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Dec 1, 2011

WIKILEAKS News, Dec 01, 2011


New WikiLeaks 'spy files' show global surveillance industry
AFP
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched the website's new project Thursday, the publication of files it claims shows a global industry that gives dictatorships tools to spy on their citizens. In parallel to Assange's announcement, ...
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AFP
WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance Documents, Yahoo Acquisition Rumors Heat Up...
Mashable
WikiLeaks has released the first 287 documents from a database containing “hundreds” of documents from contractors in what WikiLeaks calls the “mass surveillance industry.” Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed in millions of Android, BlackBerry and ...
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Former French Ambassador To Tunisia: I Predicted the Collapse of Ben Ali's ...
Tunisia Live
The former French Ambassador to Tunisia, Yves Aubin De La Messuzière, has revealed that he warned his government of the possibility of the collapse of Ben Ali's regime before the “reports of US Ambassador Godec released by Wikileaks. ...
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Tunisia Live
Cablegate: One year on, the changing face of journalism
ZDNet (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | December 1, 2011, 2:42pm PST Summary: Is an increasingly digital network of information changing, amid the aftermath of the Wikileaks 'Cablegate' release, what does it means to be a 'journalist'? One year ago, WikiLeaks published a ...
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ZDNet (blog)
ZANU PF to avoid Wikileaks scandal at Congress
ZimEye Zimbabwe
By A Correspondent THE Zanu-PF Politburo has decided to chop out the Wikileaks scandal from its agenda at the upcoming Congress to be held in Bulawayo. The Politburo met in Harare yesterday to discuss the agenda of the 12th annual National People's ...
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ZimEye Zimbabwe
2 India-based cos figure in WikiLeaks documents
Hindu Business Line
Details of a global commercialised industry devoted to the mass interception of entire populations are being unveiled, in a co-ordinated project involving Wikileaks, the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and several media companies, ...
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Someone is watching
The Hindu
It is: in its December 2 issue, The Hindu, in partnership with an international consortium of newspapers, broadcast organisations, and privacy bodies brought together by WikiLeaks, will show that the dystopia Orwell imagined isn't any longer a fantasy. ...
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The Hindu
WikiLeaks launches new project
The Voice of Russia
The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced the launch of a project, focusing on technologies that allow state agencies to monitor their citizens. The site contains information on companies in 25 countries that develop technologies to track ...
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Indian firms named in Wiki surveillance leak
Hindustan Times
Wikileaks, the web-based whistleblower body, on Thursday began releasing hundreds of sensitive and secret documents from security companies that it said were involved in “industrial scale” surveillance across the world, including three involved with ...
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Stop the Presses! Your Government is Spying on You
PC Magazine
By John C. Dvorak I'm not sure this qualifies as actual news, but everyone is giddy over the latest revelations from the Wikileaks world. A slew of companies have created all sorts of spyware and much of it takes the form of a Trojan Horse installed on ...
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Crime and Punishment Bradley Manning's Leaks Didn't Actually Hurt Anybody But...
Queerty
This week his lawyers stated that the alleged WikiLeaks culprit and confirmed Queerty reader didn't actually cause any damage by releasing classified government documents. After the White House and the Defense Department reviewed the actual information ...
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Repressive governments using US-made spy technology
CBS News
Several years of industry sales brochures provided to The Washington Post by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, and released publicly Thursday, reveal that many companies are selling sophisticated tools capable of going far beyond conventional...
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Under Pet-Hating Dictator, a Hard Life for Man's Best Friend
The Atlantic
As we know from WikiLeaks, in what has got to be the most bizarre cable from Ashgabat, the Turkmen leader has even fired military officials when a cat crossed his path. The frequent presidential orders to exterminate dogs and cats has led many people ...
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Barnes and Noble Battles Microsoft Patents, Apple Explains Siri Search Glitch ...
Fast Company
BY Kit Eaton Today WikiLeaks Explores Global Surveillance State. Everyone's favorite leak collective unveiled a cache of documents from as many as 160 private security contractors. The documents, released in collaboration with OWNI, The Washington Post ...
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Fast Company
WikiLeaks "spy files" show global surveillance industry
Montreal Gazette
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a news conference at the City University in London December 1, 2011. LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched the website's new project Thursday, the publication of hundreds of files detailing a global ...
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The 'Spy Files': How safe are your emails and phone calls?
The Guatemala Times
The 21st-century surveillance industry is hi-tech, sophisticated and terrifyingly pervasive, it is revealed in more than 200 brochures, presentations and other marketing materials published today by WikiLeaks and Privacy International. ...
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Requests to defend the immunity of Viktor Uspaskich rejected
European Parliament (press release)
Mr Uspaskich argued that there are new facts, published by WikiLeaks, that justify reinstating his immunity. According to Mr Uspaskich, it can be inferred from a diplomatic note put online by Wikileaks that his trial for false accounting is politically ...
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US Continues to threaten internet freedom
Pravda
Right now, the US Congress is debating a law that would give the country the power to censor the Internet around the world - creating a blacklist that YouTube may have, and even Wikileaks Avaaz as targets! Champions of free speech in Congress said they ...
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Croatian transparency activists publish enormous database of government ...
Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 11:36 pm Wednesday, Nov 30 Marko Rakar, leader of a kind of Croatian version of Wikileaks, has once again made a stir in Croatia. Previously, Rakar published a database showing rampant voter-fraud (this triggered a constitutional ...
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Apple seeks to block sale of modified Samsung Galaxy tablet in Germany
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more To circumvent that ruling, Samsung modified the appearance of the tablet to create the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which Apple's latest motion ...
