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9 Dec 2010

If Assange Were In China, US Politicians Would Be Cheering Him On

We've pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to internet censorship, while threatening Wikileaks at the same time. If you want to see some real irony, check out the fact that Senator Joe Lieberman, who has been the loudest voice in pushing for censorship of Wikileaks and of others in the press, just so happens to be a member of the "Global Internet Freedom Caucus." Yeah, except here in the US.
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9 Dec 2010

Is Operation Payback A Crime… Or Just The Modern Equivalent Of A Sit In?

With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in "Operation Payback," the Anonymous-driven DDoSing of certain websites (first those in favor of stronger copyright, and now those working against Wikileaks), Evgeny Morozov raises an interesting question: is this just the modern digital equivalent of staging a sit-in?
With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in "Operation Payback," the...
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9 Dec 2010

The 24-hour Athenian democracy

I am talking to members of a group called Anonymous , using a web-based collaborative text-editing service. It is the first such interview for all of us, and their answers begin to collide on the page. One member comes from Norway; another shows surprise, then offers that she is from New Zealand. Another writes that group members come from Nepal and Eastern Russia. They all speak through pseudonyms, but I don't even know which psuedonym comes from what country because shortly after I read these answers, someone who calls himself Tux erases them all and writes
I am talking to members of a group called Anonymous , using a web-based collaborative text-editing service. It is the...
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9 Dec 2010

Amazon Won’t Host Wikileaks… But Will Sell The Leaked Cables For Your Kindle?

This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here. When Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of their S3 hosting service, we noted how it had (just weeks earlier) tried to defend a pro-pedophilia book by stating:
This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here. When Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of their...
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9 Dec 2010

Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are About Distributed and Open vs. Centralized and Closed

Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing Wikileaks to Anonymous' "Operation Payback" (whose tactics I disagree with). I noted that the two were very different, and were focused on very different issues, but that both were essentially about distributed and open systems taking on systems that were centralized and closed -- and that the folks in those centralized and closed systems didn't seem to understand this. Thus, all of their reactions did little to fix the challenges they were facing.
Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing Wikileaks to Anonymous'...
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9 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Julian Assange: The Hilariously Over-The-Top, Strange Animated Video

Well, we all knew this was coming. Like they've done time and time again, NMA.tv has delivered a hilariously over-the-top, strange animated video about a current event. This time, it's WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. Yes, the man everyone in the entire world is talking about. And, naturally, we have plenty of tech companies making a cameo in the video. PayPal, Amazon, etc.
Well, we all knew this was coming. Like they've done time and time again, NMA.tv has delivered a hilariously...
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9 Dec 2010

Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be Condemned not Celebrated

Le Web. I'm still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe's "leading technology conference" , and yet here I am, for the third year in a row, hanging out in a snow-bound venue four hundred miles from the centre of Paris, watching a succession of American entrepreneurs being interviewed - in English - by journalists who have flown in specially from California. I ll say this, though: the food is good this year - really good. Now, having satisfied my annual obligation to be snarky about Le Web, I'm free to talk about what passes for the big story of the conference, and indeed the biggest story of the world right now. Wikileaks. Specifically, the continuing DOS attacks against companies who are perceived as enemies of Wikileaks.
Le Web. I'm still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe's "leading technology conference" , and yet here I am,...
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8 Dec 2010

Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press

Operation Payback is a bitch. "Anonymous" is retaliating against Mastercard for denying payment processing services to WikiLeaks, and Mastercard.com is currently down as a result. The apparent US government efforts to cut Wikileaks' lifeblood cashflow and web services kicked into high gear this week. On Monday, Swiss bank PostFinance closed the defense fund account for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. PayPal shut down donation processing after receiving a State Department letter, and most recently, Visa and Mastercard have suspended Wikileaks' accounts. Did the credit card companies do so in response to the same pressures? And, further, in part because the cables show the US lobbied Russia on their behalf? A Guardian report today suggests so.
Operation Payback is a bitch. "Anonymous" is retaliating against Mastercard for denying payment processing services to...
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7 Dec 2010

U.S. Satellites, Ammo Aided Saudis in Border War

Even after expressing alarm about civilians being killed in Yemen and Saudi Arabia s war last year against Shiite separatists in Yemen, the U.S. provided the Saudis with crucial military aid, including ammunition and satellite imagery, the WikiLeaks document trove shows.
Even after expressing alarm about civilians being killed in Yemen and Saudi Arabia s war last year against Shiite...
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6 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks mirrors multiply as main funding source gets cut off

