Wikileaks to publish "biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred.

[Nerd Fangs]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/iraq-war-docs/

A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed.

The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents.

The documents are expected to be published in several weeks.

Overton, who discussed the project with Newsweek, didn’t say how many documents were involved or disclose their origin, but they may be among the leaks that an imprisoned Army intelligence analyst claimed to have sent to WikiLeaks earlier this year.

Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been charged with improperly downloading and leaking classified information, disclosed to a former hacker in May that he had given WikiLeaks a database covering 500,000 events in the Iraq War between 2004 and 2009. Manning said the database included reports, dates, and latitude and longitude of events, as well as casualty figures.

A leak of this sort would vastly dwarf the cache of about 75,000 documents that WikiLeaks published in July from the Afghanistan War. That cache involved field reports from analysts who compiled information from informants and others on incidents and intelligence.

Overton said that his group is working on the new cache of documents with major television networks and print-media outlets in several countries, including the United States, to produce documentaries and stories based on them. The collaboration is similar to what was done in July when WikiLeaks worked with three news outlets — The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel — to simultaneously publish stories on the Afghan War logs.

Overton told Newsweek that the media organizations working on the new Iraq documents have taken into consideration the controversy that surrounded the publication of the Afghan War logs.

WikiLeaks, which published unredacted raw documents on its website at the same time the news outlets published their stories, was criticized by the Defense Department and others for potentially disclosing identifying information that could put the lives of informants and their families in danger. There has been no evidence to date, however, that anyone has suffered actual harm due to the documents.

“We are hugely aware that this is an issue, and we’re taking it very seriously,” Overton said, noting that his organization would not be publishing raw documents but would instead be mining them for information for stories.

The media organizations working with WikiLeaks will each be making financial contributions to the production costs, according to Overton. It’s not clear if this means the media organizations will contribute money to WikiLeaks or will simply be pooling money to produce joint media projects and stories related to the documents.

Overton said he would not be answering any more questions about the issue, when contacted by Threat Level for clarification.

Newsweek has quoted anonymous sources who say that some of the most-disturbing information in the documents relates to the abusive treatment of detainees by Iraqi security forces.

The Defense Department did not respond to a request for comment from Threat Level.

I'm sure when this is released the Arab world will have much more reason to hate Americans beyond burning Qur'ans.

[zuperxtreme]

Good job for wiki, but damn, how the hell do you go through 500000 documents. It's so much info.

[J-KO]

I cant wait for the day their insurance file password is released. And I hope they release the communications between the embassies. That's the important stuff.

[takedrugs_killpeople]

Dope, can't wait

[Rainycity]

we all gon die now.

[5.56 SS109]

Wow, this could be bigger than their story about US military members killing a terrorist armed with an RPG!

[Rocko]

This is finally going to drag every last shitty truth about the Iraq war into the light. I hope Bush has a stroke when he hears about it.

[Morb]

Does Wikileaks ever take responsibility for the people it gets killed?

Nvm, stupid question.

[Struwwelpeter]

somebody finna get kilt

[Vargus]

Originally Posted by Rocko

This is finally going to drag every last shitty truth about the Iraq war into the light. I hope Bush has a stroke when he hears about it.

Bush will just laugh in our faces. "Yea, I did all that. What are you going to do about it?"

[Usama Bin Laden]

*prepares to fap*
I can't wait to see how bad the government gets pwnt over this shit. Also this should provide an interesting opportunity to contrast how things have 'changed' since obama took office as opposed to Bush.

[Struwwelpeter]

ha ha somebody finna get they ass whip

[Shrike]

Originally Posted by Morb

Does Wikileaks ever take responsibility for the people it gets killed?

Nvm, stupid question.

Lol, did Bush and Cheney ever take responsibility for the people they got killed?

Nvm, stupid question.

[Crashwangdoodle]

Originally Posted by Shrike

Lol, did Bush and Cheney ever take responsibility for the people they got killed?

