Un WikiLeaks Débranchez. The diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have, among other things, fed the notion that America's partners in the Middle East would support a forceful, perhaps even military, response against the nuclear efforts of Iran. Senior Arab leaders are quoted as saying as much in news reports covering the leaked State Department cables. The document dump last week, however, should come with a serious warning: "Handle with care. " First, what Arab leaders say to U.S. officials and what they might do may not always track.
True, Sunni Arab leaders are alarmed about growing Iranian regional influence and fear a nuclear-armed Iran—more because of the enhanced prestige and power such a capability would hand the Shiite state than because of fears that Iran would actually use such a weapon against them. But views of Iran vary not only between leaders and their publics but also across the region. But dislike of Iran does not suggest an affinity with the United States or Washington's policies. Lettre ouverte: Pour Julia Gillard, re Julian Assange - Unleashed. Find More Stories Open letter: To Julia Gillard, re Julian Assange Jeff Sparrow and Elizabeth O'Shea Dear Prime Minister, We note with concern the increasingly violent rhetoric directed towards Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. “We should treat Mr Assange the same way as other high-value terrorist targets: Kill him,” writes conservative columnist Jeffrey T Kuhner in the . William Kristol, former chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle, asks, “Why can’t we use our various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are?”
“Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?” “The CIA should have already killed Julian Assange,” says John Hawkins on the site. Sarah Palin, a likely presidential candidate, compares Assange to an Al Qaeda leader; Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and potential presidential contender, accuses Assange of “terrorism”. And so on and so forth. Such calls cannot be dismissed as bluster. As is well known, Mr Assange is an Australian citizen. WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' | World news.
MasterCard and other payment firms have severed ties with WikiLeaks in recent days. Photograph: Jonathan Bainbridge/Reuters The US lobbied Russia this year on behalf of Visa and MasterCard to try to ensure the payment card companies were not "adversely affected" by new legislation, according to American diplomats in Moscow. A state department cable released this afternoon by WikiLeaks reveals that US diplomats intervened to try to amend a draft law going through Russia's duma, or lower house of parliament. Their explicit aim was to ensure the new law did not "disadvantage" the two US companies, the cable states. The revelation comes a day after Visa – apparently acting under intense pressure from Washington – announced it was suspending all payments to WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website.
Visa was following MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon, all of which have severed ties with the site and its founder, Julian Assange, in the past few days. Via Sunshine Press Productions ehf: Via post: PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal. Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship.
Over the past few weeks, we here at EFF have watched as whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has fueled an emotionally charged debate about the secrecy of government information and the people's right to know. We have welcomed this debate, and the fact that there have been myriad views is the embodiment of the freedom of expression upon which this country was founded. However, we've been greatly troubled by a recent shift in focus. The debate about the wisdom of releasing secret government documents has turned into a massive attack on the right of intermediaries to publish truthful information.
Suddenly, WikiLeaks has become the Internet's scapegoat, with a Who's Who of American and foreign companies choosing to shun the site. Let's be clear — in the United States, at least, WikiLeaks has a fundamental right to publish truthful political information. And equally important, Internet users have a fundamental right to read that information and voice their opinions about it. Lettre d'information mensuelle - L'Internet Society sur la question Wikileaks. China blocks access to WikiLeaks ( - Internet - Security - Government ) China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S.
Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations. "China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. side will handle the relevant issues," Hong Lei, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at a Beijing news conference on Tuesday. "As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that. " Access to the WikiLeak's Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response. The ban on WikiLeaks comes as one of the major revelations provided by the the release was a document linking China's Politburo to the December 2009 hack of Google's computer systems. Wikileaks censuré au Sénat ? WikiLeaks banni des serveurs d'Amazon , WikiLeaks bloqué en Chine , WikiLeaks bouté hors de France (dans les doux rêves d'Éric Besson ), WikiLeaks censuré sur Twitter (accusation niée en bloc ), et maintenant WikiLeaks censuré au Sénat ?
D'après un tweet d'Aurélien Romano, journaliste à Public Sénat, le site miroir de Wikileaks hébergé par les serveurs français d'OVH est inaccessible depuis son ordinateur : L'URL de Wikileaks.ch aurait été ajoutée à la liste noire des sites à filtrer dans l'enceinte du Sénat, dans la catégorie «Potential criminal activities, Politics/Opinion» , avec un mystérieux «score de réputation de 27» . Le message d'avertissement fait bien de préciser que la caractère criminel de ce site est «potentiel» , car aucune autorité judiciaire ne s'est encore exprimé sur la répréhensibilité des actions de WikiLeaks, ni en France ni aux États-Unis. Lire les réactions à cet article. Camille GÉVAUDAN. Héberge un miroir de WikiLeaks. Ce que nous n'allons pas expliquer L'activité de WikiLeaks est très controversée en ce moment.
Ses opposants disent que c'est très mal de diffuser des documents secrets, que ce que fait WikiLeaks c'est du recel de documents volés, qu'ils mettent en danger des gens, etc. Ses défenseurs disent que c'est très bien, qu'il faut bien qu'on puisse faire parvenir à la presse les informations utiles, que les sources directes sont espionnées par le pouvoir et qu'il faut donc passer par des organismes externes pour diffuser en tout sécurité les informations, etc. Tout cela, savoir si ce que fait WikiLeaks est bien ou mal, ce n'est pas l'affaire de FDN. WikiLeaks n'a été condamné par aucune juridiction.
