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31 Dec 2010

Why Does The Myth Persist That Wikileaks Is Indiscriminately Leaking Thousands Of Documents

A few weeks ago, we called out the fact that many in the press continued to falsely report that Wikileaks had indiscriminately released all 250,000+ State Department cables that it had in its possession. In fact, this was the key claim that many have used to condemn Wikileaks and to suggest that it's neither a journalistic entity nor a whistleblowing entity.
A few weeks ago, we called out the fact that many in the press continued to falsely report that Wikileaks had...
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31 Dec 2010

If Wikileaks Is About Cyberwar, Was The Pentagon Papers About A Wood Pulp War

The guy behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, recently tweeted a link to my blog post about how some believed the US government was trying to make the case that Wikileaks was a part of a "cyberwar" because it helped further the agenda of certain government officials and defense contractors to use FUD about "cyberwar" to give the government more technological snooping powers and make those contractors tons of money supplying the tools.
The guy behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, recently tweeted a link to my blog post about how some believed the...
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30 Dec 2010

Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags About How US Federal Gov’t Is One Of Its Biggest AWS Customers

While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, Amazon insisted that government pressure had nothing to do with it. Still, it seems rather odd that just weeks after booting Wikileaks, Amazon sent out a press release bragging about how the US federal government is one of its biggest customers (found via Slashdot).
While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web...
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29 Dec 2010

FBI Raids Web Hosts Over Wikileaks Advocates’ Operation Payback

The FBI has reportedly raided a Texas web host and worked with international authorities to search servers in pursuit of the anonymous leaders of the group Anonymous, who blocked the website of PayPal earlier this month in retribution to the company's decision to stop its customers from making donations to Wikileaks.
The FBI has reportedly raided a Texas web host and worked with international authorities to search servers in pursuit of...
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29 Dec 2010

Haikuleaks – Cable is Poetry

HaikuLeaks searches through the Wikileaks "Cablegate" data for haikus. I'm not sure if it's fully automated, or human-generated seems too perfect to be computerized. Either way, genius
HaikuLeaks searches through the Wikileaks "Cablegate" data for haikus. I'm not sure if it's fully automated, or...
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29 Dec 2010

Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs

Six months ago, Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen came to me with a whiff of a story. A source he d known for years claimed he was talking to the FBI about an enlisted soldier in Iraq who had bragged to him in an internet chat of passing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks.
Six months ago, Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen came to me with a whiff of a story. A source he d known for years...
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28 Dec 2010

Once Again, More State Dept. Cables Show Swedish Copyright Enforcement At The Behest Of US

There's absolutely nothing surprising at all about the following, but Christian Engstrom (one of the two European Parliament Members from The Pirate Party*) highlights yet another leaked State Department cable that shows that many of the copyright enforcement efforts of the Swedish government were in response to a six point checklist given to the Swedish government by the US Embassy
There's absolutely nothing surprising at all about the following, but Christian Engstrom (one of the two European...
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28 Dec 2010

Wikileaks has only published 1,942 cables

In recent weeks, NPR hosts, reporters and guests have incorrectly said or implied that WikiLeaks recently has disclosed or released roughly 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. Although the website has vowed to publish "251,287 leaked United States embassy cables," as of Dec. 28, 2010, only 1,942 of the cables had been released.
In recent weeks, NPR hosts, reporters and guests have incorrectly said or implied that WikiLeaks recently has disclosed...
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28 Dec 2010

NY Times Finally Speaks Out Against Financial Firms Blocking Wikileaks

One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications discussing the Wikileaks controversy is how infrequently they seem to realize that many of the attacks they themselves have been directing (or redirecting) at Wikileaks could come back to haunt them as well, as many could apply to them when they do things such as publish information about leaked documents.
One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications discussing the Wikileaks controversy is how...
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28 Dec 2010

Wikileaks, Intermediary Chokepoints And The Dissent Tax

What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider, you might have to fight your DNS provider. You might need to fund large-scale hosting resources while others can use similar capacity on commercial servers for a few hundred dollars a year. Fund-raising infrastructure that is open to pretty much everyone else, including the KKK, may not be available. This does not mean that Wikileaks cannot get hosted, as it is already well-known and big, but what about smaller, less-famous, less established, less well-off efforts? Will they even get off the ground?
What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider,...
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27 Dec 2010

Wikileaks – traditional liberalism with balls

The mainstream media likes to suggest, with a nudge and a wink and abuse of the word "cyber," that Wikileaks represents a radical ideological position. But if there's a moral crusade to be found, maybe it's rooted in a tradition closer to home: classical Western liberal-democratic principles.
The mainstream media likes to suggest, with a nudge and a wink and abuse of the word "cyber," that Wikileaks represents...
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25 Dec 2010