The Internet may be working to take WikiLeaks offline, but the site's contents aren't going to disappear, thanks to hundreds of mirrors that popped up over the weekend. But even though more than 200 sites around the world now host the controversial leaked documents, WikiLeaks may face an all-too-familiar funding problem if it wants to continue publishing new leaks.
The Internet may be working to take WikiLeaks offline, but the site's contents aren't going to disappear, thanks to...
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6 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks’ One True Home Is Twitter, But For How Long

With Amazon, Paypal and EveryDNS.net dissolving their relationships to WikiLeaks, leaving it without a stable home and a way to make money, Twitter currently serves as the only solid ground the Internet whistleblower has to stand on. This has left many wondering whether or not Twitter will eventually take down the @wikileaks account if put under enough pressure, from lawmakers or otherwise
With Amazon, Paypal and EveryDNS.net dissolving their relationships to WikiLeaks, leaving it without a stable home and a...
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6 Dec 2010

Boycott Amazon? Not doing it.

I'm a veteran of many free speech campaigns on the Internet dating back to the Communication Decency Act in 1996. I've been around this block many times. So when people say "I thought we were boycotting Amazon for their treatment of WikiLeaks" when I posted a link to Amazon's new programmable DNS feature (which I've been waiting for, thanks) I see it all coming around again.
I'm a veteran of many free speech campaigns on the Internet dating back to the Communication Decency Act in 1996. I've...
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6 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Shines a Light on the Limits of Techno-Politics

The hacker ethic, open source, open government, radical transparency and mass collaboration: all these ideas are linked by a belief that the Internet will promote non-hierarchical organization, decentralization, democratization , openness and sharing. A side effect of the WikiLeaks cables is to show that, for all the talk of movements and revolutions, these beliefs are empty of real political content. The cables prompt some tough questions, but the fault lines those questions reveal run perpendicular to digital attitudes, not parallel. When push comes to political shove, open source proponents and so on are found on both sides of the debate. The Internet is a new terrain, but the battles being fought on it are old ones.
The hacker ethic, open source, open government, radical transparency and mass collaboration: all these ideas are linked...
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6 Dec 2010

On Wikileaks Gov 2.0, The Press and Free Society

There s something to capitalize on because Government 2.0 is a movement, albeit a very loose one with many banners. The broad movement, though, boils down to a core commitment to democracy and a more collaborative and transparent government. There are a also a number of tools associated with the Gov 2.0 movement, from wikis to crowdsourcing platforms, social media and structured open data.
There s something to capitalize on because Government 2.0 is a movement, albeit a very loose one with many banners. The...
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1 Dec 2010

Salaries of WikiLeaks Staffers to Be Revealed in New Report

Expenses and salary earnings for paid WikiLeaks staff will be revealed for the first time in a report expected to be published by the end of this year, according to Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the secret-spilling organization.
Expenses and salary earnings for paid WikiLeaks staff will be revealed for the first time in a report expected to be...
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19 Nov 2010

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border

A well-known and respected computer-security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cellphones before returning them to him. The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the door of his plane when he arrived at JFK airport on a Jet Blue flight from the Dominican Republic
A well-known and respected computer-security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents...
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25 Aug 2010

WikiLeaks Publishes Mundane CIA Thought Experiment

Now it can be told: a CIA analytic team assessed in February that the recent spate of homegrown terrorism could have unpredictable foreign-policy consequences for the United States. And if not for the controversial transparency organization WikiLeaks, we might never have known that the CIA can occasionally bore policymakers to tears with its time-wasting obviousness
Now it can be told: a CIA analytic team assessed in February that the recent spate of homegrown terrorism could have...
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2 Aug 2010

WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup

WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities. That s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason. But today WikiLeaks is unleashing a potentially devastating strike against criitics which could see it become an almost unstoppable force in the world s media. It s joined Flattr
WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000...
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1 Aug 2010

Ex-Hacker Denies Alleged WikiLeaker Gave Him Classified Documents

An Army intelligence analyst who is charged with leaking classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks also allegedly sent classified documents to the hacker who turned him in to the feds, according to a friend and associate of the hacker who helped connect him with federal agents.
An Army intelligence analyst who is charged with leaking classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks also...
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26 Jul 2010

