WASHINGTON (AFP) – Anonymous defended WikiLeaks when it was facing a funding cutoff, but the release of the Stratfor emails appears to be the first direct collaboration between the hackers and the anti-secrecy site.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was coy about the source of the more than five million emails from the Texas-based private intelligence firm which his secret-spilling site began to publish on Monday.
‘As a matter of policy we don’t discuss sourcing or speculate on sources,’ Assange said at a press conference in London, where he is currently fighting extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.
He said WikiLeaks, ‘in its sourcing methodology, deliberately tries to not even know itself where its information comes from, because ultimately that is the strongest protection.’ But Anonymous, a loose-knit international movement of online activists, or ‘hacktivists,’ has repeatedly taken credit for hacking into Stratfor’s computer servers and acknowledged on Monday giving the emails to WikiLeaks.
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