NYT on Banks and Wikileaks – a troubling prospect

A New York Times editorial today on the recent actions of Bank America, Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard to block payments to Wikileaks says the moves raise "troubling questions," given the fact that Wikileaks has not been charged or convicted of any crime:
A New York Times editorial today on the recent actions of Bank America, Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard to block payments...
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24 Dec 2010

Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store

Explaining their position, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told the New York Times, "[We removed the app] because it violated our developer guidelines. Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm s way."
Explaining their position, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told the New York Times, "[We removed the app] because it...
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24 Dec 2010

Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech?

As far as I know the issues around Amazon's decision to evict WikiLeaks from EC2 have not been discussed in the tech blogosphere. If I've missed the discussion, please post pointers in a comment on this post. I want to read what has been said.
As far as I know the issues around Amazon's decision to evict WikiLeaks from EC2 have not been discussed in the tech...
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23 Dec 2010

Now Random Webhosts Are Demanding Wikileaks Mirrors Be Taken Down Over Possibility Of DDoS

With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or terms of use violations that don't seem to really exist -- the EFF is pointing out that one of the (many, many) Wikileaks mirror sites was told by his hosting company he had to remove it or he'd lose his account. The reasoning was quite bizarre. The host claimed that its upstream provider was worried about potential DDoS attacks
With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or...
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23 Dec 2010

Assange US pushing Digital McCarthyism in assault on Wikileaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview with msnbc's Cenk Uygur today. During the exchange, Assange denies conspiring to commit espionage with U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning, as it is believed US prosecutors would like to charge. Assange says these claims are "absolute nonsense." Responding to Vice President Biden's claims that he is "a high-tech terrorist," the leaker-in-chief effectively accused the United States of terrorism threatening violent, extralegal actions in its assault on Wikileaks.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview with msnbc's Cenk Uygur today. During the exchange, Assange denies...
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23 Dec 2010

JFK On Secrecy And Censorship

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 and censorship, which is getting some attention for the contrast to the way our government is responding to the Wikileaks controversy.
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...
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23 Dec 2010

How Wikileaks killed Spain’s anti-P2P law

Spain last night killed a controversial anti-P2P bill that would have made it easier to shut down websites that link to infringing content. The move was a blow to the ruling Socialist government, but it may be of even bigger concern to the US, which pushed, threatened, and cajoled Spain to clamp down on downloading. And Wikileaks can take a share of the credit for the defeat.
Spain last night killed a controversial anti-P2P bill that would have made it easier to shut down websites that link to...
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23 Dec 2010

CIA’s WikiLeaks Task Force WTF, indeed

It can set up mirrored sites. It can bounce from server to server. But whatever impact WikiLeaks continues to have on the US government after dumping tens of thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables, the CIA s WikiLeaks Task Force is watching, studying, learning. It s literally a WTF operation.
It can set up mirrored sites. It can bounce from server to server. But whatever impact WikiLeaks continues to have on...
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23 Dec 2010

Wikileaks’ Leaks Leaked: Norwegian Paper Has All the Cables and None of the Restrictions

Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, claims to have access to all 250,000 of Wikileaks' diplomatic cables. Until this point, no news organization had more than a sample sent by the whistle-blower organization.
Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, claims to have access to all 250,000 of Wikileaks' diplomatic cables. Until...
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22 Dec 2010

WikiWars: Assange turns on friends, foes and lovers

Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, today begins a wideranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as he defends his public and private conduct. In his first UK newspaper interview since releasing hundreds of secret diplomatic cables last month, Mr Assange predicts that the United States will face reprisals if it attempts to extradite him on conspiracy charges. He accuses his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden. He insists that the women behind the claims were motivated by revenge.
Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, today begins a wideranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as...
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22 Dec 2010

Assange’s already assassinated comment, clarified

In a roundup post earlier today regarding all things Assange, I noted a comment made by the Wikileaks founder in a wide-ranging BBC News intervew: "People affiliated with our organisation have already been assassinated." I didn't get it, neither did many others, judging by the proliferation of "WTF?" in my tweetstream.
In a roundup post earlier today regarding all things Assange, I noted a comment made by the Wikileaks founder in a...
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22 Dec 2010

