proposed plan to disrupt Wikileaks unveiled by 4chan LOLcatters

**D J 1 3 8** · 02-09-2011, 06:27 PM

For a bunch of furry-loving LOLcat weirdos, they have really gotten busy over the wikileaks thing. Tech security firm HBGary (at the behest of the State Dept?), was determined to fuck with them, and instead got their site hacked and all of their confidential Emails released to the public. LOL.
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Full Article
http://www.thetechherald.com/article...kiLeaks?page=1

Cliffs:
HBGary Federal, as well as two other data intelligence firms, worked to develop a strategic plan of attack against WikiLeaks. The plan included pressing a journalist in order to disrupt his support of the organization, cyber attacks, disinformation, and other potential proactive tactics.

The listed mitigations, such as disinformation or submitting false documents, have been discussed before. In 2008, the Pentagon had similar ideas, so that aspect of the document was nothing new.

The proposal starts with an overview of WikiLeaks, including some history and employee statistics. From there it moves into a profile of Julian Assange and an organizational chart. The chart lists several people, including volunteers and actual staff.

One of those listed as a volunteer, Salon.com columnist, Glenn Greenwald, was singled out by the proposal. Greenwald, previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York, has been a vocal supporter of Bradley Manning, who is alleged to have given diplomatic cables and other government information to WikiLeaks. He has yet to be charged in the matter.

Greenwald became a household name in December when he reported on the “inhumane conditions” of Bradley Manning’s confinement at the Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia.

Some of the things mentioned as potential proactive tactics include feeding the fuel between the feuding groups, disinformation, creating messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization, and submitting fake documents to WikiLeaks and then calling out the error.

That last one, about perusing Wikileaks employee's facebook pages for exploitable weaknesses is rather creepy.

The Proposal in full
http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf