Wikileaks Hands “Keys” to Putin’s Russian Hacker – Readers, Leakers Tracked(patribotics.wordpress.com)
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Wikileaks Hands “Keys” to Putin’s Russian Hacker – Readers, Leakers Tracked
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What does this analysis show? Nothing except that one of the Wikileaks.org servers is hosted in Russia. And another two are hosted in Western Europe. No single point of failure. No reliance on US friendly countries not to shut down their servers.
> Be Wikileaks about to piss off the governing party (at the time) of the world's major superpower.
> Servers all hosted in countries friendly and under the thumb of the USA (Most western European states)
> Add a server backup in Russia.
This doesn't mean the servers operators had access to any files the public hasn't. As far as we know there is no other data on Wikileaks.org.
Given their propensity for encryption, cryptography, etc., and the knowledge that most major states can access near enough any traffic or server it is highly unlikely that there is anything on there that could be stolen by the server operators.
In other words the Russian server contains near enough the same data as we see by browsing the site.
Regarding being able to log visitors to the site -- Wikileaks forces the leakers to use Tor and access their hidden service, which eliminates the possibility of the Russian sysadmin from seeing who is leaking.