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WIKILEAKS News, Dec 09, 2011


Don't Cry for Julian Assange
Wall Street Journal
By FLOYD ABRAMS The fall of WikiLeaks has come with startling swiftness. A year ago millions viewed it as a vibrant, swashbuckling, hi-tech, anti-establishment revealer of secrets. Now WikiLeakshas suspended publication, and its founder and publisher, ...
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Diplomacy after WikiLeaks
Albany Times Union
A few months ago, I named Ford our first true post-WikiLeaks ambassador. An Arab-speaking career diplomat, Ford impressively embraced the Syrian people as they defied Assad's brutality. And they loved him for that. While Ford's presence in Syria is ...
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EU Foreign Ministers Stick up for Wikileaks
PCWorld
By Jennifer Baker, IDG News The European Union's foreign ministers issued a statement on Thursday reiterating the rights of whistleblowing websites such as Wikileaks. The Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe's decision-making body comprising ...
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Wikileaks: Greek and Bulgarian Embassies in Macedonia working against US
MINA
The second NATO representative in Skopje remains from Bulgaria. The former US Ambassador, at least in the files obtained by Wikileaks, did not elaborate on the collaboration between the Greek and Bulgarian Embassies in Skopje.
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Spy games getting beefed up
Chicago Tribune
By Rachel Marsden WikiLeaks has begun time-releasing documents related to the global private intelligence industry. What exactly is this field, and what do you, as a citizen, need to know about it? So far, the published open-source documents are ...
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Stuxnet, Malware and Wikileaks: How Cyber Warfare is a Very Real Threat
International Business Times UK
The idea of computer viruses being able to work undiscovered was brought into the spotlight last week, when Wikileaks founder Julian Assange announced that all smartphones - such as the iPhone and BlackBerry devices - can be monitored by surveillance ...
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International Business Times UK
Hillary Clinton and Internet freedom
Salon
What Hillary Clinton is condemning here is exactly that which not only the administration in which she serves, but also she herself, has done in one of the most important Internet freedom cases of the last decade: WikiLeaks. ...
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Wikileaks: Mass Surveillance Equipment Sold to Dictators by Western Companies
StopFundamentalism.com
Wikileaks has just released a sizable report in its series of revelations called the “SpyFiles”, revealing how far this technology has gone. “Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 ...
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StopFundamentalism.com
Gov'ts Using Cellphone Spyware, Warns WikiLeaks
Infopackets
The controversial Wikileaks site has published documents that appear to show national governments using malicious software to carry out surveillance. The documents flesh out claims by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that private companies are profiting ...
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UK Court: WikiLeaks Julian Assange can apply to Supreme Court in extradition case
Newsday
News Newsday > News Content Preview Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online ® subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online ® subscriber? Click here UK Court: WikiLeaksJulian Assange can apply to Supreme Court in extradition case ...
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Discusses Wikileaks, Arab Spring
ERR News
Pulitzer Prize laureate Eric Freedman is in town to give a public lecture on Wikileaks and journalistic ethics at Tallinn University today at 16:00. Freedman will discuss the international debate over the release of government secrets on the whistle ...
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Taking a Leak
Seven Days
By Dan Bolles [12.07.11] Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has come under fire from rankled governments around the globe that have taken exception to the site airing their innermost dirty secrets — or, you know, doing major media journalists' jobs. ...
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Seven Days
Nancy Pelosi Promises a Massive Document Dump on Newt Gingrich
Death and Taxes
By Alex Moore Monday, December 05, 2011 Wikileaks may still be offline, but Nancy Pelosi is planning a document dump of her own. A week ago, on Cyber Monday, Wikileaks announced that its planned return to the internet would have to be delayed. ...
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When Does Public Disclosure Make Secrecy Moot?
Secrecy News (blog)
The US State Department insists that the publication of many thousands of classified diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks does not alter their classification status. In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties ...
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EU moves to stop surveillance tech sales to despots
ZDNet UK
In the wake of the Wikileaks 'Spy Files' revelations last week, ZDNet UK understands digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes will urge technology firms to come up with a way to avoid "selling despots the tools of their repression", a practice she ...
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Zanu PF shake-up looms
NewsDay
There are fears that President Mugabe might use the conference to deal with some politburo members who were quoted in US diplomatic cables released by whistle blower website WikiLeakscriticising his leadership. Mutasa said the fresh appointments would ...
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Illegal intrusions
Deccan Herald
Wikileaks' latest revelations of how the global mass surveillance industry is facilitating shocking levels of intrusion into people's lives by governments, spy agencies and the like should alarm the world. The whistle-blowing website has listed 24 ...
