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Hackers are claiming victory after crippling the websites of finance giants, including MasterCard and Visa, in revenge for cutting off payments to WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mid-day.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Are the sexual assault charges against Julian Assange really true or is he being framed? As more details surface, the case gets murkier by the minute. Assange is currently in a London jail cell awaiting deportation to Sweden on charges he sexually assaulted two women there in August. His defenders insist that the charges are fabricated in an attempt to get him to Sweden - perhaps, they hint, because the country has a strong extradition treaty with the US, reports the Christian Science Monitor. However, lawyer Gemma Lindfield, representing the Swedish state, told a London court yesterday that it''s a simple case of credible allegations of rape being made against Assange by two women. A mention from the Swedish police and press reports that Assange failed to use a condom in one instance, and that in another his condom broke, have led to many false claims that having unprotected sex is illegal in Sweden, and that the country has a 'broken condom law.' According to Lindfield, the two women had withdrawn their consent to have sex with Assange either during or immediately before the act. The first woman, 'Miss A' alleges that he coerced her to have sex. He's also charged with refusing to wear a condom, despite being asked to by her. In the case of 'Miss W,' as she was described in court, he's also alleged to have 'sexually exploited' the fact that she was asleep to have sex with her. Article 3 of Sweden's criminal code on sex crimes indi ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: niqnaq.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Europeans Accused of "Paranoia" Over Fears of US Economic Espionage, Documents Reveal Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling, Nov 8 2010 Confidential State Dept documents released by the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks , revealed that a European Parliamentary vote earlier this year that suspended participation in a US government program that secretly monitored international bank transactions, surprised and angered the Obama administration. In a stunning rebuke of US policies the Feb 2010 memo, "Chancellor Merkel Angered by Lack of German MEP Support for TFTP," 10BERLIN180 provided new evidence that the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (also known as Swift) is viewed skeptically by the European public and their representatives. Distrust of the Swift program runs deep and its "War on Terror" pedigree is considered little more than a pretext for US spies to carry out economic espionage on behalf of US multinationals. Alarmed over privacy breaches by US firms and criminal acts, such as the illegal US transfer of prisoners on CIA "black flights," aided and abetted by European intelligence agencies, outraged public opinion forced the hand of parliamentarians, who voted overwhelmingly to suspend the program. German opposition to Swift "was particularly damaging" the NYT reported, "because the country was among a handful of allies that, according to a 2006 cable, made up a 'coalition of the constructive' organized to ensure that the Swift ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.news-banques.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Le site internet WikiLeaks a attaqué les émetteurs de cartes bancaires américains Visa et MasterCard, qui ont suspendu tous les paiements vers ce site, en révélant mercredi un câble de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis à Moscou censé montrer les liens de ces sociétés avec l'Etat. « Visa et Mastercard bénéficient du travail de lobbying du département d'Etat », [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.arabist.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
This guy, on NYR blog, doesn't seem to get the anarchist and anti-US message of WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.time.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
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LONDON, Dec 9 ─ Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi threatened to cut trade with Britain and warned of "enormous repercussions" if the Lockerbie bomber died in jail, Britain's Guardian newspaper said yesterday, citing US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, jailed for life for his part in blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over ... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.myfox11.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank, Sarah Palin and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.php-news.info --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- The websites for Visa and MasterCard were inaccessible for parts of Wednesday,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.detnews.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
London — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
When it comes to WikiLeaks , there's a lot of fear out there on the Internet right now.Between the federal criminal investigation into WikiLeaks , Senator Joe Lieberman's calls for companies to stop providing support for WikiLeaks and his … Continued here: Information is the Antidote to Fear: WikiLeaks, the Law, and You … ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: abclocal.go.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks documents show American TV shows, such as "Desperate Housewives," may help calm extremists. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.tmcnet.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Ever since the website WikiLeaks started posting State Department memos - known as cables - and other classified government documents, U.S. officials have been turning a bit red as secret assessments of world leaders have become public. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.tmcnet.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
McConnell says that the online release of secret diplomat exchanges has done "enormous damage" to the country and to its relationship with its allies. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.euronews.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Websites seen as being against WikiLeaks and its detained founder Julian Assange have been the victim of cyber attacks. Several companies which… ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.smh.com.au --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The Australian government has suggested WikiLeaks has engaged in criminal activity as another Labor minister is implicated in leaked diplomatic cables. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.expatica.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Hackers group "Anonymous" claimed to have brought down websites of Mastercard and Visa after the two credit card giants decided to block payments and donations to the... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: planning-financial.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Hackers Strike Sites To Support WikiLeaks Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors and a Swiss bank. Related Financial Planning PostsHIV/AIDS support services in South Asia largely absent: UNProsecutors ask Apple manager to forfeit all illegal cashGrocery workers authorize strikeBill Clinton tells UCF crowd: Support Kendrick [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan. Read more here: Josh Mull: Journalism is not an Attack, WikiLeaks is not Warfare ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: pajamasmedia.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks SUPPORTERS WAGE CYBERWAR ON PALIN, OTHERS. Why Palin? Just because, I guess. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.newser.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The WikiLeaks' revenge brigade has gone after Sarah Palin. The hackers, part of the so-called Operation Payback, tried to shut down her SarahPac website and "disrupted" the credit card accounts of her and husband Todd, reports ABC . Similar cyber-attacks were wreaking havoc on the websites of MasterCard and Visa today,... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
