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As reported by the German-language Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,732355,00.html Amazon has kicked WikiLeaks off its servers, possibly upon pressure by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The WikiLeak reports are readily available via eMule, which cannot be controlled by the U.S. government. Downloading them via eMule is very fast, there are currently many sources with high-speed uploads. The attempt to suppress the WikiLeak reports shows the importance, for the freedom of information, of eMule and of the de-centralized eMule/KAD networks.

After the denial of service attack on the WikiLeaks server, it might be conceivable that agencies could try to attack eMule downloaders. Downloading under Win98 might provide some protection, most recent malware (e.g. Stuxnet) doesn't work under Win98.

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As reported by the German-language Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,732355,00.html Amazon has kicked WikiLeaks off its servers, possibly upon pressure by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The WikiLeak reports are readily available via eMule, which cannot be controlled by the U.S. government. Downloading them via eMule is very fast, there are currently many sources with high-speed uploads. The attempt to suppress the WikiLeak reports shows the importance, for the freedom of information, of eMule and of the de-centralized eMule/KAD networks.

After the denial of service attack on the WikiLeaks server, it might be conceivable that agencies could try to attack eMule downloaders. Downloading under Win98 might provide some protection, most recent malware (e.g. Stuxnet) doesn't work under Win98.

Wikileaks = CIA :hello:

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Not so sure, even if there could be infighting between that institution and the State Department..

Unless I am mistaken, there don't seem to be any working bittorrent downloads of cablegate, they seem to have been taken out, or maybe their access is blocked in the US. The decentralized KADemlia part of eMule lists a lot of sources for the encrypted 1.39GB file insurance.aes256 which might become interesting if a key becomes public. The eMule servers don't seem to list this file, strange.

There seem to be also quite a few malicious visitors when one downloads Wikileak stuff with eMule, after half an hour there were 17 clients + 9 banned clients.

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According to Symantec, Stuxnet does run on Windows 98 (everything from Win95/NT on up).

Not so sure, I have different info, Stuxnet is USB + rootkit based, but I may be wrong. How about getting a sample of this government-sponsored malware :whistle: and trying to run it under Win98? This might possibly show the lower vulnerability of running with manufacturer-provided USB drivers vsr running with the generic nusb under Win98.

A sample of Stuxnet may be hard to find: "the Stuxnet worm, or a variation of the virus, had been traded on the black market" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Virus researchers are like stamp collectors, they treat their specimen like precious stamps. "I have one which you don't have... ", and their virus collections are one of their major assets. Wikipedia did not list the current market price of a specimen of Stuxnet.

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A file "Wikilieaks insurance file pass.txt" is being distributed on the mule. Not sure whether it's an advertising gimmick or the real pw. BTW, www.wikileaks.org cannot be reached in the US anymore.

I guess I'll download 7-zip from http://www.7-zip.org/ WinRAR didn't open the file.

Addendum: 7-zip didn't work. Here is a link on how to possibly open file insurance.aes256 http://www.minousoft.com/2010/07/probability-analysis-of-the-insurance-aes256-file-posted-by-wikileaks/ They suggest OpenSSL there.

Another link is http://cryptome.org/0002/wl-diary-mirror.htm Any suggestions on how to try to open the file under Win98 (or WinXP, if no tools exist under Win98)?

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Thanks for the link. I was trying to find a way there this morning. Interesting that my DSL modem picked that moment to corrupt its settings.

The safest way to browse in these directions may be under Win98.

The attacks at Wikileaks are currently the top story of the German-language www.spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,732785,00.html

The only wikileaks domain currently still up is http://www.wikileaks.nl from the Netherlands. They pulled the plug on www.wikileaks.ch which is owned by a Swiss political party. www.wikileaks.de is owned by a German political party. The US seems to act against the freedom of expression of some European political parties, they are represented in the the European Parliament and are the 3rd largest political party in the Swedish Parliament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_%28Sweden%29

12 hours ago there were 50 sources for the file insurance.aes256 on the de-centralized KAD network accessible with eMule, currently it has increased to 115 complete sources. Download speed seems to be 100+ kB/s. The file is apparently not listed by most eMule servers anymore, only via KAD.

