{"id":31587,"date":"2017-03-07T01:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/what-is-wikileaks-vault-7-photos-clues-heavy-com.php"},"modified":"2017-03-07T01:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:43:30","slug":"what-is-wikileaks-vault-7-photos-clues-heavy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wikileaks\/what-is-wikileaks-vault-7-photos-clues-heavy-com.php","title":{"rendered":"What Is WikiLeaks&#8217; Vault 7? Photos &amp; Clues &#8211; Heavy.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      Julian Assange(Getty)    <\/p>\n<p>    After releasing a series of very cryptic #Vault7 messages in    early February, WikiLeaks has finally released a file that    contains the mysterious Vault 7. The file wont be readable    until tomorrow, when WikiLeaks releases a passphrase at 9 a.m.    Eastern. However, WikiLeaks released a new clue about Vault 7,    hidden in its tweet. Heres everything we know about Vault 7 so    far, along with theories about what might be waiting for us in    the morning.  <\/p>\n<p>    And by the way, according to a tweet WikiLeaks sent out later,    this is thefirstin a series of releases    related to Vault 7:  <\/p>\n<p>    Heres what you need to know about Vault 7.  <\/p>\n<p>    WikiLeaks Vault 7 tweet contained a hidden message, because    the background isnt just a black frame. In fact, its a photo    that has been darkened.  <\/p>\n<p>    Lighten it a little and you see this:  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    The photo says Prefecture beneath the world Vault. Some    think it reads Prefecture 333, but it actually reads Prefecture    353. We found the source of the photo. But first, here are the    guesses that were wrong:  <\/p>\n<p>    Some believe that the photo appears to be of Kryptos, a    sculpture outside the CIA headquarters in Langley. The    sculpture, by James Sanborn, includes four encrypted messages.    Since it was dedicated on November 3, 1990, three out of four    of the messages have been solved. Heres a photo of the    sculpture below. However, this isnotthe    sculpture in WikiLeaks photo.  <\/p>\n<p>      (Jim Sanborn)    <\/p>\n<p>    Otherssay the photo is actually thissculpture in    the D.C. Convention Center.  <\/p>\n<p>    We found out what it actually is. The photo isLingua,    one of two art pieces at the registration area of the Walter E.    Washington Convention Center.This is the photo that    WikiLeaks used, courtesy of Flickrs open source library:  <\/p>\n<p>      Vault 7 (Flickr\/David)      License:<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>    As you can see, WikiLeaksdid notedit the    Prefecture part into the photo. The sculpture    alreadyreads Prefecture 353 A.D. So no, unlike what    some theories have surmised, this    isnotrelated to Chinas 333    prefecture-level cities.  <\/p>\n<p>    What happened in 353 AD? There was the Battle of Mons    Seleucus, where Emperor Constantius II defeated Magnentius, who    committed suicide in Gaul to avoid capture. Constantius then    reunified the Roman Empire. Constantius II sent his official,    Catena, to Britain to kill opponents supporting Magnentius.    Martinus committed suicide after failing to kill Catena.  <\/p>\n<p>    As far as the Year Zero part of the tweet, some surmised that    it could mean that the information is sohuge that it    could feel like restarting part of history once its    released.However, according to a later tweet by    WikiLeaks, it actually means that its the first in a series of    releases that WikiLeaks plans for Vault 7.  <\/p>\n<p>    In February, WikiLeaks released six cryptic tweets about Vault    7. The first was this:  <\/p>\n<p>    The tweet featuresa photo of the Svalbard Seed    Vault.The seed vault is on the Norwegian island    of Spitsbergen in a remote Arctic archipelago. The vault was    started by Cary Fowler and the Consultative Group on    International Agriculture Research to preserve plant seeds and    make sure there are always spare copies of seeds around the    world, in case of a global or regional crisis.What you    see above the entrance to the vault, in the photo, is an    illuminated public artwork. It was made by    Dyveke Sanne and is called Perpetual Repercussion.  <\/p>\n<p>    The second tweet was this:  <\/p>\n<p>    It asked Where is #Vault7? Thephoto in the tweet shows    Nazi gold stored in Merkers Salt Mine (its referenced in    this Wikipedia article.)According to the National Archives, the    minecontained gold bullion, gold Reichsmarks, British    gold pounds, French gold francs, American gold pieces, gold and    silver coins, additional foreign currency, silver bars,    platinum bars, artwork, and more. Nazi gold was allegedly    transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during World War    II, as part of a strategy involving looting victims assets to    fund the war. Authorsand conspiracy theorists have long    guessed about what happened to the Nazi gold that    disappeared.In fact, a group of Holocaust    survivorseven brought a civil suit against the Vatican Bank    over it, filed in November 1999. The case was dismissed in    2003, but then reinstated in part in 2005.Various parts    of the case were dismissed again in 2007-2009.  <\/p>\n<p>    The third tweet was this:  <\/p>\n<p>      (Twitter\/WikiLeaks)    <\/p>\n<p>    It asked When Is #Vault7? The photo in the tweet was from 2010,    takenat Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, while running    a test on a Pratt and Whitney F119-PW-100 jet engine. The jet    inspections look for any objects that could damage blades    inside the engines.The article that the picture is from    talks about soundproof hush houses that are used for jet engine    testing. These are sometimes called vaults. The type of    engine fed more theories that Vault 7 was about 9\/11, because    F119 is 911 backwards.  <\/p>\n<p>    Heres the fourth tweet:  <\/p>\n<p>    The photosare part of a series of spy posterscreated by the U.S. government.    