Leaking secrecy

[Porsupah Ree]

Well, well, well.. this should prove interesting, given Wikileaks developed that completely mysterious aversion to posting anything Russian..

The site, Distributed Denial of Secrets, was founded last month by transparency activists. Co-founder Emma Best said the Russian leaks, slated for release Friday, will bring into one place dozens of different archives of hacked material that, at best, have been difficult to locate, and in some cases appear to have disappeared entirely from the web.

“Stuff from politicians, journalists, bankers, folks in oligarch and religious circles, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine,” said Best, a national-security journalist and transparency activist. “Hundreds of thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, along with lots of docs.”

This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked

 

[Soen Eber]

Any bets on what the very first search term will be?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Maybe Assange started out with pure intentions.

Maybe Best is starting out with pure intentions.

Status:
Interested. Ambivalent.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

It's live. ^_^

A group of transparency advocates released a massive number of hacked and leaked Russian documents on Friday in what is being viewed as retaliation against Russia's sharing of hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails to influence the 2016 presidential campaign.

The documents, totaling 175 gigabytes in data, were shared on DDoSecret website and on Internet Archive around the same time on Friday. The scope of the documents shared is far larger than the total known material Russian officials obtained from the DNC and then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The collection of material, called "The Dark Side of the Kremlin," includes insider information such as “hundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists/terrorists in Ukraine,” according to the group that posted the documents.

Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents

 

[danielravennest]

It's live. ^_^

Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents

The Internet Archive has a torrent for it, and it has about 300 peers in the swarm, so this is getting wide distribution. I'm downloading one of the smaller files (228 MB) out of curiosity. Total archive is 108GB...

Update: file is readable, but in Russian of course. Have no idea what it's about, but it contains photos of women, and of an official looking ID wallet. I think people will be digging through this stuff for years.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

The Internet Archive has a torrent for it, and it has about 300 peers in the swarm, so this is getting wide distribution. I'm downloading one of the smaller files (228 MB) out of curiosity. Total archive is 108GB...

grep Трумп file.txt being presumably the first command you'll run once unarchived? ^_^

Might be fun checking the hostnames of the other peers on that torrent..

 

[danielravennest]

Might be fun checking the hostnames of the other peers on that torrent..

Firing up my copy of the torrent, I see a three peers from russia, , one each italy, latvia, poland, and kyev (ukraine), and a bunch that are just IP addresses. Swarm is around 400, so the torrent is getting wide distribution.