People who helped the U.S. could be sought out by their governments WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange is under pressure from the U.S. and other governments he embarrassed with his leaks of American diplomatic cables, but at least his "hactivist" disciples are behind him. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
From diplomatic disclosures and embarrassments, the WikiLeaks controversies shifted its theatre of operation to commercial cyber battles as global hackers launched coordinated attacks on credit card websites that earlier halted payments being sent to the beleaguered whistle blower. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: weownthistown.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
skorpio73: Sarah Palin calls Assange "un-American". He's Australian, Sarah. #payback #WikiLeaks #cablegate #reallythickcomments ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: hosted.ap.org --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- The websites for Visa and MasterCard were inaccessible for parts of Wednesday, likely the result of attacks by WikiLeaks supporters who are angry that the credit card companies had stopped processing donations to the organization.... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.inquisitr.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 In the follow up to WikiLeaks making files available for anyone in the world to mirror Marshall Kirkpatrick from ReadWriteWeb did some checking over on Pirate Bay to see how well the torrents for the WikiLeaks files were doing. Needless to say that as much as the United States government might want to put that genie back in the bottle it is obvious by the numbers that this isn't going to happen. Here's a few of the numbers that Marshall pulled together: There are, as of this writing, 113 different torrents with the words WikiLeaks Cablegate in the title listed At the time of Marshall's post there were 109 people leeching a WikiLeaks Cablegate file and 5801 total seeds The first full archive file was seeded two and a half hours after @WikiLeaks first announce their availability on Twitter 721 people are currently helping seed the first day's archive file. 26 different WikiLeaks Cablegate torrents were uploaded yesterday. And as Marshall also points out – this is just the tip of the iceberg: According to the WikiLeaks.ch site, just 1193 out of the 251,287 total documents included in Cablegate have been released so far. That's less than 0.5% of what's on its way. Try as hard as they might by putting pressure on businesses or governments there is no way that the US government can stop this, but good luck trying. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
People who helped the U.S. could be sought out by their governments WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange is under pressure from the U.S. and other governments he embarrassed with his leaks of American diplomatic cables, but at least his "hactivist" disciples are behind him. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.dailyoped.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
People who helped the U.S. could be sought out by their governmentsWikiLeaks leader Julian Assange is under pressure from the U.S. and other governments he embarrassed with his leaks of American diplomatic cables, but at least his "hactivist" disciples are behind him. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Last week, a statement from PayPal indicated, the company had suspended the account following claims by the U.S. that the activities of WikiLeaks violated the law. According to the report, PayPal acted of their own volition, … Follow this link: Caving to pressure from supporters, PayPal releases WikiLeaks' funds ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.foxbusiness.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The WikiLeaks debate continues ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Julian Assange's Media Contacts Say WikiLeaks is Preparing a Large Number of Documents about the U.S. Prison at Gitmo ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support. Read the rest here: Neowin.net – Paypal releases WikiLeaks funds ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.crn.com.au --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
'Anonymous' hackers claim DDOS attack. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks: Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll — Saudi style – CNN.com . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks: Saudi FM proposed plan to destroy Hizbullah . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: chronicle.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A common theme in many of the U.S. State Department dispatches is that colleges must play a central role in the fight against Islamic extremism. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.comicsalliance.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Filed under: Humor If you've been paying attention to the news, late night talk show monologues or even the more well-read fortune cookies lately, you've probably gotten wind of the WikiLeaks scandal, in which over 250,000 confidential diplomatic documents were leaked ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Amidst Wednesday's flurry of hacktivism, Twitter has posted a response to widespread accusations of censorship in regards to the site's 'Trending Topics' section. Since any mention of " WikiLeaks " has disappeared from the trending … Continue reading here: Twitter Responds to Accusations of WikiLeaks Censorship – Mike … ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: gawker.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 # 4chan Operation Payback is facing a little payback of its own. First Twitter closed the pro-WikiLeaks hacker movement's account. And now we hear the Feds are shutting down some online discussion of Operation Payback attacks. More » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: tech.originalsignal.