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Someone Is Inscribing All Of WikiLeaks' Infamous Afghan War Logs On Bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/someone-is-inscribing-all-of-wikileaks-infamous-afghan-war-logs-on-bitcoin
https://ordinals.com/inscription/911bffcff4608ab49e639ac55c314d1d8c2b97b51b5573454a5143350f175258i0
https://projectspartacus.org/
https://twitter.com/Stella_Assange/status/1709524946479685791
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/30/assange-extradition-cfaa-hacking/
https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/26/password-cracking-conspiracy-theory-assange-extradition-tria/
Authored by NAMCIOS via BitcoinMagazine.com
What's started with a mysterious inscription on October 7 may end up
turning into the latest global protest in support of journalist and
activist Julian Assange.
As revealed by Bitcoin Magazine, an unknown "Project Spartacus" has
formed in an attempt to immortalize on bitcoin the classified
information that the U.S. government has long alleged Julian Assange
illegally provided to journalists in the infamous Afghan War Diary.
Following the inscription, an anonymous individual has contacted
Bitcoin Magazine claiming responsibility for the project, which aims
to inscribe the tens of thousands of logs from the Afghan War
published by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks in July 2010 into the bitcoin
blockchain.
These logs created a big upheaval in U.S. media at time they were
published, and elicited strong reactions from the country's
government. Notably, the content of the logs not only differed from
what had been presented in mainstream media but also offered troubling
insights into what actually happened in Afghanistan. At times, the
logs raised questions about the conduct of some U.S. military
operations.
On this day in 2006 Julian #Assange created @wikileaks.
Julian is 52 now. He was 38 when WikiLeaks published Collateral
Murder and was last free. The video shows the US army killing a dozen
civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the
rescuers who stopped to… pic.twitter.com/IfISuj83W7
— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) October 4, 2023
The publication of the war logs, which was coordinated with The
Guardian, The New York Times, and others, caused a spur inside the
government. The first indictment brought against Assange focused on an
alleged conspiracy between him and Chelsea Manning to crack an account
on a computer in her military base. Per the charges, the “primary
purpose of the conspiracy was to facilitate Manning’s acquisition and
transmission of classified information.”
However, as reported by The Intercept, it later became clear that the
alleged hacking not only didn’t happen, but it also couldn’t have
happened. New testimony, reported by investigative news site
Shadowproof, also showed that Manning already had authorized access
to, and the ability to exfiltrate, all of the documents that she was
accused of leaking — without receiving any technical help from
WikiLeaks.
In truth, the indictment describes the kinds of activities conducted
by many news organizations and journalists every day, including
obtaining and publishing true information of public interest,
communication between a publisher and a source, and using encryption
tools.
In addition to the Afghan War logs, WikiLeaks also published those of
the Iraq War. This picture depicts a wounded Iraqi being loaded onto a
van during an attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people
in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007.
Ho New / Reuters file
It seems this backdrop is the context through which Project Spartacus
attempts to take a foothold in the bitcoin ecosystem. The project
leverages the Ordinals protocol, a metaprotocol for bitcoin that lets
anyone add arbitrary data to the original cryptocurrency's blokchain.
Given the properties of bitcoin and its decentralized network of
nodes, once data is added to its blockchain it can never be removed or
altered.
Such properties are seemingly great for the use case of combating
censorship of information. Under this light, it seems Project
Spartacus aims to take a stand towards freedom of information and
knowledge, making it impossible for anyone to mess with the data that
Assange risked his life to make public. The journalist currently faces
potential extradition to the U.S., despite being an Australian citizen
and not having committed alleged offenses on U.S. soil. The outcome of
the extradition process remains uncertain, and concerns continue to
grow regarding his future and whether he will ever regain his freedom.
Project Spartacus's website provides a public interface through which
any person can “inscribe” –– Ordinals jargon for adding data to
bitcoin –– a war log. There seem to be no fees associated with this
action apart from network fees, a necessary component to any
transaction submitted to the bitcoin network. The page also features a
"donate" button, which opens up a panel through which
