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WikiLeaks given Swiss bank account data. WikiLeaks has taken possession of discs containing the banking details of 2,000 prominent people with Swiss bank accounts.

WikiLeaks given Swiss bank account data

The discs were presented to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today in London by former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer. The data will be published by WikiLeaks once it has been vetted, a process expected by Assange to take at least two weeks. Rudolf Elmer worked at Swiss bank Julius Baer, eventually becoming chief operating officer of its Cayman Islands subsidiary, until he was fired in 2002.

During his time at the bank he claims he found evidence that the bank was helping its customers evade taxes. Since being fired, he has styled himself as a Swiss whistleblower, seeking to obtain and disseminate information about the Swiss banking industry. The data was provided to Elmer anonymously through his own whistleblowing website.

Elmer has provided information to the whistleblowing site before. WikiLeaks cables: Yemen radioactive stocks 'were easy al-Qaida target' Yemeni soldiers stand guard outside a hearing of al-Qaida suspects at a court in Sana'a.

WikiLeaks cables: Yemen radioactive stocks 'were easy al-Qaida target'

Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA A senior government official in Yemen warned US diplomats that poor security at the country's main store of radioactive products could allow dangerous material to fall into the hands of terrorists, according to a leaked US embassy cable. Cybersecurity bill gives DHS power to punish tech firms. Democratic politicians are proposing a novel approach to cybersecurity: fine technology companies $100,000 a day unless they comply with directives imposed by the U.S.

Cybersecurity bill gives DHS power to punish tech firms

Department of Homeland Security. To Thwart Further Leaks, U.S. Military Bans USB Drives & Other Removable Disks. In an effort to prevent the kind of intelligence leaks that are making headlines lately, the U.S. military is banning the use of removable disks among its personnel.

To Thwart Further Leaks, U.S. Military Bans USB Drives & Other Removable Disks

The servicemen and women in the Air Force and other military branches have recently been ordered to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand-alone machines" on Department of Defense classified networks, according to documents obtained by Wired. Anonymous Wikileaks activists move to analogue tactics. 16 December 2010Last updated at 14:35 The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have been the focus of world attention. Online activist group Anonymous has once again changed tactics in its campaign to support Wikileaks, eschewing web-based attacks. Via BBC News - Home.

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House Judiciary Committee to Hold WikiLeaks Hearing Tomorrow. WikiLeaks Taps Power Of the Press — The Media Equation. Perhaps.

WikiLeaks Taps Power Of the Press — The Media Equation

WikiLeaks cables: Sinn Féin leaders 'were aware of' Northern Bank heist plans. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness held lengthy negotiations with the former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern to save the Northern Ireland peace process in the full knowledge that the IRA was planning to carry out the biggest bank robbery in its history, according to leaked US cables passed to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks cables: Sinn Féin leaders 'were aware of' Northern Bank heist plans

Ahern, who was instrumental in drawing up the 1998 Good Friday agreement, judged that the two Sinn Féin leaders were aware of plans for the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in 2004 because they were members of the "IRA military command" with a deep knowledge of its operations. The US cables also reveal that: • The Irish government believed Britain had a "valuable source of information" at a senior level in the republican movement. WikiRebels: The Wikileaks Documentary [Video] Cable Viewer. Flash: PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom, Announced for Saturday December 11. In the digital age, should all information be free?

Flash: PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom, Announced for Saturday December 11

Does good government require secrecy, or more openness? Can we trust private internet service providers to defend free speech? Is Wikileaks a terrorist organization, or the beginning of a new kind of transnational investigative journalism? This Saturday in New York City, we'll be discussing these urgent questions with a stellar group of thinkers and doers from the worlds of politics, journalism, diplomacy, activism and technology, including: Tickets are $10 and space is limited. Saturday, December 11, 10am-2pm* Riverpark: A Tom Colicchio Restaurant 450 East 29th Street (east of 1st Ave just before the FDR & East River) New York, NY 10016 *Please note, breakfast and lunch will not be served, but coffee and light refreshments will be available. WikiLeaks promising even bigger leak of secret files. WikiLeaks is promising to release its largest cache of classified files yet.

WikiLeaks promising even bigger leak of secret files

WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU. The pope is responsible for the Vatican's growing hostility towards Turkey joining the EU, previously secret cables sent from the US embassy to the Holy See in Rome claim.

WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU

In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question. The Vatican's acting foreign minister, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, responded by telling US diplomats that Ratzinger's comments were his own rather than the official Vatican position. The cable released by WikiLeaks shows that Ratzinger was the leading voice behind the Holy See's unsuccessful drive to secure a reference to Europe's "Christian roots" in the EU constitution.

