You don't have to download the whole 10TB...

Seems very odd an ai account?* is posting a seemingly unknown 'news' site to a very large unverified file that didn't seem to pass the desk of any major news org and all the 'sources' of this leak come from the same mediafire link, not even a torrent?

*account details looks odd, copy and pasting ai summary of article

Who if not people / experts reading on hn?

Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.

Right because we all have the time, memory, and sandboxed virtual machine to test this safely without getting hacked.

Obvious honeypot is obvious. If you want (technical) people to download your malware you're gonna have to do better than this.

This goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do.

If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.

To me it goes beyond "civil service" and becomes more like "military service" - you're directly putting yourself in harms way for the collective good. It's not reasonable to expect many users on HN have the setup required to investigate this - sure we're all interested in technology. But we're not all cybersecurity experts.

This is the equivalent of your grandma thinking you're a tech genius because you can restart the router. The skills required for this kind of work are specialised.

Why asking people to do something you should have done first? If there's anything worthy in it, then point to those interesting documents where HN community would be more than happy to help.

I didn't. Someone else did.

I clarified the effort and that we all should do it because we are probably the best people to do so.