WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name | World news The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the most embarrassing revelations was that the US state department had drawn up a list of information it would like on key UN figures – it later emerged the CIA had asked for the information. "Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. WTF is more commonly associated with the Facebook and Twitter profiles of teenagers than secret agency committees. Earlier this month the Guardian revealed that the CIA was responsible for drafting the data "wishlist" that the US state department wanted on UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and other senior members of the organisation. Although the CIA has featured in some WikiLeaks disclosures, relatively little of its own information has entered the ether, the paper reported. Acronyms.
Wikileaks Stories Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press (image: Reuters) Operation Payback is a bitch. "Anonymous" is retaliating against Mastercard for denying payment processing services to WikiLeaks, and Mastercard.com is currently down as a result. The apparent US government efforts to cut Wikileaks' lifeblood—cashflow and web services—kicked into high gear this week. Amazon.com, which provided some hosting services to Wikileaks, and DNS service provider EveryDNS.net, have also cut off service to the secret-leaking website. "Operation: Payback" began months ago as a series of attacks targeting anti-piracy entities like the RIAA and MPAA. "Their servers have been shut down and they will remain so for as long as there is no true freedom of information and data," read an Anonymous open letter related to Operation Payback. The US hasn't pressed charges against Assange or Wikileaks, but all the noose-tightening is concurrent with increasingly blunt statements characterizing Wikileaks as a criminal or terrorist organization.
Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International SPIEGEL: In 1998, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the German government is not allowed to have a nationwide police force because, according to the constitution, the individual German states are responsible for police matters. (Editor's note: The current federal police force is actually the former federal border police force, which was given new assignments after the introduction of the borderless Schengen Area.) De Maizière: I don't want to be granted any new powers or authority -- I only want the police that we now have, to be organized differently with their current powers and authority. My interior minister colleagues should have taken a look at this instead of immediately launching into a tirade. You don't openly criticize members of your family in public. SPIEGEL: ... the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, for example, and the interior minister of lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann. De Maizière: Showing strength is different than showing muscle. De Maizière: No.
Leaky World: a playable theory - Molleindustria Our Preface Julian Assange's short essay is an intriguing theory of conspiracy (as opposed to conspiracy theory) that effectively and concisely describes the drama of transnational power in the information age. It's an obscure, strategical text from 2006 that assumes a new relevance in the light of the massive leaks of 2010. However, we believe it has several flaws: 1) It is a byproduct of the leftist idea of class consciousness achieved via enlightenment. The Truth and the power of rational arguments are ultimately going to prevail, Social change can be achieved simply by revealing unjust structures to the ignorant masses. 2) It is informed by hacker culture and shares with it all the shortcomings of a technocentric thought. 3) It abstracts the concept of authoritarian power too much, ignoring intra-capitalist tensions and the conflicting national and corporate interests that are arguably the main reason for secrecy. Julian Assange - me @ iq.org December 3, 2006 Introduction
This Is Where the WikiLeaks Servers Are Now US diplomats spied on UN leadership | World news Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK. A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications. It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat".
Jonas Kyratzes WikiLeaks: Please use #cablegate to d... Gnome's Lair WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates | News 7.52am: MasterCard, Visa, the Swedish prosecution authority, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, PayPal, Twitter, PostFinance, Amazon and EveryDNS.net. It is an very eclectic mix, but their websites are all under attack, or threat of attack, by supporters of WikiLeaks. A full account of Operation Payback and its "major shitstorm" is available here. The Daily Mail is alarmed. More sober analysis is available elsewhere. Both Facebook and Twitter — but particularly Twitter — have received praise in recent years as outlets for free speech. Activists from Anonymous, the group behind Operation Payback, talk to the Economist in a revealing blogpost. The reporter chatted online with the group as they appeared to be discussing whether or not to target the Metropolitan Police for arresting the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. Anons do understand their limitations. The Guardian's Amelia Gentlemen travelled to Stockholm to meet Claes Borgström. 8.53am: Do the WikiLeaks Samba. You ask: we search
Rally4Wikileaks WikiLeaks Cablegate LIVE Updates Share + According to a recently released cable, a facility in Yemen holding nuclear material was left unsecured after its one guard was removed and a security camera broke, according to the AP. The cable quoted one official as saying, "Very little now stands between the bad guys and Yemen's nuclear material." Assange was asked about the decision to release cables that identified sites vulnerable to terrorist attacks when Katie Couric interviewed him on Friday. Assange told her: We are an organization that attempts to promote human rights by revealing abuses that are concealed. In case you missed any WikiLeaks cable highlights last week, here's a quick guide to get you up to speed. The Today show interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday after his release from prison on bail Thursday afternoon. Assange confirmed that he has heard there will be espionage charges filed against him in the U.S., and denied knowing Bradley Manning, the U.S. You can watch the entire interview here.
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