Waiting for the first victims of Wikileaks

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Waiting for the first victims of Wikileaks


There were fears that the first killed because of WikiLeaks will appear. Two hundred fifty-one thousand unedited US secret diplomatic messages are posted on the Internet.

The names and addresses of dissidents, diplomats, informers, whistleblowers and agents of the American secret services, and even the personal phone numbers of Queen Beatrix and Dutch politicians have appeared on the Internet.

"All over the world, people whose names have been published are concerned about their safety," said a former high-ranking Dutch intelligence officer. Dissidents and informants who regularly dealt with Americans may be in danger.

Irresponsibility

The authorities are doing everything possible so that the Dutch informers would avoid it. The government considers it irresponsible to publish names and confidential phone numbers and instructed the Prosecutor's Office and the General Intelligence and Security Service (SORB) to sort out [the case].

“We are making every effort to minimize the danger to Dutch interests,” said Premier Rutte. “This is a very serious matter that can be dangerous to people.

SORB is ready to act. “We check messages for threats to national security, study whether there is a leak [of information] and take measures if necessary,” the source said.

The names of citizens who had contacts with the US security services not only in countries such as Iran, China, or countries in the Middle East, but even in the Netherlands themselves, can be read, since they are not extinct.

You can also find phone numbers of high-ranking officials, for example, the mobile phone of Hugo Sibles, the former general manager for political affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Until December of last year, WikiLeaks dropped drop by drop on a censored and nameless diplomatic correspondence, after which dozens of journalists from around the world and human rights organizations studied it from cover to cover, ensuring that no one was hurt because of the publication of [personal] data.

Intrigues

The names were crossed out by twelve crosses. Until yesterday, such a system worked perfectly, but because of internal intrigues and conflicts, everything went awry on the whistleblower site and went awry and uncensored documents on the Internet.

The computer file WikiLeaks with two hundred and fifty one thousand telegrams contained in it became available to everyone after several months ago journalists of the British newspaper "Guardian" published a password in the book. Few people understood that this password is still valid, until the internal Wiklirix dissidents made it a common asset to prove that the former head of the WikiLeaks Julian Assange is careless in dealing with confidential and important sources.

A former employee of the Netherlands military intelligence and security service considers it unnecessary to panic. “These are messages from the US Department of Foreign Affairs, not intelligence. This is dirty work, but there was no leakage of any particularly sensitive data. It is not clear why many names were censored. And vice versa, some of the names that should have been removed were not used up. It is perfectly clear that people on WikiLeaks have no idea what they are doing. ”

Negligence

The end of the whistleblower sites is a complete failure, according to intelligence officials. "There is no guarantee that the agreements will be respected. It sounds very cynical, but during the war it would be up against it, because negligence in handling confidential sources [of information] can cost people their lives. Obviously, they neglect such dangers, or even worse, they just don't care. "

“People think that whistleblower sites are something special, but I assure you that the chance of leakage of data on sources only increases. If you share a secret with someone, then the chance that it will become loose increases by fifty percent. Imagine how big the chance of a leak [information] is if you share your secret with the world, ”said a former intelligence officer who is currently the owner of an enterprise for information communications security.

“Let us explain with an example. In the past, letters were sealed with sealing wax. If a letter arrived with a damaged wax seal, or if the courier did not arrive at all, you knew that the contents of the letter became known to someone else. Now the information is circulating around the world, it can be copied many times and even modified and used as a cover for computer viruses. ”
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  1. 0
    21 September 2011 19: 43
    Yes, and this crap on this site !?
  2. merkawa
    +1
    21 September 2011 23: 58
    This is also an information war.

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