The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters - Glenn Greenwald. Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary Federal, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm had infiltrated and begun to expose Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers that had launched cyber attacks on companies terminating services to the whistleblowing site (such as Paypal, MasterCard, Visa, Amazon and others). In retaliation, Anonymous hacked into the email accounts of HB Gary, published 50,000 of their emails online, and also hacked Barr’s Twitter and other online accounts. Among the emails that were published was a report prepared by HB Gary — in conjunction with several other top online security firms, including Palantir Technologies — on how to destroy WikiLeaks. The emails indicated the report was part of a proposal to be submitted to Bank of America through its outside law firm, Hunton & Williams. One section of the leaked report focused on attacking WikiLeaks’ supporters and it featured a discussion of me.
Why? Inside Wikileaks - Daniel Domscheit-berg. WikiLeaks is een aanval op de democratie >Universiteitshoogleraar Ad Lagendijk in debat met rechtsethicus Joep van der Vliet tijdens chesterfielddebat van de Free Minders. >Tegenstander van WikiLeaks Lagendijk krijgt weinig medestand uit zaal. ‘Het is moeilijk iemand te vinden die tegen WikiLeaks is, maar in mij heb je hem gevonden.’ Ad Lagendijk, universiteitshoogleraar experimentele fysica en ook blogger, hield een haast emotioneel betoog tijdens het vierde chesterfielddebat van de Free Minders in de Oudemanhuispoort op woensdag 9 februari. ‘Wanneer klokkenluiders crimineel gedrag blootleggen, dan vind ik dat prima, maar het is een misverstand dat de schending van vertrouwelijk stukken altijd goed is: het is eerder een aanval op de democratie die met democratische regels heeft vastgelegd dat bepaalde dingen vertrouwelijk zijn.
Bovendien: wie bepaalt waar de grens ligt?’ Zijn opponent tijdens het debat, rechtsethicus en universitair docent aan de UvA Joep van der Vliet, was een tegenovergestelde mening toegedaan. 'WikiLeaks ten onder aan eigen succes' Woensdag 9 feb 2011, 22:06 De Duitse hacker Daniel Domscheit-Berg Door buitenlandredacteur Michiel Hartzuiker WikiLeaks gaat ten onder aan zijn eigen succes. En Julian Assange, het gezicht en de baas van de klokkenluiderssite, is daar zelf schuldig aan. Dat zegt de Duitse hacker Daniel Domscheit-Berg, de voormalige tweede man van WikiLeaks. Domscheit-Berg was één van de WikiLeaks-mensen van het eerste uur, die in het najaar van 2010 na een knallende ruzie met Assange vertrok bij WikiLeaks. Assange kreeg niet alleen conflicten met zijn mede-hackers, maar ook met vooraanstaande media die als eerste uit het materiaal van WikiLeaks mochten publiceren.
Alleenheerser Domscheit-Berg beschrijft hoe Julian Assange opereert. Domscheit-Berg wist vier dagen voor publicatie, vorig jaar juli, niet dat die afspraak was gemaakt. Assange is uitgegroeid tot de alleenheerser van WikiLeaks. 'Collateral Murder' Het imago van WikiLeaks is te danken aan een lange reeks onthullingen sinds december 2007. Open Leaks. Phone hacking: more public figures may have been victims, say police | Media. The Metropolitan police has announced that more public figures may have been the victims of phone hacking than previously thought. After reviewing existing and new evidence, Scotland Yard admitted it may have misinformed potential hacking victims by telling them they had not been targeted by the News of the World. Scotland Yard said in a statement it had begun reviewing new evidence handed over by the paper's owner News International.
It is also looking again at the contents of notebooks seized in 2005 from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator employed by the title. "As a result, the team have... identified some individuals who were previously advised that there was little or no information held by the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] relating to them within the case papers", the force said. The evidence handed over by News International includes emails sent by Ian Edmondson, the news editor it sacked last month, and retrieved from his work computer during an internal inquiry. Daniel Domscheit-Berg im stern-Interview: "Daten sind bei Wikileaks nicht sicher" Die Enthüllungs-Plattform Wikileaks kann ihre Geheimdokumente und Informanten nicht mehr zuverlässig schützen.
Ausgeschiedene Mitarbeiter hätten deshalb einen großen Teil des Datenmaterials "sichergestellt", sagte der ehemalige deutsche Sprecher der Organisation, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, im Interview mit dem stern. Außerdem habe der Top-Programmierer von Wikileaks, intern "der Architekt" genannt, die von ihm geschaffene Software mitgenommen. Wesentliche Funktionen der Enthüllungs-Plattform seien seit September 2010 "nicht mehr aktiv". Domscheit-Berg und andere Mitstreiter hatten die Organisation vergangenen August im Streit über den Kurs des Wikileaks-Gründers Julian Assange verlassen.
Dokumente der Bank of America, deren Veröffentlichung Assange wiederholt angekündigt hat, gehörten nicht zu dem sichergestellten Material. Die Bankdaten seien älter und nach seiner Einschätzung "auch völlig unspektakulär", sagte Domscheit-Berg dem stern. The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart. With popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt spinning along, each with a certain amount of world-reshaping potential, there's been a lot of new attention focused on the role that WikiLeaks has played in these events. Ian Black, the Middle East editor of The Guardian, one of the key newspapers disseminating diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks' trove, told NPR last night that he didn't feel the leaked cables were the primary driver of these uprisings.
Nevertheless, WikiLeaks seems to have helped to remove the people now demonstrating on the streets from their isolation by providing a "confirmation of what people in these countries know and feel intuitively," about the conditions under which they have lived. If you spend any time at all reading about Bradley Manning, the young U.S. U.S. officials have been gamely attempting to make the case that Assange induced Manning to provide WikiLeaks with government documents. New findings suggest Pfc. I've bolded the two parts I believe are relevant. Ex-Wikileaks spokesman blasts Assange. Photo: DPA Published: 09 Feb 2011 16:55 GMT+01:00Updated: 09 Feb 2011 16:55 GMT+01:00 The former spokesman of Wikileaks, German programmer Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has written a tell-all book about the inner workings of the secretive online whistleblower organisation and its controversial leader Julian Assange.
Once Wikileaks’ number two man, Domscheit-Berg fell out with Assange last year. Domscheit-Berg has said he wants his book, “Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website,” to expose both the good and the bad aspects of the now famous site, which has sent ripples around the world with its publication of secret documents regarding the Iraq war and US diplomatic communications. But in an interview with the German news magazine Stern published Wednesday, the focus was often on the darker side of the organisation founded by Assange. But he rejected accusations of sabotage, calling his actions a “recovery of intellectual property.” The Local/kdj. Public Data Corporation - ORG Wiki. Despite repeated attempts to get clarification on what the Public Data Corporation will look like, we have no idea. As it transpires, it may be that simply there is no idea, as different priorities within government vie with each other in an attempt to shape the agenda.
That's why at ORG we have decided to allow all the people with an interest in this topic to propose ideas for a VISION for the Public Data Corporation Please help shape this important new body so it can increase welfare, innovation, transparency and participation. All contributions are welcome: great and small, insights and caveats, gossip and experience, etc. The original Cabinet Office business plan set April 2011 as deadline, but the public announcement says simply "2011" [2] Some background reading with links to other articles [3] Tony Hirst has set up a dashboard for viewing responses to the consultation here. For further info contact Javier AT openrightsgroup.org What is the main purpose and priority? Discussion Met Office. Wegwijs in de WOB – Agenda – NVJ. Greg Mitchell Explains Why The Mainstream Press Is So Threatened By WikiLeaks. The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over | Evgeny Morozov | Media. Now that the dust over the US embassy cables is beginning to settle, WikiLeaks finds itself at a crossroads.
To effectively continue its war on government secrecy, it will need to make fundamental adjustments to how it operates – with no guarantees that the new, more mainstream WikiLeaks will be in much demand. Its other option is to sidestep its transparency work, delegate it to more nimble and decentralised WikiLeaks-clones, and focus on solving a problem that is likely to be a determining factor in the success of this nascent global transparency movement. It's only by making the publishing of leaked materials insusceptible to the whims of corporate intermediaries such as Amazon or PayPal as well as by increasing its resilience against cyber attacks and other forms of political and legal pressure that this movement can succeed.
Why can't WikiLeaks just continue as it is? As it grows, WikiLeaks will become even more dependent on its partners. David Cameron's mysterious dinner with Rebekah Brooks | Ian Katz. This week it was wizard online crime maps, last month a new "public data corporation". Barely a day seems to go by without some new torrent of data bursting from Whitehall as part of David Cameron's crusade to become "the most open and transparent government in the world".
A brief tour of government websites reveals a frenzy of transparent activity: at data.gov.uk I can find out from the transparently published minutes of the Transparency Board that on 11 January "the Cabinet Office transparency team presented Paper TB(4)3 to the Transparency Board" on the development of a "transparency vision".
And that progress on the "Short Term Transparency Data Publication Plan is generally encouraging". All of which is not to be scoffed at. The publication of industrial amounts of data on spending, public sector pay and government contracts are genuinely radical steps towards a more open kind of government. But the prime minister's enthusiasm for transparency is not, it seems, boundless. Hoor en wederhoor? Grondbeginselen journalistiek onder druk. Het valt op dat de journalistiek in Nederland steeds vaker onder vuur ligt. Of het nu de geschreven, radio, tv of online pers betreft: er wordt meer aandacht besteed aan het handelen van de journalist of juist het ontbreken daarvan. Centraal in deze artikelen zie je de ‘trend’ ontstaan dat het in de journalistiek vaker ontbreekt aan het toepassen van hoor en wederhoor.
Eén van de grondbeginselen van het vak. Wat is de reden dat journalisten minder accuraat dit principe toepassen? Een journalist heeft wat mij betreft de taak om zorgvuldig de waarheid aan het licht te brengen. Wat betekent dit idealiter in de praktijk? Grondbeginselen Journalistiek Er zijn verschillende instanties die regels voor de journalistiek hebben vastgelegd.
