By Laurelai Bailey
Wikileaks has time and time again denied any connections to Russia or the Russian state, but – like Donald Trump – they are lying. This weekend, it was exposed on Twitter that they acquired major Russian servers – from a known hacker – one week before the Podesta emails were released.
I will walk you through the proof, since its a little complex for non computer experts. So let’s start with a primer.
All websites on the internet have an address, much like houses in the real world. This address are usually names and things you recognize, like google.com or amazon.com. But behind that address there are a series of numbers, unique to each server known as internet protocol addresses. If you have ever had to log in to your wireless router, you wound up typing a number into your browser like 192.168.1.1, this is an IP address.
Now IP addresses have physical locations, in the real world, and tools exist to discover where those addresses are.
Wikileaks -like every other website – has servers and IP addresses behind the domain name “wikileaks.org”. When we do a command on a linux machine called “dig” we find out all of the IP addresses behind the domain name. Here is the output of the dig command. Don’t worry if you can’t understand this part – just scroll down to the rest of the article. The writing in the middle explains it, but for those that want proof, we need to list how we get from a to b.
dig wikileaks.org
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.4 <<>> wikileaks.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4839
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 8
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wikileaks.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 95.211.113.154
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 141.105.65.113
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 141.105.69.239
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 195.35.109.44
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 195.35.109.53
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 95.211.113.131
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wikileaks.org. 1470 IN NS ns2.wikileaks.org.
wikileaks.org. 1470 IN NS ns1.wikileaks.org.
wikileaks.org. 1470 IN NS ns4.wikileaks.org.
wikileaks.org. 1470 IN NS ns3.wikileaks.org.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 46.28.206.81
ns2.wikileaks.org. 83083 IN A 46.28.206.82
ns3.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 95.211.113.131
ns3.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 195.35.109.54
ns3.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 31.192.105.18
ns4.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 195.35.109.44
ns4.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 95.211.113.154
ns4.wikileaks.org. 80774 IN A 141.105.65.114
;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 213.186.33.99#53(213.186.33.99)
;; WHEN: Fri Mar 10 16:21:37 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 327
Now the above might mostly seem like junk to you, if you don’t speak computer, so we’ll cut out everything not that’s not relevant and focus on what is relevant, namely, these two addresses:
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 141.105.65.113
wikileaks.org. 600 IN A 141.105.69.239
When you look up these addresses, listed above, via a command known as “whois”, you can find their physical location in the real world.
organisation: ORG-MTL21-RIPE
org-name: Mir Telematiki Ltd
org-type: LIR
address: Barabannii pereulok 4/4
address: 107023
address: Moscow
address: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
phone: +7 495 369 9796
fax-no: +7 495 369 9796
mnt-ref: MTLM-MNT
mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: MTLM-MNT
abuse-mailbox: abuse@hostkey.ru
abuse-c: HA2800-RIPE
created: 2010-10-06T10:46:46Z
last-modified: 2016-09-30T12:14:19Z
source: RIPE # Filtered
This information is the same for both IP addresses, and if you notice the last modified date as “2016-09-30” that is when the IP address’s pointing to a server was changed. So we can safely bet that this is when wikileaks added these addresses to their systems.
In turn, this proves Wikileaks gained Russian hosting on September 30th 2016, one week before the Podesta emails were made public. Wikileaks got Russian Federation virtual addresses one week before the Podesta emails. Let that sink in.
Now the actual owner of the IP addresses is a man by the name of Peter Chayanov, whose IP addresses have hosted spammers and hackers, according to my sources, who work in internet backbone companies.
Chayanov’s IP space is a virtual equivalent of a bad neighborhood that makes you lock your car doors when you drive through it. So this further implies a connection to Wikileaks and Russian hackers. That sort of stuff is Chayanov’s day job. And, further, it’s important to remember, this web host also stays around at the consent of the Russian government despite (or because of?) being known cyber criminal hosts.
The other addresses I told you to ignore before? When you do a whois on wikileaks itself you get shown IP’s in Amsterdam and Zurich, ones that make much more sense to have since they are in countries with strong freedom of speech and transparency laws. Places you would want an organization like that in, but the Russian IP spaces, to be visible to you have to be dug for carefully to find them. They did a fairly good job obfuscating it, but the records will always be able to be found.
Mr. Chayanov did not disguise his hosting carefully enough. And when he was exposed this weekend on Twitter, he made matters worse by deleting his account at once.
So why would Wikileaks, a “transparency” org acquire hosting in a country thats known to assassinate whistleblowers? Especially ones that challenge Trumps presidency? It makes no sense for people who claim to be for transparency to take up virtual residence in an autocratic nation that might try to kill them. So why would they do it? Well, it’s pretty simple; they would only be there with the consent of the Russian government, ieVladimir Putin. He wants them to be there and allows them to be there.
Why would he do that? Sounds an awful lot like putting a rattlesnake in your own bed to keep the neighbors away. That is if wikileaks was as neutral and would leak against anyone like they claim. Putin might be an autocrat, but he isn’t an idiot.
He would not allow them there unless he got something out of it for himself, like immunity to being leaked against or by having influence over what gets leaked and when. Putin like all politicians is a self interested lout and acts in ways that keep him in power. Much like many other world leaders. So wikileaks dropping info on the US alone isn’t enough to allow them to stay, he knows he would be next on the leaking list.
So that strongly suggests Russia is getting some kind of favorable or special treatment. Its also likely that the CIA was already aware of this and that this is part of the information they base their claims of Russian interference on. When you see this alone its enough to strongly suggests collusion with the Russian government either directly or indirectly.
So it seems fairly sure to me that Wikileaks is now in bed with the Russian government in some form or fashion. Will we shortly discover that Mr. Chayanov is also connected to Guccifer2?
Laurelai Bailey was an original Wikileaks activist.
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