[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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