By now we all know Wikileaks doxed DNC donors last week (gizmodo.com/...). This was completely intentional (www.dailykos.com/...). But that wasn’t the only or even the biggest doxxing they did last week. Nope. They also doxxed most of the female population of Turkey:
According to the collective searching capacity of long-term activists and journalists in Turkey, none of the “Erdogan emails” appear to be emails actually from Erdogan or his inner circle...
...this “leak” actually contains spreadsheets of private, sensitive information of what appears to be every female voter in 79 out of 81 provinces in Turkey, including their home addresses and other private information, sometimes including their cellphone numbers. If these women are members of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP), the dumped files also contain their Turkish citizenship ID…
…So, let’s recap.
Last week, Turkey experienced a bloody coup that was stopped by citizens (including women) facing tanks and sniper fire and getting shot and killed. In the midst of all this, an unaccountable group effectively doxxed millions of women and members of a political party targeted by that coup…
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I think I’m not alone in saying this kills any remaining idea that Wikileaks are whitehats, if the antisemitism (www.dailykos.com/...) didn’t do that already. So why the heck does prevailing assumption seem to be that ALL the data they dump is real? It would be just so easy to tweak the data...