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25 Apr 2011

Leaked files reveal new info on Gitmo detainees

Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as "unfortunate."
Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the...

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25 Apr 2011

Wikileaks publishes secret files on Gitmo prisoners

Wikileaks has published secret files on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, with hundreds more ready to be released in the coming month. In total, internal documents concerning 779 prisoners will be published, according to the site, accounting for every detainee at the facility.
Wikileaks has published secret files on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, with hundreds more ready to be released in the...

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15 Apr 2011

WikiLeaks Associates Hit Back Over U.S. Twitter Records Demand

Three WikiLeaks associates fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the prosecutors lobbed the latest volley in a contentious legal battle with the Justice Department on Thursday, charging in a court filing that the government s argument "trivializes both the Parties and the public s constitutional rights."
Three WikiLeaks associates fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the prosecutors lobbed the...

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12 Apr 2011

Even Mainstream Reporters Now Mocking US Bogus ‘Transparency’ On Human Rights Issues Concerning Bradley Manning

A number of folks have picked up on the near total lack of self-recognition by the US federal government in response to its annual release of a State Department report condemning China's human rights record.
A number of folks have picked up on the near total lack of self-recognition by the US federal government in response to...

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5 Apr 2011

‘Collateral Murder’ Soldier Speaks in New Film

Ethan McCord, a 33-year-old Army specialist, was engaged in a firefight with insurgents in an Iraqi suburb in July 2007, when his platoon, part of Bravo Company, 2-16 Infantry, got orders to investigate the aftermath of a recent firefight on a nearby street.
Ethan McCord, a 33-year-old Army specialist, was engaged in a firefight with insurgents in an Iraqi suburb in July 2007,...

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5 Apr 2011

New group leaks confidential Tufts financial information online

A group of current and former Tufts students identifying themselves as "Jumboleaks" on Saturday posted online an outdated list of university financial holdings, citing financial transparency and responsible investment among their motivations.
A group of current and former Tufts students identifying themselves as "Jumboleaks" on Saturday posted online an...

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5 Apr 2011

Army: Manning Snuck ‘Data-Mining’ Software Onto Secret Network

Accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning installed and used unauthorized 'data-mining software' on his SIPRnet workstation during the time he allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of documents off that classified network, the Army said Friday in response to inquiries from Threat Level.
Accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning installed and used unauthorized 'data-mining software' on his SIPRnet...

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4 Apr 2011

Openleaks 101 video

This is a video introduction on the open leaks system and how they are planning to process and publish whistleblower leaks.
This is a video introduction on the open leaks system and how they are planning to process and publish whistleblower...

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2 Apr 2011

Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associates in Twitter Case

The government should be required to obtain a search warrant to get the IP addresses of Twitter users linked to WikiLeaks, argues a court brief filed Thursday by a group of respected security experts who say the addresses carry a higher expectation of privacy than mere phone numbers.
The government should be required to obtain a search warrant to get the IP addresses of Twitter users linked to...

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31 Mar 2011

The Mystery Of The Fiat-Gaddafi Connection The Truth About Cars

Back in 1976, the Italian automaker Fiat had been badly battered by a global energy crisis and the resulting malaise infecting the global auto industry. In what Time Magazine described at the time as "a devastatingly ironic example of petropower," Col. Muammar Gaddafi instructed his Libyan Arab Foreign Bank to invest some $415m into the Italian automaker, giving it a stake that would eventually grow to some 14 percent of the firm s equity.
Back in 1976, the Italian automaker Fiat had been badly battered by a global energy crisis and the resulting malaise...

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26 Mar 2011

WikiLeaks Associates Appeal Twitter Records Demand

Three WikiLeaks associates entangled in a federal grand jury probe in Virginia asked a federal judge Friday to reverse a ruling that would hand over records of their Twitter use to federal prosecutors, arguing that the ruling violates a federal statute and the constitution.
Three WikiLeaks associates entangled in a federal grand jury probe in Virginia asked a federal judge Friday to reverse a...