Transcript – Wikileaks Afghanistan docs ‘alarming’

The White House on Monday condemned Wikileaks' decision to release more than 75,000 secret military reports from Afghanistan, calling the move "alarming" and saying there is an investigation into how the documents were obtained.
The White House on Monday condemned Wikileaks' decision to release more than 75,000 secret military reports from...
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30 Jun 2010

WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File Threat Level

In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled 'insurance.' The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site.
In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents,...
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9 Feb 2009

Wikileaks Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info

What s Wikileaks, the net s foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site s confidential donors as a leaked document?
What s Wikileaks, the net s foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email...
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1 Apr 2004

The Homeless Hacker v. The New York Times

Known as the Homeless Hacker before his arrest, Lamo did most of his virtual exploring from the Internet connections at Kinko's copy shops. Besides his laptop - an eight-year-old Toshiba with six keys missing - he traveled light, usually with a blanket, a change of clothes, and a Taser stun gun, which he used to pick electronic locks and sometimes to shock vending machines to see if they would drop food or spare change.
Known as the Homeless Hacker before his arrest, Lamo did most of his virtual exploring from the Internet connections at...
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31 Dec 2014

WikiLeaks claims employee’s Google mail, metadata seized by US government

On Christmas Eve, as the National Security Agency was releasing a report on NSA employees abuses of surveillance technology, Google was telling WikiLeaks about another sort of surveillance. According to a statement by WikiLeaks on Twitter, Google informed the organization on December 24 that the Gmail mailboxes and account metadata of a WikiLeaks employee had been turned over to law enforcement under a US federal warrant.
On Christmas Eve, as the National Security Agency was releasing a report on NSA employees abuses of surveillance...
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2 Sep 2011

Hacker Kayla taken down in latest LulzSec arrests

Police have arrested two men in the UK in connection with online attacks performed by LulzSec and Anonymous. The men, aged 20 and 24, were arrested yesterday by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) and are accused of conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. Police have searched the homes of one of the men and seized computers for further examination.
Police have arrested two men in the UK in connection with online attacks performed by LulzSec and Anonymous. The men,...
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14 Feb 2012

Whistleblowing Website Cryptome Hacked, Conspiracy Theories Do Not Abound

Cryptome, a sort of proto-WikiLeaks website best known for exposing the CIA analyst who found Osama Bin Laden, announced this week that its entire website had been hacked. But, in a surprising response from Cryptome founder John Young - a man suspicious even of tap water - no foul play was suspected. At least no more foul than the usual Internet hijinks.
Cryptome, a sort of proto-WikiLeaks website best known for exposing the CIA analyst who found Osama Bin Laden, announced...
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22 May 2012

WikiLeaks supporters launch social network for like minded individuals

Backers of the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks recently launched Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted social network for like-minded individuals. "Friends of WikiLeaks is a network of people from across the globe who defend WikiLeaks, its people, its alleged sources and its mission," the website's homepage says. "We publicly and privately promote WikiLeaks and individuals and organisations aligned with the mission of WikiLeaks."
Backers of the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks recently launched Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted social...
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1 Sep 2011

Guardian denies responsibility for unredacted cables

The Guardian released a statement today assailing Wikileaks' accusation that one of its reporters published the password to an unredacted set of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. The newspaper admits publishing the password, but says it was assured that the files encrypted with it were temporary and would not become public.
The Guardian released a statement today assailing Wikileaks' accusation that one of its reporters published the password...
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29 Dec 2011

Alleged Leaker Case More Tech than Military

During testimony at a military installation where Pfc. Bradley Manning is fighting efforts to have him court-martialed over alleged leaks to Wikileaks, tech jargon is paramount. The digital forensic examiners littered their testimonies with the terms of their trade. Text files. Zip files. Hash values. Allocated and unallocated disk space
During testimony at a military installation where Pfc. Bradley Manning is fighting efforts to have him court-martialed...
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27 Dec 2011

Anonymous Attacks Again, Uses Stolen Credit Card Data

Those claiming credit for the latest Anonymous cyberattack said they obtained about 4,000 passwords, home addresses, and credit card information from Statfor's private client list, and have posted that private data on a public information sharing site. The hacker group claims to have obtained about 200 gigabytes of data.
Those claiming credit for the latest Anonymous cyberattack said they obtained about 4,000 passwords, home addresses, and...
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29 Jun 2013

