Terror Threat: WikiLeaks Threatens U.S. With Information Nuke

December 5th, 2010 (42) Posted By Pat Dollard.

Sunday Times:

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.

One of the files identified this weekend by The Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file — has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia.

Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets.

The military papers on Guantanamo Bay, yet to be published, have been supplied by Bradley Manning, Assange’s primary source until his arrest in May. Other documents that Assange is confirmed to possess include an aerial video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP files and Bank of America documents.

One of the key files available for download — named insurance.aes256 — appears to be encrypted with a 256-digit key. Experts said last week it was virtually unbreakable.

The US Department of Defence says it is aware of the WikiLeaks insurance file, but has been unable to establish its contents. It has been available for download since July.

Assange has warned he can divulge the classified documents in the insurance file and similar backups if he is detained or the WikiLeaks website is permanently removed from the internet. He has suggested the contents are unredacted, posing a possible security risk for coalition partners around the world.

Assange warned: “We have over a long period of time distributed encrypted backups of material we have yet to release. All we have to do is release the password to that material, and it is instantly available.”

The “doomsday files” are part of a contingency plan drawn up by Assange and his supporters as they face a legal threat. He is wanted in Sweden over sexual assault allegations, and the US administration is reviewing the possibility of legal action after the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables.

Ben Laurie, a London-based computer security expert who has advised WikiLeaks, said: “Julian’s a smart guy and this is an interesting tactic. He will hope it deters anyone from acting against him.”

Nigel Smart, professor of cryptology at Bristol University, said even powerful military computers would be unable to crack the encryption. He said: “This isn’t something that can be broken with a modern computer. You need the key to open it.”

The file is 1.4 gigabytes in size, which would be big enough for a compressed version of all the files released this year and additional data.

Assange said last year that he had been leaked a computer hard drive from an executive at Bank of America and warned this month he was planning a major release on a large American bank. He also claims to have confidential files on BP and other energy companies. Tens of millions of personal computers were hijacked last week in an act of sabotage that crippled the WikiLeaks website. WikiLeaks revealed that a “denial of service” attack that temporarily shut down the website used a network of “zombie” computers, which were infiltrated by the hackers.

WikiLeaks is now battling for its survival. Amazon, which hosted the website, refused further access to its servers last week. A site that provided WikiLeaks with its domain name, EveryDNS.net, also cut off its service because it said it was being inundated with sabotage attacks.

Some of the contingency plans were revealed when the site re-emerged on Friday with a Swiss address, WikiLeaks.ch. The new name was provided by the Swiss Pirate party, which champions internet freedom. Assange has also set up contingency servers in Sweden.

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  • VinceP1974

    This is really starting to irritate me. Why is this albino still alive?

  • http://thecaptiansquarters.blogspot.com/ Capt-Dax

    Inside Job!..

  • USNA1985

    And they want to allow gay drama queens to serve openly in the US military. Good grief!!!

  • RexRexbone

    Blah Blah Blah I am sure Jester is out there waiting to shut your stipid ass down. :gun:

  • ATTILA

    Where is this prick acquiring all of this info?????

    • http://www.1913intel.com - o s g o -

      The majority of the SECRET/NOFOR info was garnered by Private Manning, the gay USARMY intel. analyst who was having personal issues and decided to contribute to WikiLeaks as some sort of rebellious act.

      The other items are submitted by banking insiders, ethical hackers, un-ethical hackers, really, anyone who feels information shouldn’t be kept in the dark.

      While truth is blind, the information can certainly color anyone’s perspective. WL is going for change, by imposing an unethical tax, or corruption tax…on gov’t, corporations or people, e.g, if an org. acts in a devious way, the tax…or risk of disclosure is infinitely more expensive than telling the truth in the first place.

      “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” – Joseph Pulitzer

  • vincenzo4

    Still ni Interpol Warrant, no agressive sense of urgency, no expressed revulsion or desire from Holder, who in my opinion is incompetent, a President who also let this all just slip by unstopped…

    http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/wikileaks-barack-obama-scandal/2010/11/30/id/378500

    “You know it would be something a lower-level official would get fired for, or reprimanded, or suspended,” he says. “And so we live in a culture at the moment that is very lawless in terms of national defense, at least as far as I’m concerned.”

    But in the case of WikiLeaks, Scheuer slams the Obama administration for not cracking down on the illegal possession of stolen materials.

