Court Orders Twitter to Turn Over User Info in Wikileaks Investigation. Last week a U.S.
Justice Department court order was made public that directed Twitter to provide information on several of its users. S Comprehensive WikiLeaks Timeline (UPDATED) As we mentioned before, "Wikileaks was not a story, but an ongoing continuum of stories...
It's a story that is destined to keep on giving. " In that short time since that post, it has indeed done just that. Wikileaks Calls for Sarah Palin's Arrest. The official Twitter account for Wikileaks has posted a press release this evening drawing a comparison between the controversial rhetoric from public figures that some believe contributed to the attempted assassination on Saturday of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the even more explicit calls from public officials for violence against Wikileaks spokesperson Julien Assange and others.
The organization called for public figures making such calls to violence to be arrested and charged with crimes. Assange is attributed the following quote in the release: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Appsfire: The Must-Have App Sharing App (iPhone) I tell people about the Rachel Maddow iPhone app all the time; almost no one has heard of it, but it's great.
From now on I won't just tell them about it - I'll share a link to it by email with just a few clicks in the new iPhone app from Appsfire, just approved by the App Store last night. Appsfire is a handy little service that makes it easy to share collections of your favorite apps with other people. There are a variety of ways to use it, but using it on the iPhone is the most pleasing, straightforward and clearly useful. This app indexes all your other apps, makes it easy to share with anyone and shows off the most popular apps shared by all users and users in your geographic region.
It's far from perfect, but it's so useful anyway that we recommend you get it. Using the app couldn't be simpler and it fills a need many of us have felt since getting our phones. That said, there are some things about the app that could use some improvement. Wikileaks and Publishers to Partner on Whistleblower Stories. Best known as a site that indexes and verifies leaked documents, Wikileaks exists as a space where whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers can speak out against corruption without fear of employer or government retaliation.
According to a recent article in IT World, the organization will soon offer publishers a chance to get in on the action. Wikileaks Plugs the Leak While It Waits for Funding. This Week in Online Tyranny. Iceland Passes Proposal to Become 'New Media Haven' If you're looking to say something contentious on the Internet, then Iceland is the place to go.
The Icelandic Parliament unanimously passed a proposal yesterday to make the country a "new media haven" in an initiative inspired and strongly backed by Iceland-based whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The proposal, entitled the "Icelandic Modern Media Initiative", "resolves to task the government with finding ways to strengthen freedoms of expression and information freedom in Iceland, as well as providing strong protections for sources and whistleblowers. " Wikileaks Releases 91,000 Afghanistan War Documents Online. The wiki-based site for whistler-blowers, Wikileaks, today released what it called "an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
" "The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail. " WikiLeakiLeaks: Open Attack or Honest Attempt At Media Transparency? Gawker has had enough of the tight-lipped Wikileaks and its elusive founder, Julian Assange, it would seem.
Police in 14 Countries Raid File-Sharing Hosts And Hit Close to Wikileaks. Authorities cracked down on file-sharing sites across Europe yesterday in a major operation two years in the making, Swedish officials told media.
The raid is getting special attention because one target in Stockholm is best known for hosting part of Wikileaks.org, the site where whistle-blowers have leaked highly sensitive documents from governments across the world. But authorities said the real target was not Wikileaks, but the highly-active pirate network known as The Scene or Warez Scene, which encompasses 48 sites. Seven locations were raided in Sweden, according to the file-sharing news site Torrent Freak, including a university. Raids were also reportedly carried out in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, the U.K., the Czech Republic, Hungary and Belgium, where the request originated. Several torrent sites including Pirate Bay were down for users in some countries today. Wikileaks Loses Funding, Claims Government Blacklist to Blame. Wikileaks, the wiki-based site for whistle-blowers, has been facing increasing pressure from the U.S. government since its July release of more than 90,000 war documents from the war in Afghanistan.
Today, the Guardian is reporting that this pressure has finally hit where it hurts the most - in the pocket - as the site's funding has been blocked. The Guardian article quotes an email supplied by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, saying that Moneybookers, the site that had been collecting Wikileaks' donations, terminated the business relationship due to external pressures. When Assange emailed to ask what the problem was, he says he was told in response by Daniel Stromberg, the Moneybookers e-commerce manager for the Nordic region: "When I did my regular overview of my customers, I noticed that something was wrong with your account and I emailed our risk and legal department to solve this issue.
Wikileaks Founder: Media Reports of Iraq Document Release Based on "Tabloid" Blog. Over 250,000 U.S. Diplomatic Documents Released by Wikileaks. Wikileaks had set this afternoon as the date to release another round of secret U.S. government documents - this time, over 250,000 classified cables from various U.S. embassies. Wikileaks Moves to Amazon Web Services - ReadWriteCloud. Yesterday we reported that Wikileaks' web site suffered a denial of service (DOS) attack just before the publication of its most recent cache of documents. The site was down for only a few hours, according to Forbes' Andy Greenberg. Today, The Guardian reports that Wikileaks turned to Amazon.com's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) service to get back online and survive the DOS attack. There are various ways to conduct a DOS attack, but most methods work by placing an enormous burden on a server.
For example, one might make a huge number of frivolous requests for pages of a web site until the server is overloaded. Wikileaks originally claimed it was receiving a distributed DOS attack. Siprnet, the Secret Internet Network Where the Latest Wikileaks Documents Originated. While much of the focus on Wikileaks addresses the legal, ethical, and security ramifications surrounding the release of secret government documents, the publication yesterday of 250,000 diplomatic cables also raises a number of questions about the existence of, as well as the security of, such a large database of classified government communications. The word "SIPDIS" in the header of these cables points to their origin. SIPDIS stands for Siprnet Distribution, meaning the communications are part of the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. Siprnet was created in 1991 and is used by the U.S. State and Defense Departments to transmit classified information, up to and including information marked "secret.
" It's a separate system from the ordinary civilian Internet, managed by the U.S. military. Siprnet Expands After 9-11. Amazon.com Drops Wikileaks - ReadWriteCloud. Amazon.com has taken down the Wikileaks web site under what appears to be pressure from the U.S. government. Senator Lieberman issued a statement saying that Amazon.com has informed his staff that the company has ceased hosting Wikileaks.
Wikileaks latest Twitter update reads "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe. " Weekly Poll: Should Amazon.com Have Dropped Wikileaks? - ReadWriteCloud. Earlier today, we reported the news that Amazon.com has ceased hosting Wikileaks. The site went down for a while, but is back up and hosted in Sweden. Wikileaks' Assange May be TIME's Person of the Year. Wanted by the law across multiple countries, threatened with military action by US hawks, shut out by internet vendors from Amazon to PayPal, Wikileaks leader Julian Assange may still be named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2010.
Amazon.com Explains Why It Dropped WikiLeaks - ReadWriteCloud. Wikileaks Loses its DNS Service - ReadWriteCloud. It's not our normal beat to cover so much breaking news on ReadWriteCloud, but U.S. PayPal Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations.