used throughout the commonwealth.

I also read reports that the Guardian was contacted by GCHQ telling them that they had "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back" and were citing national security to destroy disks in the Guardians Basement. As I understand, it is illegal in the UK to own encrypted data and not know what the decryption key is.

EDIT Forgot to link article, updated.

And Clinton....

Thats what she said

The intern that is...

still what she said.

No, this is a new insurance file, I've got the old ones too but these three new ones are around 360 times larger than the last one.

It's not like the insurance actually needs to contain anything. If they ever get to the point where they release the key then any person involved in its construction would be dead anyway.

The insurance only has a purpose while it's encrypted.

I guess Snowden also took some precaucions, before he left.

“The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,” said a former intelligence official."

So, be nice to your local sys-admin ;-)