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State of Surveillance
CorpWatch.org
Shining a light on this $5 billion (and growing) industry, Wikileakstoday released "Spy Files": hundreds of secret sales brochures. The companies involved hand this promotional material only to key contacts -- often government agencies and police ...
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CorpWatch.org
Deutsche Bank completes cloud computing overhaul
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more The aim of the new platform is to enable developers to rapidly create and deploy virtual environments, running up to 2000 VMs at any ...
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Numbers in the News
Whitman Pioneer
Number of warrants federal authorities needed to obtain data from three WikiLeaksassociates' Twitter accounts earlier this month. Amount victims of Internet-related crimes lost in 2009, up 110 percent from 2008. Number of Facebook accounts whose ...
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Looking back on my 2011 projections
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Right now it's the US government, but Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says private-sector companies are next, starting with the financial services industry. So if your corporation is going to be naked – and you really have no choice in the matter ...
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Reuters Blogs (blog)
Android exploits new mobile banking enemy
ITWorld Canada
WikiLeaks creating new whistle-blowing platformBy: Jeremy Kirk (12/1/2011 11:17:00 AM)WikiLeaks on Thursday released a study of the brisk global trade in surveillance products, which founder Julian Assange claimed exposes a broad risk t . ...
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The Spy Files: WikiLeaks releases surveillance docs — RT
By RT
WikiLeaks has released the first portion of sensitive data revealing a new global surveillance and interception industry spanning 25 countries.
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CENSORED NEWS: Wikileaks releases trove of Spy files
By brendanorrell@gmail.com
Wikileaks releases trove of new information: Utah desert latest hiding place for infinite US spy files, release includes 160 intelligence contractors. The SpyfilesWikiLeaks: The Spy Files http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html. Mass interception of ...
CENSORED NEWS
The Spy Files – Wikileaks spin | Gadget News
By admin
At a press conference in London today, Julian Assange announced that a spin-off version of Wikileaks has been created to publish documents which refer to.
Gadget News
Wikileaks' Spy Files paints damning picture of tech surveillance ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Wikileaks today released a database of tech providers that are involved in government tracking around the globe and quite a few familiar names are on the list, including Alcatel Lucent, Nokia and Cisco. Called The Spy Files, the project ...
GigaOM
The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone ... - The Hacker News
By noreply@blogger.com (THN Reporter)
The Hacker News is an online Hacker News Organization. We propagate newsspecifically related to information security threats, Hacking threads and issues from all over the world.
The Hacker News | Hacking News...
WikiLeaks Releases Documents on Government Surveillance ...
By John Glaser
WikiLeaks has released secret files shining light on the mass surveillance practices of dozens of governments and the corporate contractors that provide the technology. The whistle-blowing organization, according to a press release and a ...
News From Antiwar.com
New WikiLeaks 'spy files' show global surveillance industry
New WikiLeaks 'spy files' show global surveillance industry. On December 1, 2011 · In News · Tweet. LONDON (AFP) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched the website's new project Thursday, the publication of files it claims shows a ...
Vanguard News
Wikileaks' 'spy files' show global monitoring - News - Mail ...
Wikileaks' new project -- the publication of hundreds of files detailing a global industry that gives governments tools to spy on their citizens.
Mail & Guardian News Feed
WikiLeaks creating new whistle-blowing platform - Page 1 - Security
WikiLeaks also released a study covering companies developing surveillance products - Page 1.
Daily IT Newswire
#WikiLeaks says it is releasing 287 "Spy Files ... - Breaking News
WikiLeaks says it is releasing 287 "Spy Files" showing "mass interception of entire populations by surveillance industry".
Breaking news
2011-11-18 #WikiLeaks News: Christine Assange speaks in support ...
This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and ...
wlcentral.org/node/2354
US govt demands WikiLeaks destroy all files about them – Assange ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a media summit that the US government has ordered him to destroy all the material WikiLeaks holds on them...
rt.com/news/us-wikileaks-assange-summit-371/
Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate ... - The Hacker News
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has fired his lawyer in favour of one with experience in batting for The Pirate Bay, according to a Swedish news report. Julian ...
thehackernews.com/.../wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hires...
Manning's attorney says WikiLeaks disclosures ... - CNET News.com
New filing, which says last year's leaks did no 'real damage to national security,' previews defense strategy in case of alleged Wiki-leaker. Read this blog post by ...
news.cnet.com/.../mannings-attorney-says-wikileaks-disclosure...
WikiLeaks lawyers seek government documents - Navy News ...
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Army intelligence analyst suspected of giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy websiteWikiLeaks ...
www.navytimes.com/.../ap-wikileaks-lawyers-seek-governmen...
Julian Assange at Wikileaks meeting: Internet now a 'surveillance ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the Internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong on ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../internet-now-a-surveillance-machine...
Defense May Call Witnesses at WikiLeaks Hearing - ABC News
Defense May Call Witnesses at WikiLeaks Hearing.
abcnews.go.com/.../defense-call-witnesses-wikileaks-hearing-1...
WikiLeaks delays launch of new online system
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent WikiLeaks has delayed the release of a new online system to allow whistleblowers to pass secrets to its website ...
www.ft.com/.../ecac5dfe-1792-11e1-b00e-00144feabdc0.html
Lawyer: Manning's hearing set in WikiLeaks case - Army News ...
WASHINGTON — The Army intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website will have a military hearing next ...
www.armytimes.com/.../ap-lawyer-manning-hearing-set-in-wi...
New WikiLeaks 'spy files' show global surveillance industry
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched the website's new project Thursday, ... Julian Assange attends a news conference at City University,...
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