Well why not release the private information from other countries? Don't you think people have the right to know about the shady crap that goes on in China? or in various African countries?
Wikileaks can only release what it is given. If you want them to give the people what they have the "right to know", go and put your amazing hacking skills to some use and get those files for us, thanks.
either way, if my computer hacking skills were up to snuff I'd shut all the WL servers down with the most epic virus ever.
Congratulations, you just lowered your status and all arguments to the level of Plain and the likes. Threats against the site, the employees, etc are not counter-arguments in any way, it's just lazy, pathetic and prving that people are running out of excuses to lambast Wikileaks for what they are doing.
Oh and you would most likely be tried and conviceted of a crime if you did this. You would then be at a lower status than that of Assange and Wikileaks itself. Well done!!!
I believe they (wikileaks and associated journalists) already remove really dangerous stuff.
Yup, from what I can recall names were censored in the release earlier this year (no citation sorry). And as said (and cited by myself before), Wikileaks even offered to let the Pentagondo the censoring itself. Which, if the Pentagon wanted to put the security of its citizens over its pride/image/whatever, might have wanted to do. Basically say "Look, we can't legally stop them from doing this, so we are going to put our citizens safety first and make sure nobody is hurt by this".
The idea is great, indeed - no matter if bluff or not. If it really is AES-256 encrypted data then it would take quite some effort to look inside without knowing the key.
To open up DES takes a $10000 machine built by the University of Kiel :lol: and less than a day of brute-force key testing at about 300 billion keys a second.
https://pic.armedcats.net/n/na/narf/2010/12/06/v4sx35_front_small.jpg
To do the same with AES256 would take incredible amounts of computing power
and incredible amounts of time.
I'd stil bet that a lot of countries would have some people assigned to trying to break it anyway, in the hope they get lucky :lol:
Or the CIA just tapped all conversations with attorneys.
(seems like the easier solution)
To do this legally, they would have to have sufficient evidence that the lawyers had commtted a crime/were highly likely to.
Then again, this is the CIA we're talking about, so the rules probably don't apply as per usual. And I sincerely doubt that the lawyers would discuss the password- I wouldn't be surprised if Assange told them verbally and they just don't discuss it, write it down, etc. These people aren't stupid.
We'll see. His lawyer has told the police that Assange will talk to them at an undetermined time/place. That is (iirc) the same story they were giving when he snuck out of Sweden in the first place.
(Again, no citation). Didn't his lawyers ask for times for Assange to go and give an interview on this whole thing and the Swedish prosecutors refuse?
Anyway, here's a good one-
Assange's lawyers are considering suing Gillard (PM of Aus) for slander. That one could be interesting....