Congress Mulls How to Stop WikiLeaks in Its Tracks - FoxNews.com. Oct. 23: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference in London.AP Congress weighed its options on Thursday for trying to stop WikiLeaks dead in its tracks after the secrets-spreading site started releasing its trove of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables last month, infuriating U.S. officials. One option members of the House Judiciary Committee discussed was revising the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law that has been used to win convictions against officials who leaked classified information but never against journalists, which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange portrays himself as being. "We have to look at Espionage Act in the next Congress," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich, chairman of the committee. The question, he said, is "what we do and how much change. " The hearing included legal scholars and attorneys as well as former Green Party presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader.
The Australian activist group GetUp! But at the hearing, Rep. US judge orders Twitter to give up WikiLeaks data. WikiLeaks soldier 'forced to strip naked' North America correspondent Craig McMurtrie Updated Sat 5 Mar 2011, 1:41am AEDT Supporters of an American army analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US cables say new charges levelled against him may be designed to force a confession or to get him to implicate others. US military prosecutors have added 22 extra charges including a count of aiding the enemy, which is punishable by death.
But US legal experts say the charge is ill-defined and supporters of Private Bradley Manning say he is still suffering degrading treatment at the hands of his military jailers. His defence lawyer says in a blog entry that Manning was stripped and left naked for seven hours last night without explanation. On a telephone conference call Manning supporter David House told reporters he had visited the 23-year-old in the Quantico brig where he is confined to his cell under a prevention of injury watch. "This individual is very clearly undergoing emotional and psychological trauma. " WikiLeaks and Libya 2009: Qaddafi's Son Saif Makes His Move. Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif Al Islam claiming a prominent role in the current crisis, making the rounds of the media to promote the regime position.
This cable from the US Embassy in Tripoli in December 2009 offers a glance at Saif's move to expand his political influence, with his staff lobbying American diplomats for sales of military equipment: "he concerted attention that xxxxxxxxxxxx devoted to military and security issues during recent meetings with Emboffs suggests that Saif is beginning to insert himself into the political-military and security spheres. " NOFORNSIPDISSTATE FOR NEA/MAGE.O. 12958: DECL: 12/14/2019TAGS: PREL PGOV PINR KACT MCAP MASS LYSUBJECT: SAIF AL-ISLAM'S STAFF REACHES OUT ON POL-MIL ISSUESREF: A) TRIPOLI 941; B) TRIPOLI 924; c) TRIPOLI 208 ¶1. Saif's aide advocates on behalf of Khamis ¶2. . ¶3. Xxxxxxxxxxxx to follow up on military engagement offers ¶4. Libya potentially identifies scud b replacement system ¶5. Security role for Saif? ¶6. . ¶7.
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament who helped with WikiLeaks' release of a classified U.S. military video, is being represented by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. "We're looking at options and various things we can do to help our client," EFF legal director Cindy Cohn said yesterday. "She's disturbed that her information is being sought. " On Friday, Twitter notified Jónsdóttir and a handful of other subscribers that the U.S. Cohn said the EFF was representing only Jónsdóttir and not any of the other targets of the order (PDF), which was signed by U.S. The U.S. government began a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks and Assange last July after the Web site began releasing what would become a deluge of confidential military and State Department files. The U.S. Wikileaks and Freedom of internet. Jeffrey Evans: The Apple of Big Brother's Eye (Or, They Now Have a Camera in My Bedroom)
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. " - Apple CEO Steve Jobs as quoted in the book, The Journey is the Reward. Steve, you made a mistake... a big one! Now admit it and get on with some other brilliant, paradigm -shifting innovations for which the world has come to know and idolize you.
For those of you who don't spend your time combing US Patent Office filings, Apple recently filed a patent for "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device. " (" That may sound mind-numbingly dull but what it means is that Apple wants to patent a method of determining who is using one of their products.
The patent explains how Apple would seize control of a product (like, perhaps one of the 50 million iPhones out there, for instance) and use it to take a picture of the current user of the phone, or record their voice, or measure their heartbeat. Wikileaks, The Pirate Party, And The Future Of The Internet. How to save Julian Assange's movement from itself. American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks’s “attack on the international community,” as Hillary Clinton so dramatically characterized it, unscathed. Save for a few diplomatic reshuffles, Foggy Bottom doesn’t seem to be deeply affected by what happened. Certainly, the U.S. government at large has not been paralyzed by the leaks—contrary to what Julian Assange had envisioned in one of his cryptic-cum-visionary essays, penned in 2006.