Michael Moore on Wikileaks on Maddow

Moore discussed the confusion around a leaked State Department Cable relating to his film Sicko the Guardian reported the cable stating Sicko been banned in Cuba. I reblogged that here on Boing Boing. The content of the cable was not true, said Moore tonight (he'd published a detailed explanation earlier on his blog). The Guardian updated their coverage here, and I'd updated Boing Boing's here. Maria Bustillos, who is Cuban, wrote a nuanced post over at The Awl that suggests the cable might not have been false at the time it was written but that Moore is entirely correct in stating that the movie did not end up being banned. Go have a read.
Moore discussed the confusion around a leaked State Department Cable relating to his film Sicko the Guardian reported...
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22 Dec 2010

Bruce Sterling on #cablegate

Bruce Sterling's take on the #cablegate situation is pure gold -- a fierce, clear-eyed look at the forces that made pieta Manning, the ideology of assangeism, the wounded bellowing of an empire in decline with its trousers around its knees. Must-read stuff:
Bruce Sterling's take on the #cablegate situation is pure gold -- a fierce, clear-eyed look at the forces that made...
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22 Dec 2010

Spain’s House rejects new copyright law; #cablegate showed it had been written by the US government

The Spanish House of Representatives has rejected a new copyright law that would have made the nation's file-sharing sites and services illegal. Some of the leaked #cablegate cables affirmed what many had suspected: the law had been pushed by the US government on behalf of the Hollywood studios.
The Spanish House of Representatives has rejected a new copyright law that would have made the nation's file-sharing...
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22 Dec 2010

So WikiLeaks Is Evil For Releasing Documents… But DynCorp Gets A Pass For Pimping Young Boys To Afghan Cops

One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're not really revealing anything. However, it seems like each day there's another big revelation of rather horrible things being done (and covered up) by the US government
One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're...
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22 Dec 2010

Why Are US Publications Downplaying The Significance Of Some Of Wikileaks’ Leaks

We still can't quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan pimping little boys to law enforcement officials doesn't seem to get nearly the sort of attention in the press that Wikileaks itself gets, even though Wikileaks is what revealed the actions by Dyncorp.
We still can't quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan pimping little boys to law enforcement...
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22 Dec 2010

Czech version of Wikileaks will turn to The Pirate Bay for help

It appears that the Czech Pirate Party's attempt to set up its own Wikileaks site isn't going as smoothly as the group hoped. The CPP (Ceska piratska strana) announced the inauguration of its "PirateLeaks" information service earlier this month, to be officially launched on Tuesday. But now the organization says that there will be some delays due to security issues.
It appears that the Czech Pirate Party's attempt to set up its own Wikileaks site isn't going as smoothly as the group...
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21 Dec 2010

The NYT spills key military secrets on its front page

In The New York Times today, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins expose very sensitive classified government secrets -- and not just routine secrets, but high-level, imminent planning for American covert military action in a foreign country:
In The New York Times today, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins expose very sensitive classified government secrets -- and...
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21 Dec 2010

Mercs Win Billion Dollar Afghan Cop Deal. Again.

Danger Room has confirmed that DynCorp, one of the leading private-security firms, has held on to a contract with the Army worth up to $1 billion for training Afghanistan s police over the next three years. With corruption, incompetence and illiteracy within the police force a persistent obstacle to turning over security responsibilities to the cops by 2014, NATO has revamped much of its training efforts except, apparently, the contractors paid lavishly to help them out.
Danger Room has confirmed that DynCorp, one of the leading private-security firms, has held on to a contract with the...
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21 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks – Mirrors

Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, you will find below a list of mirrors of Wikileaks website and CableGate pages.
Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the...
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21 Dec 2010

Watch How WikiLeaks’ Mirrors Spread Around the World

When WikiLeaks began its release of more than 250,00 classified diplomatic cables late last month, its domain name - wikileaks.org - was the first thing to go. In the week that followed, however, a slew of mirror sites popped up, and Harvard-based developer Laurence Muller gave us a look at the global effort to keep WikiLeaks standing. Muller took the list of WikiLeaks mirrors, determined their locations, and plotted the points on Google Earth.
When WikiLeaks began its release of more than 250,00 classified diplomatic cables late last month, its domain name -...
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20 Dec 2010

Will The Journalists Who Outed CIA’s Pakistan Chief Be Treated Like Julian Assange

Richard Kulawiec pointed us to the news that got a lot of attention last week concerning how the CIA had recalled its chief in Pakistan back to the US after his name was outed in a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by a guy who blames the CIA for his relatives being killed in a drone attack. Apparently, two Pakistani journalists gave him the name of the CIA chief, and the guy included it in his lawsuit, leading to the recall. While the American press is not reporting the guy's name, it's widely available in foreign coverage.
Richard Kulawiec pointed us to the news that got a lot of attention last week concerning how the CIA had recalled its...
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19 Dec 2010