Nvm, stupid question.

i c wat he did thar

But this is awesome, it'll be interesting to see if they have any more info on the all the shit with Blackwater and stuff

[13579]

I'm surprised nobody cracks the password to their insurance file.

[Vargus]

Originally Posted by 13579

I'm surprised nobody cracks the password to their insurance file.

AES256 is not crackable with any current computing technology. The universe would die of heat death before the code was found.

[Mantikore]

pretty interesting. Im sure a large number will be of things that are fairly expected, but some of them being fairly juicy. Of course, how the public perceives all this will depend on the kind of spin either side try put on it

[13579]

Originally Posted by Vargus

AES256 is not crackable with any current computing technology. The universe would die of heat death before the code was found.

I thought I had read something on a method being found a few months ago, nevermind then.

[Irukanji]

Originally Posted by Vargus

AES256 is not crackable with any current computing technology. The universe would die of heat death before the code was found.

I'm sure somebody knows the code, or a system with lesser security knows it. Then you can torture the code out of them, or get in.

EDIT: Don't forget that nothing can ever be truly random

[GreatToKnow]

Originally Posted by ZeppelinRules

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/iraq-war-docs/



I'm sure when this is released the Arab world will have much more reason to hate Americans beyond burning Qur'ans.

I thought wiki leaks was taken offline by the Americans who took wiki leaks to court???

[Vargus]

Originally Posted by Irukanji

I'm sure somebody knows the code, or a system with lesser security knows it. Then you can torture the code out of them, or get in.

EDIT: Don't forget that nothing can ever be truly random

It doesn't have to be random, the key is just too complex to be bruteforced.

Also, there are true random number generators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwar...mber_generator

[Hammer Tank]

Originally Posted by Morb

Does Wikileaks ever take responsibility for the people it gets killed?

Nvm, stupid question.

the responsibility for a murder lies on the person carrying a gun. NOT on the person publishing a website. get your head out of your ass plz

[Morb]

Originally Posted by Hammer Tank

the responsibility for a murder lies on the person carrying a gun. NOT on the person publishing a website. get your head out of your ass plz

The Taliban in Afghanistan has a list of people now who were informing on the Taliban. Now the informers are being murdered one by one (and their families) because of Wikileaks. And no one in Afghanistan is going to feel comfortable about blowing the whistle on the Taliban after this.

This isn't fun and games, when you play whistleblower, you need to take responsibility for what you cause. Wikileaks will suffer nothing in the end over this. And all they have done is they've gotten innocent people killed, they have accomplished nothing more.

If they had more honor, maybe they could accomplish something. But people who do this kind of thing have no honor, and they never do more good than harm.

[Shrike]

That's right it isn't fun and games, and maybe if the US politicians and army had treated it more seriously (or better, not gone in in the first place), then this wouldn't have had to occur.

[i<3Shrooms]

Originally Posted by Morb

The Taliban in Afghanistan has a list of people now who were informing on the Taliban. Now the informers are being murdered one by one (and their families) because of Wikileaks. And no one in Afghanistan is going to feel comfortable about blowing the whistle on the Taliban after this.

This isn't fun and games, when you play whistleblower, you need to take responsibility for what you cause. Wikileaks will suffer nothing in the end over this. And all they have done is they've gotten innocent people killed, they have accomplished nothing more.

If they had more honor, maybe they could accomplish something. But people who do this kind of thing have no honor, and they never do more good than harm.

Yea, well... how are they going to find out the identities?

Also, maybe you should think through the consequences of your own actions, and who you allow to take office, from the governor all the way up to the pres...if 55% of Americans did this we would be alot better off right now...but that ship has sailed, and we will all pay.

[-SpectraL]

Maybe that will teach them to get their long noses out of the affairs of others they have no business interfering with. Let them focus their little war on terrorism within their own borders, and then no informants of theirs need die.