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An internet leak is the unauthorized release of information over the internet.Various types of information and data can be, and have been, "leaked" to the Internet, the most common being personal information, computer software and source code, and artistic works such as books or albums.
Leaked information may be plausibly denied without blame for proposed unpopular measures affecting their perpetrators. People with access to confidential information may find it to their advantage to make it public, without themselves appearing to be responsible for publishing the information.
WikiLeaks (/ ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s /) is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14]
A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1]Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage.
A variation of the canary trap was used in the film Miami Vice, with various rendezvous dates leaked to different groups. In the third-season finale of The Mentalist , the characters use a canary trap (giving different hotel room numbers to different suspects) to uncover a mole within their agency.
In conversations that were leaked in February 2018, Assange expressed a preference for a Republican victory in the 2016 election, saying that "Dems+Media+liberals would [sic] then form a block to reign [sic] in their worst qualities. With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities, dems+media+neoliberals will be mute."
Information leakage happens whenever a system that is designed to be closed to an eavesdropper reveals some information to unauthorized parties nonetheless. In other words: Information leakage occurs when secret information correlates with, or can be correlated with, observable information.
Wikipedia has been accused of deficiencies in comprehensiveness because of its voluntary nature, and of reflecting the systemic biases of its contributors. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger stated in 2004, "when it comes to relatively specialized topics (outside of the interests of most of the contributors), the project's credibility is very ...