Wikileaks

[J.W. Frogen]

After all, if he could get this info Russia or China probably already had it.

[Super Nova]

Now the US government fights back. They will now start doing anything to close them down.

WikiLeaks website disconnected as US company withdraws support
The WikiLeaks.org web address is no longer functioning after an American internet company pulled the plug on the site.
While still accessible by typing in the domain number, people trying to access the site by typing WikiLeaks into a search engine or their browser will not be successful.

The US-based provider, EveryDNS.net, took the controversial site offline earlier today, claiming that the constant hacking attacks were so powerful that they were damaging its other customers.

It said it had become the "target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks" which threatened the stability of its structure.
It hosts more than 500,000 sites around the world.

WikiLeaks confirmed the drop on its Twitter account, saying: “WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks.”

It was given 24 hours notice of the termination.

The site had been consistently attacked after exposing hundreds of thousands of classified US state documents.

Host servers have come under huge pressure by the US government to close it down.

But it is still available by typing in the IP address, which WikiLeaks has tweeted and which was immediately circulated by hundreds of users of the social networking site.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the development was an example of the “privatisation of state censorship” in the US and is a “serious problem”.

“These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States,” he warned, according to the Guardian.

WikiLeaks has released a file that it dubbed its “insurance policy”. The file is encrypted with a code that is so strong it is deemed impossible to break.

It is said to be planning to release a key that unlocks the files if anything happens to the site or its founder, Julian Assange.

The latest move follows Amazon’s decision to drop WikiLeaks from its servers following political pressure.

The company was originally hosting the site and giving it memory to share its database.

Its decision to drop the site earlier this week was praised by US Senator Joe Lieberman, who said it should “set the standard” for companies being used to distribute “illegally seized material”.

The site remains on the servers of a Swedish host, Bahnhof.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... pport.html


I am very interested to see what is in the Insurance Polcy file.

[J.W. Frogen]

Foolish, because all he has to do is leak to the mainstream media, they are going to report most of the leaks.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Wonder what kind of influence Israel has with Wikileaks ...

[AiA in Atlanta]

The conservatives now in power in the UK have been exposed as the lapdogs to the US that they truly are by the Wikileaks.

[Sexy Wog]

Wot's with his hair?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Massive Release of Raw WikiLeaks Files Threatened
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/ma ... d/19747814

Julian Assange's lawyer has warned that supporters of the WikiLeaks founder will unleash a "thermonuclear device" of government files containing the names of spies, sources and informants if he's killed or brought to trial.

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Assange, the 39-year-old Australian who has most recently embarrassed the U.S. by leaking hundreds of previously secret diplomatic dispatches over the past week, has dubbed the unfiltered cache of documents his "insurance" policy. The 1.5-gigabyte file, which has been distributed to tens of thousands of fellow hackers and open-government campaigners around the world, is encrypted with a 256-digit key, reports The Sunday Times. Experts interviewed by the paper said that even powerful military computers can't crack the encryption without the key.

Contained inside that file -- named insurance.aes256 -- are believed to be all of the documents that WikiLeaks has received to date, including unpublished papers on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and papers belonging to BP and the Bank of America. Assange has previously suggested that the documents are unredacted, meaning they contain names that normally would be removed before publication to protect the lives of soldiers, spies and sources.

"We have over a long period of time distributed encrypted backups of material we have yet to release," he told the BBC in August. "All we have to do is release the password to that material, and it is instantly available."

Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens, told the BBC news program "The Andrew Marr Show" on Sunday that if the WikiLeaks website was taken down -- or if anything ill happened to his client -- the key to that damaging file would be released. "[WikiLeaks founders] need to protect themselves," Stephens said, "and this is I think what they believe to be a thermonuclear device, effectively, in the electronic age."

Stephens added that the insurance policy was vital because Assange had received numerous death threats from around the world, including one from Canadian Tom Flanagan, a former campaign manager to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Flanagan told a TV interviewer last week that Assange "should be assassinated" and taken out "with a drone or something." He later apologized for the remark.

Assange is believed to be hiding in Britain, where he is fighting attempts by Sweden to extradite him on sex-crime charges. His lawyer told the BBC that the legal moves against Assange were a "political stunt" and that Sweden's chief prosecutor had dropped the case against his client in September. He said it was only "after the intervention of a Swedish politician" that another prosecutor opened a new case.

The head of the whistle-blowing website has always denied the allegations, made by two women who hosted a party for him in Stockholm in August. He has admitted having consensual sex with the women, and according to an AOL News investigation, the charges relate to disagreements over condom use.

Stephens said he was worried the attempt to extradite Assange to Sweden could be a precursor to moving him to the U.S. "It doesn't escape my attention that Sweden was one of those lickspittle states which used its resources and its facilities for rendition flights" by the U.S. to transport terrorism suspects around the world for interrogation, he said.

Although Sarah Palin has called for Assange to be prosecuted for treason and Newt Gingrich has labeled him an "enemy combatant" who is "engaged in terrorism," U.S. charges against the hacker are unlikely. He is not a U.S. citizen and so can't commit treason against America. And because he didn't steal the documents but simply released them, he would likely be protected by the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Seems Wikileaks articles/reports has gone fungal across the web. Everywhere I go its Wikileaks this Wikileaks that Wikileaks here Wikileaks there Wikileaks everywhere ..

Apparently this Wikileak has got the antiWikileakians worried ... very worried.

List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11923766

BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says this is probably the most controversial document yet from the Wikileaks organisation.

The geographical range of the document on installations is extraordinary, our correspondent says.

If the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror" then this represents a global directory of the key installations and facilities - many of them medical or industrial - that are seen as being of vital importance to Washington.

Some locations are given unique billing. The Nadym gas pipeline junction in western Siberia, for example, is described as "the most critical gas facility in the world".

The Main Leaks So Far

* Fears that terrorists may acquire Pakistani nuclear material
* Several Arab leaders urged attack on Iran over nuclear issue
* US instructs spying on key UN officials
* China's changing ties with North Korea
* Yemen approved US strikes on militants
* Personal and embarrassing comments on world leaders
* Afghan leader Hamid Karzai freed dangerous detainees
* Russia is a "virtual mafia state" with widespread corruption and bribery
* Afghan President Hamid Karzai is "paranoid and weak"
* The extent of corruption in Afghanistan
* Chinese leadership 'hacked Google'
* A list of key global facilities the US says are vital to its national security

[boxy]

So, the media are beating up this minor charge from Sweden (he surprised a willing participant by not sheathing up, or something), and Julian is shitting himself, and threating to blow his load if charged.

Melodrama abounds.

[Super Nova]

This is only going to end in tears. Where in the world can the poor bastard go if all the government want him they will get him.

He will be made an example of and a new era of leaking will occur anonomously.

Look at all the rouble they have getting their website hosted. No-one wants it on their turf. No organisation that has to depend on government contracts will go near them.