WikiLeaks buys “insurance”


The online whistleblower WikiLeaks is following up its massive exposé of Afghan War secrets by posting a mysterious, encrypted file called “Insurance.” The file size is huge at 1.4Gb, about a hundred times bigger than most of the other files posted. Meanwhile authorities last week detained and questioned a twenty-seven-year-old WikiLeaks volunteer named Jacob Appelbaum. A US citizen, Appelbaum was questioned for three hours and had his laptop computer and three cellphones seized.