Wikileaks Leaks More

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The New York Times posted an article about 250,000 cables between the US State Department and foreign embassies.

The Crunch also has posted an article about the leaks.

It is expected that more information will be leaked later today (corresponding to US time zones), despite the WikiLeaks site is currently under a DDOS attack.
 

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Assange appears to be wanted by Interpol for questioning in Sweden about his alleged rape crimes. He has not been charged, though. It is unclear whether he committed them.

The article explains Assange's situation in great detail, which also includes pressure for various Wikileaks activity. Assange is the main founder of Wikileaks.

The article mentions that Ecuador has offered him sanctuary ... but Ecuador is in Middle America, just below the USA ... so if he'd go to Ecuador he'd probably be in danger of being abducted by the NSA or something.

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I just found an interesting article (Google-translated from German) about how Israel is happy with Wikileaks, b/c the leaked cables show that many Arab countries would support measures against a nuclear armament of Iran, despite none of them would admit that in public.
 
Wikileaks.org domain 'killed'

Wikileaks.org is currently dead, and the organization claims the U.S.-based service which provides domain name service "killed" it due to attacks, presumably of the denial of service variety. I wonder if that would be a TOS violation, technically? (Note that this doesn't mean wikileaks has actually lost its domain: they lost DNS service, but EveryDNS isn't the managing authority of the .org TLD. So Wikileaks should be back as soon as new DNS records propogate)
 
The Wikileaks servers themselves are housed in a (former?) nuclear bunker in Sweden or somewhere ... so, yeah, if all they need to do is change the IP address and update the DNS records, it should be back up shortly.
 
Interesting news from Slashdot. It appears the US State Dept has warned grad students not to look at the leaked cables or they might find themselves not getting a job. ... Dictatorship, anyone??

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p.s.: this would only affect jobs at the State Dept, but still, that's not something that should happen in a self-proclaimed democracy.
 
The Wikileaks site in Switzerland (wikileaks.ch) is back up after being hosted by the Suisse Pirate Party. (source, German) (NOTE: heute.de pages cannot be translated using Google translator, b/c their URLs contain commas)

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The article also mentions that PayPal no longer allows donations to Wikileaks via its payment system. This also affects the Wau-Holland-Foundation (former, deceased CCC member) which was one of the major supporters of Wikileaks.

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The article also contains a video about the increased pressure on Wikileaks and its founder Assange, detailing some of the cyber war going on, and saying that Assange said on a Guardian discussion page that he had received numerous death threats.

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Related article on Slashdot, linking to a BBC article

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Two interesting Slashdot comments here and here
 
Monster said:
[/COLOR]The article also mentions that PayPal no longer allows donations to Wikileaks via its payment system. This also affects the Wau-Holland-Foundation (former, deceased CCC member) which was one of the major supporters of Wikileaks.
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Hmmm, I wonder why PP would not allow donations via its system.
 
IMO all the heat and attn needs to be taken away from Wikileaks, they're simply the other (the first being 4chan) spoilt child of the internet which is jumping up and down saying "Look at me, look at me"

Well Wikileaks, the internet is looking at you, and it brought your site down.

Now, I don't have anything against the site, I don't even think I've visited there ever, but all this news coverage of it and not being able to access the site is frustrating.

ICANN should nullroute the domain and be done with it. Heh.
 
Mikey said:
they're simply the other (the first being 4chan) spoilt child of the internet which is jumping up and down saying "Look at me, look at me"
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Both Wikileaks and 4chan commit crimes in the name of freedom, and think that everyone should support them. That's obviously not the case, as it now becomes clear.

However, they also realize that the internet is not anonymous. Julian Assange faces the very real threat of abduction, torture, and death.

He should've known that he cannot play governments like that.

What journalists do with very great care, Wikileaks does it with half-baked care or no care at all.

Nonetheless, in an open, free world, there would be no all-to-great danger for whistleblowers ... but we're not living in that world yet.

If anything, the Wikileaks case makes it obvious that our freedom does indeed have limits.
 
So, turns out my previous statement "What journalists do with very great care, Wikileaks does it with half-baked care or no care at all." might be wrong, at least for the current major leak. AP reports that WikiLeaks is following advice from 5 major media outlets on how to redact the trickle of documents that are released.

Unlike earlier disclosures by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of secret government military records, the group is releasing only a trickle of documents at a time from a trove of a quarter-million, and only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material.
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A bill has been introduced in the US Senate aimed at Wikileaks.

(source of both links: Slashdot )

I wonder how relevant the proposed law is when WikiLeaks does indeed obey some journalistic common sense and redacts names of individuals etc.

Can that stop the hunt for WikiLeaks members?
 
Why won't Wikileaks trend on Twitter?

Twitter is "censoring" discussion of Wikileaks by preventing it becoming a trending topic, writes blogger Bubbloy.


WikiLeaks Now Has Hundreds of Mirrors

WikiLeaks is currently not available at WikiLeaks.org. It recently lost its DNS service provider, and the site itself has been battered by DDoS attacks for more than a week now – ever since it first started releasing secret embassy cables.

However, when highly coveted information once spreads on the web, there’s no stopping it. Case in point: WikiLeaks currently has several hundred mirrors, and although some of these mirrors are incomplete, slow or perhaps even completely unavailable, it’s highly unlikely that any effort will be able to exterminate them all.
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