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NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER CLAIMS IT HAS ALL WIKILEAKS CABLES
Tert.am
24.12.10
A Norwegian newspaper has claimed that it has all of the Wikileaks
US State Department cables in unencrypted form and can print the lot
of them without any censorship, The Inquirer reported.
Wikileaks released all of the cables to four of its favourite
newspapers - the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian and Der Spiegel
- on the condition that they could only print the censored versions on
a piecemeal basis. The newspapers have so far made public only about
1,900 of the more than 250,000 leaked US State Department documents.
The rest have been encrypted and placed on servers all around the
world. However Norway's largest circulation daily newspaper Aftenposten
claims that it has the lot.
Aftenposten managing editor Ole Erik Almlid told the Associated Press
that the newspaper has no restrictions on how to use the material
and will be publishing articles about the US documents that it finds
relevant in its online and paper editions.
Almlid has promised to redact sensitive information such as names if
needed, but he said there is no requirement to do so.
He said that the newspaper did not have to pay for the documents but
would not say where he got them from.
There could be three possible scenarios. The tinfoil hat option is
that a world power that likes seeing the US embarrassed has dedicated
some computer time to cracking the password.
Another possibility is that the US, which might prefer to see all of
the documents leaked at once so that reporters will pick out only a
couple of news stories from them, gave the newspaper a copy. Either
of these options is possible, but it is not clear why anyone would
give the entire file to a newspaper in Norway.
The last option is that Aftenposten got the entire file of cables
from someone in Wikileaks. Not everyone in the organisation is happy
with the way Julian Assange is running the operation.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
24.12.10
A Norwegian newspaper has claimed that it has all of the Wikileaks
US State Department cables in unencrypted form and can print the lot
of them without any censorship, The Inquirer reported.
Wikileaks released all of the cables to four of its favourite
newspapers - the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian and Der Spiegel
- on the condition that they could only print the censored versions on
a piecemeal basis. The newspapers have so far made public only about
1,900 of the more than 250,000 leaked US State Department documents.
The rest have been encrypted and placed on servers all around the
world. However Norway's largest circulation daily newspaper Aftenposten
claims that it has the lot.
Aftenposten managing editor Ole Erik Almlid told the Associated Press
that the newspaper has no restrictions on how to use the material
and will be publishing articles about the US documents that it finds
relevant in its online and paper editions.
Almlid has promised to redact sensitive information such as names if
needed, but he said there is no requirement to do so.
He said that the newspaper did not have to pay for the documents but
would not say where he got them from.
There could be three possible scenarios. The tinfoil hat option is
that a world power that likes seeing the US embarrassed has dedicated
some computer time to cracking the password.
Another possibility is that the US, which might prefer to see all of
the documents leaked at once so that reporters will pick out only a
couple of news stories from them, gave the newspaper a copy. Either
of these options is possible, but it is not clear why anyone would
give the entire file to a newspaper in Norway.
The last option is that Aftenposten got the entire file of cables
from someone in Wikileaks. Not everyone in the organisation is happy
with the way Julian Assange is running the operation.
From: A. Papazian