Reviews of "We Steal Secrets" by those who know best. Contagious Courage. Contagious Courage An interview with Sarah Harrison of Wikileaks: Julian Assange’s associate and Snowden’s guardian angel By John Goetz and Bastian Obermayer There she sits: the woman who has spent the past four months at Edward Snowden’s side. First in Hong Kong, then in Moscow. The two made history and charted new global politics within this short span of time. Sarah Harrison, 31, a journalist and Wikileaks staffer, wears black leggings, a dark grey blouse and a wool cardigan as she sits on an old office chair in a basement meeting place, between file folders, tangled cables, blank CDs and computers. The exact location of the meeting may not be reported. Who is this woman, who has spent so much time by Snowden’s side, resisting the pressures of the world power, the United States?
Sarah Harrison closes her eyes. A statement? And then just three words: “Courage is contagious.” The reason for Harrison’s departure from Moscow is simple: Snowden doesn’t need anyone at hand in Moscow anymore. WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI | Threat Level. “Can you guys help me with cash?” Thordarson shot back. Image: Courtesy Sigurdur Thordarson For the next few months, Thordarson begged the FBI for money, while the FBI alternately ignored him and courted him for more assistance. In the end, Thordarson says, the FBI agreed to compensate him for the work he missed while meeting with agents (he says he worked at a bodyguard-training school), totaling about $5,000. With the money settled, the FBI began preparing him for a trip to the U.S.
“I wanted to talk to you about future things we can do,” his handler wrote in February. The three-day D.C. trip took place in February of last year. He stayed at a hotel in Arlington, Virginia, where the Justice Department’s investigation into WikiLeaks is centered, and met there with his two usual FBI contacts, and three or four other men in suits who did not identify themselves. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Then they cut him off. Statement on Wikileaks. Supporter response to @AnonymousIRC's Statement on WikiLeaks. This Day in WikiLeaks. Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - Glenn Greenwald.
Leak at WikiLeaks: A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. In the end, all the efforts at confidentiality came to naught. Everyone who knows a bit about computers can now have a look into the 250,000 US diplomatic dispatches that WikiLeaks made available to select news outlets late last year. All of them. What's more, they are the unedited, unredacted versions complete with the names of US diplomats' informants -- sensitive names from Iran, China, Afghanistan, the Arab world and elsewhere.
SPIEGEL reported on the secrecy slip-up last weekend, but declined to go into detail. Act One: The Whistleblower and the Journalist The story began with a secret deal. Assange placed the file on a server and wrote down the password on a slip of paper -- but not the entire password. It was the first step in a disclosure that became a worldwide sensation. Act Two: The German Spokesman Takes the Dispatch File when Leaving WikiLeaks At the time, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who later founded the site OpenLeaks, was the German spokesman for WikiLeaks. Finale: In the Open. Feds' policy on reading Wikileaks docs 'incoherent,' critics say - Josh Gerstein. The WikiLeaks Suit against Visa and MasterCard.
You may have heard that WikiLeaks is suing Visa and MasterCard for refusing to process donations to it. That’s not actually the case. Forbes has gotten a copy of the complaint, and as it lays out, an Icelandic company called DataCell is suing, and it’s suing in Europe, not the US. DataCell is basically a hosting service for WikiLeaks and “businesses, NGOs, humanitarian organisations and others.” It had contracted with two payment services companies, Teller and Korta, on October 18, 2010, with the explicit intention of accepting donations for WL. But on December 7 (not long after the WL cables started coming out), they terminated those services. [A]ccording to Teller’s explanations acquiring firms in Europe are not about to be allowed by MC and Visa to open merchant agreements with DataCell, irrespective of whether the company would service Sunshine press/Wikileaks as a payment facilitator or not.
