Wikileaks - latest leak

Cosimo · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:12

steve-h said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11882092

Excellent, waits for the organisation to be declared terrorist.

Glaucus · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:26

You giuys seem surprised? Its confedential or secret documents. Handling such things are illegal in most countries.

Danthus · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:27

How did he get them though, why do various people continue to use him as a conduit for these types of leaks?

Greenlizard0 · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:37

Dj_Jestar said:
"Apparently a rapist"

Well aren't you a retard.

?:

ThriceNightly · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:42

OldCoals said:
How did he get them though, why do various people continue to use him as a conduit for these types of leaks?

to quote Julian Assange from yesterdays guardian Q&A session:-

If indeed it is the case, as alleged by the Pentagon, that the young soldier - Bradley Manning - is behind some of our recent disclosures, then he is without doubt an unparalleled hero.

steve-h · 4 Dec 2010 at 16:38

ThriceNightly said:
to quote Julian Assange from yesterdays guardian Q&A session:-

If indeed it is the case, as alleged by the Pentagon, that the young soldier - Bradley Manning - is behind some of our recent disclosures, then he is without doubt an unparalleled hero.

thanks, gonna have a read

he's good looking son of a ***** (no homo)

rszopa
Annoying as it may be, the DDoS seems to be good publicity (if anything, it adds to your credibility). So is getting kicked out of AWS. Do you agree with this statement? Were you planning for it?
Thank you for doing what you are doing.

Julian Assange:
Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases.

Fuzz · 5 Dec 2010 at 11:10

Fell across this blog while going through my twitter feed this morning

Thought it might be interesting to shove in here for your dissemination

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/101103_wikileaks_the_smear.php

Dotted along the way with relevant "source" material too which is nice.
Quite long, starts off with apparent smear details around assange, then drifts into Iraq related death tolls for what they call "part 2"
A good read anyway.

robinbredin · 5 Dec 2010 at 17:39

Keep those leaks coming, I say.

CliffyBiro · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:09

The founder of WikiLeaks has warned that his supporters are primed to publish a 'deluge' of leaked government documents should his activities be curtailed by any country.
Julian Assange has distributed to fellow hackers an encrypted 'poison pill' of damaging secrets, thought to include details on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
He believes the file is his 'insurance' in case he is killed, arrested or the whistleblowing website is removed permanently from the internet.
Mr Assange - understood to be lying low in Britain - could be arrested by Scotland Yard officers as early as tomorrow.
A warrant for his arrest was issued last Thursday by Swedish prosecutors who want to quiz him over rape allegations.

The developments came as fresh revelations were published on the WikiLeaks website. They include:

A leading Chinese politician coordinated the hacking of Google - which forced it to quit the Communist country - after finding unflattering articles about him on the website.

UK firm Rolls Royce lost out on a £200million contract to supply helicopter engines to Spain after the U.S. lobbied Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero in Madrid. The deal was eventually signed by American company GE.

And European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told a U.S. ambassador that European troops were still in Afghanistan only 'out of deference' to America.

Mr Assange, a reclusive Australian, has infuriated and embarrassed the U.S. in recent months by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

First, he published Army logs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that suggested soldiers were complicit in murder and torture.

And last week he published the first of around 250,000 diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies, many containing sensitive information and embarrassing verdicts on leaders including David Cameron.

High-profile politicians in the U.S. including Sarah Palin, a narrow loser in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, have suggested the computer programmer should be 'executed' for publishing leaked U.S. state secrets.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ecrets-killed-arrested.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Won't this encourage others to bring down the site and to a lesser extent, pose a threat to Assange? I.E. Those who would want such damaging documents to be released.

kibblerok · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:26

A week on and i'm still finding this extremely entertaining. The reaction of the US is more embarrassing for them than the actual content of the cables.

Keep them coming.

Some reaction by the US is hilarious: http://freedomainradio.com/BOARD/forums/p/28441/218976.aspx#218976

CliffyBiro · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:37

Sarah Palin calling for him to be executed says it all.

Castiel · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:41

If he is so good at this hacking and seeking out of the United States secrets where is the important stuff like....

ALIENS. JFK ASSASSINATION PLOT. WHO KILLED DIANA. CIA KILLED JOHN LENNON. EARTHQUAKE GUN FIRED AT TURKEY...and so on.

all we have is noname diplomats whining about their betters.

Vonhelmet · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:44

Castiel said:
If he is so good at this hacking and seeking out of the United States secrets where is the important stuff like....

ALIENS. JFK ASSASSINATION PLOT. WHO KILLED DIANA. CIA KILLED JOHN LENNON. EARTHQUAKE GUN FIRED AT TURKEY...and so on.

all we have is noname diplomats whining about their betters.

Why should his hacking prowess mean he is suddenly able to find non-existent evidence for crackpot theories? :confused:

Castiel · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:45

vonhelmet said:
Why should his hacking prowess mean he is suddenly able to find non-existent evidence for crackpot theories?

Because it should.

A hacker who can't find Alien stuff hidden in NASA satellite communications is just third rate...look at Mckinnon.

Spyhop · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:48

He's not a hacker in this life, even though it's mentioned all the time.

Vonhelmet · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:49

Castiel, you're begging the question, and I'd really expect better from you.

Von Smallhausen · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:50

OldCoals said:
Who is Assange? A quick Google and you get stories of hacking and programming. There is a lot more than meets the eye in my opinion.

An irresponsible fool who now faces the wrath of numerous police forces, intelligence services and governments.

CliffyBiro · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:52

Castiel said:
Because it should.

A hacker who can't find Alien stuff hidden in NASA satellite communications is just third rate...look at Mckinnon.

McKinnon didn't. He just thought he could.

He was prosecuted for the act of hacking, not what he found.

Castiel · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:53

vonhelmet said:
Castiel, you're begging the question, and I'd really expect better from you.

I am being somewhat sarcastic.

In reality I'm not sure how I feel about it, I was pretty much against the release of sensitive information on the grounds of it putting lives and diplomacy at risk and increasing tensions in already dangerous situations.

But so far it all seems nothing more than gossip amongst diplomats and not worthy of serious discussion.

Castiel · 5 Dec 2010 at 18:54

skippi90 said:
McKinnon didn't. He just thought he could.

He was prosecuted for the act of hacking, not what he found.

Exactly a good example of a third rate hacker....