«En défense d'Internet et de WikiLeaks», un livre à télécharger. Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks · ELPAÍS.com in English. 1. The leak and its consequences. When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called my cellphone on a Friday afternoon in November, I could barely hear him. The conversation, held amid the usual tumult of Rome's airport on a weekend, was strangely short. Assange talked slowly, making sure to pronounce each word carefully, his deep, almost baritone voice, reducing itself almost to a whisper at the end of each sentence. A few moments before the conversation, I had noticed how the Italian police seemed particularly interested in the little luggage that I was carrying, and that as the phone had rung, they were examining the cloth that I had used to wipe the screen of my iPad.
Were they looking for drugs, or explosives, or both? The powerful machinery of the state is designed to suppress the flow of truth and keep secrets secret It may yet emerge that the US Embassy in Madrid broke the law in pursuing its interests 2. 3. Meanwhile, next door, Pakistan is awash with corruption as well. 4. 5. 6. 7. Wikileaks et biologie, utilisation similaire des données? » Article » OwniSciences, Société, découvertes et culture scientifique. A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters. Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available online, suggesting various ways companies can help undermine the whistle-blowing website as it prepares to release material that could prove damaging to Bank of America and other financial entities.
A cyber tussle between the hackers, largely grouped under the banner of “Anonymous,” and the California security firm led to the leaked e-mails. It has long been known that Bank of America and other financial institutions are the targets for the next batch of WikiLeak materials due for release. Also check out The New York Times coverage of the news here.
–JCL {*style:<i>*}{*style:<br>*}{*style:<b>*}Salon:{*style:</b>*}{*style:<br>*}There’s a very strange episode being widely discussed the past couple of days involving numerous parties, including me, that I now want to comment on. Assemblée nationale : Wikileaks : enquête sur un contre-pouvoir. WikiLeaks a livré au regard du public, via Internet et la presse, des milliers de secrets d’Etat. Julian Assange et les hommes de WikiLeaks sont devenus des ennemis officiels du Pentagone. Sont-ils des héros des temps modernes ? Ou des pirates informatiques irresponsables, avides de célébrité ? Leurs révélations vont-elles changer le monde ? Luc Hermann et Paul Moreira ont enquêté sur le réseau WikiLeaks, ses forces et ses faiblesses, son mythe et sa part d’ombre… A Londres, Berlin, Reykjavik, Washington et Paris, enquête sur ces nouveaux militants de la transparence qui bouleversent le rapport des citoyens à l’information.
Retrouvez également en ligne le débat avec Didier Mathus, François Nicoullaud, Olivier Tesquet et Robert Ménard. Documentaire inédit réalisé par Luc Hermann et Paul Moreira (52’)Coproduction LCP / Premières Lignes. Leaked U.S. cables reveal sensitive diplomacy. WikiLeaks has created a new media landscape | Clay Shirky. WikiLeaks affects one of the key tensions in democracies: the government needs to be able to keep secrets, but citizens need to know what is being done in our name. These requirements are fundamental and incompatible; like the trade-offs between privacy and security, or liberty and equality, different countries in different eras find different ways to negotiate those competing needs.
In the case of state secrets v citizen oversight, however, there is one constant risk: since deciding what is a secret is itself a secret, there is always a risk that the government will simply hide an increasing amount of material of public concern. One response to this risk is the leaker, someone who believes that key elements of political life are being wrongly kept from public view, and who circulates that material on his or her own. This transformation is under-appreciated. The press often covers WikiLeaks as a series of unfortunate events, one crisis or scandal after another. Until WikiLeaks. Fdaudens. La fin de l’autocensure » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism.
Selon John R. MacArthur, éditeur de Harper's Magazine, Wikileaks force les medias comme le New York Times à ne plus choisir l'autocensure quand ils ont entre leurs mains une information importante pour le peuple américain. J’avoue n’avoir pas été étonné d’apprendre, grâce à Julian Assange et à sa source dans la bureaucratie fédérale américaine, que le roi de l’Arabie saoudite souhaitait voir l’Amérique «couper la tête du serpent» iranien avec des frappes violentes contre son projet nucléaire. Il y a longtemps que l’on connaît la crainte d’Abdallah al-Saud à l’égard de son ambitieux rival iranien, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Aucune personne suivant de près la politique du Proche-Orient ne serait choquée de la candeur de ce puissant chef arabe, si à l’aise avec ses amis américains qu’il n’hésite pas à leur demander d’entreprendre une troisième guerre dans une région où — il faut le dire — les États-Unis n’ont pas brillé ces derniers temps. L’importance et la nécessité d’avoir un peuple informé. Le New York Times sort lundi un e-livre sur WikiLeaks. Le New York Times construit son propre WikiLeaks » Article. Tunisia, WikiLeaks And Food Crisis: Forces For A Global Revolution. It would be hard to contest that our world is in crisis, or at least at a turning point. The models which were developed at the start of the industrial revolution have either failed or are crumbling in front of us in “real time”. If communism died in the 80′s with the collapse of the Soviet Union, capitalism is now on life support.
