TagsTagsFor the first time, a direct link has been confirmed between Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of the largest leak of government documents in US history, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: Jolt in WikiLeaks Case: Feds Found Manning-Assange Chat Logs on Laptop. A government digital forensic examiner retrieved communications between ...
PBS FrontLine has an interesting show tonight, an investigative report on Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and the biggest intelligence breach in US history: FRONTLINE: WikiSecrets. The press release has this shocking description of Assange's attitude toward the people whose names appeared in the massive document dump: Was Julian Assange prepared to ...
Just in time for the weekly news cycle, a new batch of classified documents from Guantanamo Bay has been released by Wikileaks, with details on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11. Also see: Guantánamo Files - Lives in an American Limbo
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Guantanamo Bay, Al Qaeda
The FBI has served more than 40 search warrants in the investigation of the cyberattacks against several major financial institutions. 'Anonymous' is finding out how un-anonymous they really are. The F.B.I. investigation is part of a larger international inquiry into a loose confederation of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” that coordinated the ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous, Crime, FBI
Today the US Justice Department subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an Icelandic politician who worked as a volunteer with Wikileaks and Julian Assange. “I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” wrote Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Iceland, Birgitta Jonsdottir
The New York Times reports that hundreds of human rights activists, government officials, and businesspeople named in the Wikileaks cables have been warned by the State Department of threats to their safety, and some have been moved to safer locations. The operation, which involves a team of 30 in Washington ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Military, Security, Secrecy
Julian Assange has been threatening to "take down" a major US bank, and most people think he's talking about Bank of America. Here's an article at the New York Times on BofA's defense strategy. By the time the conference call ended, it was nearly midnight at Bank of America’s headquarters ...
In the latest news on the Glenn Greenwald-Wired Magazine slapfight, the Guardian has an article today in which Wired's Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen say they have once again reviewed the unpublished chats over which Greenwald is hyperventilating, and there's nothing newsworthy in them. I don't expect this to prevent Greenwald ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, wired, Glenn Greenwald, Bradley Manning
The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing part of their criminal investigation of 'Operation Payback', leading to a raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29--As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous, Crime, FBI
Floyd Abrams represented the New York Times in the case of the Pentagon Papers, and has a must-read piece today in the Wall Street Journal: Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers. The recent release of a torrent of State Department documents is typical. Some, containing unflattering appraisals by American ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Floyd Abrams, Pentagon Papers, Secrecy
Highly recommended: Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond to criticisms of Wired’s Wikileaks coverage, especially the hysterical charges emanating from the left's most dishonest blogger, Glenn Greenwald: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs.
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, wired, Glenn Greenwald, Bradley Manning
The non-home of the anonymous non-organization that is everywhere and everyone is apparently under a DOS attack of its own today: 4Chan.org Down Amid DDOS Attack.
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Interpol, Crime, Mastercard, Visa, Anonymous, 4chan
One of the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks described a meeting between US representatives and Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, considered one of Zimbabwe's brightest hopes for democratic reforms. Well, he was considered one of Zimbabwe's hopes for democracy, until Wikileaks destroyed that hope. Chris Albon reports at the Atlantic: How ...
Here's a screen shot, showing what a small portion of today's DOS attack looked like in the Apache error log:
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
After I posted the earlier article about the pro-Wikileaks non-organization "Anonymous" and their attack on the Bank of America website, and called them (with my usual tact) "vigilante morons," the non-organization's hive mind apparently decided to send a message to Little Green Footballs. I happened to be keeping an eye on ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
And this morning, the non-organization of non-hackers who are everywhere and everyone is attacking the website of Bank of America. It's pretty obvious that these vigilante morons won't be allowed to continue doing this much longer. UPDATE at 12/27/10 11:08:29 am: And now, because I criticized them, 'anonymous' is attacking LGF. Hang in ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
When Julian Assange first got out of jail he was outraged that journalists asked him questions about the charges he is facing, and said he was a gentlemen who wouldn't kiss and tell. Well, those days are gone. In the interview, Mr Assange said he regarded himself as a victim of ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Crime, Britain, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Feminism
Wikileaks' Julian Assange and British newspaper the Guardian/the Observer used to be tight. I mean, they were like this, man. But now the honeymoon is over. Assange – The act of dressing self-indulgence up as piety, eg "don't tell me you only stayed in the pub to look after your mate. ...
Here's an odd move from Bank of America; anticipating the release by Wikileaks of internal memos, BofA is preemptively registering hundreds of domain names that insult their executives. As Bank of American awaits a possible release of information from WikiLeaks, it wants to ensure that you don’t think its executives ...
Science fiction author Bruce Sterling has a really interesting take on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, the NSA, and cypherpunk culture: The Blast Shack. An excerpt: The world has lousy diplomacy now. It’s dysfunctional. The world corps diplomatique are weak, really weak, and the US diplomatic corps, which used to be the senior ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bruce Sterling, NSA, Cryptography, Cypherpunk, Hacking
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 ...
In the BBC's interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, we learn that he's a martyr, a player, a gentleman, perfectly happy with himself, and oh yes -- people associated with Wikileaks have been assassinated. The interviewer doesn't even blink at that one; no follow-up question. I have an organisation to ...
It's Julian Assange's 15 minutes, and here's a clip from the Stephen Colbert show back in April, in which Colbert actually drops his character to pin Assange to the wall about the deceptively edited video titled "Collateral Murder." [Video]
If you haven't already seen it, here's the blog that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange deleted. He apparently owned the domain IQ.org, which must have cost some serious money unless he was lucky enough to register it about 15 years ago. Unless I'm mistaken, the point of this logo is to let ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Blog, Memory Hole, Smash the State, Don the Oilskin
On Meet the Press today, Vice President Joe Biden said the release of thousands of diplomatic cables by Wikileaks has damaged the United States's ability to conduct diplomatic business, and put people's lives and occupations in jeopardy around the world. Video Of course, that's what you'd expect from a right wing nut ...