Wikileaks Cables Confirm Existence of Extraterrestrial Life

"There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon." - Dr Brian O leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor (source)
"There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time....
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2 Oct 2014

Wikileaks accuses intelligence watchdog of misleading Senate inquiry

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused an Australian government agency of giving misleading evidence to a parliamentary inquiry. Assange said that representatives of the Office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security had misrepresented the "standard operating procedures" among the 5 Eyes intelligence sharing alliance, which comprises Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and the US.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused an Australian government agency of giving misleading evidence to a...
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12 Oct 2011

Hacktivism: The fallout from Anonymous and LulzSec

Like the mutant offspring of Captain Jack Sparrow and French anarchist Pierre Proudhon -- famous for his 'property is theft' claim -- activist hacking group LulzSec surfed the Web spreading debonair charm, chaos and reckless acts of 'hacktivism' in equal measure.
Like the mutant offspring of Captain Jack Sparrow and French anarchist Pierre Proudhon -- famous for his 'property is...
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18 Jan 2012

Silencing Donahue and Anti-War Voices by Phil Donahue

In a time in the history of this nation, when there is so much happening under the table, when administrations feel they have to protect us, and in order to do that efficiently they have to keep it secret, I celebrate the courage of Bradley Manning. I ve yet to see anybody prove to anybody else that somebody was killed because of whatever it is that Bradley Manning has made public.
In a time in the history of this nation, when there is so much happening under the table, when administrations feel they...
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29 Feb 2012

WikiLeaks Stratfor Disclosure Highlights Email Encryption Failure

Stratfor appears to have run afoul of Anonymous and WikiLeaks on account of its intelligence-gathering activities. A blog post published Sunday on the AnonOps Communications blog, a reliable source of Anonymous-related information, accused Stratfor of being "a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency."
Stratfor appears to have run afoul of Anonymous and WikiLeaks on account of its intelligence-gathering activities. A...
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11 Aug 2012

New Group AntiLeaks Opens Up DDoS War on WikiLeaks, But Might Not Be What They Claim

Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on WikiLeaks, their affiliate sites and mirrors. This is something pretty spectacular when you think about it. The group claims to be a group of young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador , but their tactics and capabilities seems to indicate something more is going on here.
Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on...
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9 Mar 2012

Rogers’ “Cybersecurity” Bill Is Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay

Congress is doing it again: they re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government1 free rein to bypass existing laws in order to monitor communications, filter content, or potentially even shut down access to online services for "cybersecurity purposes."
Congress is doing it again: they re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet...
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21 Dec 2011

Twitter Accused of Censoring Wikileaks, Anonymous Supporters

Reports have emerged alleging social network giant Twitter is censoring its content, closing accounts supporting anti-authoritarian causes such as Wikileaks and the Anonymous sponsored Occupy movement. The initial report of Twitter censoring users stemmed from Business Insider columnist David Seaman Monday. In his report Seaman alleged that his Twitter account had been closed as a means to silence his ongoing support for the Occupy movement and "talking too much" about the controversial detainment without trial provisions in America's FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Reports have emerged alleging social network giant Twitter is censoring its content, closing accounts supporting...
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12 Mar 2012

Anonymous hurt by arrests but hard to kill

In turning one of its best-known hackers into an informant and breaking open the highest profile elements of the Anonymous movement, authorities have dealt a serious blow to a group they found a growing irritant. But as the broader "Anonymous" label - complete with its iconic Guy Fawkes mask imagery - is used by ever more disparate causes worldwide, it may be all but impossible to shut it down for good.
In turning one of its best-known hackers into an informant and breaking open the highest profile elements of the...
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16 Jul 2012

Anonymous creates Par AnoIA, WikiLeaks gets scared

In a very public snub to WikiLeaks, the cyber vigilante group Anonymous has created its own publishing system for confidential data. Par:AnoIA, which supposedly stands for Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency, although one suspects the derivation came after the acronym, is intended to be a direct, but more liberal competitor to the closely moderated WikiLeaks site.
In a very public snub to WikiLeaks, the cyber vigilante group Anonymous has created its own publishing system for...
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4 Jan 2012

Is vulnerability an objective?

