WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks : naviguez dans les mémos diplomatiques. I love WikiLeaks for restoring distrust in our most important institutions. - By Jack Shafer. International scandals—such as the one precipitated by this week's WikiLeaks cable dump—serve us by illustrating how our governments work. Better than any civics textbook, revisionist history, political speech, bumper sticker, or five-part investigative series, an international scandal unmasks presidents and kings, military commanders and buck privates, cabinet secretaries and diplomats, corporate leaders and bankers, and arms-makers and arms-merchants as the bunglers, liars, and double-dealers they are. The recent WikiLeaks release, for example, shows the low regard U.S. secretaries of state hold for international treaties that bar spying at the United Nations.
Both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, systematically and serially violated those treaties to gain an incremental upper hand. And they did it in writing! We shouldn't be surprised by the recurrence of scandals, but, of course, we always are. What am I smoking? Le paradoxe Wikileaks. - Le fondateur de Wikileaks Julian Assange à une conférence du Frontline Club à Londres, le 26 juillet 2010. REUTERS/ Andrew Winning - Julian Assange, le fondateur de WikiLeaks, ne connaît pas l'identité de la personne qui a envoyé les milliers de documents sur la guerre en Afghanistan classés top secret que le site a publiés fin juillet.
Rien d'inhabituel, c'est la manière dont WikiLeaks a toujours fonctionné. Pour envoyer un scoop au site, il suffit de cliquer sur le bouton «Submit Documents» sur la page d'accueil, et uploader ensuite ses fichiers via un formulaire qui permet de crypter la moindre interaction entre la source et le site. WikiLeaks ne garde aucune trace de l'envoi, et affirme être tenu, en vertu de la loi suédoise sur la protection de la presse, de ne jamais révéler ou aider à révéler l'identité de ses sources. publicité WikiLeaks affirme également oeuvrer pour une transparence totale.
Transparence anonyme? Là repose tout le paradoxe des méthodes de WikiLeaks. Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths. Elizabeth Cook's artist impression of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, where he was denied bail after appearing on an extradition warrant. Source: AP WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.
" His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. These things have stayed with me. It is neither. WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.
This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.” After the owner left, Assange quickly closed the drapes, and he made sure that they stayed closed, day and night.
Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. “That’s for you,” she said. Blog Archive » Followup to my Facebook research. Hey all, Some of you may have heard what I did this month. It turns out, depending on who you listen to, that I'm either an evil "Facebook hacker" or just some mischievous individual doing "unsettling" research. But, one way or the other, a huge number of people have read or heard this story, and that's pretty cool. Although it's awesome (and humbling) that so much attention was paid (at least for a couple days) to some fairly straight forward work I did, I want to talk about this from my perspective, including why I did it and what I think this means to the community.
Then, for fun, I'll end by talking about other places this research can go and open up the floor for some discussion. Why I did it The biggest question I get is: why? Well, let's talk about it! First off, as many of you know, I'm a developer for the Nmap security scanner. When I joined the Nmap project, it came with a set of 8 or so common usernames and a couple hundred common passwords. Now, back to the Facebook names.