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 Syrian-affiliated organizations, including the US Department of the President’s Affairs, Finance, International Relations, Information, Culture, and Transport.

Julian Assange said that the materials are unpleasant for both Syria and its opponents. “The publications will help not only to criticize one group for another, but also to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. Only through an understanding of this conflict can we hope to resolve it, ”said Julian, who is in the Ecuadorian embassy.
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WikiLeaks argues that "Syrian files will shed light on the internal features of the work of the state and the economy, and also show how the West and Western companies say one thing and do something different." The group has access to 2.434.899 emails from 680 different domain names belonging to organizations associated with Syria, but how such a volume of data was obtained was not reported.

The Assange organization provides statistics: the database contains 678.752 email addresses associated with the sent letters, as well as 1,082.447 belonging to other recipients. Approximately 42,000 emails were infected with computer viruses and Trojans. At least 68 thousand letters are written in Russian.

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

Assange is currently at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he is hiding from prosecution on sexual harassment charges, which Assange suggests is a pretext for extradition to the United States.

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