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 Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: WikiLeaks fights to stay online |
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France ought to be ashamed of itself.
WikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and PETER SVENSSON, Associated Press Raphael G. Satter And Peter Svensson, Associated Press � 22 mins ago
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LONDON � Wikileaks struggled to stay online Friday as corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet, a potentially crippling blow for an organization dedicated to releasing secret information via the web.
The American company that directed traffic to the website wikileaks.org stopped late Thursday after cyber attacks threatened the rest of its network. WikiLeaks responded by moving to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch � and calling on activists for support. Two companies host the Swiss domain name, one of which is in France. The other is in Sweden.
On Friday, France moved to ban WikiLeaks from French servers. The French government has been one of numerous administrations embarrassed by the frank assessments of U.S. diplomats and their sources in a flood of cables released by Wikileaks in cooperation with major newspapers in several countries.
Industry Minister Eric Besson says it's "unacceptable" for French servers to host the site, which "violates the secret of diplomatic relations and puts people protected by diplomatic secret in danger."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is also under pressure as Sweden seeks his extradition in an investigation of sex-crimes allegations against him. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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In another attack on Wikileaks, the U.S. government has bullied Paypal into refusing to transmit payments to them.
I've never used Paypal, so I can't really boycott them.  |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.zerohedge.com/article/who-will-be-first-decrypt-wikileaks-insurance-file
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| With Julian Assange's arrest now seen by many to be a matter of days if not hours, it seems that the Wikileaks founder has taken some modest retaliation precautions, primarily along the lines of the infamous "letter in the mail should something happen to me." Using Bit Torrent, Wikileaks has distributed an "insurance" file, which however is encrypted, and the contents of which are unknown, although may possibly contain at least some of the infamous BofA incriminating selection. It is very possible that Wikileaks will release the encryption code upon Assange's arrest. That said, the insurance file, which can be downloaded from Pirate Bay at the following link, is merely 1.4 GB, and far less than the expected 5 GB which the BofA data is supposed to contain. Since Zero Hedge is read by quite a few hackers, we would like to extend the challenge to all to find the proper key to decrypt the insurance file and spill its contents to the general public. |
Smart guy. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Ugh I hate that I use paypal. They should be ashamed. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Ugh I hate that I use paypal. They should be ashamed. |
Yeah, me too, but it is kind of a necessary evil for me now. |
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Dev
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
| Ugh I hate that I use paypal. They should be ashamed. |
Actually, the founder of PayPal is a cool guy. He's on Julian's side. I saw him in a video that showed him at a meeting supporting Wikileaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRX-nW9MmmU
Most likely, he got bullied by the U.S. gov to stop accepting donations for Wikileaks. |
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Axiom
Joined: 18 Jan 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:06 am Post subject: |
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Anyone hearing any rumours that Wikileaks is going to expose that Ban KiMoon likes it a bit rough. On a couple of forums I have seen, they are refering to him as "Spanky Banky"  |
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Space Bar
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
In another attack on Wikileaks, the U.S. government has bullied Paypal into refusing to transmit payments to them.
I've never used Paypal, so I can't really boycott them. |
The Swiss have now jumped on the bandwagon:
Swiss cut off bank account for WikiLeaks' Assange
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press John Heilprin, Associated Press � Mon Dec 6, 2:23 pm ET
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GENEVA � Swiss authorities stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool Monday � his new bank account � and the secret-spilling web site fended off more suspected computer attacks as it maneuvered to stay online.
Scotland Yard was now considering the Swedish arrest warrant for Assange, who is staying at an undisclosed location in Britain, the BBC reported. It didn't cite its source and the U.K. police force declined to comment. WikiLeaks tweeted that UK has received the warrant and "may issue it shortly."
In contrast to official moves against the group, an unlikely band of computer-savvy advocates were riding to its rescue, determined to ensure free information via the Internet. These geek-warriors described their efforts as new form of guerrilla combat, where sophisticated online protests were replacing traditional street marches.
"It's the start of the information war, it really looks like that," said Pascal Gloor, vice president of the Swiss Pirate Party, whose Swiss Web address, wikileaks.ch, has been serving as a mainstay for WikiLeaks traffic.
"There is a whole new generation, digital natives, born with the Internet, that understands the freedom of communication," he told The Associated Press. "It's not a left-right thing anymore. It's a generational thing between the politicians who don't understand that it's too late for them to regulate the Internet and the young who use technology every day."