You can see all of the posters in the series at the Center for Development of Security Excellences    website. Beneath Snowdens photo the poster reads: Spilled    the Beans and Ran. Beneath Assanges it reads: The Hack    Behind WikiLeaks. Beneath Mannings it reads: Leaked the    Largest Cache of Classifieds.  <\/p>\n<p>    Heres the fifth tweet:  <\/p>\n<p>    In Why is #Vault7?, areverse image search reveals this    photo to be from an article posted by Whiteman Air Force Base.    The caption of the photo reads: Staff Sgt.    Adam Boyd, 509th Civil Engineer Squadron structural supervisor,    welds a box blade for a snow plow, Feb. 27. Structures Airmen    perform jobs such as this one to save the Air Force from having    to possibly spend money on parts made by civilian companies.    This photo fed more theories that these tweets are about 9\/11.  <\/p>\n<p>    The sixth tweet read: How did #Vault7 Make Its Way to    Wikileaks? Here it is:  <\/p>\n<p>    This photo can be found in several locations, including Open    Society Foundations Images from the Secret Stasi Archives    here. The caption reads:    Whenmailboxes were beingobserved by Stasi    agents,every person posting a letter was photographed.    Some films found in theStasiarchives also show    persons dressed in civilian clothing emptying the mailbox after    the conclusion of the surveillance action. Its part of a    series of photos of people at mailboxes. Stasi is The Ministry    for State Security, which was the official state security    service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany.)    Wikipedia cites several sources as saying Stasi    was often referred to as one of the most effective and    repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have    existed.  <\/p>\n<p>    George Soros is the founder and chairman of Open Society    Foundations, the source of this photo.  <\/p>\n<p>    There are so many theories about Vault 7, its hard to keep    track. Here are just a few.  <\/p>\n<p>    One of the top theories was that this was about a seventh    vault of FBI emails, since the FBI had released six sets of    Clinton emails at the time that the tweets were published. But    this seems less likely now, since the FBI just released Part 7    of its Clinton vault here. Others believed that it was related    to Clintons missing 33,000 emails. However,the Vault 7    file is just about half a gig in size, so it likely doesnt    contain Clintons missing 33,000 emails. (Although, as some    have pointed out, it could just be part one of a series of    leaks.)  <\/p>\n<p>    Because of the latest photo, some believe this is about the    CIA.  <\/p>\n<p>    Others theorize this is somehow related to a longstanding    conspiracy theory about pizzagate, which involves the idea    that high-ranking politicians are involved in a pedophile ring.    So far no conclusive evidence has been found to support this    theory.  <\/p>\n<p>    Still others believe its related to September 11, 2001,    because several pictures can be interpreted as hinting at    that.In the third tweet, the engine was an F119.    Theoristsalso reference Building 7, which has been the    source of many 9\/11 conspiracy theories, including a    theorythat there was a vault of gold beneath the    building. (This conspiracy theory is oftenincorrectly    ascribed to Building 7, but its actually about Building 6.)    The fifth tweet features a photo of someone welding, which some    believe is a reference to a conspiracy theory about an angled    cut on a World Trade Center beam. The box blade hes welding,    some say, might also be a reference to box cutters used on    9\/11.  <\/p>\n<p>    Others believe it has something to do with George Soros and the    Democrats, since his website was the source for one of the    photos.  <\/p>\n<p>    A new theory, derived from the fifth tweet, is that WikiLeaks    is going to release something related to government spending or    military projects. The fifth tweet referenced a photo from    Whiteman Air Force Base, which talked about    government spending. In addition, the host unit for the base is    the 509th Bomb Wing, which operates the B-2 Spirit Stealth    Bomber. Whiteman is the only permanent base for the B-2.    B-2 bombers were used in October 2001 in Afghanistan.  <\/p>\n<p>    In several WikiLeaks Reddit discussions, some have    said that it might be a reference to the nextmass    extinction event following the sixth, whichsome scientists say we are    already in the middle of. This theory is connected to the first    tweet, which showed the seed vault, and proposes that #Vault7    has something to do with climate change.  <\/p>\n<p>    CNBCreported in October that a    newFBI release featuredclaims of a shadow    government composed of high-ranking state officials, whom some    referred to as The 7th Floor Group. So some believe that    Vault 7 is somehow connected to this.  <\/p>\n<p>    EmbassyCat, a Twitter account run by Assanges cat, only    posted one thing possibly related to Vault 7.  <\/p>\n<p>    On Twitter, @gal_deplorable provided a translation of the    comic:  <\/p>\n<p>    It talks about how the Papyrus proved that Caesar was lying and    all Gaul was not conquered. The whole empire will tremble    when the scandal comes out. The year 353 AD was referenced in    WikiLeaks tweet about Vault 7s release, which also relates    back to Gaul, so there could be a connection there. What do you    think? Let us know in the comments below.  <\/p>\n<p>        Find out what 7z (7-Zip) is and why WikiLeaks referenced it        today, including where to find the program.      <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2017\/03\/what-is-wikileaks-vault-7-photos-clues-theories\/\" title=\"What Is WikiLeaks' Vault 7? Photos &amp; Clues - Heavy.com\">What Is WikiLeaks' Vault 7? Photos &amp; Clues - Heavy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Julian Assange(Getty) After releasing a series of very cryptic #Vault7 messages in early February, WikiLeaks has finally released a file that contains the mysterious Vault 7. 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