Net neutrality is hypocrisy

At the PDFleaks conference in NYC last Saturday I said that after Amazon booted WikiLeaks from EC2 that signaled very clearly that there is no such thing as net neutrality. Here's a service provider, very analogous to Comcast and Verizon, that decided it wasn't in its economic interest to carry a user's bits. It wasn't just about the level or cost of the service, they cut them off totally. Without adequate explanation of why. Saying they were doing something illegal is no explanation at all. That's not for Amazon to decide, that's for the courts. Due process is required to prove that something illegal is happening. And many legal experts believe that there's nothing illegal about WikiLeaks.
At the PDFleaks conference in NYC last Saturday I said that after Amazon booted WikiLeaks from EC2 that signaled very...
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18 Dec 2010

Details of rape, sexual assault allegations against Wikileaks’ Assange leaked to Guardian

The Guardian has published the full sex crime allegations against Julian Assange, breathlessly titled "10 days in Sweden." The previously unpublished police documents provide "the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder," and include the phrase "the worst sex ever."
The Guardian has published the full sex crime allegations against Julian Assange, breathlessly titled "10 days in...
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17 Dec 2010

So After Torturing Bradley Manning For Months, US Officials Offer Him A Deal If He Says Assange ‘Conspired’ With Him

This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition that much of the world has deemed to be torture -- and looking for ways to use a computer hacking law to charge Julian Assange, rumors are that officials have offered Bradley Manning a plea deal, in which he would claim that Assange "conspired" with him to get and leak the documents.
This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition...
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17 Dec 2010

Congress Hears WikiLeaks Is ‘Fundamentally Different’ From Media

The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, a former federal prosecutor told lawmakers Thursday.
The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to...
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17 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Cables show India accused of widespread, systematic torture in Kashmir

US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees. Other cables show that as recently as 2007 American diplomats were concerned about widespread human rights abuses by Indian security forces, who they said relied on torture for confessions.
US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of...
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17 Dec 2010

National Security Archive director on Wikimania, and the dangers of demonizing WikiLeaks

Thomas Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive, was among those who testified today before the House Judiciary Committee on the aftermath of "Cablegate" and Wikileaks. Blanton believes efforts to tighten secrecy and crack down on leakers and press will be "fundamentally self-defeating."
Thomas Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive, was among those who testified today before the...
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17 Dec 2010

Cuba launches Wikipedia clone EcuRed, but needs a little help

As you may have heard, this week the government of Cuba launched a state-approved online encyclopedia, called EcuRed. "Its philosophy is the accumulation and development of knowledge, with a democratizing, not profitable, objective, from a decolonizer point of view," reads a statement on the site.
As you may have heard, this week the government of Cuba launched a state-approved online encyclopedia, called EcuRed....
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17 Dec 2010

How Wikileaks and Operation Payback Have Exposed Infrastructure That Should Be Decentralized, But Isn’t

The classic line about how "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," is certainly being proven true yet again these days, but there is an interesting corollary that might be worth considering in this as well: which is that sometimes these attempts at censorship expose the need for new routes, and those routes are quickly created.
The classic line about how "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," is certainly being...
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17 Dec 2010

Congressional Hearing On Wikileaks Surprisingly Focuses More On Gov’t Overly Secretive Actions

Earlier today, Congress held hearings about Wikileaks and, given how the government has been reacting so far, I fully expected pure grandstanding about how "evil" Wikileaks is and how Julian Assange must be brought to justice.
Earlier today, Congress held hearings about Wikileaks and, given how the government has been reacting so far, I fully...
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17 Dec 2010

Interesting Timing Senate Passes Federal Whistleblower Protection Bill

We were just highlighting how the government is terrible at protecting whistleblowers -- with particular attention to the horrific treatment of Bradley Manning. As all of this is going on, it's worth pointing out that the Senate (apparently without much sense of irony) has passed a "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act," which would seek to grant greater protections to government employees who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing.
We were just highlighting how the government is terrible at protecting whistleblowers -- with particular attention to...
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16 Dec 2010

Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar

Wikileaks cables released overnight revealed that Australia's top cyber spy agency (akin to the NSA) was unprepared for cyberwar in the view of other intelligence agencies in 2008.
Wikileaks cables released overnight revealed that Australia's top cyber spy agency (akin to the NSA) was unprepared for...
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15 Dec 2010

Congressional Research Service Analysts Complaining About Blocked Access To Wikileaks

