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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @05:29AM (5 children)
There is no other explanation for the collapsed that doesnt involve ignoring evidence or simulatimg a poorly designed skyscraper
Really? Having a background in construction tells me otherwise.
I can even use the vaunted conspiracy theory goto 'building 7'. A controlled explosion would have brought the whole thing down. It failed due to fire. Due to the fact across the street ANOTHER 2 large buildings had collapsed on top of the water mains and most of the fire fighters in the area being dead. Those noises heard where the load bearing members snapping like twigs as they failed due to heat stress.
Most people think buildings are these massive rigid structures. No. They are more like toothpicks held together with gum. They sway. They flex. They move. They are built by the lowest bidder. This is the same city that can not get its shit together to replace some train tracks and some signals in their subway despite billions of dollars spent. Yet somehow these buildings were to be masterpieces of construction that could withstand nuclear blasts. I am going to say that seems unlikely.
You are using occams razor wrong The simpliest idea is they failed due to 2 airplanes that were filmed and witness flying into WTC1 and 2. Those buildings collapsed due to heat stress of the load bearing floor supports and several thousand tons of 2 jets sitting on floors not meant to support that weight? How much does a 737 weigh? How much can 1 floor of the WTC support. I am going to go out on a limb and say NOT the weight of a jet. 7 caught fire due to flaming jet fuel and debris from WTC1 and WTC2.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @09:31AM
So you agree the official explanation is wrong? Or you just dont realize what it is?
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 06 2019, @11:49AM
You know, we had a fire at Trump Tower. Almost a year ago. So many people in Trump Tower. Getting a lot of work done. Or just having a fabulous time -- whether it's fine dining, shopping or "sex." Very popular building, a lot of people there when the fire happened. But, nobody injured in that one. twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/950344716637360128 [twitter.com]
And, we had another fire in April. Also VERY CONFINED. Because it's what we call a well built building. No sprinklers. So many people said, "oh, what about Sprinklers, where are the Sprinklers?" I'll tell you, nobody knew from Sprinklers when we did the Design for that one. So we designed it, very successfully, with ZERO Sprinklers. But it's a magnificent design, that fire did very little damage. Because our firemen (and women firemen) did a tremendous job. THANK YOU!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @12:49PM
What type of gum? And what flavor??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:23PM (1 child)
no, you lazy slave. that's not what happened. it was demolished just like larry silverstein said on tape. go read 9/11 commission report omissions and distortions, for starters. if you think the twin towers fell due to the plains you're pathetic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @09:26PM
Doubt anybody claimed that they collapsed due to plains.