[LINK] CIA honeypot WikiLeaks mirror

[Rick Welykochy]

Ben McGinnes wrote:

> I doubt that's the real reason, but they'll be happy to let people think
> that.  The real reason will be to see what the WikiLeaks staff do with
> access to all these servers via those SSH connections.
>
> I'm sure the WikiLeaks staff would have anticipated this and will
> probably not do anything other than update the sites at this stage.

I strongly doubt that WikiLeaks would so obviosuly incriminate itself
by doing anything other than what it claims to the mirrors. It would be
a smoking gun for the US state.


> Alternatively the CIA could be more interested in tracing the source of
> the updates to their honeypot server(s) in order to trace WikiLeaks
> staff and infrastructure.
>
> I'm also sure that there will be other honeypots among the mirror sites
> run by other agencies, both within the United States and elsewhere.

Which raises the thorny questions of

(a) what risks are those downloading the cables exposing themselves to?
(b) what risks are those maintaining mirrors exposing themselves to?

Persecution/proseuction of either activity is an international legal
quagmire.


cheers
rickw


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