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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday August 31 2016, @09:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the use-some-common-sense dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks has been criticised for not doing enough to screen sensitive information found in documents released via the site. [...] What has AP found? The news organisation combed through the site and found many instances where sensitive personal information was easily viewable in documents and files.

In the worst cases the information revealed could put lives at risk or lead to people being jailed or harassed, it said.

It is not the only risk involved with information on the site. Security researcher Vesselin Bontchev found more than 3,000 links to files that contained malware. The links were in a dump of emails from Turkey's ruling political party, the AKP.

However, it has taken some action to make it harder to fall victim to malware in the AKP files - though the dangerous links have not been completely removed.

[...] Is harm being done? Human rights groups have asked Wikileaks many times to do more to censor information found in documents. They fear reprisals against aid workers, activists and civilians named in the leaked data.

In addition, AP said it had evidence that fraudsters had used credit card numbers and other personal details revealed in some documents. Other leaks have led to people losing their jobs, or have ended relationships.

The US government has condemned Wikileaks several times, saying its work has harmed diplomatic relations and put the lives of staff in sensitive positions at risk.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Wednesday August 31 2016, @10:56PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday August 31 2016, @10:56PM (#395911)

    1. for myself, i am TOTALLY over 'our' (sic) police state, from top to bottom... DO NOT believe for ONE nano-second it makes US 'safer' in any meaningful way...
    2. i DO NOT for ONE femto-second believe the state lies and propaganda that 'we' (meaning 'we the people', not the 'royal we' of the korporatocracy) are made 'safer' in any meaningful way from the 170+ bases we have IMPOSED around the globe, nor the massive war machine that implies... not the bombing/droning of brown people all over the globe; not the rendition/torture of random mooselimbs; not the security theater of airports, etc; not the debasement, dereliction, and destruction of basic rights; not the persecution of True Patriots attempting to unveil heinous and hypocritical skullduggery; not the constant refrain of terror, Terror, TERROR ! ! !; NOT ANYTHING 'our' (sic) leaders claim is why we 'have to' abandon all hope and reason and capitulate to whatever jingoistic nonsense they spout that moment...
    fuck'em...
    3. i DO NOT believe the present system can be 'repaired' or recaptured from the wizened claws of the puppetmasters; this is a one-way street now...
    4. in that vein: screw the TOTALITY of the spook bidness and all the boys in black... as far as i am concerned, release EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE, totally un-redacted, and let the TRAITOROUS cockroaches run for the hills...

    and, right on, kap...

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by edIII on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:18PM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:18PM (#395923)

    not the rendition/torture of random mooselimbs

    Those poor Moose :(

    Does Canada know?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:25PM (#395928)

      A Møøse once bit my sister. No realli! She was Karving her initals on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:35PM (#395932)

        Bite marks are my fetish and your sister is høt.

      • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:22AM

        by edIII (791) on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:22AM (#395976)

        For extra fun, read this in the voice of Zap Brannigan trying to hit on a woman.

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