Wikileaks Post Encrypted “Insurance” File


thepiratebay.org WIKILEAKS has posted an “insurance” file on its website as US investigators close in on its suspected sources. The freedom of information site, which enraged the Pentagon by publishing 77000 leaked US documents on the Afghan war, uploaded the giant encrypted file amid growing calls for the US Government to block its site. The posting prompted speculation that WikiLeaks wanted to pre-empt any US Government action against it. Cryptome, another whistle-blowing site, suggested that the new file may have been posted as insurance in case something happens to the WikiLeaks website or its founder, Julian Assange. WikiLeaks volunteers could then send out a password allowing access to anyone who had downloaded the file. Meanwhile, US Army investigators have questioned friends in the Boston area of Bradley Manning, the soldier who was arrested in May for allegedly providing WikiLeaks with a classified video of a US helicopter attack in Baghdad in which civilians were killed. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Adrian Lamo, the Californian computer hacker who turned in Mr Manning to the authorities, said he told investigators that the low-level intelligence analyst could not have acted alone. “I didn’t believe he had the technological … expertise to pull this off by himself,” Mr Lamo said. Mr Manning reportedly visited friends in Boston during his home leave in January. The friends now under investigation include