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010 at 13:47:00Credit card giant MasterCard is the latest site to be taken down by'hacktivists'MasterCard and Visa have been threatened with legal action after suspendingcard payments to WikiLeaks.DataCell, which facilitates credit card donations to WikiLeaks, has decidedto sue both companies in an attempt to make donations through these channelspossible again."The suspension of payments towards WikiLeaks is a violation of theagreements with their customers," said Andreas Fink, chief executive ofDataCell, in astatement."They have no problem transferring money for businesses such as gamblingsites, pornography services and the like. Why a donation to a web site which isholding up for human rights should be morally any worse is outside of myunderstanding."MasterCard previously told V3.co.uk that it would suspend payment toWikiLeaks until the "situation was resolved".Visa Europe is set to suspend payments for one week beginning 8 December."Visa Europe has taken action to temporarily suspend Visa payment acceptanceon WikiLeaks' web site pending investigation into whether it contravenes Visaoperating rules, including compliance with local laws in the markets where weoperate," the firm said in a statement.MasterCard was the third multinational corporation to have its site takendown by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. PayPal and Swiss BankPost Finance had already been targeted af ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.ditii.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Twitter says that this week, people are wondering about WikiLeaks, with some asking if Twitter has blocked #WikiLeaks, #cablegate or other related topics from appearing in the list of top Trends. The answer: Absolutely not. In fact, some of these terms, including #WikiLeaks and #cablegate, have previously trended either worldwide or in specific locations. Here's Trends on Twitter are measured: Twitter Trends are automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics being talked about more right now than they were previously.[…] Twitter users now send more than 95 million Tweets a day, on just about every topic imaginable. We track of the volume of terms mentioned on Twitter on an ongoing basis. Topics break into the Trends list when the volume of Tweets about that topic at a given moment dramatically increases. Sometimes a topic doesn't break into the Trends list because its popularity isn't as widespread as people believe. And, sometimes, popular terms don't make the Trends list because the velocity of conversation isn't increasing quickly enough, relative to the baseline level of conversation happening on an average day; this's what happened with #WikiLeaks this week. [ Source ] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.computerworld.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems for the card company than previously thought. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chron.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Tras divulgar una cantidad sin precedentes de documentos estadounidenses secretos, el fundador del sitio de filtraciones WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, fue detenido en Gran Bretaña por una acusación de violación en Suecia. Sin embargo, el cargo contra Assange refleja la inusualmente amplia definición de ese delito que incluyen las leyes suecas. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A top diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin warned the German government not to issue international arrest warrants against CIA agents involved in the 2003 abduction of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist, according to diplomatic dispatches released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.In the document dated Feb. 6, 2007, deputy chief of ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnn.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
American colleges warn students considering jobs with the federal government to avoid commenting on or posting links to WikiLeaks on social media sites. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.earthtimes.org --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
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Internet vigilantes on Wednesday stepped up attacks in support of WikiLeaks, downing Visa's website in a widening protest against a handful of companies that banned the secret-spilling site after it began publishing hundreds of secret U.S. diplomatic cables. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Keep Up to Date with the Latest News on the WikiLeaks Revelations and its Founder, Julian Assange ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chron.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
LONDON — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: uscpublicdiplomacy.org --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
But there's still some interesting stuff, albeit sometimes superficial, to be found in the cables. A confidential memo from late 2009, released on Tuesday December 7, informed the State Department that Saudi youth love to party with "alcohol, prostitutes, and drugs." ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: news.google.com.au --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald Politicians downplay Arbib WikiLeaks revelations ABC Online Federal politicians say there is nothing unusual about WikiLeaks cable revelations that Labor powerbroker Mark Arbib has been secretly informing the United States on the workings of the Labor Party for several years. The latest WikiLeaks cables, ... Arbib's statement on WikiLeaks cables Sydney Morning Herald Arbib not a spy: Shorten Adelaidenow One of the most pragmatic politicians in the ALP The Australian Herald Sun - ABC Technology and Games - The Canberra Times all 237 news articles » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: news.google.com.au --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The Guardian MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks Computerworld Computerworld - The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems than previously thought. MasterCard itself has so far said publicly ... WikiLeaks 'revenge attacks' target Mastercard and Visa Telegraph.co.uk WikiLeaks condemns companies for cutting ties with website BBC News Facebook, Twitter boot WikiLeaks supporters after Visa attack CNET The Australian - PC Magazine - AFP all 1,580 news articles » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: firedoglake.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 The printing press is not a weapon of war. (photo: janGlas on Flickr) WikiLeaks is under attack! Journalists and politicians are calling for the criminalization of WikiLeaks , or worse, the assassination of its members. The US government is coercing companies into blocking access to WikiLeaks, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is normally very strong on internet freedom, has been forced to "evolve" her positions . If you're a supporter of WikiLeaks, or even a relatively dispassionate observer, you likely find these actions to be offensive, or even downright criminal. How dare the US move so arrogantly, so aggressively, against WikiLeaks for what seems to be nothing more than the second coming of the Pentagon Papers ? We believe in free speech, in transparency and accountability for our government. It's outrageous that Washington would move so decisively to crush a project like WikiLeaks. But are WikiLeaks' supporters actually feeding this response from the government? In our rush to rationalize and defend WikiLeaks and their actions, have we inadvertently opened the door to attacks by the US government? The answer can be found in how we've chosen to frame the debate so far. [Cont'd] My friend Bob Morris has been studying the writings of Julian Assange closely, and he writes this of Assange's motives: I also think there are whole levels here we aren't seeing, including what Assange is doing. It is however, a classic exampl ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.reuters.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Credit card giants MasterCard and Visa came under intense cyber attack on Wednesday as supporters of WikiLeaks retaliated for moves against Julian Assange after the release of U.S. diplomatic cables that angered and embarrassed Washington. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: mediamonarchy.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 from activist post : Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation . The article correctly pointed out that the WikiLeaks storyline was conforming nicely to the elite's problem-reaction-solution method, with the solution of more tyranny for our safety. WikiLeaks is being used to bring in the agenda on so many levels, but most importantly by setting the precedent of shutting down websites for politically 'dangerous' content . Gardner writes: After all, if information is now the enemy, we must carefully police any and every aspect of this dangerous medium - all for the safety and protection of 'we the people.' Oh, we'll still have the Internet, just like you can still fly. You'll just have to be on the 'approved' list, screened, stamped, zapped, mugged and molested if you want to get 'on the net.' No biggie. Thanks Julian -- job well done. First, let's be clear, the 250,000 pages of cables amounted to some geopolitical Jerry Springer he-said-she-said nonsense to make countries look petty and stupid. They revealed nothing new that wasn't already known or well suspected. The information simply stoked existing flames by airing geopolitical dirty laundry, nothing more - no secret weapons, no major arms deals, no tactical locations of troops, and no revealing the ID of secret agents, etc . Yet, the government has used its corporate muscle to illegally limit access to WikiL ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.nigerianinquirer.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks cables: Shell boasts it has infiltrated Nigerian government The Guardian The oil giant Shell claimed it has inserted its staff into all key ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians' every move in the ... US embassy cables: Shell says 'we have people in all relevant Nigerian ministries' The Guardian US embassy cables: Shell seeks to share Nigeria intelligence The Guardian US embassy cables: US monitors China and its expanding role in Africa The Guardian all 4 news articles » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.nigerianinquirer.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The Guardian WikiLeaks cables: Nigeria feared coup as president lay dying overseas The Guardian The ill health of Nigeria's president sparked fears of a military coup and caused screaming matches over who was in charge of the country, according to ... US embassy cables: Nigeria's acting president - 'Everyone's confused about who ... The Guardian all 2 news articles » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mediaite.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 ABC News' Jake Tapper is reporting that Sarah Palin's website and personal credit card information "were cyber-attacked today by WikiLeaks supporters" according to an email received from the former Alaskan governor. Earlier today reports surfaced of hackers from the infamous "Anonymous" group connected to the 4chan message boards attacking major institutions such as Mastercard, ostensibly in retaliation for their treatment of WikiLeaks. Tapper reports in his Political Punch blog : Hackers in London apparently affiliated with "Operation Payback" – a group of supporters of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin's personal credit card accounts. "No wonder others are keeping silent about Assange's antics," Palin emailed. "This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts." Palin has criticized WikiLeaks founder Assange, writing on Facebook that his "past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?…Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands." This is not the first time that Ms. Palin's personal Internet accounts have been breac ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: kenyastockholm.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 15:13 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 NAIROBI 000059 SENSITIVE SIPDIS FOR A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN FROM THE AMBASSADOR EO 12958 DECL: 2020/01/12 TAGS PREL, PGOV, KCOR, KE SUBJECT: U.S. POLICY TO ADVANCE THE REFORM AGENDA REF: 09 NAIROBI 1811; 10 NAIROBI 31; 10 NAIROBI 50; 10 NAIROBI 11 09 NAIROBI 2485; 09 NAIROBI 2483; 09 NAIROBI 2475; 09 NAIROBI 2401 CLASSIFIED BY: Michael E. Ranneberger, Ambassador, DOS, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 1. (C) Summary: Our highest priority efforts are focused on advancing implementation of the reform agenda, which is key to the future democratic stability and prosperity of Kenya. While some positive reform steps have been taken, the old guard associated with the culture of impunity continues to resist fundamental change. Most key reforms are yet to be carried out, and the future of the constitutional review process is uncertain. We are employing public and private pressure, engaging broadly with the senior-most levels of the government and other political actors, and reaching out extensively to the Kenyan people, youth, civil society, the media, the private sector, and religious groups. We also laying out incentives for positive action on reforms and supporting significant steps when they are taken. Continued intensive U.S. efforts – using our unique influence in Kenya – is essential to propel implementation of the reform agenda. U.S. efforts are viewed ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/12/w...s-cyberwarfare/ Here are various recent news items. Full SWJ WikiLeaks coverage can be found here . WikiLeaks Avoids Shutdown, Supporters on the Offensive - Washington Post Hackers Avenge WikiLeaks Leader with 'Operation Payback' - Voice of America 'Anonymous' Sets Sights on WikiLeaks Opponents - Agence France-Presse 'Anonymous' Launches DDoS Attacks Against WikiLeaks Foes - PC Magazine Cyberattacks Are Retaliation for Pressure on WikiLeaks - New York Times WikiLeaks Sympathisers Attack Websites - Reuters Operation Payback Cripples MasterCard Site in Revenge - The Guardian Mastercard.com Taken Down by Pro-WikiLeaks Forces - Wired WikiLeaks Backlash Humbles MasterCard Website - USA Today PayPal Cut WikiLeaks Account Because of U.S. Position - Agence France-Presse State Department Asked PayPal to Cut WikiLeaks - Christian Science Monitor WikiLeaks: Who are the Hackers Behind Operation Payback? - The Guardian Hundreds of WikiLeaks Mirror Sites Appear - New York Times PayPal Joins Internet Backlash Against WikiLeaks - The Guardian WikiLeaks Loses PayPal Revenue Service - CNN News Paypal: WikiLeaks Loses Major Source of Revenue - Associated Press Swiss Supporters: WikiLeaks Server Goes Down - Associated Press WikiLeaks Site's Swiss Host Dismisses Pressure to Take it Offline - The Guardian Amazon Cites Terms of Use in Expulsion of WikiLeaks - New York Times Amazon.com Stops Hosting WikiLeaks o ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.googleapis.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
GeneOmX : heh. RT @ BreakingNews : Sarah Palin under cyber attack by WikiLeaks supporters - ABC http://abcn.ws/gfQqCR ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
