Analysis: Digging into the details of the indictment against Julian Assange
A man is reflected in a window of a police van as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen inside after his arrest in London on April 11. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 11 at 11:11 AM On Thursday morning, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that was obtained March 8, 2018. The indictment includes one criminal count: conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
The two, the indictment states, attempted “to knowingly access a computer, without authorization and exceeding authorized access, to obtain [classified] information” and to “willfully communicate, deliver, transmit, and cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same, to any person not entitled to receive it” — Assange and WikiLeaks.If you’re wondering what “decrypt” means, keep reading.
What Manning offered Assange was an LM hash, a password encrypted with the hashing function used by Windows. Assange offers to help, saying that his team has “rainbow tables” for LM.
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