Bill Keller on how WikiLeaks has evolved, the NYT reporting process, and threats to national security. Wikileaks Mirror Network | vis4.net. Wikileaks What It Means for Journalism 12/17/2010 - ColumbiaJournalism | Internet Radio. Featured follow Call in to speak with the host Columbia Journalism School (@ColumbiaJourn) presents a conversation about the latest developments in the Wikileaks controversy and what they mean for journalists and journalism. Speakers include Emily Bell (@emilybell), founding director of Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Media and former editor of the Guardian website; Todd Gitlin, Columbia professor of communications; Philip Shenon, a former NYTimes security writer who now writes for the Daily Beast; Ingo Sigfusson, a journalist from Iceland.
Moderated by Alexander Hotz (@hotzington), Digital Media Associate and teaching fellow at Columbia, who has reported on the Wikileaks since early this year. Produced by Prof. Tags: Wikileaks Columbia Journalism School School Emily Bell Todd Gitlin Alexander Hotz h:20172s:1430066archived Recommended For You Comments. Wikiriver.org. WikiLeaks: The revolution has begun – and it will be digitised | Heather Brooke. Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
Indeed, that is why the Siprnet database – from which these US embassy cables are drawn – was created in the first place. The 9/11 commission had made the remarkable discovery that it wasn't sharing information that had put the nation's security at risk; it was not sharing information that was the problem. The lack of co-operation between government agencies, and the hoarding of information by bureaucrats, led to numerous "lost opportunities" to stop the 9/11 attacks. As a result, the commission ordered a restructuring of government and intelligence services to better mimic the web itself. But data has a habit of spreading. To some this marks a crisis, to others an opportunity. Twitter Explains Why #WikiLeaks Isn’t Trending. Twitter has finally responded to numerous accusations that it has been purposely keeping #WikiLeaks and related hashtags out of its Trending Topics list.
Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner just published a post on the microblogging service's blog that more fully outlines how Trending Topics are determined on Twitter. In essence: Twitter favors novelty over popularity. Trending Topics are "designed to help people discover the 'most breaking' breaking news across the world… Captur[ing] the hottest emerging topics, not just what's most popular," Penner writes. "Topics break into the Trends list when the volume of Tweets about that topic at a given moment dramatically increases," she adds. From this explanation, we can infer that the reason the WikiLeaks hasn't trended this week, despite being the most-discussed topic on Twitter at times, is because there hasn't been a dramatic increase in the level of discussion about WikiLeaks compared to previously. WikiLeaks mirrors multiply as main funding source gets cut off. The Internet may be working to take WikiLeaks offline, but the site's contents aren't going to disappear, thanks to hundreds of mirrors that popped up over the weekend.
But even though more than 200 sites around the world now host the controversial leaked documents, WikiLeaks may face an all-too-familiar funding problem if it wants to continue publishing new leaks. WikiLeaks has been server hopping lately thanks to a combination of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and pressure from politicians. A DDoS attack had originally pushed WikiLeaks to move some of its operations to Amazon, but then Amazon booted the site from its servers after Sen. Joe Liberman (I-CT) pressured the company to stop associating itself with WikiLeaks. That move was quickly followed by WikiLeaks' DNS provider EveryDNS pulling the plug, claiming that the continued DDoS attacks would threaten the stability of EveryDNS's other sites. WikiLeaks Archive — Julian Assange Issues Warning. On Monday, as Mr. Assange’s lawyers said he would meet with the British police about criminal charges involving sexual encounters in Sweden, Attorney General said the Justice Department had “a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature” into the WikiLeaks matter.
“I authorized just last week a number of things to be done so that we can hopefully get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable,” he said at a news conference, declining to elaborate. Mr. Holder’s statement followed Mr. Assange’s assertion that “over 100,000 people” had been given the entire archive of 251,287 cables “in encrypted form.” “If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically,” Mr.
Assange said Friday in a question-and-answer session on the Web site of the British newspaper The Guardian. So far, the group has moved cautiously. There appears to be no way for American authorities to retrieve all copies of the cables archive. Mr. Mr. Mark Stephens, Mr. Wikileaks Founder Walks. Julian Assange denied bail over sexual assault allegations | Media. The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said last night it would not to be gagged by the imprisonment of its founder, Julian Assange, after a judge refused him bail at a dramatic extradition hearing in London. Assange, 39, who is wanted in Sweden over claims he sexually assaulted two women, was in Wandsworth prison last night after district judge Howard Riddle ruled there was a risk he would fail to surrender if granted bail.
Assange denies the allegations. Despite Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan, the campaigning journalist John Pilger, the film director Ken Loach and others offering to stand surety totalling £180,000, the judge said the Australian Assange's "weak community ties" in the UK, and his "means and ability" to abscond, represented "substantial grounds" for refusing bail. He was remanded until 14 December, when the case can be reviewed at the same court. There was no record of him entering the UK in the first place. WikiLeaks. Cables Suggest Obama’s Wide Range of Engagement. 'Hacktivist' takes credit for WikiLeaks attacks via Twitter | Technology | Los Angeles Times.
A self-proclaimed "hacktivist" is apparently taking some credit for the Internet attacks that shut down many pages on WikiLeaks.org today. The hacker, who goes by the name Jester, claims on his blog to have used distributed denial of service attacks to bring down websites in the past -- the same method WikiLeaks says it was hampered by on Sunday and today. Jester often claims responsibility for bringing down websites on his Twitter account using the phrase "tango down," which is used by the military to indicate that an enemy has been eliminated in a firefight.
Today, he sent multiple tweets directed at WikiLeaks: "www.wikileaks.org - TANGO DOWN - for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations #wikileaks #fail""If I was a wikileaks 'source' right now I'd be getting a little twitchy, if they cant protect their own site, how can they protect a src? "" WikiLeaks says it's been hacked, crashed pages include U.S. diplomatic cables -- Nathan Olivarez-Giles. Al Kamen - WikiLeaks opens the floodgates for critics of the Obama administration.
The WikiLeaks uproar has folks jumping all over President Obama's administration for a variety of alleged sins of omission and commission. Sarah Palin weighed in big time on Facebook, blasting the administration for "incompetently handling the whole fiasco" and for not going after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with greater urgency. She tweeted that the administration might have gone to court to stop the disclosures.
"Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book 'America by Heart' from being leaked," she wrote, "but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act? " Probably not. Meanwhile, relying on a newspaper account - some of the actual cables have not been made public - Military Families United excoriated the administration for using "taxpayer money . . . to pay off foreign governments to accept these dangerous security risks," namely prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. But the Obama folks pleaded not guilty Monday. (D) is for December . . . WikiLeaks Shelters in Amazon Servers. PdF Live: A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom.