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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @12:33PM (2 children)
Dear it's not free software nor open source. Somebody didn't do their homework.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:34PM
it's under the apache license. https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20License.html [veracrypt.fr]
what are you talking about?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:29PM
Then they better file DMCA requests against these repos: https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/ [veracrypt.fr] https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/code/ci/master/tree/ [sourceforge.net]
https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt [github.com] and https://bitbucket.org/veracrypt/veracrypt/src [bitbucket.org]