Exactly 251,287 pieces of data from 250 US embassies and consulates was turn yesterday by WikiLeaks , andwhile none of the information was particularly shocking , it ’s been draw as the big intelligence information leak in history . Here ’s how it happened :
concord toThe Guardian , which was one of the pick out publication by WikiLeaks to facilitate launch the information , the cable system were copied from the defence department ’s Siprnet connection by a 22 - twelvemonth - sometime soldier , Bradley Manning , who was mould at an army base near Baghdad .
Manning ’s been held in lonely confinement since April , after his unauthorized downloads were detect . According to the soldier , it was all too well-off to gain access to the connection and download the file :
“ I would come in with euphony on a compact disc - RW labelled with something like ‘ Lady Gaga ’ … erase the music … then write a compressed split file . No one suspected a matter … [ I ] hear and back talk - synched to Lady Gaga ’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest datum spillage in American account . ”
number to 1.6 GB of data point , Manning claims that “ entropy should be free . It belongs in the public knowledge base , ” however he made the mistake of IMing another cyber-terrorist , Adrian Lamo , and self-praise of his deeds . Lamo then dobbed him in , while Manning uploaded all of the files to WikiLeaks .
Gawker has a run - downof some of the more “ interesting ” factoids check within the cables , but really , none of it is as horrifying asthe video of an Apache helicopterfiring at Baghdad civilian , which is believe to have been obtained by Manning and released by WikiLeaks back in April . [ The Guardian ]
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