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17 Mar 2011

Congress Asks to Review DoD and NSA Contracts With HBGary

Anonymous' recent exposure of a federal contractor's plan to take down WikiLeaks has led to a congressional probe seeking data on contracts the company and its partners hold with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
Anonymous' recent exposure of a federal contractor's plan to take down WikiLeaks has led to a congressional probe...

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11 Mar 2011

Manning’s dad protests conditions of son’s incarceration, new legal filing complains conditions unjust

The attorney for Pvt. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst who is accused of downloading thousands of classified State Department documents and making them available them to WikiLeaks, today posts this update on the condition of Manning's incarceration in maximum security at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, VA:
The attorney for Pvt. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst who is accused of downloading thousands...

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3 Mar 2011

Bradley Manning Hit With New Charges; Could Face Death Penalty

After being unable to convince Bradley Manning to lie about his "relationship" with Julian Assange, the government has decided to up the pressure on Manning by filing another 22 charges against him, including putting him at risk of facing the death penalty -- though, they insist that they will not ask for the death penalty
After being unable to convince Bradley Manning to lie about his "relationship" with Julian Assange, the government has...

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25 Feb 2011

Anonymous vs. HBGary the aftermath

The RSA security conference took place February 14-18 in San Francisco, and malware response company HBGary planned on a big announcement. The firm was about to unveil a new appliance called "Razor," a specialized computer plugged into corporate networks that could scan company computers for viruses, rootkits, and custom malware - even malicious code that had never been seen before.
The RSA security conference took place February 14-18 in San Francisco, and malware response company HBGary planned on a...

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25 Feb 2011

Colbert Report features Ars Anonymous HBGary coverage

Last night, comedian Stephen Colbert featured the HBGary Federal/Anonymous hacking debacle in a long segment on his show, The Colbert Report and Ars was proud to be featured twice in the segment. Does this make us an official "friend of the show"?
Last night, comedian Stephen Colbert featured the HBGary Federal/Anonymous hacking debacle in a long segment on his...
16 Feb 2011

Will the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship

Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks has faced an onslaught of censorship that demonstrated how online speech is vulnerable when intermediaries refuse to host contentious or unpopular speech.
Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks has faced...

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12 Feb 2011

Spy Chief: Damage from WikiLeaks Is Unclear

At a key congressional briefing yesterday, the man who oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies backed off an early, dire assessment of the damage done to the government by WikiLeaks. "The impacts of the WikiLeaks disclosures are still being assessed," James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told the House intelligence community during an annual omnibus testimony on national security known as the Worldwide Threat briefing.
At a key congressional briefing yesterday, the man who oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies backed off an early,...

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12 Feb 2011

Firm targeting WikiLeaks cuts ties with HBGary – apologizes to reporter

Dr. Alex Karp, the Co-Founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, one of three data intelligence firms who worked to develop a systematic plan of attack against WikiLeaks and their supporters, has severed all ties with HBGary Federal and issued an apology to reporter Glenn Greenwald. The move comes just twenty-four hours after The Tech Herald reported on the plans, thanks to a tip from Crowdleaks.org
Dr. Alex Karp, the Co-Founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, one of three data intelligence firms who worked to...

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11 Feb 2011

WikiLeaks Defector Defends Site’s Crippling

In the marble-lined hall of a former Prussian palace here Thursday, former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg defended actions that have left the controversial document-posting site unable to receive new leaks online.
In the marble-lined hall of a former Prussian palace here Thursday, former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg...

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4 Feb 2011

Leaked State Department Cables Confirm That ACTA Was Designed To Pressure Developing Nations

The idea is to first do all of this with those "like-minded" (i.e., protectionist) countries, and then use the agreement to try to pressure those developing nations and other nations concerned about the expansive problems of intellectual property law into "joining." In other words, stack the deck first with those who benefit most, and then use international pressure to force the agreement on those who aren't comfortable with the end result of such laws.
The idea is to first do all of this with those "like-minded" (i.e., protectionist) countries, and then use the agreement...