And that’s true even though DataCell has nothing more than business relationship with WL. Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ | Raw Story. By Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:00 EDT UPDATE: Following the arrest of five people in Britain in connection with the “Operation Payback” cyber-attacks in support of WikiLeaks, the FBI announced mass raids across the United States in connection with the case. “FBI agents today executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations,” a bureau press release states. Though the bureau did not say if any individuals were arrested during the raids, it did confirm a link between the US raids and the arrests in Britain. The bureau said suspects, if charged, could face up to 10 years in prison. The police actions indicate that governments on both sides of the Atlantic are determined to prevent hacktivists from taking revenge against companies that ceased to do business with WikiLeaks following the release of US State Department cables late last year.
Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning. Lifting the Lid on WikiLeaks: An Inside Look at Difficult Negotiations with Julian Assange - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. The joint publication of classified United States embassy cables in November 2010 in a number of major newspapers and magazines rocked the diplomatic world. In newly published books, editors at SPIEGEL and the New York Times have documented relationships between the founder of WikiLeaks and the publications that were at time tumultuous during preparations for the documents' release. For some time now, Julian Assange has been sparring with New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller. Assange claims the paper didn't publish the material in its entirety and made too many concessions to the White House before going to print.
Now, Keller is fighting back. On Monday, the New York Times will publish a book with its full account of the publication of the WikiLeaks documents. Keller goes on to describe Assange as being "elusive, manipulative and volatile. " Keep track of the news Stay informed with our free news services: All news from SPIEGEL International. WikiLeaks Springs a Leak. Wikileaks Roundtable - www.wikileaksroundtable.org. Wikileaks - The Movie ("The social leak") Wikileaks,the Espionage Act, and the Constitution, Opening Statements. In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail | Threat Level. The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.
The search warrant was issued under seal on October 14, 2011 by the Alexandria, Virginia federal judge overseeing the WikiLeaks grand jury investigation there. The warrant ordered Google to turn over “the contents of all e-mails associated with the account, including stored or preserved copies of e-mails sent to and from the account, draft e-mails, deleted e-mails [...] the source and destination addresses associated with each e-mail, the date and time at which each e-mail was sent, and the size and length of each e-mail.”
The warrant also ordered Google not to disclose the search to anyone. The target of the search was Herbert Snorrason, an Icelandic activist who helped manage WikiLeaks’ secure chat room in 2010. “And this is just my Google account,” he adds. On Confirmed Assumptions. News Desk: WikiLeaks Evolves. This summer, when Wired.com reported that WikiLeaks was in possession of tens of thousands of State Department internal communiques, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, engaged in what might be called a small act of public diplomacy. Wired had identified one of his confidential sources, a low-level Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning, who had privately confessed to a hacker that he had given Assange “260,000 state department cables from embassies and consulates all over the world.”
The revelation put WikiLeaks in a difficult position—as it would have for any news organization. How was Assange to respond to the story in a way that was truthful, but neither compromised his source nor confirmed the substance of a massively complex leak that he was not yet ready to publish? As Henry Kissinger once said, “Sometimes the art of diplomacy is to keep the obvious obscured.” Since its inception, WikiLeaks has focussed on “untraceable mass document leaking.” Wikileaks Mirror Taken Down: Host Buckles Under Demands from Upstream Provider. Wikileaks isn't the only site struggling to stay up these days because service providers are pulling their support. It appears that at least one person who wants to provide mirror access to Wikileaks documents is having the same trouble. Recently we heard from a user who mirrored the Cablegate documents on his website.
His hosting provider SiteGround suspended his account, claiming that he "severely" violated the SiteGround Terms of Use and Acceptable Use Policy. SiteGround explained that it had gotten a complaint from an upstream provider, SoftLayer, and had taken action "in order to prevent any further issues caused by the illegal activity. " SiteGround told the user that he would need to update his antivirus measures and get rid of the folder containing the Wikileaks cables to re-enable his account. If this sounds like a lame excuse, that's because it is a lame excuse. This incident shows that censorship is a slippery slope. Wikiriver.org - wikiriver.org. WL Central | An unofficial WikiLeaks information resource.