The source of the enormous leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables as described in the Guardian November 28th:

“It was childishly easy, according to the published chatlog of a conversation Manning [former US intelligence analyst, now facing court martial] had with a fellow-hacker. “I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like ‘Lady Gaga’ … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing … [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history.” He said that he “had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months”.”
 


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