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SpyTalk - WikiLeaks’s Assange gains influential defenders Posted at 3:23 PM ET, 12/13/2010 By Jeff Stein The predominant consensus in official Washington that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should eventually stand trial here on espionage charges is not likely to change anytime soon. But three influential voices are now saying publicly what many others say privately: that blame should be focused on leakers, not Assange, who after all was merely the middleman for the handful of newspapers and magazines that were given first crack at classified military and diplomatic documents.
Transcript: The Assange interview The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in a mansion in East Anglia since he was released from prison last week. He is under strict bail conditions while he fights extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning about claims of sexual assault. Today programme presenter John Humphrys went to meet him for what is Mr Assange's first face-to-face broadcast interview since his release. Q: Why won't you go back to Sweden? WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week's battles in an evolving cyberwar. He is a self-styled defender of free speech, his weapon a laptop and his enemy the US corporations responsible for attacking the website WikiLeaks. He had seen the flyers that began springing up on the web in mid-September. In chatrooms, on discussion boards and inboxes from Manchester to New York to Sydney the grinning face of a Guy Fawkes mask had appeared with a call to arms.
How to Think About WikiLeaks - Alexis Madrigal - Technology This is a regularly updated post. It was first published 12/8/2010 at 11:51am. Its time-stamp indicates when it was last changed. In the days since WikiLeaks began releasing a small percentage of its cache of 250,000 cables sent by State Department officials, many people have tried to think through the event's implications for politics, media, and national security. Writers pulling at the knot of press freedom, liberty, nationalism, secrecy and security that sits at the center of the debate have produced dozens of fantastic pieces.
WikiLeaks Attacks Illegal Says Internet Society - PCWorld Network World - Takedown attempts against WikiLeaks undermine what the Internet stands for, and those responsible should be tracked down and prosecuted, says the Internet Society, a non-profit group dedicated to the open use of the Internet. Could Wikileaks spawn troubles for the IT industry? In its December newsletter, ISOC says it recognizes that WikiLeaks' posting of diplomatic cables is a worry to some, but knocking the site offline is illegal. "Unless and until appropriate laws are brought to bear to take the wikileaks.org domain down legally, technical solutions should be sought to reestablish its proper presence," ISOC says, "and appropriate actions taken to pursue and prosecute entities (if any) that acted maliciously to take it off the air." Wikileaks has suffered distributed DoS attacks and in response supporters of WikiLeaks have launched DDoS attacks of their own against Visa, Mastercard and Amazon.com.
WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down • Remember this is the date, time, sender and tags for each cable - NOT the text of the cable itself WikiLeaks embassy cables revelations cover a huge dataset of official documents: 251,287 dispatches, from more than 250 worldwide US embassies and consulates. It's a unique picture of US diplomatic language - including over 50,000 documents covering the current Obama administration. But what does the data include? The cables themselves come via the huge Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. SIPRNet is the worldwide US military internet system, kept separate from the ordinary civilian internet and run by the Department of Defense in Washington.
Anonymous Wikileaks supporters explain web attacks 10 December 2010Last updated at 18:39 'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells Jane Wakefield why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks. A group of pro-Wikileaks activists who coordinated a series of web attacks have explained their actions. Predicting the future of WikiLeaks: Follow the media! The New York Times asked me to do a short piece for their Room for Debate forum on WikiLeaks. Go read the whole piece; below is a paragraph that I'd like to discuss in more detail on this blog: One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary -- perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting -- where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate N.G.O.'s to advocate on their causes.
DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group A DNS provider that suffered backlash last week after it was wrongly identified as supplying and then dropping DNS service to WikiLeaks has decided to support the secret-spilling site, offering DNS service to two domains distributing WikiLeaks content. EasyDNS, a Canadian firm, was attacked last Friday after media outlets mistakenly reported it had terminated its service for WikiLeaks. The company sent an e-mail to customers Thursday morning letting them know that it had begun providing DNS service for WikiLeaks.ch and WikiLeaks.nl, two of the primary domain names WikiLeaks relocated to after WikiLeaks.org stopped resolving. Anonymous Appears to Threaten Electronic Frontier Foundation with DDOS Attack Hacker vigilante group Anonymous may have followed up its distributed denial of service attacks against Mastercard and Visa with a threat to do the same to...the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group, allied with 4chan, prosecuted "Operation Payback" to harm the credit card companies allegedly for suspending WikiLeaks' payments. The threat to attack the online freedoms group came after EFF tweeted its opposition to DDOS attacks. There was a problem with EFF earlier today, according to Chris Palmer, EFF's tech director. "Defending free speech means people get to disagree with you. If #Anonymous is going to #DDoS their critics, they're not for #freespeech" - Cory Doctorow
WikiLeaks grows stronger as supporters fight back THE WikiLeaks website has been deactivated, its PayPal account has been frozen, credit card companies have abandoned it, all thanks to US government pressure - yet the group is now stronger than ever. Blocked from using one internet host, WikiLeaks simply jumped to another. Meanwhile, the number of ''mirror'' websites - effectively clones of WikiLeaks' main contents pages - has grown from a few dozen last week to more than 1000.
How Operation Payback Executes Its Attacks Over the last few days, companies like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon.com have found themselves targets of coordinated distributed denial-of-service attacks, designed to force their websites and other infrastructure elements offline. The campaign, which is called "Operation Payback" (and is reportedly headed up by Anonymous), is targeting companies that have denied service to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. In essence, what is happening is that lots and lots of individuals are hammering specific websites with TCP or UDP packets or HTTP requests. There are only so many resources to go around, which means that with enough individuals involved, even large websites can be taken down very quickly. Most of the participants in Operation Payback are not hackers — at least not in the true sense of the word.
Close Read: Tunisia and WikiLeaks From the Times’s coverage of the President of Tunisia, who seems to have fled the country: Raise your hand if, before the street protests started, you had focussed very much—or at all—on what the WikiLeaks cables had to say about Tunisia. Does any one person know enough about all of the countries mentioned in the cables to say for sure how significant they are?