In it’s final stand, WikiLeaks is threatening to release US insurance documents if further attempts are made to bring the site offline. Fox News and Mashable are reporting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that if the government tries to make any further attempts to shut down WikiLeaks, they will release several more classified documents.
Amung the documents they are threatening to release are uncensored documents about BP and Guantonomo Bay, as well as a 1 GB “insurance file”, encrypted with a 256 AES key that WikiLeaks says they have the password for. Hundreds of thousand of people have already downloaded the insurance document, but are unable to access it because it is encrypted. The United States government says they are aware that WikiLeaks has the file, but they do not know exactly what it might contain.
WikiLeaks is the whistleblower website that released thousands of Iraq war documents this summer, provided by a former US Military officer that is currently being held in a federal jail while awaiting trial. One week ago, WikiLeaks began releasing another round of documents, ranging from foreign relations to China’s hacking of Google earlier this year.
