Latest from WikiLeaks

[guest]

they forgot to mention the interpol site

[Ab]

credit

[Logik]

Cables revealed some US company involved in pimping out little boys in Afganistan

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairba...any_helped.php

O_o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi

[TnT]

So Julian Assange is 'un-American'? Just another reason Sarah Palin is better suited to porn, than running the most powerful armed force on the planet.

[Ab]

Un-Australian bitch.

[Ab]

So THAT's why VISA and Mastercard cut off Wikileaks. The latest leak is about them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...isa-mastercard

[Ab]

Oh lol.

Purchase the Kindle edition of the Wikileaks cables direct from Amazon. Pay by VISA or Mastercard!

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Ab

Un-Australian bitch.

Except of course, standing in opposition to the government, is very Australian++.

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Ab

Oh lol.

Purchase the Kindle edition of the Wikileaks cables direct from Amazon. Pay by VISA or Mastercard!

yeah - Amazon S3 won't HOST the documents, but you can BUY them.....
(if you can get the payment to go through)

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Ab

So THAT's why VISA and Mastercard cut off Wikileaks. The latest leak is about them.

Haven't ya heard? Wikileaks is breaching US privacy laws. It's illegal!

[Lightspeed]

I can't think of this as anything but good news.
WikiLeaks defectors plan rival site

Putin's support is quite interesting. Seems like a good opportunity to demonstrate any cyberwarfare capabilities they might have, under the guise of faceless "hackers" supporting Wikileaks.

[Ajax]

"Vladimir Putin has led a growing band of international leaders voicing support for Assange, describing his detention in Britain as undemocratic."

That's priceless. Meanwhile, if you say anything Putin takes a dislike to, you end up like this:

[Ab]

That was one stone-cold fucking murder.

"I'm gonna kill you, in such a way that it takes you weeks to die, slowly, and we both know that during those weeks you're going to be telling every reporter in the world that I did it, and we both know I don't give a fuck."

[ZoSo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDp1i...layer_embedded

Takes Ron Paul to give them a clue.

[Rince]

Interesting comment by a Register reader:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/936595

Originally Posted by K.Adams

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to either defend or persecute WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and/or Bradley Manning.
In a post on an earlier article:
-- -- Comments to "Pro-Wikileaks Hacktivistas in DDoS Dustup with Patriot Contras"
-- -- http://forums.theregister.co.uk/foru...e_ddos_dustup/
-- -- "Flashback to the '70s"
I indicated that there are two very important words that need to be taken into consideration regarding any attempt to prosecute Julian Assange and/or WikiLeaks for their action(s) in publishing the diplomatic cables (allegedly) provided by Bradley Manning:
-- -- Pentagon Papers
-- -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
For those too young to have lived through what is arguably the most famous of Cablegate's foreshadowing scandals, here's a quick recap:
In 1969, during a time of political upheaval fairly similar to what we're seeing today, a guy named Daniel Ellsberg copied a 4,100 page document (small by WikiLeaks' standards, but I digress) called
-- -- "United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense"
while working at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit think-tank with high-level FedGov connections.
After sitting on the study for a while, Ellsberg contacted Neil Sheehan, a reporter at the New York Times, and handed over the kit in February 1971. The NYT tossed the issue around internally for a bit, debating the legalities of publishing the info, then started printing excerpts on June 13, 1971.
President Nixon was rather unconcerned, since the incidents described in the study occurred during the terms of his predecessors. However, his Administration's upper rank-and-file weren't so laissez-faire. After National Security Advisor Kissinger convinced Nixon to change his stance, Attorney General Mitchell used the Espionage Act of 1917 to obtain an injunction against the publication of further excerpts by the New York Times. The NYT appealed, and the case quickly climbed the judicial ladder and landed itself in front of the US Supreme Court:
-- -- New York Times Co. v. United States (403 U.S. 713)
-- -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor..._United_States
The Supreme Court ruled in the New York Times' favour, saying that material provided in the Public Interest to a news organisation cannot be censored by Prior Restraint.
It was a landmark case, strengthening the foundations of the United States' Freedom of the Press. Daniel Ellsberg and the New York Times were hailed as heroes by some, and vilified by others, much the same as with Manning and Assange, today.
A quick comparison of the legal ramifications of Cablegate (Now) and the Pentagon Papers Affair (Then) provides the upshot to all this: In the United States, at least, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and the news organisations working with them are legally in the clear. By legal precedent of the United States' highest Court, the barriers against pre-publication censorship are very high indeed, and the Government needs the Mother of All Ladders to climb over them.
In a reply to my earlier post, one commenter said that (basically) Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange are nothing alike, and that Assange is "all talk and no walk," indicating that Ellsberg had a lot more backbone. The problem with this assessment, in my opinion, is that the commenter is (in my words) "comparing apples and oranges."
If you take a look at the parts being played by the various Cablegate cast of characters, Bradley Manning is Daniel Ellsberg, and Julian Assange/WikiLeaks is the New York Times. Assange can't be equated with Ellsberg, because Assange didn't steal anything. He was **given** the documents by another party, in much the same way that the New York Times received the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. Assange is a reporter, and WikiLeaks is his media outlet. If anybody "walked the walk" in this affair, it's Bradley Manning, should it be proven that he is the person responsible for collecting and leaking the documents to Assange.
Whether Manning and Assange/WikiLeaks are heroes or villains is not the point of my ramblings. Rather, my point is that by legal precedent, there's nothing to prosecute. In the United States, Prior Restraint against publication in the Public Interest is unconstitutional.

