The US court he was in literally said they hadn’t found any evidence of that. It was a core part of this deal that no harm was found.
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AnomalousBit@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yeah, the informants names he purposefully published who were surely executed after will never get to go home. Fuck this guy, sincerely.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
This didn’t happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.
Name one person.
ganksy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Must have been a ton of informants he was protecting in the RNC email dump he chose not to release.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 days ago
IIRC a password providing access to some of the full, unredacted documents was leaked, so despite Wikileaks vetting the documents some names did still get out. It was fairly quickly scrubbed and its believed that nobody was harmed in the end, but it got pretty close.
BeeDemocracy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I have to correct you there. The full unredacted cables are still online on various sites. Including cryptome. They have been online this entire time. Yes, no-one was harmed, but not because they put the cat back in the bag (you can’t). Once other sites had published it, WikiLeaks republished the full trove as a risk-mitigation measure so that the compromised names could quickly make themselves aware that their name was out there. WL also contacted the State Department to try and warn them of the risk. There is footage of this.
The US spent tons of money trying to find anyone who’d been harmed by Manning’s leaks but found no-one.
WikiLeaks had been drip-feeding big stories based on the cables. The compromise of the encryption key to the full unredacted archive by Luke Harding and David Leigh of the Guardian put a stop to this unfortunately.
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 6 days ago
That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.
sunzu@kbin.run 6 days ago
Can anyone verify if this exchange is factually correct?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 days ago
That’s true, but Wikileaks does share at least some of the blame for making the encrypted documents accessible. They’re not immune to leaks themselves and should handle these incredibly sensitive documents accordingly. In this case, they failed to do so and an external party triggered a leak. Wikileaks should probably have deleted the documents alltogether.