Trapped In the Present Tense by Colette Brooks

Author:Colette Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

As a consequence, Manning was able to download and encrypt sensitive data without detection. But even he couldn’t process hundreds of thousands of classified documents manually (that would have taken forever, like Ellsberg photocopying seven thousand pages of Pentagon Papers one at a time). He used automated programs like Wget and Base64 to collect the documents he would eventually pass on to WikiLeaks.

All he had to do was set the machinery in motion.

After he was finished, he initiated a 7-pass disk erase of his laptop. That procedure took three hours and forty-eight minutes to complete. It would fool casual observers; only a specialist in computer forensics could determine that Manning had compromised 700,000 classified documents over seven months. He wouldn’t be able to hide a single keystroke from someone like that, someone who could reconstruct the Mike Delta Five hash, secure-hash-algorithm-one trail of digital evidence. But it would have taken anyone else forever to find out.

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As it happened, it was Manning himself who accelerated the discovery. By the time the WikiLeaks video came out he was, as he put it, pretty desperate for some non-isolation. He contacted a hacker he’d read about. The two strangers friended each other on Facebook, and started to talk in a private chat room. They had something in common—both could do almost anything with a network connection, and each had grappled with questions of sexuality. (That information would subsequently provoke great interest among the public, but it was only part of what kept Manning up at night now.) Bradass87—his chat nom de plume—needed to unburden himself.

It turned out he wasn’t just a technician. He had a code, jerry-rigged but genuine.

if you saw incredible things, awful things—things that belonged in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in Wash DC—what would you do?

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