Eerbied voor waarheid en voor het recht van het publiek op waarheid is de eerste plicht van de journalist.Bij het verkrijgen van nieuws, foto’s en documenten zal hij op faire wijze te werk gaan. Gevolgen Oorzaken Inspelen op de veranderende journalistiek. Profoundheterogeneity. A few posts ago I proposed what I thought was the crucial question surrounding the relation of the digital network and the future of democracy: And this is where I think the important debate is: Is the internet as a technology subject to the same analysis as other technological developments? Can it largely be understood within the history and philosophy of technology, itself being shaped by the milieus into which it enters, determined by other forces, economics, politics, or human nature? Or Is the internet a heterogenous technology? Is the internet so transformative a technology as to render prior means of understanding the philosophy of technology, if not useless at least making them outmoded?
For me this is the place in need of more discussion and deeper analysis. The Digital Network is Radically Transformative 1. 2. Again lots to discuss here and there is much more nuance to this argument than this post can represent but I think the general arc here is correct. Browse Timeline. Jeff Jarvis: AriannaOL. It's a bit too meta to post about Huffington Post on Huffington Post but here's what I wrote on my own blog, Buzzmachine, about the Aol acquisition, fwiw: They laughed when Arianna sat down to the keyboard. They were wrong. I was wrong, too. I hadn't imagined that Huffington Post would become the force in media and politics that it became. Tim Armstrong and Aol are smart to acquire Huffington Post as a media property and Arianna Huffington as the head of content. I was just thinking yesterday that though Aol has lots of content and plans to make a lot more, I never think to go there, apart from heading to one of its brands, such as Engadget.
The only thing that makes me nervous is hearing Arianna talk with Kara Swisher about the center. One wonders why big, old media companies didn't buy Huffington Post. So who could have bought and invested in the growth of Aol? Content alone isn't enough for Aol. And let's not forget that HuffPo gets journalism. I'll be eager to see what does come next. AOL's Tim Armstrong and HuffPo's Arianna Huffington Video Interview on Acquisition Deal | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD. Here’s an exclusive video interview BoomTown did with Huffington Post co-founder and Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this morning at Super Bowl XLV in Texas, just ahead of their announcement tonight that the Internet company was buying the news and opinion site.
Like both the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, the pair are going for an Internet content win, after AOL paid $315 million, mostly in cash and a small amount of stock, for the Huffington Post. With the acquisition of one of the Internet’s best-known news brands, AOL is making its biggest move so far as it seeks to establish itself as a content leader on the Web. As part of the deal, Huffington will become editor over all AOL content properties. And editorial material from all these sites will be integrated into the Huffington Post, giving it a huge new infusion of editorial material. AOL + Huffington Post = disaster? | Emily Bell. If a company is to enjoy success in the world of media in general, and content creation in particular, then two ingredients have to be present. One is a strong culture and the other is scale.
It explains the success of any number of brands – News Corporation, the Daily Mail, the BBC, the Financial Times – in the recent difficult past. For companies that have scale but lack a culture, or vice versa, the obvious yet so often disastrous solution is to merge. Nothing creates greater comedic value or destroys actual monetary value quicker than trying to acquire a culture in pursuit of scale and getting the whole thing wrong. This is why AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post is causing such intense media interest.
It is not the $315m price tag, or the query over whether content businesses have a future, it is really the thought of Arianna Huffington, the Madonna of new media, striding into the AOL boardroom, where many unfairly imagine there are still shovels in the corner. Huffington Should Pay the Bloggers Something Now. The Zeitgeist Movement Responds to Egypt & the Wikileaks Fallout. Press Complaints Commission >> Home Page >> Welcome. Diplomat Carne Ross Asks: Are the Cables Too Important to Leave to WikiLeaks, the NYTimes, and The Guardian to Sift? GetUp! Campaign Actions. IPhone Public Distrusts Dial-Up Government: Michael Waldman. WikiLeaks has created a new media landscape | Clay Shirky. Your Life Torn Open, essay 1: Sharing is a trap. Leaked Labour email: lay off Murdoch.
A computational journalism reading list. The Witch Hunt Against Assange Is Turning into an Extremely Dangerous Assault on Journalism Itself | News & Politics. Inside the State Department’s Arab Twitter diplomacy. Meet the Two American Companies Helping Egypt Restrict Its People - Culture. Al Jazeera In Cairo Being Shut Down, Press Credentials Revoked: Egypt State TV. Egypt Flips Internet Kill Switch. Will the U.S.? Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online. Julian Assange: 'How do you attack an organisation? You attack its leadership' | Media | The Observer. EFF: FBI may have committed more than 40K intelligence violations since 9/11. Join a New Video Project in Defense of WikiLeaks. Freedom of Connection - Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet by William Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law, Victoria Nash.
Opinion: ROTC policy on Wikileaks threatens academic freedom. Youtube-gast: Jaap Stronks - hard//hoofd. Shock therapy for the NHS | Russell Razzaque | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs. Chinese Internet: What are people doing for mobile phone data encryption in China. Discussing the Palestine Papers - Part 1. WikiLeaks | File-sharing networks may hold the key. Bas Heijne » Alsof het niet om macht zou gaan. The George Orwell Prize. Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched yet again at airport.