"The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops," Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/12/03/news/doc4cf8fb7995b3c846109322.txt

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It is not censorship. Amazon is a private business enterprise. Absent contractual obligations, Amazon has every right to disengage totally from Wikileaks, which itself is a private enterprise, for any reason or no reason.

That's a typical fascist 'tude! (When corrupted executives don't get their way all the time!)

People flat out lying about not censoring need to keep their mouths zipped.

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Maybe here is the answer to what is in the encrypted 1.39GB file insurance.aes256:

Mr Assange said: "The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the US and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form. If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11907641

OT: 50 editors (I didn't know they had that many) of the German-language Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/ are currently going over their pre-release copy.

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The safest way to browse in these directions may be under Win98.

I trust my 98 unit to stand up to anything they can do from the web along with the older Smoothwall unit in front of it. The DSL modem is what I'm not trusting. I'd like to think its failing at that moment was a coincidence but I wouldn't bet on it. Somehow, it locked up. The interface would only half load. It took 2 factory resets to get it to the point I could redo its settings. It's the ISPs modem but I have full access and had disabled remote access, telnet, and UPnP. If it's not a coincidence, I'd be interested to find out just what was done to it.

The link you posted earlier is still working. Going to find that torrent as soon as I can. I was wondering when the takeover of the net was going to happen. Never thought it would start with Wikileaks.

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I was trying to find a way there this morning. Interesting that my DSL modem picked that moment to corrupt its settings.
I trust my 98 unit to stand up to anything they can do from the web along with the older Smoothwall unit in front of it. The DSL modem is what I'm not trusting. I'd like to think its failing at that moment was a coincidence but I wouldn't bet on it. Somehow, it locked up. The interface would only half load. It took 2 factory resets to get it to the point I could redo its settings. It's the ISPs modem but I have full access and had disabled remote access, telnet, and UPnP. If it's not a coincidence, I'd be interested to find out just what was done to it.

Maybe you could improve your DNS settings, both in Windows for each network card used and in your router. A list of uncensored DNS server is at http://www.computerguard.de/liste-alternativer-dns-server-vt5174.html It is conceivable that routers contain backdoors for US agencies. Maybe disabling remote firmware updates in the router may help. One easy way to reset the IP assigned by the US ISP is to change the MAC ID of the router in the router settings.

The link you posted earlier is still working. Going to find that torrent as soon as I can. I was wondering when the takeover of the net was going to happen. Never thought it would start with Wikileaks.
It looks like the torrents for the file are dead. Torrent indexers have been seized by the US government http://torrent-finder.com

The mule seems to be still Ok. Complete sources for the file have increased in the past 12 hours from 115 to 170. It may be advisable to connect only to KAD, not to connect to any emule servers, they appear to be censored and don't list the file, and there may be fake servers.

OT: the ebay subsidiary paypal has just closed/frozen the paypal account of Wikileaks/Wau Holland Foundation, to prevent donations from getting thru http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,732856,00.html

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This thread is way off topic and anyway again, this wikileaks is a government sanctioned psyop IMO.

And btw there are lots of easy to find and uncensored specialized forums where you can debate the pros and cons of that to your heart content...

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This thread is way off topic
Yes, perhaps, but not as far as it looks at the first glance. Wikileaks stands for censorship, and the topic could just as well have been "Censorship, eMule and Windows 98"

I am running the mule concurrently under both WinXP and Win98 to find out whether Win98 is indeed less susceptible to censorship than WinXP. This would be a major advantage of Win98 over WinXP.

I suspect that eventually the mule will be taken out under WinXP, but not under Win98. But this is pure speculation requiring a test ...

Addendum: Unfortunately my internet connection has a limit of about 20 kB/s upload, so my computers will probably be near the bottom of the hit list, and neither WinXP nor Win98 may get taken out, and I may never know the answer to my test.

OT: In the US there is a more-or-less stringent reporting blackout about the cables. Non-reporting or under-reporting. Up-to-date info in English can be obtained here: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/usembassyfiles/

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