Apple Removes Wikileaks App from iTunes Store

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An iPhone/iPad app that let users browse the content on the Wikileaks website and follow the @wikileaks Twitter account has been removed from Apple’s iTunes Store.

Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said the company had removed the app “because it violated our developer guidelines.” Ms. Muller added: “Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm’s way.”

The $1.99 WikiLeaks App was taken down on Monday after being available for just three days. It is not clear how popular it was. Its developer promised to donate $1 for every download to organizations that “promote the future of online democracy. ” It had received only three reviews, according to the Huffington Post. Two of those reviews were negative.

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1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 12:32:07pm

ITunes doesn’t sell snuff films either.

2 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 12:33:01pm

But people died to bring that information to us!!!!!!!

//

3 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 12:43:44pm

I heard rumors that this was the reason.

4 b_sharp  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 12:56:49pm

I am suffering from Assange overload, so I shall avoid all threads about him. Including this one.

5 Killgore Trout  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 12:56:56pm

I found this interesting….
The anti-spam organisation may have been hit with a DDoS by wikileaks.info organisers.

Last week, the anti-spam organisation put out a warning wikileaks.org was redirecting web traffic to third-party mirror site wikileaks.info – a space Spamhaus said was a known hive of activity for Russian cyber criminals.

Spamhaus’s main concern was the security of the website’s Webalta’s 92.241.160.0/19 IP address space – it did not have any anti-WikiLeaks agenda.

“We do have an interest in preventing spam and related types of internet abuse however and hope that the WikiLeaks staff will quickly address the hosting issue to remove the possibility of cyber criminals using WikiLeaks traffic for illicit purposes,” the organisation said.


If I understand this correctly Wikileaks servers in Russia are also used by Russian Crime syndicates.

BTW, RSM repeated Barret Brown’s claim that I accused him of being a Russian agent. In fact, I speculated that Wikileaks and possibly Anon were funded or assisted by hostile foreign governments, criminals (and even corporations). I stand by that speculation.

6 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:00:38pm

re: #5 Killgore Trout

If I understand this correctly Wikileaks servers in Russia are also used by Russian Crime syndicates.

It may be more accurate to say, wikileaks leases servers from the same hosts that are used by Russian Crime syndicates.

Or that wikileaks leases servers whos ip’s are within close proximity of servers that are used by Russian Crime syndicates.

7 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:00:58pm

re: #5 Killgore Trout

But wikileaks.info isn’t actually related to the ‘real’ wikileaks, is it?

8 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:01:13pm

re: #5 Killgore Trout

If I understand this correctly Wikileaks servers in Russia are also used by Russian Crime syndicates.

I understand that it’s just mirrors. Anyone can set these up. Even the vice president of Bolivia: wikileaks.vicepresidencia.gob.bo

9 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:02:54pm

re: #6 ozbloke

It may be more accurate to say, wikileaks leases servers from the same hosts that are used by Russian Crime syndicates.

Or that wikileaks leases servers whos ip’s are within close proximity of servers that are used by Russian Crime syndicates.

I was under the impression they rented server space from Bahnhof AB

10 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:10:30pm

NEVER BEFORE IN HUMAN HISTORY…

11 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 1:20:43pm

wikileaks.org appears to be down at the moment.
At least from Australia

12 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 2:01:55pm

Looking forward to Paypal, Visa and Mastercard pulling the plug on the NYT for this leak on US Plans.

U.S. Military Seeks to Expand Raids in Pakistan

WASHINGTON — Senior American military commanders in Afghanistan are pushing for an expanded campaign of Special Operations ground raids across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas, a risky strategy reflecting the growing frustration with Pakistan’s efforts to root out militants there.

The proposal, described by American officials in Washington and Afghanistan, would escalate military activities inside Pakistan, where the movement of American forces has been largely prohibited because of fears of provoking a backlash.

13 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 2:11:07pm

Sarah Palin, was against wikileaks cables before she found info she could use.

Palin: It’s time to get tough with Iran

By Sarah Palin
Iran continues to defy the international community in its drive to acquire nuclear weapons. Arab leaders in the region rightly fear a nuclear-armed Iran. We suspected this before, but now we know for sure because of leaked diplomatic cables. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia “frequently exhorted the U.S. to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons program,” according to these communications. Officials from Jordan said the Iranian nuclear program should be stopped by any means necessary. Officials from the United Arab Emirates and Egypt saw Iran as evil, an “existential threat” and a sponsor of terrorism. If Iran isn’t stopped from obtaining nuclear weapons, it could trigger a regional nuclear arms race in which these countries would seek their own nuclear weapons to protect themselves.

14 Capitalist Tool  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 2:17:26pm

apple can do what it wants with its apps, but if you ask me, the ‘Patriot’ app (not the subject of this thread) is over the line… report your neighbors for suspicious activity, indeed!
For the past week or so, there are reports of this or that gov’t agency asking citizens to report ‘suspicious activity’, i.e. spy on your neighbor.

This trend is not good. We saw in the early days of the Iraq conflict that the Iraqis were exceedingly distrustful of each other due to rampant ‘tell on you’ efforts by Saddam’s goons.
Just what we need- an American ‘tell on you’ app.

my ipad is for sale.

15 _RememberTonyC  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 2:52:36pm

julian, you screwed more than those women in europe. you screwed the pooch and you screwed yourself.

karma’s a bitch

16 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 4:03:06pm

re: #14 Capitalist Tool

apple can do what it wants with its apps, but if you ask me, the ‘Patriot’ app (not the subject of this thread) is over the line… report your neighbors for suspicious activity, indeed!
For the past week or so, there are reports of this or that gov’t agency asking citizens to report ‘suspicious activity’, i.e. spy on your neighbor.

This trend is not good. We saw in the early days of the Iraq conflict that the Iraqis were exceedingly distrustful of each other due to rampant ‘tell on you’ efforts by Saddam’s goons.
Just what we need- an American ‘tell on you’ app.

my ipad is for sale.

The solution is to make sure you live somewhere where you’re the most boring person around, which is where I am. Who’s spying on me? Who would bother?

17 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 4:03:52pm

re: #12 ozbloke

Looking forward to Paypal, Visa and Mastercard pulling the plug on the NYT for this leak on US Plans.

the pageantry of pretend outrage, gotta love it

18 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 4:04:57pm

re: #5 Killgore Trout

BTW, RSM repeated Barret Brown’s claim that I accused him of being a Russian agent. In fact, I speculated that Wikileaks and possibly Anon were funded or assisted by hostile foreign governments, criminals (and even corporations). I stand by that speculation.

So basically Anon has that in common with every major government on earth :D

19 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 4:20:06pm

re: #17 WindUpBird

the pageantry of pretend outrage, gotta love it

Palin: It’s time to get tough with Iran

Sarah Palin, was against wikileaks cables before she found info she could use.

I thought that info was still classified, looking forward to Paypal, Visa and Mastercard pulling the plug on the Sarah for this leak.

20 Mark Winter  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 5:04:34pm

Sometimes you need to remind Apple fans that there is an “app” for it all. We call it “browser”.

21 Nick Schroeder  Tue, Dec 21, 2010 8:18:46pm

Assange is a douche and Apple sucks.

At this point, I have LeakFatigue. The world has become too big to see the forest or the trees. I give up. It’s all a joke. The people who pretend to know what they’re doing, actually don’t. And the people who pretend to know the ‘secret meaning’, also don’t. There’s no point in having ‘all of the information’, because all of the information is now too much.


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