Who Reads Dumped Once Confidential Documents?
April 27, 2022
I read “They’ve Leaked Terabytes of Russian Emails, But Who’s Reading?” The write up strikes me as a paean for open information flow in Russia and perhaps other nation states. There is a “way to go” for the distributed Denial of Secrets crowd.
I noted this passage in the original article:
In the “Russia” category, the leaks now include a huge cross-section of Russian society, including banks, oil and gas companies, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Relative to some of the other leaked content sourced by DDoSecrets, the Blagoveshchensk emails represent only a mid-sized leak. The smallest data set (a list of the personal details for 120,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine) is a mere 22MB while the largest (20 years of emails from a Russian state-owned broadcaster) is a whopping 786GB.
Then there is the implicit question, “Who sees this stuff?”
May I offer a few possibilities?
- Individuals at NATO
- Nation states involved in the Five Eyes
- Intelligence analysts within the European Union
- Big data mavens looking for content with which to train smart software
- Curious individuals with access to translate dot google dot com.
There may be others, but the straw man question? Either hand waving or stumbling.
Stephen E Arnold, April 27, 2022
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