[LINK] CIA honeypot WikiLeaks mirror
Rick Welykochy
rick at praxis.com.au
Sun Dec 12 10:55:41 AEDT 2010
The CIA has been identified as being responsible for one of
the WikiLeaks mirrors,
http://wikileaks.psytek.net/
presumabley so they can monitor who is downloading the leaks.
<http://pastebin.com/dJ9c8Rh2>
isoteemu 214 points 19 hours ago[-]
I was going thru WikiLeaks mirrors list, and noticed a small
oddity; http://wikileaks.psytek.net was on netblock which
belonged Central Intelligence Agency. It has now changed,
but 010-12-08 12:27:34 (EEST) was still registered for CIA
<http://njuice.com/psyteknet-Google-Search>
Looks like the CIA created a "honeypot" wikileaks mirror at
wikileaks.psytek.net, presumably to see who is downloading
the leaks—but they screwed up the anonymization. A quick
Google reveals who's behind psytek.net. Wonder what other mirrors
they set up, but with better cloaking? Here's a related Reddit thread.
As the second post indicates, it will be very difficult for those eager
to view the cables to distinguish between CIA and non-CIA WikiLeaks mirrors.
cheers
rickw
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