More entertainment from the whole Wikileaks business. Now Iranian IT experts are weighing in. And no doubt they are as credible (or as little) as US IT experts. Caveat emptor is the best defense against the whole benighted world of “spies,” “snitches,” “leakers” and “hackers.”

No need to trust Messiahs, even when they come armed with hacker credentials…

Expert Cautions about Intelligence Trap in WikiLeaks ‘Insurance’ File

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian IT expert warned here on Wednesday that a mysterious download file posted by the WikiLeaks website, labeled as ‘Insurance’, is likely a spy software used for identifying the information centers of the United States’ foes.

“The mysterious file of the WikiLeaks might be a trap for intelligence gathering,” Hossein Mohammadi told FNA on Wednesday.

The expert added that the file will attract US opponents and Washington experts can identify their enemy centers by monitoring individuals’ or organizations’ tendency and enthusiasm for the file.

Meantime, the expert said that the file is not so dangerous to the US as it is claimed because of its encrypted information and password lock.

Although the website manager has warned that he would disclose the password in the event of a “takedown” of WikiLeaks by the US authorities or if anything happens to its founder, Julian Assange, all those who download the file cannot see and use its contents because it has a password, and unlocking the file and processing its encrypted information requires access to super-computers normally owned by giant organizations and IT centers, he said.

“Then the US can find supercomputers, secrete sites, strategically important centers of the opponent countries, specially China, Russia and Iran, through the downloaded file,” the expert noted.

Earlier, the western media reported that in the wake of strong US administration statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.”

The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file’s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site.

WikiLeaks posted several files containing the 77,000 Afghan war documents in a single “dump” file and in several other files containing versions of the documents in various searchable formats.

It’s not known what the file contains but it could include the balance of data that US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning claimed to have leaked to Assange before he was arrested in May.

In chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo, Manning disclosed that he had provided Assange with a different war log cache than the one that WikiLeaks already published.

This one was said to contain 500,000 events from the Iraq War between 2004 and 2009. WikiLeaks has never commented on whether it received that cache.

Additionally, Manning said he sent Assange video showing a deadly 2009 US firefight near the Garani village in Afghanistan that local authorities say killed 100 civilians, most of them children, as well as 260,000 US State Department cables. “