*Why does just about everyone in your organization have direct access to just about all the company secret files? There is no reason that the person in the mailroom or, in most cases, the company president, should have such access. Take a look at WikiLeaks to see what goes wrong when there is too indiscriminate access.
*Why does just about everyone in your organization have direct access to just about all the company secret files? There...
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1 Jan 2015

Wikileaks documents ‘offer hints about UFOs’, alien-hunters claim

Documents released by Wikileaks have already offered hints about little green men from beyond the stars including tantalising titbits from Japanese and Lithuanian politicians. But some UFO sites, naturally, believe that the wizard-haired Wikileaks maestro might have something better up his sleeve - namely evidence of alien spacecraft parked secretly in government hangars.
Documents released by Wikileaks have already offered hints about little green men from beyond the stars including...
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11 Aug 2012

WikiLeaks hit by sustained DDoS over surveillance leaks

It s been a while since we heard anything big from WikiLeaks, but things seem to be heating up again. The site has been under a sustained DDoS attack for the last week or so, apparently by a group of self-described young adult citizens of the USA, after it released a trove of emails regarding an unprecedented surveillance system known as TrapWire.
It s been a while since we heard anything big from WikiLeaks, but things seem to be heating up again. The site has been...
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27 Sep 2011

Which Social Networks Fight for Your Rights

U.S. government agencies regularly request that social network providers disclose user data or take down content for legal reasons, often to prevent or remove defamation, hate speech, and child pornography. Most social networks will notify you of government requests for your information unless they are specifically barred from doing so by court order. Twitter explicitly promises as much and has demonstrated a willingness to fight for its users in the past, in one case securing a court order allowing the company to notify Birgitta Jornsdottir that her private data was being subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of an investigation into her involvement with WikiLeaks earlier this year.
U.S. government agencies regularly request that social network providers disclose user data or take down content for...
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22 Mar 2012

Why WikiLeaks’ bid for radical transparency failed

The scale and significance of the 2010 WikiLeaks disclosures were overstated, according to new research. Analysis of the WikiLeaks debacle in the International Review of Administrative Sciences, published by SAGE on behalf of the Institute for Administrative Sciences (IIAS), serves to highlight four key reasons why radical transparency is hard to achieve, and why a technological fix alone will not achieve it.
The scale and significance of the 2010 WikiLeaks disclosures were overstated, according to new research. Analysis of the...
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14 Jul 2012

WikiLeaks Victory Against Visa A Significant Victory

An Icelandic court ordered a local Visa affiliate which had broken contract laws by refusing to process credit card donations to WikiLeaks to resume processing transactions in what officials at the website dubbed a "significant victory" in its ongoing battle with governments and financial institutions, various media outlets are reporting. redOrbit (http://s.tt/1hR8X)
An Icelandic court ordered a local Visa affiliate which had broken contract laws by refusing to process credit card...
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1 Aug 2012

UK scientists say they’ve identified future of war, via Wikileaks

Models to accurately predict the future of military conflicts based on classified information from the Afghan war revealed by whistleblower website Wikileaks have been created by scientists at the University of Sheffield. Using war logs with about 77,000 events including location, day and time of occurrence and other details from the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009, the team of scientists - including scientists from the universities of Edinburgh and Columbia, USA - were able to predict armed opposition group activity way into the future of the battle.
Models to accurately predict the future of military conflicts based on classified information from the Afghan war...
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6 Apr 2012

State Department CIO Interviewed About Post-Wikileaks Changes

"Eighteen months after its diplomatic cables were exposed in the WikiLeaks breach, the State Department continues to lock down its confidential information, while increasing its use of using social media. The agency is deploying new security technology, including auditing and monitoring tools that detect anomalous activity on the State Department's classified networks and systems
"Eighteen months after its diplomatic cables were exposed in the WikiLeaks breach, the State Department continues to...
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10 Jan 2012

Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

"In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices
"In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's...
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10 Mar 2012

Transparency Double Standard: UK Public Inquiry Requests Info From Wikileaks

Well, this is interesting. Given the general condemnation of Wikileaks by governments, all the ongoing controversy and reputation problems faced by the organization, you wouldn't expect them to be approached with any official requests for leaked information. But it seems just that has happened in the UK, where the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics has requested and received a dossier from Wikileaks on corruption in the British press.
Well, this is interesting. Given the general condemnation of Wikileaks by governments, all the ongoing controversy and...
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22 Feb 2012

Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, is hosting a conference about The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World. Sounds like it could be an interesting event, but one organization not happy about it... is Wikileaks. Seeing as it was a conference that touched on Wikileaks' interests directly, Wikileaks asked to take part, and was instead denied a chance to speak at the event. When asked about this, UNESCO actually claimed that choosing to not allow Wikileaks attendees was an exercise in "freedom of expression," which seems like a poor choice of words.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, is hosting a conference about The Media...
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13 Sep 2011

BofA Has To Pay Fired Whistleblower $930,000

The US Department of Labor has told Bank of America to reinstate a guy they fired for blowing the whistle on fraud at Countrywide, and pay him $930,000 for his troubles. Apparently, BofA fired the guy soon after taking over Countrywide and discovered that this (unnamed) employee was trying to report on the fact that others, who had reported fraud at Countrywide, had been the victims of corporate retaliation.
The US Department of Labor has told Bank of America to reinstate a guy they fired for blowing the whistle on fraud at...
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2 Sep 2011

Leaked State Department Cable Confirms What Everyone Already Knew: MPAA Was Behind Bogus Australian ISP Lawsuit

When it comes to copyright issues, the various State Department leaks via Wikileaks have only served to confirm what pretty much everyone already knew. Earlier we'd covered revelations about US diplomatic involvement in new copyright laws in Spain, and the latest (as a bunch of you sent in) is the rather upfront admission that the MPAA was absolutely behind the decision to sue iiNet in Australia.
When it comes to copyright issues, the various State Department leaks via Wikileaks have only served to confirm what...
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12 Sep 2011

Random Acts of Blindness: Air Force List of WikiLeaks Banned Sites is Released

Thanks to some dogged nudging by the good folks at MuckRock.com*, we now have an authoritative list of the websites blocked by the U.S. Air Force because of the WikiLeaks disclosures. The list of 45 sites primarily covers various WikiLeaks mirror sites, as well as several of the main media outlets that partnered with the whistleblowing platform last year, including The New York Times, The Guardian, el Pais, Der Spiegel, and OWNI.fr.
Thanks to some dogged nudging by the good folks at MuckRock.com*, we now have an authoritative list of the websites...
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6 Apr 2012

WikiLeaks founder accuses media of libel

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website, recently told a UK-based inquiry that he is the victim of "extensive press libels."?? "People who find themselves caught up in particularly newsworthy events or, as in my case, politically controversial circumstances face a stark choice: either to engage in prohibitively expensive litigation or to seek protection and redress through complaint to a press standards body or regulator," Assange wrote in official testimony submitted to the Leveson Inquiry.
Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website, recently told a UK-based inquiry that he is the...
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10 Mar 2012

From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top secret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, says he strongly identifies with Pfc. Bradley Manning. "I don't think anyone should be prosecuted ... for releasing information to Congress or the public that reveals criminal behavior."? Ellsberg also defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing the controversial material.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top secret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, says he strongly identifies with Pfc....
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bradley manning, daniel elsberg, julian assange, legal battle
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27 Dec 2011

Greens Senator champions Assange cause

The Australian Prime Minister and Attorney General may have shunned Julian Assange in his bid for justice, but Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has emerged as one of the Wikileaks founder s core supporters. Ludlam has returned from a mission to Europe where he sought to secure some surety over Assange's human rights, if he is extradited to Sweden.
The Australian Prime Minister and Attorney General may have shunned Julian Assange in his bid for justice, but Greens...
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4 Sep 2011

Mugabe has prostate cancer, will be dead by 2013

The personal banker to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe told a former US ambassador that the ageing president had prostate cancer that would kill him by 2013, leaked US embassy cables show.
The personal banker to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe told a former US ambassador that the ageing president had prostate...
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18 Jan 2012

Iran’s Bomb and Pakistan by Pervez Hoodbhoy

Voices within the Pakistani establishment spoke against giving nuclear support to Iran. US pressure was partly the reason but so was the discomfort with Iran, a Shi'ite state. These suspicions were confirmed by confidential American cables revealed by Wikileaks. They detail Pakistan s efforts to dissuade Iran from pursuing its weapons program. General Pervez Musharraf, prime minister Shaukat Aziz and foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri held at least seven meetings, whether face-to-face or by telephone, with the Iranians.
Voices within the Pakistani establishment spoke against giving nuclear support to Iran. US pressure was partly the...
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10 Aug 2012

