Website Publishes Half-A-Million Intercepted 9/11 Text Messages

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:19 am, November 26th, 2009

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WL_Hour_Glass_small The timing on this, coming the day before Thanksgiving, is not so great. Nevertheless, Wikileaks, a website that “publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors” has decided to publish 573,000 intercepted text messages sent during the 9/11 attacks. Needless, to say it is not an easy read.

So far Wikileaks says it will not reveal who provided them with the messages beyond acknowledging that they came from sources “ranging from Pentagon employees to messages sent by the NYPD, and even automated messages relayed by computers to their operators.” According to the BBC “Internet analysts say they believe the messages are genuine but federal authorities have refused to comment.”

The messages understandably veer from confusion, to panic, to fear, to expressions of love as people try to sort out what is happening and contact loved ones. Eight years later, the Internet being what it is, it’s hard not to read these messages and also wonder how differently we might have experienced that day, media-wise, had social networking sites like Twitter had been around.

NEXT>>> Intercepted texts, and CNN reports.

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Thanks for the link. It was interesting to glance at and maybe some unknown blogger or low-level media staffer will take the weekend to find the nuggets.

As for myself, I didn’t happen across anything as sad as what’s in the post and my heart goes out to everyone who experienced a loss, but the takeaway for me from this leak — if you’re a bad guy and if you think the authorities are listening, you could disguise your coded messages as junk text or sports scores and no one may be the wiser.