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29 Jan 2011

The long shadow of WikiLeaks

Talk about a wake-up call. If federal officials needed a reminder about the downside of the Internet s so-called democratization of information, WikiLeaks has provided it, big time. The whistle-blowing website has also raised numerous questions that the federal government is just beginning to answer.
Talk about a wake-up call. If federal officials needed a reminder about the downside of the Internet s so-called...

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28 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks alternative OpenLeaks goes live

OpenLeaks, the alternative whistleblower site created by WikiLeaks defectors, has officially gone live, though it's not yet fully operational. The organization confirmed that it doesn't plan to publish information itself, but rather help third parties (such as nonprofits and news orgs) get access to leaked documents in order to convey them to the public
OpenLeaks, the alternative whistleblower site created by WikiLeaks defectors, has officially gone live, though it's not...

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27 Jan 2011

NYT Pondering WikiLeaks-Esque Submission System

Does the New York Times want to be the next WikiLeaks? Executive editor Bill Keller tells Yahoo's Cutline that the paper is looking into a submission system that would let leakers send documents directly to the Times rather than going through sites like WikiLeaks.
Does the New York Times want to be the next WikiLeaks? Executive editor Bill Keller tells Yahoo's Cutline that the paper...

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27 Jan 2011

The Background Story Of The NY Times’ Relationship With Julian Assange

If you haven't yet, set aside some time to read the NY Times' executive editor Bill Keller's account of the paper's association with Julian Assange. It gives some interesting (and not too surprising) background details about the relationship, Assange himself, and Keller's views on the overall impact of Wikileaks.
If you haven't yet, set aside some time to read the NY Times' executive editor Bill Keller's account of the paper's...

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27 Jan 2011

UK Police Nab 5 Members of ‘Anonymous’ Pro-WikiLeaks Hacker Ring

British authorities have arrest five suspects allegedly connected to the hacking group "Anonymous," a loosely organized network that most recently grabbed headlines for bringing denial-of-service attacks against companies that severed ties with WikiLeaks.
British authorities have arrest five suspects allegedly connected to the hacking group "Anonymous," a loosely organized...

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25 Jan 2011

Bradley Manning Friend Prevented From Visiting Soldier Over Traffic Violation

Military officials at the brig where accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is imprisoned prevented a long-time visitor from seeing the soldier after discovering that the car he was driving had expired registration tags.
Military officials at the brig where accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is imprisoned prevented a long-time...

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21 Jan 2011

Wikia Owned Wikileaks.com Domain; Assange Ignored Attempts To Hand It Over

I had seen the BBC article from a week or so ago about Jimmy Wales talking about the complexity of Wikipedia and how it needs to improve, but hadn't read all the way to the end where there was a rather interesting tidbit. Copycense however alerted us to this little bit of trivia at the end about how Wikipedia's sorta sister company Wikia owns some Wikileaks domain names... including Wikileaks.com:
I had seen the BBC article from a week or so ago about Jimmy Wales talking about the complexity of Wikipedia and how it...

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21 Jan 2011

More on the possible WikiLeaks-inspired Bank of America domain name grab

PBS "Need to Know" has an in-depth report on MarkMonitor Inc., the "little-known company that specializes in protecting the public image and product identity of Fortune 500 companies." They've been "quietly buying up hundreds of domain names that could be used to host online criticism of Bank of America," in case Wikileaks does dump something dirty on BofA
PBS "Need to Know" has an in-depth report on MarkMonitor Inc., the "little-known company that specializes in protecting...

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19 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks Browser Gets Tease On Facebook

It was only a matter of time before someone put together a browser that would make it easier to search through the hundreds of thousands of leaked diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks has been sharing with the public. And it only made sense for Dazzlepod, makers of the cable browser, to team up with Facebook in order to support the release of the application.
It was only a matter of time before someone put together a browser that would make it easier to search through the...