Nothing was revolutionary about the industrial revolution, but instead the industrial leviathan enslaved workers and started destroying our ecosystem by its immense appetite for resources and for burning energy. The ruling transnational elites, either in the corporate, financial or political sectors, are now operating outside national boundaries with complete disregard for local populations. To an American businessman, it doesn’t matter if his home town is experiencing double digit unemployment if he can find a cheaper way to fabricate a product in China or India. The global food crisis is expected to get worse in 2011. </b>*} Juan Cole: The Corruption Game: What the Tunisian Revolution and WikiLeaks Tell Us about American Support for Corrupt Dictatorships in the Muslim World. By **Juan Cole** From TomDispatch.com. Here’s one obvious lesson of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011: paranoia about Muslim fundamentalist movements and terrorism is causing Washington to make bad choices that will ultimately harm American interests and standing abroad.
State Department cable traffic from capitals throughout the Greater Middle East, made public thanks to WikiLeaks, shows that U.S. policy-makers have a detailed and profound picture of the depths of corruption and nepotism that prevail among some “allies” in the region. The same cable traffic indicates that, in a cynical Great Power calculation, Washington continues to sacrifice the prospects of the region’s youth on the altar of “security.” State Department cables published via WikiLeaks are remarkably revealing when it comes to the way Tunisian strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his extended family (including his wife Leila’s Trabelsi clan) fastened upon the Tunisian economy and sucked it dry.
No Dominoes to Fall. Wikileaks on ReadWriteWeb. La révélation la plus terrifiante de Wikileaks : à quel point nos gouvernements nous mentent (Alternet.org) - legrandsoir sur LePost.fr. Fred BRANFMAN « J’aurais beau essayer, je ne peux pas rester sourd aux souffrances. Peut-être lorsque je serais vieux, j’accepterai la souffrance avec insouciance. Mais pas maintenant ; les hommes dans la force de l’âge, s’ils ont des convictions, se doivent d’agir en conséquence. » Julian Assange, 2007 Pensez-vous qu’il est dans l’intérêt des Américains qu’un petit groupe de dirigeants décide unilatéralement d’assassiner, de mutiler, d’emprisonner et/ou de torturer selon leur bon vouloir n’importe qui, n’importe où dans le monde, sans que leurs concitoyens ou la communauté internationale soient au courant, sans un droit de regard ?
Et, malgré leurs échecs répétés pour protéger l’Amérique – d’Indochine à l’Iran en passant par l’Irak – croyez-vous qu’ils devraient être autorisés à étendre clandestinement leurs guerres sans débat public ? Il ne s’agit pas bien-sûr de justifier de telles attaques. 1) le nombre ahurissant de victimes civiles provoqués par les Etats-Unis et Le N.Y.
Wikileaks et la Guerre Mondiale de l’Information - legrandsoir sur LePost.fr. Andrew Gavin MARSHALL LGS : Faut-il se méfier de Wikileaks ? Comment les grands médias manipulent-ils les documents publiés ? Quelle attitude les médias alternatifs doivent-ils adopter face à ces documents ? A qui profitent-ils réellement ? Assistons-nous à une "prise de conscience politique globale" ? Introduction La publication récente des 250.000 documents de Wikileaks a soulevé un intérêt sans précédent, provoquant tout un éventail de réactions - des plus positives au plus négatives. Il y a ceux qui prennent les contenus des documents publiés par Wikileaks pour argent comptant, principalement à cause de leur présentation erronée donnée par les grands médias commerciaux.
Il y a ceux qui considèrent que ces documents sont authentiques et qu’il suffit de savoir les interpréter et de les analyser. Puis il y a ceux, dont beaucoup font partie des médias alternatifs, qui émettent des doutes. Propagande médiatique contre l’Iran : prendre les câbles pour argent comptant. Quel est ce contexte ? Wikileaks: 6 contre-vérités diffusées par les médias » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Quelques mois après les premières divulgations des télégrammes diplomatiques par Wikileaks, il semble qu'un certain nombre d'idées reçues continuent d'être alimentées par les médias dans l'opinion publique.
Une mise au point s'impose. La tendance des médias mainstream à diffuser de fausses informations, ou tout au moins des versions altérées de la vérité à plus que jamais été flagrante lors de la couverture de l’affaire WikiLeaks ces dernières semaines. Comme le pointait le juriste et blogueur Glenn Greenwald, les médias contribuent ainsi à ce que certaines idées reçues à propos de Julian Assange et de WikiLeaks persistent à exister en dépit de leur déconnexion totale avec la réalité des faits, le bon sens, et les analyses de ceux qui font du vrai journalisme. Voici les principales informations bidons qui circulent actuellement dans les journaux et sur les ondes. Les révélations de WikiLeaks sont meurtrières WikiLeaks a publié 250.000 télégrammes Julian Assange est un criminel. Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place. News By Dan Nystedt October 9, 2009 04:27 AM ET IDG News Service - Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an "upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks" form onto their Web sites.
