It was a meaningless piece of information to anyone except the person(s) who created the database.' The paper notes that although the Guardian's book did reveal the passphrase, it did not reveal the location of the file, and that Assange had told the paper that 'it was a temporary password which would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours. The Guardian has downplayed its role in the debacle, while simultaneously revealing a lack of security savvy at the dawn of its relationship with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks called the Guardian's action ' gross negligence or malice.' 'The Guardian disclosure is a violation of the confidentiality agreement between WikiLeaks and Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, signed July 30, 2010,' the group said in a lengthy statement. WikiLeaks blames the Guardian for disclosing the password in a book it published earlier this year about its WikiLeaks collaboration.

But this time third parties have overtaken the secret-spilling site, and the file is already easily found elsewhere. The popular vote favors release, and WikiLeaks has hinted on Twitter its intention to publish. 's keyword search of the file shows that the uncensored cables contain more than 2,000 occurrences of the phrase 'strictly protect', which is used in cables to denote sources of information whose identities diplomats consider confidential. The 1.73-GB file and passphrase were published Thursday on Cryptome, a competing secret-spilling site, after news broke over the last week that the file had been circulating on the internet unnoticed for several months. As details surface about how the leak occurred, it appears that both organizations share the blame. The release of the file comes amidst a heated blame fest between WikiLeaks and the Guardian newspaper in London, which let slip the encrypted version of the database and the decryption key respectively. informants around the globe, has raised concerns that dozens of people could now be in danger. The release of the documents in raw form, including the names of U.S.

State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S.

Strictly breaks torrent