[July 2010] WikiLeaks and the Afghan "war logs"

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The WikiLeaks "insurance" : 1.7 Go of encrypted files

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Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown (Updated) | Danger Room

The Pentagon is super mad about Wikileaks leaking 70,000 classified Afghanistan war documents . So mad that they have made the ridiculous demand that Wikileaks "return" the data. A massive organization willfully misunderstanding how the Internet works?

Why the Pentagon's War on Wikileaks Is Like the Music Industry's War on Napster

http://gawker.com/5606506/why-the-pentagons-war-on-wikileaks-is-like-the-music-industrys-war-on-napster
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_story_behind_the_publicati.php?page=all

The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs

You wouldn’t be reading the coverage of the so-called Afghanistan logs—in The New York Times , Der Spiegel , and The Guardian —if Nick Davies, a senior contributor to the British paper, hadn’t tracked down WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Brussels one month ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jul/26/press-freedom-wikileaks

Why Wikileaks, and the newspapers, were right to publish | Media

The Wikileaks revelations about the conduct of the war in Afghanistan have been rightly hailed as a triumph of " data journalism ."
Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise.

With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair | Threat Level

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-submission/

Wikileaks editor Julian Assange says there is 'more to come' after Afghanistan leak

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/wikileaks-editor-julian-assange-says-there-is--039-more-to-come-039-after-afghanistan-leak/s2/a539793/ Assange claims Afghanistan documents could contain evidence of thousands of war crimes and reveals WikiLeaks is preparing an 'enormous backlog of disclosures' for release
[2010] The Wikileaks war logs