WikiLeaks Backup Plan Could Drop Diplomatic Bomb

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WikiLeaks Backup Plan Could Drop Diplomatic Bomb

Source: CBS News
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010 ... /eveningnews/main7111845.shtml
Published: Dec 2, 2010
Author: Elizabeth Palmer


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has a backup plan should anything happen to him or his notorious document-dumping website.

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Supporters of WikiLeaks around the world are downloading a file the site calls an insurance policy. The files are encrypted with a code so
strong it's unbreakable, even by governments.

If anything happens to Assange or the website, a key will go out to unlock the files. There would then be no way to stop the information from spreading
like wildfire because so many people already have copies.

"What most folks are speculating is that the insurance file contains unreleased information that would be especially embarrassing to the U.S.
government if it were released," said Declan McCullagh, chief political
correspondent for CNET, a CBS company.

In other words, the Interpol arrest warrant may eventually stop Assange but not the spread of even more Wiki-secrets.

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Assange is one of the most reviled or -- depending on a person's point of view -- revered men on Earth. He's in hiding somewhere in or around
London and, CBS News has been told, working hard to keep his site up and
running.