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:46 am Post subject: |
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I just received an amusing e-mail:
_________ employees must not use a government computer to access the �Wiki-Leaks� site.
The unauthorized release of classified documents to the public domain does not declassify them, and the accessing / viewing of this information can be interpreted as a security violation.
Additional guidance on this issue will be provided by the Department of Justice. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
I just received an amusing e-mail:
_________ employees must not use a government computer to access the �Wiki-Leaks� site.
The unauthorized release of classified documents to the public domain does not declassify them, and the accessing / viewing of this information can be interpreted as a security violation.
Additional guidance on this issue will be provided by the Department of Justice. |
I think the whole point of this is to ensure the employees safety.
The next batch of wikileaks is doubtlessly going to contain disinformation designed to expose leakers.
Don't be foolish and browse through page after page of it and accidentally red flag yourself. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
I just received an amusing e-mail:
_________ employees must not use a government computer to access the �Wiki-Leaks� site.
The unauthorized release of classified documents to the public domain does not declassify them, and the accessing / viewing of this information can be interpreted as a security violation.
Additional guidance on this issue will be provided by the Department of Justice. |
I also read that a State Department alumnus of Columbia University passed along information to the school -- which it then passed along to students -- which said that any students interested in procuring a job with the government had best not so much as even discuss Wikileaks on the internet, as it will likely come back to haunt them later. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
I just received an amusing e-mail:
_________ employees must not use a government computer to access the �Wiki-Leaks� site.
The unauthorized release of classified documents to the public domain does not declassify them, and the accessing / viewing of this information can be interpreted as a security violation.
Additional guidance on this issue will be provided by the Department of Justice. |
I think the whole point of this is to ensure the employees safety.
The next batch of wikileaks is doubtlessly going to contain disinformation designed to expose leakers.
Don't be foolish and browse through page after page of it and accidentally red flag yourself. |
Actually right after that e-mail I went straight to the wiki-leaks website! Yep, no common sense in this brain! |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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So basically you can not arrest someone at wikileaks because then they will reveal sensitive personal information of millions of people .
Nice! Great organization. so this wikileaks is looking more like a shakedown outfit.
I really want to know what the confusion was between the woman and Assange over the meaning of consensual sex was? That what he is saying the charges are about . A difference of opinion? |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
In another attack on Wikileaks, the U.S. government has bullied Paypal into refusing to transmit payments to them.
I've never used Paypal, so I can't really boycott them. |
PayPal, meet PayBack.
PayPal suffers DoS for spurning Wikileaks
By Darren Pauli, ZDNet Australia on December 6, 2010
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PayPal was attacked last night in a denial-of-service attack which took its blog offline for about eight hours, according to security researchers.
The attacks came in response to a move by the payment giant to stop providing services to whistleblower website Wikileaks for donations. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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Is Wikileaks really a plot to censor the Internet?
If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikileaks, You Should At Least Know Why
Posted on December 10, 2010 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
Just a little more background on the �hero� Jullian Assange and Wikileaks�
Wikileaks was started up in Dec. of 2006. Oddly enough, as a supposed �leak� site, a dissident site, it was given a great deal of immediate mainstream attention from the likes of the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and even Cass Sunstein the now infamous Obama administration who wrote a paper on how to �cognitively infiltrate� dissident groups in order to steer them in a direction that is useful to the powers that be.
The TIME magazine article is curious because it seems that right off the bat they were telling us how to interpret Wikileaks in such a way that sounded strangely familiar to George W. Bush back just after 9/11�
From TIME Jan. 2007:
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| By March, more than one million leaked documents from governments and corporations in Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Bloc will be available online in a bold new collective experiment in whistle-blowing. That is, of course, as long as you don�t accept any of the conspiracy theories brewing that Wikileaks.org could be a front for the CIA or some other intelligence agency. |
Now remember and read closely� this article was written PRIOR to Wikileaks� first big �leak�, which according to the article was to occur sometime in March of 2007. So why would TIME magazine be writing about them in the first place if they hadn�t done anything yet? Also, let�s not pass up on that delicious irony: this is TIME magazine singing the praises of a supposed �leak� site which will supposedly expose all kinds of �conspiracy theories� while at the same time telling their readers NOT to believe in those silly �conspiracy theories� circulating about Wikileaks. Just so long as you believe the �right� conspiracy theories, you�ll be alright I guess. This of course perfectly matches Jullian Assange�s own statements about 9/11.
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