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Tag Archives: Wikileaks
Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet
April 20, 2012 – 5:28 pm
WikiLeaks unveils 160 firms’ surveillance gear sales documents
December 2, 2011 – 3:30 pm
Source: Andy Greenberg, Forbes
WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark.
Cablegate one year later
November 28, 2011 – 11:37 am
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
One year ago today, WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of over 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables, which have since formed the basis of reporting for newspapers around the globe.
U.S. government seeks data of Wikileaks volunteer
October 10, 2011 – 10:43 am
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Secret April 2009 US Cable regarding Tracking Ghostnet report released
September 1, 2011 – 10:30 am
Source: WikiLeaks
¶40. (U) Worldwide – Has “GhostNet” been seen within the USG?
On The Internet, No One Watches The Wiretappers
April 12, 2011 – 12:31 pm
“When Twitter revealed in January that it had received a Department of Justice order to hand over information on three users associated with WikiLeaks, the real surprise wasn’t that an Internet company had been asked to secretly spill user data for a criminal investigation. It was that, for once, the firm hadn’t kept quiet about it.
Chris Soghoian, a privacy researcher at Indiana University and the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, has been following that Twitter case closely as a potentially precedent-shaping test for how and when the government can nab users’ online information. And now he’s released a paper that puts the case in context, outlining just how little Americans are told about the extent of government surveillance on the Internet.”
From Forbes
China accuses US of human rights double standards
April 11, 2011 – 12:18 pm
“The Chinese government has attacked the US for targeting WikiLeaks while campaigning for internet freedom overseas.
Last week the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, criticised China’s “worsening” record – citing the detention of artist Ai Weiwei and others – as she released the annual state department survey of the human rights situation around the world. An introduction to the Chinese document, by the state news agency Xinhua, said the report was “full of distortions” and the US “turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation”.”
From The Guardian
Twitter forced to hand over personal data on subscribers to government
April 7, 2011 – 4:14 pm
“On 11 March, a US court ordered Twitter to cooperate with the government in an enquiry into Internet users suspected of working for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. Twitter will be obliged under the ruling to hand over the personal data of the Internet users concerned.
Judge Theresa Buchanan declared that the ruling did not violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression. “The Twitter Order does not seek to control or direct the content of petitioners’ speech or association,” she said.”
Revealed: The India Cables from Wikileaks
March 15, 2011 – 3:11 pm
“Starting today, March 15, The Hindu offers its readers a series of unprecedented insights into India’s foreign policy and domestic affairs, diplomatic, political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual – encountered, observed, tracked, interpreted, commented upon, appreciated, and pilloried by U.S. diplomats cabling the State Department in Washington D.C.”
Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever
March 15, 2011 – 2:43 pm
“The internet is the “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen” and is not a technology that necessarily favours the freedom of speech, the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has claimed in a rare public appearance.
Assange acknowledged that the web could allow greater government transparency and better co-operation between activists, but said it gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.
While Assange was skeptical about the role played by Facebook and Twitter in fomenting unrest in the Middle East, he argued that cables released by WikiLeaks played a key role by forcing the US government not to back former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.”
From The Guardian