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19 Jan 2011

PdFLeaks II – NY University symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom

Personal Democracy Forum, in partnership with New York University's Interactive Technology Program, is pleased to present our second symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom this coming Monday, January 24, from 6-8pm. Tickets are $15 and only available in advance; don't delay, they're selling quickly.
Personal Democracy Forum, in partnership with New York University's Interactive Technology Program, is pleased to...

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15 Jan 2011

Rep. Darrell Issa — Who Says Investigating Wikileaks Is A Priority — Sets Up His Own Whistleblower Site

There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just over a week ago or so, we noted that Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading the "oversight committee" had declared that investigating Wikileaks was a major priority for Congress, because if the US government didn't attack back at Wikileaks, the world would "laugh" at how the US had become a "paper tiger."
There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just...

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15 Jan 2011

Tweeting tyrants out of Tunisia the global Internet at its best

Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had "brought down" the Tunisian government, but with today's news that the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, it becomes a more plausible claim to make.
Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had...

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14 Jan 2011

So Who Else Did The Government Demand Info From In The Wikileaks Investigation

Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas Merrill, the head of Calyx Internet Access. Merrill, famously, fought a gag order on a National Security Letter he received from the FBI.
Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas...

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13 Jan 2011

U.S. attempted to leverage Twitter in war on WikiLeaks

Twitter has been caught in the crossfire as the U.S. government moves forward with their investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. However, Twitter fought back, and as a result the world can follow along as the U.S. Department of Justice goes fishing.
Twitter has been caught in the crossfire as the U.S. government moves forward with their investigation into WikiLeaks...

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13 Jan 2011

Customs’ Hamfisted Attempts To Intimidate Wikileaks Volunteers

Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some issues lately concerning his involvement as a volunteer with Wikileaks. He was among those who had their info requested by the Feds via Twitter.
Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some...

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13 Jan 2011

Manning’s attorney files demand for speedy trial and release due to poor conditions

David Coombs, the attorney representing suspected Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, has filed demands related to the lack of a speedy trial and the reportedly harsh conditions of Manning's confinement. More at Greg Mitchell's liveblog of all things Wikileaks, now at day 47.
David Coombs, the attorney representing suspected Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, has filed demands related to the...

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12 Jan 2011

Debunking The Myth That Wikileaks Cable Leaks Haven’t Been Important

Whatever you might think of Wikileaks -- and it's difficult to deny that it is a severely flawed operation in many ways -- one of the sillier critiques of the recent release of secure State Department cables is the claim that these cables didn't really reveal anything important.
Whatever you might think of Wikileaks -- and it's difficult to deny that it is a severely flawed operation in many ways...

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12 Jan 2011

Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents

Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed...

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8 Jan 2011

Why Senator Lieberman’s Censorship Law Is Unconstitutional And A Danger To Free Speech

Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak, and has been very active in putting pressure on US companies to either block or cut ties with Wikileaks. Even if you support those actions and hate Wikileaks,
Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak, and has been very active in putting...

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7 Jan 2011

Feds Subpoena Twitter For Info On Wikileaks-Supporting Icelandic Politician

In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition apparently involves issuing a subpoena to Twitter asking for info on the account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a Member of Iceland's Parliament, who had been instrumental in helping Wikileaks establish a strong free speech legal structure in Iceland.
In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition...

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4 Jan 2011

New Congressional Leadership Prioritizes Wikileaks Investigation

We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of overly secretive government rather than just blaming Wikileaks, that perhaps the US wouldn't go too far in its overreaction to the site.
We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of...

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3 Jan 2011

Wikileaks Reveals That The US Won’t Comply With Treaty Obligations Concerning Investigations Into CIA Rendition

Once again, this is hardly a surprise, but it's increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks that the US Justice Department is failing to comply with its treaty obligations with other countries, in their investigations into US (mainly CIA) "rendition" operations, where they take people captured elsewhere and find some place to torture them.
Once again, this is hardly a surprise, but it's increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks...
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2 Jan 2011

FBI seizes server in probe of WikiLeaks attacks

The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks launched in December against PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and others, according to a report.
The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service...
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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...
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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