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We should expect the FBI to become involved if there is any credence to this, and the domain name thecthulhu.com (Namecheap with WhoisGuard) should be taken down shortly.

Heads will roll, that much is certain.

Does anyone have a file listing for this? Is it just a PGDATA dump, or are there more interesting things?

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> the domain name thecthulhu.com (Namecheap with WhoisGuard) should be taken down shortly.

In which case, here's the magnet link for posterity. data:text/plain;base64,bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDpGOEUwRkM5QzExRThGQzVGOThBQjZCNTg4N0UyNDNGN0MwRjIwNDEz

edit: data encoded for obfuscation

It's really boring -- a bunch of union contracts.

OTOH, there are: -rw-rw-r-- 1 torrents torrents 1061530112 Jan 13 16:08 GrandLodge_DB_backup.tar -rw-rw-r-- 1 torrents torrents 7486976 Jan 13 16:45 jforum_backup.tar

> Does anyone have a file listing for this? Is it just a PGDATA dump, or are there more interesting things?

http://pastebin.com/CZXikytZ

> ├── GrandLodge_DB_backup.tar

Don't the Freemasons call their clubhouse a Grand Lodge?

More than one group uses that varnacular, but yeah that's a good context clue. Freemasonry is frequently popular among law enforcement types.

grandlodgefop.org is actually one of their domains, pointing to the same page as fop.net

...aaaaand now I'm interested enough to download.

>Does anyone have a file listing for this? Is it just a PGDATA dump, or are there more interesting things?

I see a lot of text files (docx, doc, rtf, txt), and two DB dumps.

Not sure how/where to start looking. Opening files at random yields things like collective bargaining agreements and legal briefs. Any suggestions for munging through all of this?

There should be tools for crowdsourcing this sort of thing. It's only going to become more common. Does such a tool already exist? Something to help split up a corpus so people can collaborate on it.

Yes, there are tools exploring a couple different approaches. It's a tough problem if you want solid results, verification to avoid forged documents inserted alongside authentic ones, building tools to facilitate finding the important stuff in all the minutia of day to day exchanges. Some stuff isn't easily fully crowdsourced because the domain knowledge to find the smoking gun among the jargon of a particular field. A good tool will at least let the average citizen distill information into a form an expert can quickly digest large numbers of documents though.

Here's a linkdump:

https://www.documentcloud.org/home

https://civic.mit.edu/blog/shidash/effective-approaches-and-...

https://github.com/crowdata/crowdata

http://towcenter.org/research/guide-to-crowdsourcing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crowdsourcing_projects (too broad, search page for roots of terms like 'transcribe' or 'document' or the like.

> There should be tools for crowdsourcing this sort of thing. It's only going to become more common.

That's why Wikileaks originally decided to call itself "wiki", but they gave up on that idea very quickly.

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