    “The president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States took no action to stop it, and it seems to me this is a clear chain of criminal activity that has very little to do with the First Amendment.

    “It is trafficking in stolen property,” Scheuer says. “When the president weeps his crocodile tears about this is a bad thing happening, clearly he and his administration maybe didn’t want it to happen, but really had no objection to it happening.”

    If a thief gave diamonds or electronic equipment to another party that tried to then sell it, the Justice Department would file criminal charges without hesitation, Scheuer says.

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has stated that the Justice Department and Pentagon are conducting “an active, criminal investigation” to determine if charges can be filed against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who posted the documents.

    But Scheuer believes the administration has done little more than complain, in order to avoid run-ins with the ACLU and the mainstream media.

    “Clearly this administration in particular is in the pocket of the ACLU,” Scheuer tells Newsmax. “They have access to the White House, from what I’ve heard from different people, at all times. But generally speaking, I don’t think the Bush administration was much more eager to take on the media and First Amendment issues.”

  • vincenzo4

    I have concluded at the compromise of the interrogation techniques Obama deliberately and in sinister fashion released-which caused grave damage-is an insider threat of the first order, and nothing short of Russian Active Measures…My humble opinion.

  • Professor Bill

    His contact Bradley Manning is a homo who infiltrated the Army. That dude needs to hang for what he’s done.

  • CJW

    VDH’s Private Papers:: The Confused Morality of WikiLeaks:
    http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson120410.html

    Besides what is in the excellent article by VDH, I’m taking the stand, too, that all of this information was paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars and that this non-citizen has absolutely no right to have the data in his possession, or to read it, or to disseminate any of it. He has not paid the price of admission that the American taxpayer has. And we don’t get to see it, unless there is a need to know. Up his.

  • Tyler520

    Stupid mistake – if they have already been circulated, then there is absolutely no reason to “keep Assange around.” he has essentially played all of his cards

    • Chopper

      Good point!

    • GF

      Wrong. He has the key which can be disseminated in a single tweet. I’m sure other ‘key’ individuals have the key too.

      The real culprit here is Bradley Manning. He should be executed.

      What worries me most is that when Wikileaks released the Afghan and Iraq logs congress did nothing. Now that Wikileaks has released intel on the guys at the top they want to kill Assange. Hmmm?

    • Tyler520

      GF: I will wager with anyone that he or one of the people he forwarded them to will release those documents no matter what. You have to keep in mind that he no longer has sole control

  • DC

    “One of the key files available for download — named insurance.aes256 — appears to be encrypted with a 256-digit key. Experts said last week it was virtually unbreakable.”

    no code is unbreakable….virtually or otherwise. :roll:

  • wwtd

    Suspect his hair will begin to fall out an the sickness will start soon.

    • http://www.1913intel.com - o s g o -

      …Notice how few documents originate from/having to do with the FSB…pretty sure there’s a good reason for that!

  • idi amin dada

    Laugable that he thinks he can threaten the world with impunity. Sick man already.

  • Nick

    Terrorist, ready the air stike.

  • CJW

    WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website’s co-founder:
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=236345

  • John Thomas

    Oh Nooooes! What can he possibly “Leak” about Gitmo??? That the poor prisoners were only allowed one scoop of ice cream? That they only got to play soccer 2 hours a day instead of three? Oh the humanity!!! The majority of what’s been “Leaked” are things everyone seemed to know anyway, but the politicians are too pussified to say out loud. The biggest thing I’ve heard so far is that the U.S. Gummint was threatening countries that didn’t go along with the global warming scam at Copenhagen, but that’s hardly news, right? We know our politicians are full-tilt, fucking criminals anyway. All this “Leaking” seems to simply prove it. This guy is no hero and I wish that Manning could be slowly tortured to death along with all of his supporters, but so far, nothing shocking has been released. If it’s too damaging to the left, the media will cover it up anyway.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipulated-climate-accord

  • odin2012

    This is a lot of politcal monkey shit. :mad: If the Obama administration wanted, they could find him and make him room temp. :mad: The real villain here is the Obama gang. :mad: They want the stuff leaked, they want the drama.
    Really, we the United States have nothing to be ashamed about. We do what we do for the safety of the whole world. Now all the banks secrets is a diffrent story. That is not the fault of the American people.
    Hey….. maybe… this ass hat has secret documents about the space aliens and their plan to use us as a food source…. :roll:

    • kc

      If you only knew :wink:

  • ji

    This is all designed to make the US government look bad.
    Then someone comes along with “Change” and a bunch of dummies say yes, lets change the government.