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Why the 1% shouldn't control the Internet
TG Daily
Darrell Issa claim the alternative backs away from the censorship approach, and that it will fight Internet piracy the same way the government fought WikiLeaks. They want banks and financial organizations to cut off all sources of funding from the ...
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TG Daily
Gaps in the world wide open web
Hindustan Times
Last week at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that China was 'sucking out' confidential emails of India's premier investigative agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). ...
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House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights ...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Issues such as national security - linked to the WikiLeaks publications - and intellectual property - are also challenging democratic countries' support to online free speech. The terms "Twitter Revolution" and "Facebook Revolution" have become ...
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Paypal Can't Get Out of Its Own Way
The Nonprofit Quarterly
December 6, 2011; Source: Forbes | On December 4 last year, Paypal was embroiled in a dispute with Wikileaks—withholding donations that had been made to them and basing the withholding on the fact that the state department had declared Wikileaks ...
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Assange wins right to petition
The Statesman
PTI LONDON, 5 DEC: WikiLeaks founder Mr Julian Assange today won the right to petition the UK's Supreme Court in his high-profile battle against extradition to Sweden, where he faces charges of sexual assault. The high court in London ruled in favour ...
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Anonymous attack on HBGary Federal didn't ruin us, says CEO
Network World
Some of that e-mail included e-mail from Barr to a Bank of America law firm proposing a way to marginalize WikiLeaks, the group that in the past has published confidential corporate and government documents it secretly obtains, by hacking into it and ...
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Cablegate: One year on, is 'open government' obtainable?
ZDNet (blog)
“One year ago today we put our beliefs before our lives, released Cablegate and changed the world”, WikiLeaks tweeted this week. But what effect has the leaked cables had on governmental legislation, in countries ravaged by civil war, revolution, ...
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ZDNet (blog)
US House working on cyber security legislation
YNN Hudson Valley
In the age of Wikileaks and cyber warfare, the US House of Representatives is ramping up efforts to craft and pass legislation that will address one of the country's greatest national threats: Cyber security. As our Washington Bureau reporter Erin ...
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Surveillance tools: Not just for spies anymore
Washington Times
Privacy International, an advocacy group based in London with which Mr. Soghoian works, and the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks last week published a database of more than 130 companies worldwide that market Internet monitoring, phone interception, ...
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Washington Times
Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi arrested
FRANCE 24
And Wikileaks releases its « spy files ». By Electron Libre According to the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, for which she works, the 30 year old was arrested crossing the Syrian-Jordanian border on her way to Amman where she was due ...
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Android exploit allows unauthorized app to record audio, take pictures, send SMS
Geek.com
If the Carrier IQ saga and Wikileaks spyware docs weren't enough mobile insecurity for you, the hits keep coming. Scientists from NC State have identified an exploit in select Android phones that allows an app to get permissions to do nearly anything: ...
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Office Geopolitics: <i>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</i>
The L Magazine
by Nicolas Rapold Though arguably little in recent spy cinema matches the diplomatic sketches glimpsed through the WikiLeaks cables, Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the John Le Carre novel mostly makes a virtue of this world's murk. ...
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The L Magazine
As Wiretappers' Ball grows, so do the worries
Bend Bulletin
Several years of industry sales brochures provided to The Washington Post by the anti-secrecy groupWikiLeaks, and released publicly Thursday, reveal that many companies are selling sophisticated tools capable of going far beyond conventional ...
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WikiLeaks' chief in vital extradition court fight - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will ask British judges Monday to let him continue his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex ...
news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-chief-vital-extradition-court-fight-...
WikiLeaks Founder Allowed to Continue Extradition Fight: Daily ...
Courtesy of Flickr user New Media DaysAssociated Press: Assange Can Continue Extradition Fight Summary: A British court decided yesterday that WikiLeaks.
www.whistleblower.org/.../1615-wikileaks-founder-allowed-to...
Declassified reports detail international cooperation in WikiLeaks ...
Declassified cables from the Australian government reveals that the country was willing to comply with American-led efforts to prosecute and extradite WikiLeaks ...
news.ptfs.com/.../declassified-reports-detail-international-coop...
Assange: Best journalism on WikiLeaks cables hasn't come from ...
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www.poynter.org/.../assange-best-journalism-on-wikileaks-cab...
Taking a Leak - Seven Days | WikiLeaks News
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has come under fire from rankled governments around the globe that have taken exception to the site airing their innermost ...
wikilinksnews.com/wikileaks-news/taking-a-leak-seven-days/
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