BREAKING: ALL WikiLeaks UNREDACTED Cables released !!!

WikiLeaks: Breach has exposed unredacted US cables

September 1, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Thursday that its massive archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables had been exposed in a security breach which it blamed on its one-time partner, Britain's Guardian newspaper.

In a 1,600-word-long editorial posted to the Internet, WikiLeaks accused the Guardian's investigative reporter David Leigh of divulging the password needed to decrypt the files in a book he and another Guardian journalist, Luke Harding, published earlier this year.

(David Leigh, Luke Harding."Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy", 2011)

[link to books.google.com]



An extract from the book, which was published after the encrypted material had gone online:

"Eventually, Assange capitulated. Late at night, after a two-hour debate, he started the process on one of his little netbooks that would enable Leigh to download the entire tranche of cables. The Guardian journalist had to set up the PGP encryption system on his laptop at home across the other side of London. Then he could feed in a password. Assange wrote down on a scrap of paper:

CollectionOfHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay#

“That’s the password,” he said. “But you have to add one extra word when you type it in. You have to put in the word ‘Diplomatic’ before the word ‘History’ Can you remember that?”


[link to www.crikey.com.au]



--- THIS ONE WORKS!! ---

The decrypted file is "z.7z"

[link to cryptome.org] (368MB)

unzips to "cables.csv," about 1.7GB in size

open it with JuJuEdit [link to www.softpedia.com] (FREEware)

Last Edited by andrew on 09/01/2011 12:47 PM