With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities are, Copycense points us to a report about how librarians across the nation are now arguing over whether or not this was the right move, with many feeling that it was decidedly a bad move.
With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities...
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15 Dec 2010

Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War

Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least they should. In reviewing what the first chapter of that work teaches about the five factors a battling faction must consider when endeavoring to battle, you have to scratch your head and wonder if the United States government might need a refresher course. Take a look at some excerpts from this summary of the Giles translation:
Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least...
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15 Dec 2010

Air Force In Super Denial Mode Blocks Access To News Sites Covering Wikileaks

And we thought the Library of Congress was in denial mode for blocking access to Wikileaks. It appears the Air Force has gone a step further into denial, as it's now blocking access to over 25 sites, including major news publications covering Wikileaks, such as the NY Times and The Guardian. Apparently, anyone on an Air Force computer who goes to the NY Times is being told: "ACCESS DENIED. Internet Usage is Logged & Monitored," Along with a notice warning people that anyone accessing an "unauthorized" site may be punished. Apparently none of the other branches of the military have the same thing in place, though we've heard from others in the military that Defense Department computers are blocking websites with "Wikileaks" in the title.
And we thought the Library of Congress was in denial mode for blocking access to Wikileaks. It appears the Air Force has...
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15 Dec 2010

Columbia Journalism School Staff Warns Obama That Prosecuting Wikileaks Will ‘Set A Dangerous Precedent’

While it's been unfortunate watching the traditional press attack Wikileaks for doing the job it refused to do itself, it's nice to see the staff of Columbia's journalism school (still considered one of the top journalism schools) come out and warn the Obama administration that prosecuting Wikileaks will set a dangerous precedent for freedom of the press, even for those who disagree with Wikileaks' methods:
While it's been unfortunate watching the traditional press attack Wikileaks for doing the job it refused to do itself,...
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15 Dec 2010

US Is Apparently Torturing Bradley Manning, Despite No Trial And No Conviction

While there's been a ton of attention paid to Julian Assange's arrest and situation, much less attention has been paid to Bradley Manning, the Army Private who has been accused of being the source of many of Wikileaks' more recent leaks concerning the US government and military. It seemed like a reasonable question to ask, upon his arrest, whether or not he was simply whistleblowing or breaking the law. Certainly this is a question that is open for debate. What is pretty clear is that his intentions were absolutely to be a whistleblower.
While there's been a ton of attention paid to Julian Assange's arrest and situation, much less attention has been paid...
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15 Dec 2010

wikiriver.org

This is a project by Dave Winer - A stream of wikileaks news indexing various sources of information world wide
This is a project by Dave Winer - A stream of wikileaks news indexing various sources of information world wide
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15 Dec 2010

Berkeley City Council tables WikiLeaks resolution

The Berkeley City Council voted last night to table a controversial resolution calling for the release of alleged military whistle blower Private Bradley Manning from military prison and to honor him as a hero if he did leak sensitive information to WikiLeaks.
The Berkeley City Council voted last night to table a controversial resolution calling for the release of alleged...
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15 Dec 2010

Three Hackers Arrested in Wake of DDOS Attacks

One of the more cringe-worthy stories to come out of the Wikileaks-Anonymous-DDOS plotline in the last few weeks is the lack of security practiced by just about everyone involved. Authorities found the name of a designer named Alex Tapanaris embedded in a PDF press release purporting to come from the hacker group Anonymous. His site was later inaccessible and he was said to have been arrested
One of the more cringe-worthy stories to come out of the Wikileaks-Anonymous-DDOS plotline in the last few weeks is the...
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14 Dec 2010

Wikileaks spending rises to $500K in past 5 months, questions over donations promised to Manning

The support group for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the presumed leaker of those diplomatic cables who is currently in the brig in Quantico, claims funds solicited from the public by Wikileaks and Julian Assange on Manning's behalf haven't arrived. Snip:
The support group for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the presumed leaker of those diplomatic cables who is currently in the brig...
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14 Dec 2010

Is The US Response To Wikileaks Really About Overhyping Online Threats To Pass New Laws

Okay, this post is going to take the extreme cynical view, which I don't believe is true, but since it's being suggested, we might as well flesh it out. In my post about how the US government's response to Wikileaks has caused more harm than anything actually in the leaks so far, one of the commenters pointed to a Larry Lessig talk from a few years back, where he mentioned a conversation with Richard Clarke -- the former anti-terrorism government official, who, more recently, has been selling his book on "Cyberwar" -- where he said that the US government has had an "iPatriot Act" sitting in a drawer, ready to go at a moment's notice whenever there was "an i-9/11 event."
Okay, this post is going to take the extreme cynical view, which I don't believe is true, but since it's being...
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14 Dec 2010

