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May 4, 2020

Documents Reveal New Details in WikiLeaks’ Exchanges with Guccifer 2.0

Presented below are the expanded messages between WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, obtained through one of the FBI’s expansive warrants and revealed by recently unsealed documents in the Roger Stones. For context, a handful of messages…

July 18, 2019

Renowned hacker and WikiLeaks source Phineas Fisher says organization misled people about their files

In a PGP-signed statement, a renowned hacker and source for WikiLeaks says the organization knowingly misled people about some of their files

March 20, 2019

Leaker, Liar, Hacker, Hoaxer: The Russian contractor who infiltrated Anonymous

Maksym Igor Popov tricked the FBI, infiltrated LulzSec, got early access to WikiLeaks and used APT infrastructure using a playbook that would return with Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks.

February 20, 2019

In secret recording, police admit to lying about an investigation into a “terroristic threat” against Barrett Brown’s publishers

Early this morning, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Mayor’s office received an email from Barrett Brown containing a secret recording of a phone call, a copy of which was released today by Distributed…

February 13, 2019

Leaked FBI Docs: Hackers used WikiLeaks’ “Spy Files” as a Hit List

Documents from a leaked FBI file reveal more of the symbiotic relationship between WikiLeaks and the hackers that supplied the organization with the Stratfor emails and the Syria files, two of the organization’s largest and most significant publications….

January 7, 2019

The Complete List of 140 Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

Update: After publication, WikiLeaks responded by tweeting a version on pastelink. They posted (and were apparently the first to tweet) 1.3, archived here, compared to v1.2 which was sent out to journalists yesterday. This is…

January 6, 2019

Fidel Narváez’s complaint challenges The Guardian’s reporting about Assange

Fidel Narváez’s complaint to The Guardian over their reporting on Julian Assange contests several articles of key contention. These include reports of a plan to smuggle Assange to Russia, and of a series of meetings…

December 21, 2018

WikiLeaks googles and republishes embassy shopping lists – media partners call it an “exclusive”

On Friday, December 21st, WikiLeaks released a collection of “shopping lists” from American embassies around the world. The release was accompanied by stories from their media partners documenting things like “

December 20, 2018

No, WikiLeaks didn’t create a “trust deficit”

An envoy from the U.K. recently opined that WikiLeaks has created a “trust deficit,” and that the modern age’s increased transparency and openness has hindered diplomatic relations and caused diplomats to rethink how they handle…

November 26, 2018

Technical report shows Russian hacking began hours after WikiLeaks mentioned a reward

Hours before Russian hacking operations targeted Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the spring of 2016, WikiLeaks discussed offering a monetary reward for transcripts of her speeches at Goldman Sachs. Soon after, Russian hackers launched a spear…

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