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How Did Wikileaks Do It?
grassy_knoll writes "Related to the Wikileaks video recently released and discussed here, the NY Times reports: 'Somehow — it will not say how — WikiLeaks found the necessary computer time to decrypt a graphic video, released Monday, of a United States Army assault in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters. The video has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube, and has been replayed hundreds of times in television news reports.'
The article is light on details; what encryption algorithm was used? Was this a brute force attack? Did someone pass the decryption keys to Wikileaks along with the video? Something else?"
Was this a brute force attack?
I have seen the video and I can positively confirm that it was indeed a brute force attack.
Ezekiel 23:20
They used a farm of PS3s running Linux to crack the encryption. This is why Sony, acting in behalf of the US DOD, removed the "Other OS" installation option and randomly bricked consoles through last week's firmware update, (albeit too late to prevent the video from being released). Also, as documented in FCC filings, Apple's iPad has a secret built-in front camera used to spy on the American people to find the person who leaked the data. That's why the wifi connection is so poor, most of it is saturated sending live video to DHS. Finally. Microsoft is also involved somehow. I'm not sure how, but I'm sure the OOXML file format is somehow involved.
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If someone finds out how they did it, would they it as a WikiLeak?!?!
You almost lost me. Thanks for the car analogy!
>>>>>the ability to do some terrible things without accountability should be reserved for the government. ;)
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>>You've never been on a date have you?
"How do you write women so well?" - receptionist. "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability." - Jack Nicholson. - As Good As It Gets
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Yes, password guessing is typically way faster than brute force.
if it exists, there is goatse of it?
The teachers will crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher.
The problem is not the missing "submit", it's the missing "preview".
Would the leak about how the leak happened be hosted on wikileaks, or do we need a WikiLeaksLeaks?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
But 'killing' is such a negative word. I like to think the army is merely exercising its right to choose to terminate a pregnancy... retroactively. Why should the choice end at birth? We're just talking about post-natal fetuses.
password: Swordfish
"Especially if you are a soldier and think that's funny to kill everything you see"
What kind of world do we live in when someone can't even enjoy their job?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
President, in his mind "God", Barak Hussain Obama has retained the God Given Right of Murder, for what ever reason his troubled mind can invent in his perception of "Commandar and Chief". Perhaps is Ass was itching a "certain" way or his Pinus was "quivering" in a "certain" way. Make no mistake, we have a Mad Man and Chief Executive.
I have not doubt that President Barak Hussain Obama order the Murder.
Reuters much consider, now, that the US considers them a Terrrorists Organization whose members, in total, must at all cost be Murdered on order of the President of the United States of America.
Welcome to Barak Hussain Obama's beautiful America (I hope you are the "correct" race).