Le contexte Ces derniers temps, l'actualité a été relativement riche sur le front de la neutralité du réseau. Expliquons l'enjeu Pour un TLD[1] il n'y a qu'un seul registre. Ces débats, portant sur des noms, avaient des impacts sur des noms. L'importance de la question La question est d'envergure.
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With Route 53, you can create a “hosted zone” to add DNS records for a new domain or transfer DNS records for a domain you currently own. Route 53 is also designed to be fast and simple. We Stand with Bradley Manning. State Dept. warning prospective recruits to steer clear of Wikileaks. Update: Welcome readers from Slashdot and The Lede, and all the others who are driving traffic to this post! Follow Arabist on Twitter or subscribe to the RSS feed! I was forwarded this email — it comes from a SIPA student at Columbia. Seems the ambitious young things studying IR and considering a foreign service careers are being warned not to touch Cablegate: From: "Office of Career Services" <sipa_ocs@columbia.edu>Date: November 30, 2010 15:26:53 ESTTo: Hi students,We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department.
He asked us to pass along the following information to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government, since all would require a background investigation and in some instances a security clearance.The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. Sponsored links: WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure | Media. The US struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in reaction to heavy political pressure. The company announced it was cutting WikiLeaks off yesterday only 24 hours after being contacted by the staff of Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security.
WikiLeaks expressed disappointment with Amazon, and insisted it was a breach of freedom of speech as enshrined in the US constitution's first amendment. The organisation, in a message sent via Twitter, said if Amazon was "so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books. " While freedom of speech is a sensitive issue in the US, scope for a full-blown row is limited, given that Democrats and Republicans will largely applaud Amazon's move.
The question is whether he was acting on his own or pressed to do so by the Obama administration, and how much pressure was applied to Amazon. WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks,org domain kille... Ron Paul: Re: Wikileaks- In a free s... Library of Congress Blocks Access To Wikileaks. Ron Paul: "What We Need Is More WikiLeaks On The Federal Reserve" Google as DNS, Wikileaks as PoC. Wikileaks is still accessible — via Google. Does that change anything? For many Internet users IP addresses as well as domain names are completely transparent.
Further, Google (and other search engines) and often the first stop when these users wants to find a service, or a web site. Thus, many of us discussed over the years the eventual viability of Google (… and other search engines) as "DNS" (note the "'s). This photo was posted on Reddit, and a friend of mine sent it to me with the subject line of "Google as DNS? " "Discuss amongst yourselves" By Gadi Evron, Security Strategist. Related topics: DNS. Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website. Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it’s a challenge, even for the search engines. Where’s Wikileaks? Yesterday, I wrote about how Google was still listing the old address for Wikileaks — wikileaks.org — in a search for wikileaks: That’s still the case today.
However, you can now find Wikileaks in the top results. That “Cable Viewer” listing, with a description written in French and the strange number rather than a domain name? Note: When I originally wrote this story, I missed that Wikileaks was listed at all at its new location. Wikileaks: By Number & Name In contrast, Bing does have the new Wikileaks home page listed and has had it since yesterday. Notice the domain name: Wikileaks.ch. Why’s Bing listing a domain name while Google’s using a string of numbers? Normally, the internet works to translate domain names behind the scenes into IP addresses, which are like telephone numbers for individual web sites. PayPal Permanently Restricts WikiLeaks Account. The list of organizations banning WikiLeaks is growing; now PayPal has made it clear that the whistleblower website is no longer welcome through its virtual doors.
The move closes the primary online channel for donations to the controversial organization, which has been facing increased pressure from world governments. "PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity," the company said in a statement on its blog. "We’ve notified the account holder of this action. " WikiLeaks has had recent difficulty keeping the donations channels open. Donations through Moneybookers was blocked in October after the U.S. and Australia put the organization on its watch lists, and earlier this year PayPal suspended the WikiLeaks account temporarily.
PayPal gèle définitivement le compte de Wikileaks. Mise à jour - À en croire un communiqué diffusé sur le blog officiel de PayPal, le site de paiement en ligne est revenu sur sa décision de geler le compte de Wikileaks. PayPal indique que le site pourra de nouveau accéder aux sommes auparavant bloquées.
Néanmoins, le compte PayPal du site fait encore face à certaines restrictions. Ainsi, le site n'accepte plus, pour le moment, de nouveaux versements destinés à Wikileaks. Sujet du 04 décembre - Les difficultés s'accroissent pour Wikileaks. Dans un message publié sur son blog, PayPal explique avoir "restreint de façon permanente le compte utilisé par Wikileaks en raison d'une violation de la politique d'utilisation acceptable de PayPal qui stipule que nos services de paiement ne peuvent être utilisés pour des activités qui encouragent, promeuvent, facilitent ou poussent autrui à commettre des activités illégales".
PayPal n'est pas le premier service de paiement en ligne à bloquer les transactions financières destinées à Wikileaks. Doesn’t Take Down Websites.