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NatSecGeek

@NatSecGeek@kolektiva.social

Journalist. Autistic. Queer + Nonbinary. Co-founder https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets. Published leaks from 55+ countries. Ба́ба-яга́, Wicked Witch of the Now. #FOIA stuff at https://MuckRock.com. Wife of https://chaos.social/@brazenqueer

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BREAKING: The UK court has ruled that co-founder Julian can appeal his extradition case in a new hearing

Note: The US may be able to preempt this if they provide “satisfactory assurances” on whether Assange can rely on the First Amendment or be subjected to the death penalty.

Assurances due by April 16, adjourned until May 20.

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https://www.wired.com/story/julian-assange-extradite-court-decision-wikileaks/

Much of the US case is based on digital logs of conversations held between WikiLeaks associates and accounts allegedly manned by Assange himself. Ironically, most if not all of this evidence has itself been leaked over the years or otherwise amassed by independent researchers. Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), a WikiLeaks successor, has compiled at least hundreds of thousands of pages of relevant documents from various confidential sources, including those targeted by FBI informers and by the bureau itself via search warrants.

A private database created by DDOS, reviewed by WIRED, currently contains roughly 100 gigabytes’ worth of WikiLeaks material, including several hundred thousand internal emails and tens of thousands of chat logs, many bearing account names known to have been used by Assange personally.

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Emma Best, a journalist and co-founder of DDOS, says it is believed the organization possesses all—or nearly all—of the recorded conversations cited in the US government’s indictment. A large percentage of internal WikiLeaks chatter is said to have been recorded by Sigurdur Thordarson, a former WikiLeaks associate, in the years and months prior to his betrayal of the organization.

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“The case against WikiLeaks and Assange is as misunderstood as it is secretive and important, problems worsened by the many liars involved and the largely vibes-based analysis of it,” she tells WIRED. “The first step to fixing this is simple: Leak the case.”

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Wanna piss off a tech bro? Point out all watches are wearable technology.

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Over 1 million records that disappeared from are still missing https://emma.best/2024/03/02/over-1-million-records-that-disappeared-from-wikileaks-are-still-missing/

In November 2022, all but 3,000 of the ten million documents on the WikiLeaks website had disappeared. Fifteen months later, 1,250,000 are still missing, ranging from diplomatic records to 2016 election emails. Attempting to load them only produces error messages, ranging from 404 pages to server errors and even prompts for passwords.

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If you add the one million missing Syria Files emails, which incorrectly says they published all of, then at least 2.25 million records that WikiLeaks says it published are missing from the website - about 20% of what they released. https://emma.best/2022/07/17/wikileaks-million-missing-e-mails/

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Search results are now so poisoned by ads (especially ads crowded at the top) that I genuinely thought there were NO relevant results to a search I just made

nothankyouplease

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The most impressive feats look the simplest, are the most overlooked, and the least understood.

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Former U.S. spies warned in 2020 that the Hunter Biden scandal had Russian fingerprints. They feel vindicated now. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/former-us-spies-warned-2020-hunter-biden-scandal-russian-fingerprints-rcna140240

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It only took 7 years, but the Department of Transportation finally confirmed that they use a standard version of Outlook for their email system - and the documentation is public.

This makes forcing them to properly perform searches a lot easier

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25 years, over 200 footnotes: the timeline of , and goes deeper than even the most dedicated researchers know: https://emma.best/2024/02/23/russia-assange-and-wikileaks-1998-2023/

Did you know...

  • About Assange's trip to Russia?

  • About the Russian WikiLeaks foundation?

  • About Assange's plan to relocate WikiLeaks to Russia in 2010 , and that his Russian visa was granted?

  • That Putin confirmed Snowden's outreach to Russian officials - even though Snowden denied it?

  • That Russia refused to let Snowden leave Russia?

  • That WikiLeaks seems to have copies of Snowden's data?

  • That WikiLeaks talked to hackers that Assange said "seemed Russian" about transferring the DNC emails?

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If you are a journalist and you repeat someone's claims/assertions/denials uncritically, then you're not a journalist - you're someone's PR bitch.

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(this comment was prompted by a lot of different bits of coverage - before you react and assume I'm talking about you, reflect on why you assume that applies to you/your friend/your idol/IDGAF)

NatSecGeek, to twitter
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The rule may not exist anymore - but the ban does.

NatSecGeek,
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@realhackhistory The policy was removed from their website https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials

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@realhackhistory Absolutely. It's very inconsistent and arbitrary.

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@realhackhistory That was a PII policy, not a broader hacked materials policy, right? (Relevant either way)

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Oh we’re doing “your admins can see your DMs” again?

You’ll never guess what’s true about literally every website that has a DM feature

NatSecGeek,
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@olivvybee I trust my fedi admins when they screw up more than I trust the big companies when they don't

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Any ideas of where to get a database of public WHOIS info? I need to dive deep into something, and looking up individual domains isn't powerful enough

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Stefania Maurizi doesn't even know that WikiLeaks wasn't the one responsible for the Hacking Team information being "published in full"

Buy her new book about /s

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When I think about NFTs too much, I start to become convinced that they were originally a way to demonstrate how ridiculous crypto is but it massively backfired. @molly0xfff

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Did... did PACER get rid of the $3/document maximum?

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Inside you, there are two wolves. Please stop eating the wolves.

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this shit made it into a government document

and you wonder why i think reporters and analysts are lazy

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"It has AI" is the new "military-grade encryption"

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