U.S. diplomats viewed Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega as a mercurial opportunist who bashed the United States in public even as he cozied up to officials in private — particularly when he feared Venezuela and other benefactors might not come through with funds. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks Prepares to Change History: Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs – ArabCrunch . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: madmikesamerica.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 As each batch of decoded cables and emails are released, covering all nation states and corporate bodies on this planet, I wonder what would happen if emails from/to the Vatican were included? Note: All headers and dates have been removed from these communications to protect the "leakers". Some of the text has been garbled due to the decryption process, as the Vatican uses some very high level encryption. From: His Excellency, The Archbishop of Canterbury (HETAoC) To: His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI (Il Papa) Hi Joe, Wie Gehts? Bloody Hell, you've been doing some travelling, haven't you. Hope you're keeping an eye on those air points, you must really be racking them up. I'm having no end of problems with the minions. Ever since we started talking about a merger between our businesses, the proles have been getting a bit restive. They're going on about some sort of theological claptrap, as if I give a ****. It's amazing really, we've managed to keep them believing for 2000 years. "Don't ask questions, simply have faith" has been really good for both of us. You're so lucky only having blokes to deal with, it's these women priests who are the worst. Nag, nag, nag. Do you know that some of them actually believe in a God? LOL. That hasn't been a requirement in our lot since the 18th century for God's sake (my little joke there). The money side's still pretty good though, we just did another audit, and we should be OK for the next century ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Afghan Gov't Pleaded with Embassy to Assume Authority over Police Training Camps Run by American Private Security Contractors ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: geeksroom.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Tenemos para rato con el tema WikiLeaks y es que estamos a la expectativa de lo que pueda ocurrir, sobre todo porque la detención de Julian Assange esta fuera de orden desde todo punto de vista. Pues bien sabemos que hay una Página en Facebook para WikiLeaks, la cual se actualiza el estado a cada segundo, algo que sin duda es importante saber, porque la gente esta comentando y compartiendo cualquier contenido relacionado a la misma. Por otro lado es importante mencionar algunos número que se manejan relacionados con WikiLeaks y Julian Assange: La web de WikiLeaks cuenta con 966.362 fans y subiendo. Un grupo llamado no tocar al sr. Julian Assange tiene 18.381 "Me gusta". Otra página llamada Boicot a Amazon cuenta con 9081 fans. Mientras que el único grupo en contra de WikiLeaks cuenta con 851 (no se como llamarlos), que le apoyan. Y por si las dudas recuerden que WikiLeaks tiene bloqueado el dinero, así no hay posibilidad de que se este financiando a las personas, quienes estamos ahí es porque apoyamos a Julian y su grupo, porque somos transparentes y lucharemos por esas verdades, así como nos ha tocado enfrentar nuestro derecho a la libertad y al estar informados!!! [Fuente Allfacebook ] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: radio.foxnews.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Hacker supporters of WikiLeaks go on the attack. Fox News Radio's Alastair Wanklyn explains from London. Download audio file (20387_20101208.mp3) ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: randysright.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A growing list of organizations and individuals that have tangled with WikiLeaks and its detained founder, Julian Assange, have suffered online attacks, in what appears to be an effort by hackers bent on exacting revenge for the document-leaking website. The attacks stepped up Wednesday, a day after Mr. Assange was arrested and denied bail in London in connection with sexual-misconduct accusations in Sweden. A range of organizations, including MasterCard Inc., and the Swedish prosecutor's office, reported technical difficulties with their websites that appear to stem from so-called denial of service attacks, in which computers flood a server to prevent it from displaying a Web page. cont http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007182352309942.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories WikiLeaks Tweeter acct below http://twitter.com/#!/Anon_Operation ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Attacks appear to have been launched on websites of Swedish prosecutors, the Swiss authority that froze Julian Assange's bank account, MasterCard and Visa ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 At about 1 p.m. Visa.com was unreachable. Users trying to access the website were informed by their browsers that it was unavailable or could not be found, or they timed out. At about the same time, a group of hackers going by the name Anonymous said on Twitter that they were responsible for the shutdown, which they called " Operation: Payback ." Its tweets read: TARGET: WWW.VISA.COM :: FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! WEAPONS http://bit.ly/e6iR3X ::: SET YOUR LOIC TO irc.anonops.net ::: #DDOS #PAYBACK #WikiLeaks And shortly thereafter: http://isitup.org/www.visa.com IT'S DOWN! KEEP FIRING!!! #DDOS #PAYBACK #WikiLeaks The group also took credit for crashing MasterCard's website with an earlier distributed denial of service attack, a tactic hackers use to overload a company's servers with requests for information from its website. A public relations firm representing Visa said the company was looking into it but did not yet have a comment. Officials at MasterCard were unavilable for comment Wednesday afternoon. Both Visa and MasterCard were apparently struck, by Anonymous and possibly others, because they stopped doing business with WikiLeaks after the website began releasing secret U.S. diplomatic documents on its website. The release of the U.S. diplomatic cables has resulted in political problems and embarrassment for world leaders and a backlash from some companies that had done business with the controversial site. -- Nathan Olivarez-Giles a ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cafemom.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
They've disrupted service enough that they have interfered with transactions being processed. Still think it's a noble cause for people just interested in truth? http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/operation-payback-mastercard-website-WikiLeaks "... The site would say only that it was "experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate website" but insisted this would not interfere with its ability to process transactions. But one payment service company told the BBC its customers were experiencing "a complete loss of service" on MasterCard SecureCode. The credit card company later confirmed that loss..." ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.sectechno.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 A group of hackers connected to the online imageboard 4chan, often referred to as Anonymous, have set their sights on Visa.com in the war against those sites that have denied service to WikiLeaks in the wake of the site started releasing secret embassy cables. Previous targets of what has been dubbed "Operation Payback" include Swiss bank PostFinance (still down for the count), which has closed the account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, PayPal (Anon took down the blog, but it's now operational) and Mastercard (now up and running). Visa.com is now down for the count as well. PandaLabs supplied us with the below summary of activity by Operation Payback: After pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, Mastercard's website was taken down and remains out of service Senator Joe Lieberman's website was taken down for 12 minutes (the first .gov site to be attacked) Sarah Palin's website was taken offline by a small group of Anonymous attackers The group sent spam faxes to Joe Lieberman's office and to PostFinance PostFinance was attacked the hardest, leaving customers without the ability to conduct online banking They took down the website of the lawyer representing the 2 girls who were allegedly raped/assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange The group took down Assange's Swedish prosecutor's website [Source : Mashable ] make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! WikiLeaks: An experiment in failures? Hell Pizza's Customer Database ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.neowin.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
After Amazon pulled the plug on WikiLeaks' hosting solution with the company, others soon followed suit. PayPal announced that they have cut off donation support for the whistleblowing site, and on Monday, MasterCard took the same stance as PayPal. Internet hacktivist group Anonymous decided to have their say in supporting... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.switched.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 WikiLeaks and its creator Julian Assange have been under intense pressure from every side. The Swedish police want Assange in connection with a sexual assault charge, Amazon booted the site from its servers, the U.S. government (along with many others) have condemned the whistleblower site, and PayPal is preventing the WikiLeaks account from accepting donations. One group in particular seems particularly hell-bent on shutting down the site, and that's the U.S. State Department, which allegedly pressured PayPal to shut down the WikiLeaks account . Osama Bedier, PayPal's VP of platform, mobile and new ventures, said that the company's decision to suspend the account was influenced by the State Department. "We [...] comply with regulations around the world, making sure that we protect our brand," he said at a press conference in Paris, according to the Huffington Post. The statement was meant to clarify the reason for the WikiLeaks blockage that began last week, which was attributed to a non-specific violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. Some companies who have also taken action against WikiLeaks -- such as MasterCard -- have found themselves on the receiving end of a backlash from hacktivists . When asked about the potential for PayPal to be the target of attacks, Bedier wasn't concerned. It's all part of being a successful company, he said. Government Pressure Led PayPal to Block WikiLeaks originally appeared on Switched on W ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.wired.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 WikiLeaks has failed to deliver on a months-old pledge to contribute financially to the defense of Bradley Manning, according to a group raising money for the imprisoned Army private suspected of providing WikiLeaks its most important U.S. releases. A spokesman for the Bradley Manning Support Network said on Wednesday that the group had still not received money that WikiLeaks had pledged in July and was supposed to have released to the group back in September. "As of yesterday afternoon, the money had not arrived," spokesman Jeff Paterson told Threat Level. WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson had said last week at a panel discussion in London that WikiLeaks had contributed "a substantial amount of money," to Manning's defense. But upon learning on Tuesday that the money had actually not been paid yet, Hrafnsson told the Washington Post that there was a misunderstanding and that $20,000 would be distributed to Manning's defense immediately by the non-profit Wau Holland Foundation, which manages the majority of WikiLeaks' donations. "The contribution was informally agreed upon quite some time ago and that was relayed to the defense fund," WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told the Post . "I was under the impression it had been formally authorized as is required by the trustees [of the] Wau Holland Fund. This situation has now been rectified and the payment is being processed now." The figure, however, falls short of the $50,0 ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
What do we learn from WikiLeaks ~ Window Into Palestine . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chron.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
El vicepresidente Alvaro García Linera informó el miércoles que desde su despacho se habilitó una página web en la que se puede consultar los supuestos mensajes diplomáticos de Estados Unidos filtrados por WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: weblog.sinteur.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
[Quote]: WASHINGTON (Reuters) The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not seeking to bring charges against him. They just wanted to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to several people in contact with his entourage at the time. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: weblog.sinteur.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
[ Quote ]: (C) Summary: Behind the facade of Wahabi conservatism in the streets, the underground nightlife for Jeddah's elite youth is thriving and throbbing. The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available — alcohol, drugs, sex — but strictly behind closed doors. This freedom to indulge carnal pursuits is possible merely because the religious police keep their distance when parties include the presence or patronage of a Saudi royal and his circle of loyal attendants, such as a Halloween event attended by ConGenOffs on. [DETAIL REMOVED] Over the past few years, the increased conservatism of Saudi Arabia's external society has pushed the nightlife and party scene in Jeddah even further underground. End summary. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.disinfo.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Ah the irony: social networking sites were heralded as the savior of democracy, transparency, and change — but perhaps that's only the case when the villain is conveniently a U.S. enemy such as Iran. Today, there are growing accusations that Twitter is attempting to suppress the spread of WikiLeaks discussion by removing it from "trending topics" lists. Starting with a volcanic surge in popularity on November 28, the hashtag #WikiLeaks has been white-hot on Twitter. And yet, it hasn't made a blip on Twitter's Trends list, which has been occupied by far less popular topics. Has Twitter caved to anti-WikiLeaks pressure à la PayPal and Mastercard? There's a full explanation at Student Analysis . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cio.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Mastercard has become the latest victim of hacktivist group 'Anonymous', which today launched potent DDoS attacks against the company's main websites, including the .com address and other European sub-sites. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: cerebro-digital.