The upload system will give potential whistleblowers around the world the ability to leak sensitive documents to an organization or journalist they trust over a secure connection, while giving the receiver legal protection they might not otherwise enjoy. "We will take the burden of protecting the source and the legal risks associated with publishing the document," said Julien Assange, an advisory board member at Wikileaks, in an interview at the Hack In The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Once Wikileaks confirms the uploaded material is real, it will be handed over to the Web site that encouraged the submission for a period of time. Why we must all join the battle for WikiLeaks. Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America | Threat Level. A truly free press — one unfettered by concerns of nationalism — is apparently a terrifying problem for elected governments and tyrannies alike.
It shouldn’t be. In the past week, after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables, secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has been hit with denial-of-service attacks on its servers by unknown parties; its backup hosting provider, Amazon, booted WikiLeaks off its hosting service; and PayPal has suspended its donation-collecting account, damaging WikiLeaks’ ability to raise funds.
MasterCard announced Monday it was blocking credit card payments to WikiLeaks, saying the site was engaged in illegal activities, despite the fact it has never been charged with a crime. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians have ramped up the rhetoric against the nonprofit, calling for the arrest and prosecution and even assassination of its most visible spokesman, Julian Assange. WikiLeaks is not perfect, and we have highlighted many of its shortcomings on this website. From Indymedia to Wikileaks: What a decade of hacking journalistic culture says about the future of news. The first time I ever heard the words “mirror website,” I was sitting at a debris-strewn desk, hunched over a desktop computer, on the second floor of a nondescript office building on East 29th in Manhattan. I’d recently started volunteering with the New York City Independent Media Center, an organization that would turn out to be one of the first “citizen journalism” organizations in the United States — though certainly no one would have called it that at the time.
The IMC was in its third day of participant-powered coverage of protest actions taken against World Economic Forum (WEF) meetings in New York. It was less than five months after September 11; the city was cold and bleak, and people were tense. Really tense. And our website, NYC Indymedia, had slowed to a crawl. “It’s going to crash,” I muttered. I want to talk about two general trends I see shaping journalism, trends that are highlighted in developments at the leading edge of “journalistic hacktivism” over the past decade. How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. | Editor's Choice.
By Emily Bell(wether). An Englishwoman in New York If you follow the latest cache of diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks and reported by the Guardian, The New York Times and others it is impossible not to conclude that this is a pivotal moment for journalism, its teaching and its practice. In a masterly piece on The Guardian’s website, John Naughton writes that : The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing.
I would urge anyone interested in the case as it unfolds to follow John’s excellent Memex1.1 blog where he both aggregates and writes some of the most thoughtful pieces about the ongoing saga. The idea that this is the first real battleground between the political establishment and the open web is very arresting. Maybe a little unfair. Journalism is not just an intermediary in this, it is part of this. WikiLeaks experiences leak itself. WikiLeaks Taps Power Of the Press — The Media Equation.
Perhaps. Or maybe it was the other way around. Think back to 2008, when WikiLeaks simply released documents that suggested the government of Kenya had looted its country. The follow-up in the mainstream media was decidedly muted. Then last spring, WikiLeaks adopted a more journalistic approach — editing and annotating a 2007 video from Baghdad in which an Apache helicopter fired on men who appeared to be unarmed, including two employees of Reuters. The reviews were mixed, with some suggesting that the video had been edited to political ends, but the disclosure received much more attention in the press.
In July, WikiLeaks began what amounted to a partnership with mainstream media organizations, including The New York Times, by giving them an early look at the so-called Afghan War Diary, a strategy that resulted in extensive reporting on the implications of the secret documents. Although Mr. By shading his radicalism and collaborating with mainstream outlets, Mr. Jeff Jarvis - Me & media on Wikileaks. Julian Assange: homme de l’année pour les lecteurs du Time » Article. Il faut défendre WikiLeaks (et c'est urgent) - Eric Mettout. WikiLeaks : la dictature de la transparence. Wikileaks : vers une dérive fascisante de la transparence. WikiLeaks essuie les critiques de ses premiers soutiens.
«WikiLeaks a ouvert une porte qu'il sera difficile de refermer» Qui a peur de WikiLeaks? Wikileaks et la révolte du clergé - Eric Scherer. WikiLeaks is High-Stakes Paparazzi, Not Journalism - Susan Milligan. WikiLeaks is holding US global power to account | Seumas Milne. Pourquoi Libé abrite WikiLeaks - Laurent Joffrin. Et si la Loppsi censurait WikiLeaks ? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks degenerates into gossip. How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. | Editor's Choice. 6 questions sur WikiLeaks, le Napster du journalisme » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism.