Wikileaks lämnar ut våldtäktsoffer
Associated Press har granskat och gått igenom det material som Wikileaks har valt att publicera och hittat namn och andra uppgifter tillhörande våldtäktsoffer, sjuka barn och enskilda som drabbats av psykisk sjukdom.
Uppgifterna rör enskilda, privatpersoner som inte har något att göra med vare sig de myndigheter som Wikileaks vill exponera eller med de organisationer som Wikileaks säger sig vilja avslöja, skriver AP.
WikiLeaks’ global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found.
In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality is punishable by death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.
”They published everything: my phone, address, name, details,” said a Saudi man who told AP he was bewildered that WikiLeaks had revealed the details of a paternity dispute with a former partner. ”If the family of my wife saw this … Publishing personal stuff like that could destroy people.”
Informationen och uppgifterna finns i en mängd dokument från Saudi arabiska diplomatiska kretsar. Det är sjukjournaler som Wikileaks av outgrundlig anledning inte har plockat bort utan publicerat på nätet.
The Saudi diplomatic cables alone hold at least 124 medical files, according to a sample analyzed by AP. Some described patients with psychiatric conditions, seriously ill children or refugees.
”This has nothing to do with politics or corruption,” said Dr. Nayef al-Fayez, a consultant in the Jordanian capital of Amman who confirmed that a brain cancer patient of his was among those whose details were published to the web. Dr. Adnan Salhab, a retired practitioner in Jordan who also had a patient named in the files, expressed anger when shown the document.
Smittade filer
Säkerhetsexperten Vesselin Bontchev har också gått igenom den stora mängd data och filer som Wikileaks har publicerat från det styrande turkiska partiek APK och hittat över 3 000 filer som är smittade med malware, datavirus och trojaner vilket utgör en högst påtaglig och direkt fara för de journalister och andra som vill titta på materialet.
Dr. Vesselin Bontchev, an assistant professor at the National Laboratory of Computer Virology, whoch is part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, found 3,277 malicious files on WikiLeaks after he scanned the email dump from Turkeys ruling political party (AKP).
Although Bontchev called it run-of-the-mill spam, scams and phishing, he noted that in the future lots of journos will get pwned if a really interesting document is released with malware embedded in it.
After again searching the AKP dump, including spam and duplicates, Bontchevs second report has 3,277 entries. So it those plus the 323 malware instances whoch he listed in his first report.
In his report, he used three columns for each piece of malware he found; the first links to the email on WikiLeaks whoch contains malware. The e-mail itself is safe to view (although the text is usually spam/scam/phish/whatever), he wrote.