Sweden fights Assange bail as Michael Moore offers to host WikiLeaks

Controversial documentary director Michael Moore has offered up his help to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, both in the form of cash and other resources. The offer came as Assange was finally granted bail from a UK prison pending Sweden's appeal on the condition that he obeys a nightly curfew and won't flee the country.
Controversial documentary director Michael Moore has offered up his help to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, both in...
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14 Dec 2010

One great thing about WikiLeaks

It's helping us all understand that the Internet isn't just for tweeting what you had for lunch, watching (and making) viral YouTube videos, sharing family pictures on Facebook and buying stuff on Amazon.
It's helping us all understand that the Internet isn't just for tweeting what you had for lunch, watching (and making)...
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13 Dec 2010

The CIA honeypot Wikileaks mirror that wasn’t

Yesterday, I posted an item referencing a reddit thread and a widely-retweeted Google search string referencing a purported "CIA wikileaks mirror honeypot" that revealed itself as likely having been set up by the CIA. It wasn't. It was some guy's joke or something. I'm traveling with wonky mobile internet, and in the process of attempting to update the post with a clarification late last night in a sleep-depped state, I screwed up. The post was deleted. There is no conspiracy here, and no reason to believe the CIA is setting up fake Wikileaks mirrors (though, not a bad idea, amirite?).
Yesterday, I posted an item referencing a reddit thread and a widely-retweeted Google search string referencing a...
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13 Dec 2010

The Anonymous group is taking aim at the wrong target

Long ago and far away (ie 1998) Larry Lessig - yes, that Larry Lessig, long before Creative Commons and remix culture occupied his days - got uptight about spam vigilantes. Lessig was unhappy that an increasingly popular approach to stopping spam - in 1998, a fast-growing but almost completely unregulated problem - was for groups of sysadmins to blacklist certain sites, on the say-so of other techie types who had evidence that those sites harboured spammers.
Long ago and far away (ie 1998) Larry Lessig - yes, that Larry Lessig, long before Creative Commons and remix culture...
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13 Dec 2010

Twitter explains why it’s not trending, as hackers play cat and mouse

Twitter has officially posted on its blog about the fact that the #wikileaks hashtag has not been continually trending. The topic has been the source of anger among some people who have insisted that the company is censoring its "trending topics", possibly under pressure from the US government.
Twitter has officially posted on its blog about the fact that the #wikileaks hashtag has not been continually trending....
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13 Dec 2010

Is The CIA Hosting A Wikileaks Mirror

Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the locations from which people are searching for the term "wikileaks." Not surprisingly, the hottest spot on the heatmap is the Northern Virginia, Washington DC area. Shocking, I know.
Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the...
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13 Dec 2010

Scribblings on Wikileaks Some Thoughts on Digital Nativism and Transparency

Here s the premise: My generation the Digital Natives, Gen Y and perhaps the one younger than it views the concept of Wikileaks very differently from older generations. We ve grown up sharing the intimate details of our lives, we Tweet, we post our location on FourSquare, practically inviting stalkers into our lives as a result, I believe that we expect more of a radical transparency from others including our government.
Here s the premise: My generation the Digital Natives, Gen Y and perhaps the one younger than it views the concept of...
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11 Dec 2010

Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency

It's not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has shaken the Internet to its core. Regardless of where you stand on the debate, various services have simply refused to handle Wikileaks' business--everything from domain-name providers to payment services--and this has led to many questioning how robust the Internet actually is.
It's not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has shaken the Internet to its core. Regardless of...
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11 Dec 2010

Thousands download LOIC software for Anonymous attacks – but are they making a difference

The LOIC software is used by the Anonymous group to coordinate attacks against targets - which are discussed and loosely coordinated through an IRC (internet relay chat) chatroom called #target, while the software is worked on individually and then linked to via a related channel called #hackers.
The LOIC software is used by the Anonymous group to coordinate attacks against targets - which are discussed and loosely...
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11 Dec 2010

Operation Payback changes course, may be fizzling out

Operation: Payback, the Anonymous effort to conduct denial of service attacks against a wide range of targets has experienced something of a setback and is now changing course. Yesterday's arrest of a Dutch teenager has caused some difficulties for the group as well, as he was apparently the operator of an IRC server coordinating the attacks. The result: a change in course and what appears to be diminished enthusiasm on the part of 4chan denizens who make up the Anonymous collective.
Operation: Payback, the Anonymous effort to conduct denial of service attacks against a wide range of targets has...
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11 Dec 2010

