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.
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Mountaineer@aussie.zone 2 months agoThat was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 months ago
sunzu@kbin.run 2 months ago
Can anyone verify if this exchange is factually correct?
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
You could read David Leigh’s book, in which he published the full decryption key: www.amazon.com/…/161039061X
That’s literally how he leaked it.
The wikipedia article on it has the whole “he said - she said”:
en.wikipedia.org/…/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assan…
Including the lie that @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev is parroting about Assange not caring about people dying.