CIA-connected private intelligence firm TrapWire watching Americans

The latest WikiLeaks release has shone a spotlight on an alleged domestic and foreign surveillance program run with cloud-based software provided by Virginia company TrapWire, many of whose top leaders and employees are former members of three-letter American intelligence agencies
The latest WikiLeaks release has shone a spotlight on an alleged domestic and foreign surveillance program run with...
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29 Dec 2011

10 things you need to know about Anonymous’ Stratfor hack

On Dec. 24th, hacker collective Anonymous stole credit card info and other sensitive data from U.S. security firm Stratfor, but keeping track of who and what are affected by the scandal can be difficult. We ve put together a 10-point FAQ for better understanding the major hacking incident, which blew up in the news cycle on Christmas and continues to worry people as more details are released.
On Dec. 24th, hacker collective Anonymous stole credit card info and other sensitive data from U.S. security firm...
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8 Sep 2012

New Wikileaks Emails Show DEA Told to Backoff in Afghanistan

Wikileaks has released 2,694 emails that were stolen from the security firm Stratfor by the hacking group Anonymous in winter of last year. Business Insider reports that one of these released emails shows the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was asked to back off of an investigation that the DEA said would tie drugs to terrorism.The subject of the email is "RE: Humint - Afghanistan - Karzai (Strictly Protect - Confidential)" and says
Wikileaks has released 2,694 emails that were stolen from the security firm Stratfor by the hacking group Anonymous in...
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8 Aug 2014

Edward Snowden -The Untold Story

The Author a former NSA whistleblower meets with Snowden in Moscow. - ES is Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the world. For almost nine months, I have been trying to set up an interview with him traveling to Berlin, Rio de Janeiro twice, and New York multiple times to talk with the handful of his confidants who can arrange a meeting. Among other things, I want to answer a burning question: What drove Snowden to leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents, revelations that have laid bare the vast scope of the government s domestic surveillance programs?
The Author a former NSA whistleblower meets with Snowden in Moscow. - ES is Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the...
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30 Dec 2013

WikiLeaks’ Assange: Sysadmins of the World, Unite!

System administrators, who have access to confidential government or corporate documents, have particular ability to play a role in what he painted as a new class war, he said. "We can see that in the case of WikiLeaks, or the Snowden revelations, it's possible for even a single system administrator to have very significant constructive effect," he said. "This is not merely wrecking or disabling, not going on strikes, but rather shifting information from an information apartheid system from those with extraordinary power to the digital commons."
System administrators, who have access to confidential government or corporate documents, have particular ability to...
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27 Feb 2012

Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm’s Dirty Laundry

In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that Anonymous obtained by hacking the company in December. WikiLeaks did not mention the source of the reported five gigabytes of e-mails in its press release, but did say it has been working for months with 25 media outlets from around the world to analyze the documents.
In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night...
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7 Oct 2011

White House Issues ‘WikiLeaks’ Order to Secure Classified Data

More than a year after thousands of classified and sensitive U.S. government documents were leaked to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, the White House has issued an executive order designed to improve the security of classified networks and prevent further leaks.
More than a year after thousands of classified and sensitive U.S. government documents were leaked to the...
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16 Sep 2014

WikiLeaks posts ‘weaponized malware’ for all to download

The long and sordid story of WikiLeaks takes an astonishingly irresponsible and very dangerous turn. WikiLeaks has released a trove of documents about a dangerous spyware program called FinFisher, produced by a German company named Gamma Group International. According to reporting by our own Chris Duckett, Gamma Group International has been selling FinFisher to "the police forces of the Netherlands and New South Wales, and the intelligence arms of the Hungarian, Qatari, Italian, and Bosnian governments."
The long and sordid story of WikiLeaks takes an astonishingly irresponsible and very dangerous turn. WikiLeaks has...
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28 Dec 2011

Anonymous Explains Why 2.7 Million Stratfor Emails Were Hacked

Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not have expected to be as easily obtainable as they were. Rather, the operation was pursued in order to obtain the 2.7 million e-mails that exist on the firm's servers. This wealth of data includes correspondence with untold thousands of contacts who have spoken to Stratfor's employees off the record over more than a decade.
Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not have...
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