OpenLeaks to mimic WikiLeaks – minus the political agenda

The alternative whistleblower site created by WikiLeaks defectors may launch sooner than later, according to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN). The project is being referred to as "OpenLeaks" and is reportedly on track to launch this coming Monday. Though the newspaper didn't name its sources, it's clear from the group's goals that the founders essentially want to be the anti-WikiLeaks.
The alternative whistleblower site created by WikiLeaks defectors may launch sooner than later, according to Swedish...
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10 Dec 2010

Ron Paul’s Sensible Thoughts On Wikileaks

A bunch of folks have been submitting Ron Paul's recent speech to Congress in defense of Wikileaks, which is absolutely worth watching/reading (full text included after the jump). There's not much new here, but it's nice that at least some in the government are pointing these things out:
A bunch of folks have been submitting Ron Paul's recent speech to Congress in defense of Wikileaks, which is absolutely...
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10 Dec 2010

How The Press Misleads About Wikileaks

As Julian Assange's lawyers fully expect him to get charged in the US under the Espionage Act, it's interesting (and a bit distressing) to see how some in the press -- who should be his biggest supporters -- are acting. Glenn Greenwald highlighted how a Time Magazine report on the potential US legal case against Assange misstated a variety of facts -- including the idea that Wikileaks itself had published "thousands" of classified State Department cables and that it had done so "indiscriminately." As Greenwald points out Wikileaks itself has only published a little over 1,000 of the cables, and nearly all of them are the ones that the press has already posted/vetted/reported on.
As Julian Assange's lawyers fully expect him to get charged in the US under the Espionage Act, it's interesting (and a...
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10 Dec 2010

Operation Payback May Now Start Focusing On Actually Digging Through Wikileaks Leaks For Details

While I find Operation Payback fascinating, from a sociological/cultural perspective, I've said from the very beginning that I thought their DDoS strategy to be a bad idea. I was happy, last month, when the folks behind it effectively had "called off" their attacks on copyright-related sites, and a bit disappointed (though, again, fascinated) by the more recent attacks in support of Wikileaks. However, there are now reports that the group has (as it did with the copyright issue) decided to back off the DDoS attacks, but instead, work towards helping to sift through all of the Wikileaks leaks to find the hidden gems of information that need more attention and exposure. As the plan says, "they don't fear the LOIC (the tool used for the attacks), they fear exposure." Could it be that out of what some consider "vandalism," we may get journalism? Welcome to the new digital world...
While I find Operation Payback fascinating, from a sociological/cultural perspective, I've said from the very beginning...
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10 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Leak Suggests Hollywood Is Better At Preventing Terrorism Than The TSA

While it seems like US politicians keep insisting that Wikileaks' release of State Department cables has put people in harm's way -- despite a lack of evidence to support that -- some are pointing out that at least some of the cables actually show that some of what the US is doing in the Middle East has been quite effective. Prashanth points us to the news that one of the leaks showed that American TV and movies in Saudi Arabia are actually "are doing more to dissuade young Muslims from becoming jihadists than virtually anything else." As the cable noted: "Saudis are now very interested in the outside world and everybody wants to study in the US if they can. They are fascinated by US culture in a way they never were before."
While it seems like US politicians keep insisting that Wikileaks' release of State Department cables has put people in...
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10 Dec 2010

Military Threatens To Court Martial Anyone Using USB Drives Or Other Removable Media

Apparently, one strategy the military is taking in a weak attempt to prevent a future State Department cable leaks, like the one currently going on, is to ban all forms of removable media and to threaten to court martial anyone caught using USB keys or CD-Rs on machines connected to SIPRNET. Apparently this is kind of frustrating for many in the military:
Apparently, one strategy the military is taking in a weak attempt to prevent a future State Department cable leaks, like...
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10 Dec 2010

WikiWecaps

Joe Sabia of Get Whirled offers this hilarious and appropriately instructive recap of the Wikileaks saga as it has unfolded over the last few weeks.
Joe Sabia of Get Whirled offers this hilarious and appropriately instructive recap of the Wikileaks saga as it has...
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10 Dec 2010

Personal Democracy Forum presents A Symposium on Wikileaks…

Personal Democracy Forum is an annual conference and daily online hub on all the ways that technology is changing politics, governance and society. At PersonalDemocracy.com you can find key content like videos and notes from past conferences, plus all kinds of practical information for political technology professionals, including a free job board and a variety of practical information on web campaign management consulting and technology companies, online tools, local political blogs and more.
Personal Democracy Forum is an annual conference and daily online hub on all the ways that technology is changing...
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10 Dec 2010

