[LINK] CIA honeypot WikiLeaks mirror

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Ben writes,

> WikiLeaks staff will probably not do anything other than update the
> sites at this stage.


Apparently Wikileaks staff intend opening another leak-site later today:

 http://www.openleaks.org


Interestingly late last week the US Military were taking a rather relaxed
approach to Wikileaks, & info-sharing, in contrast to various politicians.

http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20101208/DEPARTMENTS01/12080301/

Amid the furor over WikiLeaks' release of State Department embassy 
cables, the nation's No. 2 military officer on Wednesday strongly 
endorsed the warfighting value of information-sharing.

"What we've found in many of the cases to be our competitive advantage on 
the battlefield is getting as much knowledge to the edge as you can and 
not knowing exactly on any given day or on any given transaction what 
knowledge is going to be important," Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, 
vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a question-and-
answer session at the National Press Club.

Although the WikiLeaks breach could be a setback for information-sharing 
Cartwright said, "I think probably my job is to make sure that it isn't."

But the balance between need-to-know and need-to-share is fluid, 
Cartwright acknowledged. 

While the military's information technology systems have tended to follow 
the commercial model of disseminating information as quickly as possible, 
he said, they are now being redesigned to detect "anomalous behavior."

"We're moving to both identity- and role-based models so we know who's 
doing what and that they have the right credentials," Cartwright said in 
a brief interview after the forum. 

He did not however, foresee any attempt to restrict the number of people 
with access to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. 
The network is used for transmission of information up to the secret 
classification level.

Although no one has been formally accused of giving the State Department 
records — as well as hundreds of thousands of military documents related 
to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — to WikiLeaks, the military has 
charged Pfc. Bradley Manning with exceeding his authorized access to a 
SIPRNet computer to obtain more than 150,000 diplomatic cables, among 
other alleged offenses.

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Cheers,
Stephen