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WikiLeaks Posts 'Insurance' File on Its Website

(Aug. 2) -- WikiLeaks, the source of some 90,000 leaked military documents, has uploaded a mysterious file marked "insurance" on its website. The contents of the encrypted file aren't yet known, but those following the federal investigation into the leaks are speculating it could contain previously withheld documents,...

WikiLeaks 'Snitch' Hacker Faces Wrath of His Peers

(July 21) -- The wanted-dead-or-alive posters described him as a "rat bastard." Then there was the spitting and name-calling, things like Snitch! and A**hole! Not to mention the death threats -- none credible enough to warrant Kevlar, but still, Adrian Lamo had good reason to check up on the security arrangements before...

Jacob Appelbaum News From the Web

04/26/12 Leave Your Cellphone at Home Source: n+1 Earlier this year in Wired , writer and intelligence expert James Bamford described the National Security Agency's plans for the Utah Data Center.
04/26/12 Obama escalates in Yemen Source: Salon.com That dramatic warning comes not from an individual who is typically held up as a symbol of anti-government paranoia.
04/25/12 Crime boasting for profit Source: Salon.com That dramatic warning comes not from an individual who is typically held up as a symbol of anti-government paranoia.
04/24/12 Iran Terror to the South! Source: Salon.com That dramatic warning comes not from an individual who is typically held up as a symbol of anti-government paranoia.
04/23/12 Surveillance State evils Source: Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel - Baltimore MD "Th[e National Security Agency's] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. [If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A.] could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back. " _____________

Background on Jacob Appelbaum

Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and hacker. He is currently employed by the University of Washington, and is a core member of the Tor project.

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