Are we starting a full-out war on the Internet

WikiLeaks is the perfect storm for all past issues on the net, but I'm afraid it also will draw us into a future that I've believed was coming and didn't want to talk about. We don't like to think about how much our civilization depends on the proper running of computer networks, and how vulnerable they are. Whoever it is that attacking Mastercard and Paypal are anonymous. They could be teenagers (that's what we hope) but they could also be professionals working for foreign governments, or even the US government.
WikiLeaks is the perfect storm for all past issues on the net, but I'm afraid it also will draw us into a future that...
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10 Dec 2010

New Competition For Wikileaks Shows Up — Say Hello To OpenLeaks

Like many folks, I'm somewhat conflicted about Wikileaks as an organization. It's been clear for quite some time that it has some organizational issues, to put it mildly. However, as we've pointed out the concept behind Wikileaks is inevitable, and we fully expected that even if Wikileaks itself went away, others would quickly step up to take its place. Last month, we noted that some former Wikileakers (who were not at all happy with Assange's leadership) were planning a new competitor.
Like many folks, I'm somewhat conflicted about Wikileaks as an organization. It's been clear for quite some time that it...
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10 Dec 2010

The move to cloud computing is unstoppable – but WikiLeaks gives us pause

Until last week, any computing futurologist would tell you that cloud computing is where it's at. You don't need to know where your data is being stored; it's just on a computer, or more likely computers, Out There On The Internet. Thus Amazon, with its EC2 ("Elastic Cloud Compute") service, or Microsoft with its Azure service, or the most familiar example, Google, with its GoogleMail and Google Docs services, which are used by thousand of companies around the world. (Disclosure: the Guardian uses Google Docs and Mail, and Amazon's EC2 system for its API.)
Until last week, any computing futurologist would tell you that cloud computing is where it's at. You don't need to know...
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10 Dec 2010

Schneier on Security – WikiLeaks

The State Department has learned what the music and film industries learned long ago: that digital files are easy to copy and distribute, says Bruce Schneier, a security expert. Companies are about to make that discovery, too. There will be more leaks, and they will be embarrassing.
The State Department has learned what the music and film industries learned long ago: that digital files are easy to...
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10 Dec 2010

Lieberman Praises Companies Helping Him Try To Censor Wikileaks

This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator Sue Collins, praising companies for following through on their political pressure to try to censor Wikileaks, calling them "good corporate citizens," and saying that people should support those companies for their willingness to bow down to government pressure. Yeah, okay. Even the press reporting on this seem to think Lieberman is simply making stuff up. Witness this paragraph from Wired:
This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator...
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9 Dec 2010

What Would Happen If Wikileaks Got Its Own Top Level Domain?

With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is about a centralized vs. decentralized internet and even talk of a more decentralized DNS system, IP Watch raises an interesting question. With ICANN's plans to allow just about any TLD, what would happen if Wikileaks were to apply for its very own TLD?
With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is about a centralized vs. decentralized...
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9 Dec 2010

Protests, cyber-skirmishes rage over WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group clashed in cyberspace Thursday, with spam attacks crashing websites on both sides of the battle. Offline, some efforts by the U.S. government and its allies to punish the site for leaking secret documents have landed in court or are headed to one. Judicial authorities in France foiled the French government s effort to boot WikiLeaks from its French computer servers, while supporters in Switzerland and Germany threatened lawsuits against U.S. financial companies who have cut their ties to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group clashed in cyberspace Thursday, with...
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9 Dec 2010

First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks

4chan vigilante group Anonymous is used to getting away with its DDoS attacks and other Internet shenanigans, but that's not going to be the case this time around. An arrest has been made in 4chan's revenge attacks on PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, begun after the companies stopped providing services to WikiLeaks. The first to go down is a Dutch 16-year-old boy, who has been arrested by the Dutch High Tech Crime Team and is being held for interrogation.
4chan vigilante group Anonymous is used to getting away with its DDoS attacks and other Internet shenanigans, but that's...
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9 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Payment Company Plans To Sue Visa and Mastercard Over Cutoff

With Visa and Mastercard refusing to take payments for Wikileaks, the company that was providing payment services to Wikileaks, Datacell, has announced plans to sue both credit card companies to try to get them to go back to accepting payments.
With Visa and Mastercard refusing to take payments for Wikileaks, the company that was providing payment services to...
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9 Dec 2010

Sticky Wikis

Wikileaks has become the world s most visible and newsworthy user of cloud computing. Its current situation provides some useful enterprise lessons on the unique attributes of digital information.
Wikileaks has become the world s most visible and newsworthy user of cloud computing. Its current situation provides...
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