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posted by takyon on Saturday January 05 2019, @08:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the coinspiracy dept.

The Dark Overlord Decrypts More 9/11 Insurance Files

On New Year's Eve, Motherboard broke the news that a hacking group known as The Dark Overlord was threatening to release a cache of stolen insurance and legal documents related to the 9/11 attacks. After distributing a small preview set of files, the group has now publicly released a decryption key for more files, meaning anyone can download and read them.

[...] Twitter banned The Dark Overlord's account on Wednesday. Reddit followed suit shortly after. In response, The Dark Overlord is now publishing its announcements on Steemit, a blockchain-based and harder to moderate platform. The Shadow Brokers, a self-described hacking group that released a slew of NSA hacking tools, used the same platform for their communications.

The stolen data itself allegedly comes from a legal firm that advised Hiscox Group, a Hiscox spokesperson previously told Motherboard in a statement. The previously released documents included presentation slide decks, legal correspondence between law firms, and letters from a handful of government agencies. 9/11 conspiracy theorists have been particularly interested in the release of the documents, with internet commenters and several conspiracy-minded YouTubers making videos saying that they hope they will somehow reveal a vast conspiracy around the attacks.

[...] The group released the data after receiving 3 bitcoin, or around $11,000, as part of its self-announced crowdfunding effort.

Does anyone have a link to these documents yet?

Also at the Miami Herald.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @04:12AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @04:12AM (#782670)

    Shit construction. What can I say? The damn thing fell, didn't it? And the official conspiracy theory? Please! The insurance fraud will never become "official", any more than the official Benghazi story will reveal the true crime of state department weapon sales to terrorists in Syria through Libya (or what was left of it). That shit's classified, brother. All we can do is assume the most plausible.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @09:24AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @09:24AM (#782709)

    So no source?

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 06 2019, @04:29PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 06 2019, @04:29PM (#782776) Journal
      As if you had to ask?
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @12:46AM (#782941)

      Where are your sources for your doubts? Government conspiracy theorists feeding the wire services? My sources are my eyes and ears, what's yours? your butt?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:11AM (#783014)

        The point is that you have your own unique alternative theory, like everyone else in this thread apparently. It is not the official one. The government explanation disagrees with your theory. But everything is totally non-mysterious I guess.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @12:54AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @12:54AM (#782948)

      So no source?

      Are you a fucking idiot or what? We know how and why the buildings fell. The only unknown to the public is the financing and internal complicity. Save your bullshit for Infowars!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @05:12AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @05:12AM (#783045)

        Yep, I'm a fucking idiot. I've heard like 5 different theories of why wtc 7 collapsed in this thread alone, all different from the government explanation.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:59AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:59AM (#783071)

          Just proves the government is wrong, or more likely lying. They had a war and domestic power grab to sell. I don't even give a shit anymore. The sale was made, and here we are.

          Find out who financed the deed and who got rich. Let's hope these docs help us reach that goal.

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 07 2019, @04:01PM

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 07 2019, @04:01PM (#783219) Journal
          I agree. You are a fucking idiot. It's not our job to come up with the one, true explanation for the 911 attacks and why what buildings came down like they did.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:27PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:27PM (#782829)

    yeah, except they won awards for it's construction b/c it was designed to take jet impacts and what not.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:04AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:04AM (#783074)

      And Obama won a Peace Prize. What are you trying to say?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @05:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @05:30PM (#783252)

        so many suck ass slaves paying taxes and making excuses for their masters like fucking cowards.