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Wikileaks didn't leak that in information, it was the german newspaper "Der Freitag" which published the password for the encrypted files .

Wikileaks has worked together with the US authorities to edit the documents.



> Wikileaks didn't leak that in information, it was the german newspaper "Der Freitag" which published the password for the encrypted files .

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/wikileaks-leak/:

> The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named "cables.csv," which is reportedly circulating somewhere on the internet, according to Steffen Kraft, editor of the German paper Der Freitag. Kraft announced last week that his paper had found the file, and easily obtained the password to unlock it.

It sounds like Wikileaks was, at the bare minimum, extremely sloppy.

There's also this:

> After nine months of slow, steady publication, WikiLeaks abruptly opened the spigot last week on its cable publications, spewing out over 130,000 by Monday afternoon – more than half the total database.




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