[hackerspaces] Wikileaks mass mirroring party

[Yves Quemener]

How so ? From what I understand, no one has yet charged anyone in US about
this whole thing. Amazon and Paypal say helping wikileaks is criminal and a
breach of their contract but neither are judicial authorities.

Wikileaks publishes documents that have been redacted and used by reputable
medias. Arguably, this can be considered journalism.


On 12/05/2010 11:45 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
> There are substantial legal concerns for people who host from within the
> United States.
> 
> Disclaimer necessary.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Bkay <hacking at security4all.be
> <mailto:hacking at security4all.be>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Digitally signing that content would not be a bad idea for those
>     messages.... but which key to trust?
> 
> 
>     On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl
>     <mailto:gmc at sonologic.nl>> wrote:
> 
>         On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:25:28PM +0100, Caspar Clemens Mierau wrote:
>         > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Koen Martens wrote:
>         > > Pardon my paranoia, but what prove do i have that this is indeed
>         > > wikileaks asking me to put their pubkey in a server, and not
>         some evil
>         > > genius building a botnet of willing victims??
>         >
>         > You cannot prove that. But nobody asked for a ssh root access. Just
>         > provide a locked down ftp or stripped ssh account and everything is
>         > fine.
> 
>         That I would do anyway, it just strikes me as an odd way of doing
>         things,
>         even more so because there are also url's circulating with the same
>         instructions on public pastebin's that can be modified by anyone.
> 
>         Gr,
> 
>         Koen
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