emptywheel

Wikileaks didn't publish the data. It is attributed to Guccifer 2.0 (though that attribution has always been really curious). Wikileaks only published a link to it.

Why was that attribution curious? G2 dropped the files and WL asked me to put them into a torrent, which they then tweeted.

Any idea why G2 never linked to them directly from the WP site?

One reason I'm so interested is bc the file is at the core of the skeptics' rebuttals but they've never thought through how it got posted or why it wasn't posted to the WP site.

"G2" used a variety of drop sites and a couple of fronts for variety. The WP site had previously had stuff removed because of content that was dropped there.

Yes. I'm aware of that. But there's no evidence that happened with this particular file/link.

It didn't, but it still provides a reason: a larger dump would be vulnerable at the WP site and could endanger the rest of the content, plus the publicity of dropping it there and the mystery surrounding it. Plus IIRC the content and provenance of it was questionable. /1

So putting it on the WP site would have carried several risks with it, including tainting the rest of the contents there (some of which was modified). 2/2