Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency (vice.com) 13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released what it says is 800GB of data from a section of Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body responsible for censorship in the country. On Distributed Denial of Secrets' website, the organization describes the data as coming from a hack and says that Anonymous claimed responsibility. Roskomnadzor is the agency that has in recent days announced a block of Facebook and other websites in the country as the war in Ukraine intensifies.
Specifically, Distributed Denial of Secrets says the data comes from the Roskomnadzor of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Republic of Bashkortostan is in the west of the country. Motherboard found references to the Republic of Bashkortostan in some of the released files. The data is split into two main categories: a series of over 360,000 files totalling in at 526.9GB and which date up to as recently as March 5, and then two databases that are 290.6GB in size, according to Distributed Denial of Secrets' website. "The source, a part of Anonymous, urgently felt the Russian people should have access to information about their government. They also expressed their opposition to the Russian people being cut off from independent media and the outside world," wrote DDoSecrets on its website, as highlighted by Forbes.
"We will soon be releasing the raw data while we look for solutions to extracting the data. One appears to be a legal research database that was, according to the file timestamp, last modified in 2020. The other appears to be a database for HR procedures." Given the size of the leak and timing, they note "it's always possible that something could be modified or planted."
Specifically, Distributed Denial of Secrets says the data comes from the Roskomnadzor of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Republic of Bashkortostan is in the west of the country. Motherboard found references to the Republic of Bashkortostan in some of the released files. The data is split into two main categories: a series of over 360,000 files totalling in at 526.9GB and which date up to as recently as March 5, and then two databases that are 290.6GB in size, according to Distributed Denial of Secrets' website. "The source, a part of Anonymous, urgently felt the Russian people should have access to information about their government. They also expressed their opposition to the Russian people being cut off from independent media and the outside world," wrote DDoSecrets on its website, as highlighted by Forbes.
"We will soon be releasing the raw data while we look for solutions to extracting the data. One appears to be a legal research database that was, according to the file timestamp, last modified in 2020. The other appears to be a database for HR procedures." Given the size of the leak and timing, they note "it's always possible that something could be modified or planted."
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Home Disinformation Depot. (Score:2)
800 gigabytes of disinformation?
I mean, I guess I wouldn't put it past them, but damn that's a lot of lies. Do you even know who you are anymore? You could be a spy. Better ask you. Then ask you again. I mean, you might have lied to you the first time. And I'd hate to see me, myself, and I get into it.
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800 gigabytes of disinformation?
So, someone guessed Tucker's password again, huh?
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Well their funding and social media presence certainly dried up with the sanctions and collapse of the ruble.
They're not the only ones (Score:2)
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Yeah but Putin kills people for talking too much [wikipedia.org]. In that case, presumably because he was telling people about the Moscow apartment bombings.
Links for the files (Score:2)
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Google translate is going to be busy tonight! Machine translation of Russian to English works rather well.
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If you find anything cool in there, let me know.
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Notably (Score:2)
They didn't post it to Wikileaks.