Wikileaks
Public date: 10.08.2017 19:48:51
11 Aug 2011
We just wrote about a GAO report showing how the Defense Department is somewhat incompetent at dealing with online...
5 Jul 2011
There hasn't been much talk lately over the fact that PayPal, MasterCard and Visa all cut off Wikileaks late last year,...
28 Jun 2011
Lots of news over the weekend concerning the surprise announcement that LulzSec -- the group of...
7 May 2011
With all the focus on Wikileaks recently, and the question of whether it is or is not "press" (not that it actually...
5 May 2011
Jeff Sonderman points us to the odd statement put out by Hilary Clinton and the State Department for World Press Freedom...
12 Apr 2011
A number of folks have picked up on the near total lack of self-recognition by the US federal government in response to...
3 Mar 2011
After being unable to convince Bradley Manning to lie about his "relationship" with Julian Assange, the government has...
4 Feb 2011
The idea is to first do all of this with those "like-minded" (i.e., protectionist) countries, and then use the agreement...
27 Jan 2011
If you haven't yet, set aside some time to read the NY Times' executive editor Bill Keller's account of the paper's...
21 Jan 2011
I had seen the BBC article from a week or so ago about Jimmy Wales talking about the complexity of Wikipedia and how it...
15 Jan 2011
There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just...
14 Jan 2011
Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas...
14 Jan 2011
a guy in Florida, David Pitchford, has apparently sued Wikileaks for all the distress it has caused him, claiming that...
13 Jan 2011
Apparently Rep. Peter King is in a competition with Senator Joe Lieberman to see who can overreact more to Wikileaks. It...
13 Jan 2011
Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some...
12 Jan 2011
Whatever you might think of Wikileaks -- and it's difficult to deny that it is a severely flawed operation in many ways...
8 Jan 2011
Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak, and has been very active in putting...
7 Jan 2011
In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition...
5 Jan 2011
While Wikileaks critics keep claiming that the site has "put lives in danger," it's never been able to back up those...
4 Jan 2011
We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of...
3 Jan 2011
Once again, this is hardly a surprise, but it's increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks...
31 Dec 2010
A few weeks ago, we called out the fact that many in the press continued to falsely report that Wikileaks had...
30 Dec 2010
While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web...
28 Dec 2010
There's absolutely nothing surprising at all about the following, but Christian Engstrom (one of the two European...
28 Dec 2010
One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications discussing the Wikileaks controversy is how...
28 Dec 2010
What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider,...
23 Dec 2010
With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or...
23 Dec 2010
Glyn Moody points us to a blog post that has a video/audio clip of a John F. Kennedy speech to the press about secrecy...
22 Dec 2010
One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're...
22 Dec 2010
We still can't quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan pimping little boys to law enforcement...
20 Dec 2010
Richard Kulawiec pointed us to the news that got a lot of attention last week concerning how the CIA had recalled its...
17 Dec 2010
This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition...
17 Dec 2010
The classic line about how "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," is certainly being...
17 Dec 2010
Earlier today, Congress held hearings about Wikileaks and, given how the government has been reacting so far, I fully...
17 Dec 2010
We were just highlighting how the government is terrible at protecting whistleblowers -- with particular attention to...
15 Dec 2010
With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities...
15 Dec 2010
Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least...
15 Dec 2010
And we thought the Library of Congress was in denial mode for blocking access to Wikileaks. It appears the Air Force has...
15 Dec 2010
While it's been unfortunate watching the traditional press attack Wikileaks for doing the job it refused to do itself,...
15 Dec 2010
While there's been a ton of attention paid to Julian Assange's arrest and situation, much less attention has been paid...
14 Dec 2010
Okay, this post is going to take the extreme cynical view, which I don't believe is true, but since it's being...
13 Dec 2010
Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the...
10 Dec 2010
Like many folks, I'm somewhat conflicted about Wikileaks as an organization. It's been clear for quite some time that it...
10 Dec 2010
This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator...
9 Dec 2010
With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is about a centralized vs. decentralized...
9 Dec 2010
With Visa and Mastercard refusing to take payments for Wikileaks, the company that was providing payment services to...
9 Dec 2010
We've pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to internet censorship, while threatening...
9 Dec 2010
With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in "Operation Payback," the...
9 Dec 2010
This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here. When Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of their...
9 Dec 2010
Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing Wikileaks to Anonymous'...