Financement de Wikileaks

[2009] Wikileaks suspend ses activités et demande de l'aide - Numerama. C'est la rançon du succès.

Le célèbre site web Wikileaks, à l'origine de nombreux scoops allant de la publication de 573 000 textos envoyés le 11 Septembre à la mise en ligne de quelques documents confidentiels concernant l'ACTA, a dû fermer ses portes pour quelques jours. Le wiki spécialisé dans les fuites d'information et les analyses politique et sociétale n'arrive plus à tenir le rythme face à une fréquentation et une popularité sans cesse grandissantes. Dans un message publié sur la page d'accueil du site, les gestionnaires de Wikileaks annoncent que le site suspend toutes ses activités jusqu'au 6 janvier prochain. L'objectif est de solliciter la générosité des internautes pour maintenir le projet en vie l'année prochaine.

[2010] WikiLeaks joue ses finances à quitte ou double. Le site spécialisé dans la mise en ligne d'informations sensibles et confidentielles WikiLeaks s'apprête à publier 15.000 nouveaux documents militaires confidentiels sur la guerre en Afghanistan, malgré les avertissements du Pentagone et de la Maison Blanche.

S'il a toujours été controversé, WikiLeaks joue sans doute ici la partie la plus importante de son histoire. Et elle n'est pas politique, mais économique. [2010] Wikileaks Insiders Messages. 6 September 2010.

Note: While a little bit unusual for Cryptome to dabble in the authenticity racket, the "Wikileaks insiders" are likely imposters fabricated by a person or persons unknown. Jónsdóttir is correct in asking that these persons reveal identity. Cryptome: Assange should not step aside: 1 September 2010. Wikileakileaks is a typical Gawker pimp job for ST-diseased ads. [2010] Wikileaks Cash Flows In, Drips Out. The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks appears to be a frugal spender, tapping less than 5 percent of the funds received through two of its three donation methods, according to the third-party foundation that manages those contributions.

WikiLeaks has received 640,000 euros (U.S. $800,000) through PayPal or bank money transfers* since late December, and spent only 30,000 euros (U.S. $38,000) from that funding, says Hendrik Fulda, vice president of the Berlin-based Wau Holland Foundation. The money has gone to pay the travel expenses of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and spokesman Daniel Schmitt, as well as to cover the costs of computer hardware, such as servers, and leasing data lines, says Fulda.

WikiLeaks does not currently pay a salary to Assange or other volunteers from this funding, though there have been discussions about doing so in the future, Fulda adds. The details have not yet been worked out. WikiLeaks’ Assange declined to discuss the organization’s budget with Threat Level. [2010] WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup.

WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities.

That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason. But today WikiLeaks is unleashing a potentially devastating strike against criitics which could see it become an almost unstoppable force in the world’s media. It’s joined Flattr. Flattr is another Sweden-based outfit with close links to The Pirate Bay as the the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter Sunde. Flattr has a micropayments business model based on the idea of people tipping content they like, Digg or perhaps Facebook Like buttons – but this time with real money. Users can “Flattr” content by setting up a Flattr account which sets a a monthly fee — a minimum €2 — that they are willing to contribute for any kind of online content.

[2010] Financing WikiLeaks. Many comedians consider stand-up the purest form of comedy; Doug Stanhope considers it the freest.

“Once you do stand-up, it spoils you for everything else,” he says. “You’re the director, performer, and producer.” Unlike most of his peers, however, Stanhope has designed his career around exploring that freedom, which means choosing a life on the road. Wikileaks-Finanzierung - Assange und der Irak-Scoop - Digital. Anzeige Assange hatte das Gefühl, dass Medien ihr Interesse verlieren, sobald Daten allgemein zugänglich und kostenlos sind.

So versuchte er 2008, ein weiteres geheimes Datenpaket unter Zeitungsverlagen zu versteigern. Doch die Auktion von 7000 E-Mails eines früheren Redenschreibers des venezolanischen Präsidenten Hugo Chávez erwies sich als juristisch und organisatorisch zu aufwendig. Es dauerte etwa ein weiteres Jahr, bis Assange ein Geheimpaket mit einem Video aus dem Irak erhielt, von dem er wusste: Das könnte der Scoop werden, der die Aufmerksamkeit für ausreichend Spenden erzeugt.

Unter dem Code-Name ProjectB machte sich Assange daran, das Videomaterial zu entschlüsseln, mit Ton zu versehen und auf eine sichere Webseite zu stellen, um es zu veröffentlichen. Mit dabei war auch der dänische Hacker und Internet-Unternehmer Rop Gonggrijp. [2010] WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting. The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, in one of the US army's biggest leaks of information. The documents caused a sensation when they were made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and German magazine Der Spiegel, revealing hitherto unreported civilian casualties.

WikiLeaks defied Pentagon calls to return the war logs and destroy all copies. Les États-Unis chercheraient à assécher les finances de Wikileaks. Cet été, le site Wikileaks a suscité l'ire des États-Unis en diffusant publiquement pas moins de 92 000 documents relatifs aux opérations militaires de l'OTAN en Afghanistan.

Le Pentagone avait alors estimé que la publication brute de cette masse d'information, sans véritable vérification, pouvait menacer la sécurité des soldats alliés, mais également mettre en danger la population. Des critiques auxquelles se sont associées quelques ONG comme Reporters Sans Frontières. [2010] PayPal statement regarding WikiLeaks. PayPal gèle définitivement le compte de Wikileaks. [2010] MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments. MasterCard is pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing Web site, CNET has learned.

"MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," a spokesman for MasterCard Worldwide said today. That further limits the revenue sources for WikiLeaks, which has seen its finances systematically attacked in the last few days, as the Swiss authorities shut down a bank account used by editor Julian Assange, and PayPal permanently restricted the account used by the group. WikiLeaks has responded with an increasing number of fund-raising requests that urge supporters to "KEEP US STRONG. " Assuming that MasterCard blocks payments, the only easy way to donate electronically would be with a Visa credit card through a Web page hosted by Iceland-based DataCell.com.

Representatives of Visa did not respond to requests for comment from CNET today. MasterCard et la banque suisse postale bloquent également Wikileaks. Operation Payback (Anon_Operation) Mastercard bloque Julian Assange, le web bloque Mastercard.com. Les décisions de blocages prises par de multiples organismes bancaires à l’encontre de Julian Assange, fondateur de Wikileaks, ne sont pas restées sans effet. Après plusieurs appels sur Twitter, le site de Mastercard.com est totalement inaccessible. « Le serveur à l'adresse www.mastercard.com met trop de temps à répondre » indique une erreur de délai d’attente dépassé lorsqu’on tente de se rendre sur le site. Le site subit ainsi le même sort que la banque postale suisse qui a fait l’objet d’une attaque par déni de service. Ce genre d’attaques vise à saturer un site en le noyant sous un grand nombre de requêtes. Incapable de répondre aux requêtes légitimes, le serveur renvoie alors un message d’erreur similaire à celui constaté sur Mastercard.com.

L’opération Payback vise à arroser l’arroseur, ou plutôt bloquer le bloqueur. Twitter suspend le compte @Anon_Operation (DDOS)