Wikileaks publishes 2.4 million emails from Syrian authorities

WikiLeaks began publishing 2.4 million emails from Syrian politicians and ministers, as well as related companies.

According to WikiLeaks, these emails were received between August 2008 and March 2012 from 680 Syria-related organizations, including the US Department of the President, Finance, International Affairs, Information, Culture and Transport.

Julian Assange stated that the materials are unpleasant for both Syria and its opponents. “Publications will help not only criticize one group for another, but also understand their interests, actions and thoughts. Only by understanding this conflict can we hope to resolve it, ”said Julian, who is at the Embassy of Ecuador.

WikiLeaks claims that “Syrian files will shed light on the internal characteristics of the state and the economy, and will also show how the West and Western companies say one thing and do the other.” The group has access to 2,434,899 emails from 680 different domain names belonging to organizations related to Syria, but how this amount of data was received is not reported.

Assange’s organization provides statistics: the database contains 678.752 email addresses associated with sent letters, as well as 1.082.447 belonging to other recipients. Approximately 42 thousand emails were infected with computer viruses and trojans. At least 68 thousand letters are written in Russian.

To process such volumes of information, WikiLeaks created a multi-purpose multi-language political data mining system that can cope with such volumes of data. In such a large set of information, it is impossible to check each letter at once, and WikiLeaks published only a certain part of the data. The publication of all documents will stretch for two months.

Assange is currently at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he is hiding from prosecution for sexual harassment, which Assange suggests is a pretext for extradition to the United States.

In early February this year, Anonymous announced that they had gained access to dozens of e-mail accounts of representatives of the Syrian Presidential Administration. Hackers have published correspondence related to his preparation for an interview with the American television channel ABC.