Wikileaks: Bradley Manning speaks about his conditions from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin At Firedoglake, David House writes a lengthy and detailed report from visits with Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been in military detention for months for being the presumed source of Wikileaks’ most damning US government leaks. Manning’s lawyer and others have written … Read more
Confirmed: Wikileaks’ next target is Bank of America from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Buried in that Times of London article you didn’t read because it was behind a paywall was confirmation by Julian Assange that Wikileaks will release a very large cache of documents about Bank of America, to be released in early 2011. … Read more
2010-12-19 New Whistleblowing Sites from WL Central by GeorgieBC Online whistleblowing conduits appear to be an exciting new trend. From technological tools to what looks a lot like old fashioned investigative journalism, here are some of the up and coming whistle blowing sites. IndoLeaks Jakarta Globe says this appeared on December 10. Rospil An extension … Read more
Courtroom sketches of Julian Assange from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza English judges are less inclined to allow cameras, recording devices and other newfangled distractions into courtrooms than their American counterparts. This point was highlighted in recent days by Justice Ousley’s unprecedented decision to temporarily allow reporters to hammer away on Twitter as Julian Assange’s … Read more
I have nothing to do with Mr. Zuckerberg. This is about Time editors’ cowardice… ********* Time refuses WikiLeaks founder 2010 Person of the Year www.worldbulletin.net American Time magazine’s readers have chosen Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, in the weekly’s annual poll for Person of the Year, as Turkey’s Prime Mark Zuckerberg Is TIME?s ?Person … Read more
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange granted bail from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin 07:00 AM PT: A bail hearing for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is under way as I type this blog post. Assange is being held in the UK on allegations of sex crimes involving two women in Sweden. Journalists in the courtroom have been … Read more
Obama calls Turkish PM over leaked cables The Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) ? President Barack Obama called Turkey’s prime minister to mend ties following the release on the WikiLeaks website of US diplomatic cables Obama joins WikiLeaks assault The Australian … action by WikiLeaks, and the two leaders agreed that it would not influence or … Read more
Freedom to Assange and Wikileaks from Genç Siviller We were in front of Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul Twelve theses on WikiLeaks from Eurozine articles by Geert Lovink, Patrice Riemens Vindictive, politicized, conspiratorial, reckless: one need not agree with WikiLeaks’ modus operandi to acknowledge its service to democracy. Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens see in … Read more
Hackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal and PostFinance [UPDATE: Mastercard, Too] from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Xeni on Madeleine Brand radio show: Wikileaks, Anonymous, Mastercard DDOS, Operation Payback from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Having DDOsed Mastercard.com to … Read more
I haven’t had time to start with a more proper roundup. here is what I have had collected so far. More to come soon.. Lieberman: New York Times may be investigated for espionage from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Assange arrested in Britain from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Clay Shirky’s Nuanced Position on WikiLeaks … Read more
Julian Assange answers your questions The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers’ questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables Calling Time on Assange from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The other face of Wikileaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Amazon and WikiLeaks – Online Speech is Only … Read more
Amazon Bans WikiLeaks From Its Servers from Mashable! by Ben Parr MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks creates a global public sphere | 01/12/2010 from euro|topics China is blocking Wikileaks‘ websites, states fear for their data security and the world learns of a planned coup d’état against Pakistan’s president. While the daily disclosures of further US dispatches are … Read more
Interpol issues “Red Notice” for arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange over “sex crime” from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin The Arab press downplays WikiLeaks from FP Passport by Max Strasser The L.A. Times‘ Babylon and Beyond blog reports that unlike in most of the world, the WikiLeaks dump of U.S. diplomatic cables isn’t getting that … Read more
EFF’s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border from EFF.org Updates by marcia Amid recent reports that security researchers have experienced difficulties at the United States border after traveling abroad, we realized that it’s been awhile since we last discussed how to safeguard electronic devices and digital information during border searches. … Read more
Azerbaijan: Emin Milli released, but another activist detained from Global Voices Online by Onnik Krikorian By Onnik Krikorian Following yesterday’s news that video blogging youth activist Adnan Hajizade had been conditionally released in Azerbaijan, Facebook was today awash with news that his friend and fellow activist, Emin Milli, had also been freed. Amnesty International had … Read more