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How to leak a secret and not get caught
by R.A. Hettinga 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/ns-htl011107.php> Public release date: 11-Jan-2007 New Scientist How to leak a secret and not get caught LEAKING a sensitive government document can mean risking a jail sentence - but not for much longer if an online service called WikiLeaks goes ahead. WikiLeaks is designed to allow anyone to post documents on the web without fear of being traced. The creators of the site are thought to include political activists and open-source software engineers, though they are keeping their identities secret. Their goal is to ensure that whistle-blowers and journalists are not thrown into jail for emailing sensitive documents. That was the fate of Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to a 10-year term in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. According to the group's website www.wikileaks.org, its primary targets include China, Russia, and oppressive regimes in Eurasia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. It is not limited to these countries, however, and people anywhere will be able to use the site to reveal unethical behaviour by governments and corporations. Normally an email or a document posted to a website can be traced back to its source because each data packet carries the IP address of the last server that it passed through. To prevent this, WikiLeaks will exploit an anonymising protocol known as The Onion Router (Tor), which routes data through a network of servers that use cryptography to hide the path that the packets took. Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer based in Silicon Valley, California, explains it like this. "Imagine a large room jammed full of people in which many of them are passing around envelopes. How would you know where any of them started?" Julien Pain, a campaigner with Reporters Without Borders in Paris, France, sees Tor as a valuable step towards guaranteeing anonymity. "Enabling cyber-dissidents to leak information is a crucial issue we now face in many countries," he says. There are however, fears that whistle-blowers might still be at risk. "I would not trust my life or even my liberty to Tor," says Ben Laurie, a London-based computer security expert. In the past, determined cryptographers have breached Tor's security, and though each breach has led to improvements to Tor there is always a risk others will be discovered. The WikiLeaks team do not plan to control what is disclosed on the site, raising fears that the anonymity it offers could be misused. "The initiative could drown in fabricated documents, pornographic records or become hijacked to serve vendettas," warns Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC. The safeguard against this, according to the WikiLeaks team, is that false postings will be sniffed out by users, who will be free to comment on what is posted. This is what happens with Wikipedia, which although unconnected to WikiLeaks is based on the same open-source software. "WikiLeaks will provide a forum for the entire global community to examine any document relentlessly for credibility," the site claims. WikiLeaks is raising funds and testing its software. It hopes tolaunch in February. ### Author: New Scientist reporter, Paul Marks -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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by coderman 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

so i'm a little late to the drama party [0], but enjoying the entertainment none the less. a few things are particularly amusing, including the email header, no doubt sailing across a multitude of narus taps in plaintext, forever tying the WL alias to it's intended subject, """ This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. """ as well as a dollar figure behind the psyphon scam, US $3,000,000 dollars, no doubt rationally allocated to posturing and vaporware rather than extending existing best of class solutions. (Tor needs help, in case people haven't noticed :) so much talk of security, social network analysis, urgent privacy [1], and not a single link to SNA avoiding Tor/i2p routing? i'm not one to harsh on the merits of a nice session layer, but when it clearly addresses only half of the stated equation, the implications are not positive. (to be fair, the wikileaks faq and links remedy this [2]) there is lots of talk of super architecture, "WikiLeaks integrates technologies including modified versions of FreeNet, Tor, PGP and software of our own design." [3] but very little details. a freenet and Tor combo would seem to accentuate the deficiencies of each, but perhaps my ignorance is overly jaded. i hope an infrastructure entrusted with critical privacy will display the necessary transparency required for reasonable trust when launched. some interesting bits are also found within, with this judicial position making me wonder when they'll come no-knocking for cable plats and transit schedules: """Although existing authorities do not directly address the subject, it appears that reasonable restrictions upon the possession and dissemination of catastrophically dangerous information can be constitutionally implemented," suggests Stewart Harris of the Appalachian School of Law. See "Restrictions are justifiable," National Law Journal, December 11, 2006. """ (one day you may need a license for intelligence and autonomy! now take your pills and report to your cube...) and nothing makes me chuckle like some fiat ethics: "1. Ethics. We favour, and uphold, ethical behaviour in all circumstances." (a good example, like Ellsberg/pentagon papers mentioned in detail later, is a much better representation of the ethical reasoning desired) did they take up your suggestion, JYA? """If fleecing the CIA is the purpose, I urge setting a much higher funding goal, in the $100M range and up.""" LOL keep "losing it", John. may your age related dementia continue for many score... *grin* 0. WikiLeaks http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak2.htm 1. riseup security overview and measures http://help.riseup.net/security/about/ http://help.riseup.net/security/measures/ 2. WikiLeaks Links (heheh, sorry, i need sleep. but try and say it out loud, i dare you!) http://www.wikileaks.org/links.html [i2p, pgp, privoxy, freenet, gnupg, Tor] 3. WikiLeaks FAQ http://www.wikileaks.org/faq.html 99. someone inevitably wonders why i'm geeking out on privacy from a gmail account. lest you question my sanity (it's eroded in different dimensions), i have no expectation of privacy from plaintext nor hosted service. Tor is a minimum best effort, and in reality it takes more skill and effort than most have at their disposal (for now). so i tentatively concur with this advice, unless you know enough and are skilled enough to know your known unknowns and your unknown unknowns (ah, such wisdom, rummy!): """The Internet is a spying machine and no use of it free of surveillance is possible due to the system's design to allow continuous monitoring by service providers, website operators, security peddlers and government communications regulators across and up and down the transmission stream. Hazards planted in users' boxes are the least threat compared to the Internet's inherent capability of siphoning and archiving data at multiples points without users' knowledge or control. Any website privacy policy which promises protection is a lie, same for any communications or government medium.""" - http://cryptome.org/

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