In a fit of technological romanticism, Assange may have underestimated the indispensability of American power to the international system, the amount of cynicism that already permeates much of Washington’s political establishment, and the glaring lack of interest in foreign policy particulars outside the Beltway. Indeed, it’s not in the realms of diplomacy or even government secrecy where Wikileaks could have its biggest impact. The Wikileaks News & Views Blog, Special Weekend Edition! Share As I've done for more than five weeks, I will be updating news and views on all things WikiLeaks all day, with new items added at the top. All times are ET. For more follow me on Twitter. Read about my latest book on wild, immensely influential election campaign here. UPDATE Check out Monday's edition of this blog here. 10:55 Paris Match interview with Assange, translated. "Wearing a bracelet is much more bothersome than being in prison. 9:15 ACLU on chilling effect of DOJ move on Twitter: "These government requests for detailed information about individuals' Internet communications raise serious First Amendment concerns and will have a chilling effect on people's willingness to engage in lawful communications over the Internet. 7:55 Several Hillary Clinton statements on Wikileaks today, reported by Wash Post, on visit to UAE, including: "I think I will be answering concerns about WikiLeaks for the rest of my life, not just the rest of my tenure as secretary of State.
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Feds Subpoena Twitter acct Info. FBI seizes server/Wikileaks. Wikileaks writers assassinated in kenya. Video: The Time Julian Assange Hacked the Pentagon | Threat Level. The nearly 500,000 U.S. Army documents published by WikiLeaks this year didn’t mark the first time founder Julian Assange thumbed his nose at the Pentagon. A new documentary about the secret-spilling site captures Assange in a rare moment of reminiscence as he reflects on his hacking of a Defense Department network in the 1990s, where he evidently kept a backdoor in place for some two years. The documentary WikiRebels, produced by Sveriges Television in Sweden, was recently posted on the web in four parts. It provides an overview of Assange and WikiLeaks from the time the site published a classified Army video last April showing an Apache gunship attack in Iraq, to the latest release of U.S.
It also includes interviews with several current and former WikiLeaks activists, including former spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Icelandic volunteer Herbert Snorrason, who discuss the internal conflict at WikiLeaks that led them to resign. See also: BLOGGING WIKILEAKS NEWS & VIEWS: Special Weekend Edition! Share As I've done for the previous weeks, I will be updating news & views on all things WikiLeaks all day. All times added at top are ET. For more follow me at Twitter. Read about my latest book here. 10:45 NBC Nightly News tonight visits Bradley Manning's hometown. 8:15 Great Guardian piece on cables depicting global effort to keep nuclear genie in the bottle and combat smugglers etc. 7:25 Useful Foreign Policy summary of what cables have shown beyond big name countries and allies—the various "failed states" and those off the radar. 7:15 Claim by attorney at Huff Post that the man behind Sweden going after Assange is ....Karl Rove. 5:35 Shocking cables from this past January on Yemeni security of nuclear stockpile—guard missing, security camera broken. 5:15 Cables show US pressured Australia to take admit one of Saddam's biological weapons scientists—Aussies refused. 3:10 NYT tech column warning about US going after WikiLeaks—there would be "collateral damage," and on US side.
Bank of America Also Refuses to Handle WikiLeaks Payments. Financial giant Bank of America has added its name to the list of institutions dropping support for WikiLeaks, announcing that it has stopped handling any payments to or from the whistle-blowing website. The bank said in a statement to the Charlotte Observer, "This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.
" As the huge American financial institution confidently declared Saturday that it was standing against the website headed by controversial figure Julian Assange, his WikiLeaks organization fired back a Twitter post urging consumers to stop doing business with Bank of America. "We ask that all people who love freedom close out their accounts at Bank of America," pleaded the WikiLeaks tweet. Bank of America's action is certain to tempt hackers who've named themselves "Operation Payback. "
BP leak in Azerbaidjan. Wikileaks censored. Art 19 statement. WikiLeaks: Tying Assange to Manning won't be easy. WASHINGTON — Even as some government officials contend that the release of thousands of classified documents by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange jeopardizes U.S. national security, legal experts, Pentagon officials and Justice Department lawyers concede any effort to prosecute him faces numerous hurdles. Among them: Prosecutors apparently have had difficulty finding evidence that Assange ever communicated directly with Army Pfc.
Bradley Manning, 23, an intelligence specialist who's widely thought to be the source of the documents, but is charged only with misusing and illegally downloading them. Prosecutors declined to discuss what evidence they have in the Manning case, but three Pentagon officials who cautioned that their information is two months old told McClatchy this week that as of that time prosecutors had no evidence tying Manning to Assange. Manning, who faces as many as 54 years in prison on 10 charges, isn't cooperating with prosecutors, the officials said. His attorney, Maj.
Our Envoys, Ourselves. A GLOBAL power’s diplomatic archives are inevitably full of caustic dispatches. In Britain, a new batch of Foreign Office records is declassified each January under the “30-year rule” (a “50-year rule” before 1968). Historians can peruse elegantly handwritten mockeries of President Eisenhower’s name as exotically Eastern European, or files deriding Americans as the planet’s “most excitable” people — other than Bangladeshis. For the most part, such documents provide little more than a snapshot of a moment in history or a window into the mind of a particular diplomat. Over the last two weeks, however, WikiLeaks has opened another perspective. We encounter the mind-set of a freewheeling, democratic superpower, a pattern of thought that shows great excitement over celebrities and moments hailed as irreversibly world-changing. WikiLeaks has shown how these enthusiasms play out overseas.
This is an old story. Emerson was right to call us “the country of tomorrow.”
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On CNN with John King Thursday night talking about the hacking of MasterCard et al, quoting this Guardian editorial arguing that the attacks are a form of civil (cyber) disobedience in defense of a free internet: Here’s a link to BBC audio, on the same subject, discussing the shift from power-to-power to peer-to-peer architecture. The Berliner Zeitung BZ asked for a brief op-ed. Here’s the English text: Should Wikileaks be stopped? I’m not saying that secrecy is dead. But now governments will have to learn how to operate under the assumption that anything they do can be seen on the front page of this newspaper. Transparency breeds trust. We in journalism must recognize that Wikileaks is an element of a new ecosystem of news.
Wilkileaks leaks. What Has WikiLeaks Started? - Room for Debate. WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down | World news. • Remember this is the date, time, sender and tags for each cable - NOT the text of the cable itself WikiLeaks embassy cables revelations cover a huge dataset of official documents: 251,287 dispatches, from more than 250 worldwide US embassies and consulates. It's a unique picture of US diplomatic language - including over 50,000 documents covering the current Obama administration. But what does the data include?
The cables themselves come via the huge Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. SIPRNet is the worldwide US military internet system, kept separate from the ordinary civilian internet and run by the Department of Defense in Washington. Since the attacks of September 2001, there has been a move in the US to link up archives of government information, in the hope that key intelligence no longer gets trapped in information silos or "stovepipes".
An embassy dispatch marked SIPDIS is automatically downloaded on to its embassy classified website. Download the data.
Sex scandal Vatican. First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks. 4chan vigilante group Anonymous is used to getting away with its DDoS attacks and other Internet shenanigans, but that's not going to be the case this time around. An arrest has been made in 4chan's revenge attacks on PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, begun after the companies stopped providing services to WikiLeaks. The first to go down is a Dutch 16-year-old boy, who has been arrested by the Dutch High Tech Crime Team and is being held for interrogation. The teenager went unnamed by the National Prosecutor, but the team said in an announcement Thursday that the cyberattacks (some of which came out of the Netherlands) "quickly led" investigators to the suspect.
In addition to his arrest, the 4channer's computers and other devices were seized. In addition to the high-profile attacks on the payment processors, Anonymous also made an attempt to take down Amazon after the company kicked WikiLeaks off its servers. Why Wikileak´s PayPal account got frozen, Why Wikileak´s PayPal account got frozen... leweb on USTREAM. Conference. Coming next: A swarm of leaks. WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates | News.
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