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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently under house arrest in the UK, will be hosting an English-language talk show on RT, a Moscow-based channel formerly known as Russia Today.
Called "The World Tomorrow", the TV show will have Assange ...
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Bradley Manning, the young soldier who has been held in what many call inhumane conditions since May 2010 without charges, will be making his first appearance in military court today after more than a year and a ...
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be allowed to stay in Britain a little bit longer. Two High Court judges in London ruled today that Assange had the right to petition the Supreme Court to hear his case ...
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It's emerged that Sir Richard Branson helped to bankroll a secret project that aimed to topple Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe.
Yes, our old friend Wikileaks has been at it again. This time it's released a diplomatic cable ...
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For a man who traffics in the free and open spread of information, Julian Assange sure has a lot of restrictions on which information he would like to see released.
Assange- who has been under interminable house arrest in the ...
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WikiLeaks has released thousands of unpublished American diplomatic cables, compiling them into a searchable database that includes more than 250,000 leaked State Department reports.
Typically WikiLeaks has only released files in small batches and this recent mass upload move ...
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Former WikiLeaks employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg has revealed that before leaving the company he destroyed 3,500 unpublished files, shreadding them "in order to ensure that the sources are not compromised."
According to Domscheit-Berg the files included Washington's "no-fly list" ...
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Those poor poor hackers. All that hacking and no-one seems to care about all the data that gets hacked.
Well, that is about to change thanks to a co-operative effort between Anonymous and People's Liberation Front (PLF) as ...
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This is not a repeat from December, 2010.
Credit card giant Mastercard has again been downed by hacktivists for their "fiscal embargo" and "unlawful banking blockade against Wikileaks," six months after the financial giants got together to shut ...
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If now-former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr has learned one thing from his attempt to take on Anonymous, it's that- as Stephen Colbert so succinctly put it- you should not stick your dick in the hornet's nest. Or ...
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Following the arrest of five people in Britain for their alleged involvement in the much talked about DDoS attacks in December 2010 against a number of websites for their involvement in cutting the cash flow to WikiLeaks. ...
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The title of this posts was inspired by an excellent post over at Threat Level by Ryan Singel but is says exactly what my thoughts were when I first read a few days ago that Twitter went ...
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Wikileaks has been taking a lot of crap following it's recent data dump of US diplomatic cables. From having it's domain yanked to having it's money supply chain cut off. Most recently Bank of America has indicated ...
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The Central Intelligence Agency is not surprisingly keeping an eye on Wikileaks, creating a "Wikileaks Task Force." (Known within the agency simply as "WTF.")
The WTF's job is to comb through the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables ...
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An unofficial paid Wikileaks app has been removed by Apple from the iTunes store, but no reason for the axing was cited.
The app aggregated both "leaks" and Twitter updates to iPhones and iPod Touches, as described in ...
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As Julian Assange remained jailed without charges in Britain awaiting a bail hearing this, the popular narrative regarding Wikileaks shifted massively.
While the previous week centered more on censorship and (in case you forgot) the content of the ...
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Alt, all-caps text: STUDENTS ARE CALLING PRESIDENT JOHNSON EN MASSE TO PROTEST THE BOMBING AND IT'S JAMMED THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD. COULD THEY COLLAPSE OUR CRITICAL PHONE SYSTEMS? HAS THE FIRST TELEPHONE WAR BEGUN? STAY TUNED FOR ...
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was granted bail in London today after being held without bond for a week in Wandsworth prision pending a possible extradition on a range of sex charges.
39-year-old Assange was bailed ahead of a ...
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Anyone who has been following the whole Wikileaks story will know the organization is facing an incredible adversary who has no compunction in using whatever means possible to shut Wikileaks down. That doesn't mean that Wikileaks isn't without ...
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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 ...
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In addition to Visa and Mastercard, online payment processing giant PayPal has been knocked offline tonight by a loosely affiliated group of web users protesting the financial restraints placed on the Wikileaks operation.
As of now, Visa is ...
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The "group of hackers" responsible for taking Mastercard's main site offline for hours today (a basic version of the site appears to be back up for now) has successfully disrupted service on Visa's website as well after ...
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