WikiLeaks Was Launched with Documents Intercepted from Tor

wired.com

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"The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor"

What was the name of this activist and why should we believe anything in that article.

Previously when the Wired article was mentioned on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5089703), I did some digging and found that aaronsw.com and tor2web.org were hosted on the same Linode instance IP.

While the sniffing could've happened at any Tor exit node, Tor2web is an insecure public interface into the Tor network and is uniquely positioned to sniff any traffic passing through it. Aaron Swartz could've had tor2web.org record any requests made through it and supplied any interesting results to Wikileaks.

And that's bad, because?

who says it's bad?

oh alright then. it's not surprising either

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