  • Dean

    Assange didn’t just piss off the American government. It wasn’t just American ‘secrets’ that he revealed. He made enemies of governments around the world, from Russia to China to Europe.

    I’m still in disbelief at all the so called conservatives who are villifying this guy. They scream for a more open government…to reveal the nasty little secrets spoken of in darkened board room meetings and behind closed doors by the elite and yet NOW that someone has had the intestinal fortitude to shed light in the dark places, exposing the criminal politicians and PTB, they want his head on a silver platter.
    To me, that kind of blind double standard is outright insanity.

    • http://www.1913intel.com - o s g o -

      Great comment Dean! Now that’s what I like to see! :beer:

    • Dean

      Perhaps -osgo-. It’s a damned if we do and damned if we don’t situation.

      I do NOT trust the government even a little. There are far too many immoral, unscrupulous elitist around that work very hard to deceive us all.

      They don’t care about anything but their own power and money.

    • Tyler520

      Nevertheless, you have shown that you have absolutely no regard for the concept of “rule of law,” as by law, we have no right to see those documents. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of individual interests.

      You and his followers also disregard the fact that the man is a rapist who looks at kiddie porn, simply dismissing it as a tinfoil conspiracy.

      You also overlook the fact that the man failed to censor the names 0f 40 Iraqi translators and informants during his initial document dump, whose families have since been slaughtered by insurgents who used the Wikileaks documents to track people down. When asked about his reponsibility during a 20/20 interview in 2009, he simply shrugged it off and walked off the set.

      The man is a cookie-cutter narcissist and sociopath.

    • Dean

      “we have no right to see those documents”

      You apparently trust the government. You speak of rule of law. I ask what rule of law and who in the government follows it?
      As an American citizen I have a right to know exactly what my government is up to. I have NO trust in any of them.

      The Obama administrations security is a joke, in fact it is not a laughing matter.
      Obama himself is a disgrace.

  • copperpeony

    The litle pimply boy Manning was the fall guy. The leaks came from the top, thats why this administration has done nothing to stop this third leak.

    Why? Probably many reasons. One being to create chaos. Isn’t that what the NWO is all about? Isn’t that their plan? Question: who payed Assange? Soros?

    We will never know the truth.

  • dirtylitle_billy

    He dead, they’ll kill him and his suppiort network, its obvious more than that little faggot Manning is involved in this.

    Billy

    • moriah

      His (Assange)lawyer works for the Open Society Institute — OSI. This whole thing has Soros written all over it.

  • Rich C

    Call his bluff and get it over with.

  • moriah

    Nothings going to happen to Julian Assange. There’s no-one left with the balls to do anything. (but Putin who murders opposition a a matter of policy) They’ve all been disarmed by Political Correctness. They are going to ignore these “cables” as if not a one of them has been exposed. No-one is doing or saying sh*t because they are afraid of what he has for a hold card. Let the basta*d reveal what morons are running the world.

    Have you noticed how quiet Obama has been?

    • Tyler520

      not to mention, these documents do not reveal anything novel or new. i could have told you 10 years ago that the Saudis and Pakis were traitorous bastards

  • Eric

    The insurance file is prrof that Obama has lied about his eleigibility and many other segments of his past….

    • idi amin dada

      His birth certificate and college records are in there too?

    • Erik

      The insurance file is prrof that Obama has lied about his eleigibility and many other segments of his past….

      rofl how we dont know what it says yet? :roll:

  • Erik

    I have mixed feelings on one hand I KNOW the government is doing shit it shouldnt and is fucking us over and seems to be getting more and more bold every year something NEEDS to stop it, on the other he might be endangering untold amounts of lives american and otherwise and could have very well set off a war in the ME between Iran and Saudi Arabia. If I were him I would just release fucking everything instead of drawing it out, and keep the insurance file just in case, im not justifying what hes doing but I think in the long run its a neccessary evil.

  • Erik

    You and his followers also disregard the fact that the man is a rapist who looks at kiddie porn, simply dismissing it as a tinfoil conspiracy.

    rofl you honestly believe that crap? He happens to leak some gov files, and then coincidentally gets a pedophilia charge, maybe he could be a pedo, but im pretty sure its a trumped up charge its almost OBVIOUS im only stating he might be a pedo on the understanding that anything is possible.