The US diplomat noted that Ratzinger "clearly understands that allowing a Muslim country into the EU would further weaken his case for Europe's Christian foundations".

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W.sns. Via ReadWriteWeb. Where In the World Is WikiLeaks Mirrored? [Google Earth] WikiLeaks cables: Serbia suspects Russian help for fugitive Ratko Mladić. Russia may be withholding vital information about the whereabouts of the fugitive Bosnian Serb general and genocide suspect, Ratko Mladić, who faces war crimes charges in The Hague, senior Serbian government officials have privately told American diplomats in Belgrade. In discussions detailed in a diplomatic cable marked "secret" and sent to Washington by US chargée d'affaires Jennifer Brush in September 2009, Miki [Miodrag] Rakić, chief of staff to the Serbian president, Boris Tadić, tells Brush it remains likely Mladić is hiding somewhere in Serbia.

Wikileak supporters

WikiLeaks - Mass Mirroring our website. Twitter fails to jump to Dept of State’s defence. Wikileaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency « BuzzMachine. Welt am Sontag in Germany asked me for an op-ed on Wikileaks.

Wikileaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency « BuzzMachine

Here it is, auf Englisch. Hier, auf Deutsch. Government should be transparent by default, secret by necessity. WikiLeaks. Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain's proposed copyright law. Spain's Congress is about to vote on a new and extremely harsh copyright/Internet law. It's an open secret that the law was essentially drafted by American industry groups working with the US trade representative. Wikileaks cable: Prince Charles 'not respected like Queen' A senior figure in the Commonwealth secretariat used talks with a US diplomat to cast doubt on Prince Charles's suitability to succeed his mother as head of the 54-country association.

Amitav Banerji, Commonwealth secretariat director of political affairs, told a US embassy political officer in London that "heir-apparent to the British crown, Prince Charles, does not 'command the same respect' as the Queen". Banerji said the Commonwealth "was trying quietly to get him more involved in Commonwealth affairs", according to a cable sent to Washington in June 2009. Wikileaks: la première Infowar a commencé. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence: Les gouvernements du monde entier se sont ligués pour faire taire Wikileaks.

C'est la première Infowar: pour la première fois, une tentative de censure est à l'oeuvre à une échelle mondiale sur Internet. Pour la contrer, les défenseurs de la liberté du Net vont se liguer dans le monde entier. Les forces sont inégales: d'un côté les pouvoirs d'Etat, les agences de renseignement prêtes à tout pour réduire Assange au silence. De l'autre, l'équipe de Wikileaks et tous les geeks de la planète prêts à la soutenir. Geeks de tous les pays, unissez-vous! Cette guerre de l'information sera fondatrice. J'attends avec intérêt que les journaux qui ont bénéficié des fuites de Wikileaks, comme Le Monde en France, prennent clairement parti pour ou contre la censure des gouvernements et les méthodes barbouzardes. Journalists defend WikiLeaks effort - US Embassy Files. Leaked US state department cables have revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy and have exposed brutally frank comments by various world leaders - from Germany to the Gulf.

Europeans Criticize Fierce U.S. Response to Leaks. Berkeley Blog: Wikileaks Is Boring; U.S. Gov. Should Hire Them Hackers. Columbia University Reverses Anti-Wikileaks Guidance. Days after Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) caused an uproar by warning its students against linking to WikiLeaks or discussing the secret-spilling website’s latest cache of diplomatic cables online, the prestigious training ground for future diplomats has changed tack and embraced free speech.

Last week, the SIPA Office of Career Services sent an e-mail to students saying that an alumnus who works at the U.S. WikiLeaks Fallout: Unease Over Web Press Freedoms. Hide captionA gagged demonstrator holds placards during a protest Tuesday over the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, outside the magistrates' court in London. Assange is facing possible extradition to Sweden on sex charges and may face extradition to the U.S. on espionage charges. Are we starting a full-out war on the Internet? Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity: Tech News « The past week has seen plenty of ink spilled — virtual and otherwise — about WikiLeaks and its mercurial front-man, Julian Assange, and the pressure they have come under from the U.S. government and companies such as Amazon and PayPal, both of which have blocked WikiLeaks from using their services.

Opponents of Wikileak

‘Wikileaks’ cable drop is a giant power move for the left. (Source: Wikileaks) I love the rage against Julian Assange. To Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011. The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washington, D.C.