[Ab]

This is hurting my brain, but I'm applauding Fox News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJd778rOFg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K42AZUK84GQ

[zeekiorage]

Originally Posted by Ab

This is hurting my brain, but I'm applauding Fox News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJd778rOFg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K42AZUK84GQ

What the fucking fuck? This Newt Gingrich guy is crazy.

[Nich]

"enemy combatant"? How?

I don't know why they are even trying to put him through their legal system. It's not like it is going to set any precedents. The more they persecute Assange, the bigger the story becomes. And the bigger the story becomes, the bigger Assange's support becomes. And the more hackers are inspired to be like Assange.

[Lightspeed]

How? Just by saying it. "Enemy combatant" in American means "person we can do with what we want without regards for the law."

You're right though. Assange wins by way of the Streisand Effect.

[fixed_truth]

IMO it's a peculiar situation where it can be illegal for a person to steal and/or release certain information but not illegal for someone else to publish this same information.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Ab

This is hurting my brain, but I'm applauding Fox News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJd778rOFg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K42AZUK84GQ

Don't be surprised: This is - indirectly - an attack on the 4th estate and will weaken laws that defend all media in the US if Assange is convicted of anything. It would spark a full-on panic if he just vanished.

[Cyberbob]

"New Zealand's collaboration with United States intelligence agencies was "fully restored" in August 2009 but both governments decided to keep the decision secret. "

[lektronimo]

Originally Posted by lektronimo

If wikileaks were to really want to fuck up America in the Middle East, they'd release all the Israel/US dealings in documents.

Done, and done! I'll give Assange ten days before Mossad "disappears" him.

I'm still waiting for documents detailing US' involvement in the Balkans, and organ harvesting cover ups. That would make for a great film as well... I'm thinking "Taken 2".

[Lightspeed]

I really can't see Assange getting extradited.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/wo...12assange.html

[Lightspeed]

Will The New York Times Set Up Its Own WikiLeaks Portal?

Seems like Assange's plan is coming to fruition.

[CCS]

Assange police reports leaked on to the internet

There is also a forensic report on the condoms Assange is said to have worn during sex with the two women. Apparently the women kept the condoms for days, in Ardin's case for a week, before taking them to the police.

wat?

[ZoSo]

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17795...tack_wikileaks

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...gns/index.html

Love this shit. That anonymous attack was brilliant. Exposing these fuckers.
Can't wait till they drop the banking stuff.

[guest]

Julian Assange was found dead this evening in the London

[fobski]

I shall beleive it when its on the bbc.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by guest

Julian Assange was found dead this evening in the London

Awesomest April Fools prank ever.

[Lightspeed]

Yeah, my first thought was bollocks.

Nothing real that I can see yet:
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Jul... in the London

[guest]

wtf happened to the rest of my post?!?

those damn americans at it again!

[Lightspeed]

Ah yes, April fools.

[zeekiorage]

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/...ikileaks-cable

This week's ComCom announcement about even lower termination rates will probably not lower the prices of voice calls or text for us but it will probably help telcos in the USA.

[guest]

should be some interesting stuff appearing over the next few days

[Golden Teapot]

Originally Posted by zeekiorage

This week's ComCom announcement about even lower termination rates will probably not lower the prices of voice calls or text for us but it will probably help telcos in the USA.

Why is this surprising? Cost-plus pricing was replaced in properly run for-profit organisations decades ago.

Companies set prices to be equal to the amount consumers are willing to pay played off against what it is the company is try to achieve i.e. they try to place prices near the efficient frontier that applies to their individual situations.

If a business find itself in a monopolistic or oligopolistic situation where market failure allows prices to be set to generate unusually delicious profits then all the better.

The solution to this type of situation is regulation. Since there is no regulation prices are high and everyone will continue paying through the nose not because they want to but because they can.

[guest]

lulzsec have jumped on board. just having a read of their latest dump. i want the juicy stuff!!!

[Lightspeed]

WikiLeaks publishes full cache of unredacted cables

Does anyone have any insight as to why?

[A Corpse]

Because governments need to be answerable to their people?

[Lightspeed]

I suppose a more accurate question is why now, after Wikileaks had gone to lengths to release the data slowly.

But this makes it clear:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...cted_us_d.html