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Después de que PayPal cancelara la cuenta de donaciones y que un banco suizo congelara la cuenta de Julian Assange, MasterCard y Visa Europa han confirmado que bloquearán los pagos a WikiLeaks, con lo que la organización se queda ya casi sin forma de recibir dinero. "MasterCard está trabajando en este momento para suspender la aceptación de tarjetas MasterCard en WikiLeaks hasta que la situación se resuelva", dijo la compañía en un comunicado. Por su parte, Visa Europa está en lo mismo. Visa Europa ha tomado la medida de suspender la aceptación de pagos de Visa en el sitio de WikiLeaks, esperando mayores investigaciones respecto de la naturaleza de su negocio y si es que contraviene las reglas operacionales de Visa", señaló la empresa en un comunicado. Ambas tarjetas eran una de las opciones para hacer donaciones a la organización. También se puede dar dinero a WikiLeaks mediante transferencias bancarias a Alemania o Islandia, donde la organización tiene cuentas abiertas. Lo que queda claro es que las opciones de dinero de WikiLeaks están cada vez más escuálidas. Tras la decisión de MasterCard, su sitio fue víctima de la Operation:Payback , y estuvo parcialmente paralizado por un ataque DDoS de Anonymous. Ingresar al sitio fue imposible por algunas horas y todavía presenta algunos problemas. Links: - MasterCard, Visa halt WikiLeaks payments (PCMag) - MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks 'revenge' (The Guardian) ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.php-news.info --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers have crashed the website of credit card firm MasterCard in apparent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.eurasiareview.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A group of hackers have launched an online assault on businesses that have cut ties with WikiLeaks, in an apparent revenge attack for the arrest of the organization's leader, Julian Assange. To continue reading this article, click on the headline. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 The seminar, held in Stockholm in August, was to become central to Julian Assange's life after two casual sexual encounters cost him his liberty. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.insignifica.org --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Wednesday already. Wow. Picture of the day! Katie and one of her creations from last year. She decided to add more facial features yesterday. If you're an AT&T customer with poor service inside your house, consider the following . But before you buy, call up AT&T and ask for a credit on your account for the cost - both a news story I read and the dude at the AT&T store said it was possible, and by golly, I got a $125 credit just for asking. I keep forgetting that I'm heading to Vegas on the day after Christmas. It should be a nice vacation, with lots of gambling, and lots of non-gambling. Anyone wanna meet me there? I'm fascinated by the whole WikiLeaks discussion - not only because of the political issues and fallout, but because of the technical aspects related to keeping the information up. Governments can try, but they most certainly can't censor something once it's out there. Glad to see this is still the case. Saw the Google Street View car again this morning (twice, in fact). Next time, I'm following it. May your days be grand, friends! ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: alextorex.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Anonymous brings down Mastercard in defence of WikiLeaks | TG Daily On Monday, Mastercard withdrew the ability to make donations to WikiLeaks, as did Paypal on Saturday and VISA yesterday. Anonymous says on its website that it has "declared war on the entities involved in censoring there [sic] information", and is now claiming to have brought down the Mastercard website. www.mastercard.com/ through a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It's posted this message on Twitter: "WE ARE GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT http://www.mastercard.com/ is DOWN AND IT'S CONFIRMED! #ddos #WikiLeaks Operation:Payback(is a bitch!) #PAYBACK". Anonymous has also succeeded in shutting down the website of the bank that froze founder Julian Assange's assets. The PostFinance website has been unavailable for over 24 hours. The move follows a similar attack on PayPal, which over the weekend announced it was to cease processing payments to WikiLeaks. Anonymous wasn't able to bring the main site down, but pulled the blog offline for some time. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.addictivetips.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 With the recent spur in WikiLeaks' activities, many of the world's governments have been disturbed and subsequent measures against them are being taken. As of now, WikiLeaks.com has been shut down for most locations. Irrespective of the legality of what WikiLeaks did, the internet does not treat censorship with mercy, and hence several mirrors have already surfaced for the website. Although governments all across the globe are actively shutting down these public mirrors, information cannot be curbed, and so with this article we show a way to create an anonymous WikiLeaks mirror on your Android device. Disclaimer: Please note that this guide is for testing and educational purposes only. AddictiveTips does not hold any affiliation, implicit or explicit, with WikiLeaks.com. We cannot be held liable for any damage that you incur by following this process. Use this guide at your own risk. Requirements: A rooted Android device, preferable a spare one that you can leave connected to a WiFi network and power socket Firewall – necessary for anonymity. We recommend using DroidWall . A Tor client – Orbot. You can grab it here . An HTTP server. For this, our recommendation is PAW Server , but you can use anything that you like. An archive copy of WikiLeaks. For this, an internet search is your only option, as public mirrors are constantly being shut down. Setting Up: 1. Just it case you don't have root for your device, you can use the wonderfu ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.headlinerwatch.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 As the world rises to show solidarity with the arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, he seems to have found another help in the form of the famous UK human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. Robertson today offered his legal services to Mr.Assange who is currently jailed in London. The offer was made after reports came in from Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens who declared that he wasn't being allowed to meet his client in jail. Following this Robertson is said to have curtailed his visit to Australian subcontinent and he is currently joining the legal team aiding Julian Assange. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on Tuesday on charges of molestation. Following his arrest he was refused bail repeatedly and is now in judicial custody in London till the 14th of December. There have been numerous offers for his bail by eminent perosnalities like film-maker Ken Loach, John Pilger (journalist). Also the wife of ex-Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan,Jemima Khan had offered to aid in getting John a bail. However all their noble intentions and efforts failed as Julian was denied bail on grounds that he lacked a present residential address in UK. The judge said he couldn't risk the chance of Assange fleeing the country after being granted a bail. Legal experts have already clarified that its indeed difficult to obtain a bail in cases of sexual offences, however Assange's lawyer Stephens has made a claim that his client's arrest is m ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.niemanlab.org --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Best of the worst! Silverman names 2010's "Error of the Year" Are those with the most Twitter followers really the most influential? Ellsberg: "Every attack now made on Assange…was made against me" Columbia's Emily Bell: How WikiLeaks has "woken up" journalism So what does "FrieNDA" mean, anyway? And more on NewsFoo Web philosopher David Weinberger on the need to "stand with the Net" Sonoma paper stops charging for online access after Patch comes to town The NYT's election-night coverage on the iPad? How TimesOpen did it John Naughton: "Assange and the herd instinct" It's happened: A 4Chan-er's gone mainstream ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.thirdage.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is already in custody on sexual assualt and rape allegations, and today, The U.S. Justice Department is considering possible avenues to indict the WikiLeaks founder beyond the 1917 Espionage Act, officials said. Possible offenses under consideration include conspiracy or trafficking in stolen property, The New York Times reported Wednesday. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: blog.youwager.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Source: www.myfoxaustin.com WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was Tuesday leading an online poll to be named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" — while an online bookmaker painted him as the equivalent of Saddam Hussein in betting terms. In a poll on Time's website, Assange had 298,975 votes — 76,207 ahead of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and more than 160,000 ahead of pop singer Lady Gaga, in second and third places. Other big names in the poll include IT figures Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, who were trailing at 22,164 and 15,933 votes respectively. Being named "Person of the Year" doesn't necessarily make you a public hero — Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have also been previous winners of the title. But online bookmaker YouWager.com is betting on Time playing it safe this year — saying the odds of Assange appearing on the prestigious cover are only 20 percent. "With all the fervor against him in the United States right now, he's the equivalent of Saddam Hussein," Cory Scott, operations manager for the website, told the Toronto Sun, referring to the former Iraqi dictator who was executed in 2006. "It seems to us a magazine like Time isn't radical enough to choose him." Assange, 39, was refused bail and remanded in custody Tuesday until Dec. 14 during an extradition hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. The decision followed his arrest by appointment at a London police station on four ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: adage.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 Right now, on Wednesday morning as I write this, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are absent from Twitter's Trending Topics. How could that be, you ask? ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.lankajournal.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The issuance of an Interpol wanted notice for the Australian founder of WikiLeaks within days after his website began releasing hundreds of thousands of classified United States government cables is blatantly political. Interpol's charter prohibits it from taking up cases that are predominantly political in character, but this has not prevented it from issuing the red [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: wallstreetpit.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The websites of the international credit card MasterCard (MA) and the Swedish prosecution authority are among the latest to be taken offline in the escalating technological battle over WikiLeaks, web censorship and perceived political pressure. The Swedish prosecution authority has confirmed its website was attacked last night and this morning. MasterCard was partially paralysed today [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: electronics.costfreehost.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
The forces of 4Chan and Anonymous have combined to attack the websites several companies (PayPal, Swiss bank Postfinance, etc.) that booted WikiLeaks earlier. You may recall these groups as being involved in the takedowns of several anti-piracy sites, earlier. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.boingboing.net --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
 What is this I don't even. It looks like the office of the Vice President of Bolivia is hosting translated versions of WikiLeaks-leaked cables that relate to affairs involving the South American nation. The material is live at WikiLeaks.vicepresidencia.gob.bo . So, ".gob.bo" does look like the official TLD for their government matters; the state bank is even hosted on this domain. Are they translating the material, or are the cables en Español available through other Spanish-language news sources (such as Spain's El País, which was a partner of sorts with WikiLeaks on the embargoed release process)? No sé, hombre. But as my colleague Rob points out, why not Cuba? You'd kind of expect Cuba to get all up in this mirroring bizness. Discuss. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.ditii.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Following, PayPal's, MasterCard has also pulled the plug on payments to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's account, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing Web site, CNET has learned. "MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," a spokesman for MasterCard Worldwide said today. In retaliation to this, 4Chan's launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site's operations. A self-styled spokesman for the group calling himself "Coldblood" has said that any website that's "bowing down to government pressure" is a target. The attacks are being performed under the Operation Payback , which's organizing its WikiLeaks and Julian Assange support efforts through the @Anon_Operation Twitter account and here . Attacks have also hit Paypal and Swiss bank PostFinance and other sites which have refused service to Assange. EveryDNS.net, Visa as well as Amazon are also possible targets. Assange himself was arrested in London yesterday under allegations of sexual mis-conduct and will be held in custody until December 14th. Bail was refused over fears that he might flee, and also due to some fear that he was at risk from "unstable persons." [ Source ] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.eweek.com --- Wednesday, December 08, 2010
MasterCard is the latest addition to a list of organizations having their Websites targeted in retaliation for taking action against WikiLeaks. - Attackers hit the Website for MasterCard in an apparent cyber-retaliation for the companys decision to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks. MasterCard joined a growing list of companies targeted by hacktivists associated with Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group tied to the 4chan message board... ... | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
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