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The USAF air-strike video showing 100 civilians being blown to bits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_kcPyRw50&NR=1
to be released April 5th on Wikileaks.
More here: http://wikileaks.org/#spying
and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VooZHiCoEU&feature=player_embedded#at=11
This has put wikileaks as target #1 for any executive order block...

Sorry to criticise people who are clearly on our side. The Wikileaks folk are great, and the job they were doing was great, and it will be great again when they start back up...

...but it was not a good idea for them to take all the leaked documents offline without notice in order to show their value so that people will donate. It was last year, probably December, and everything's still offline :-(

For one example, they published the only (at the time) big ACTA leak. (There's since been a bigger one, hosted elsewhere) Everyone was pointing to them, and they took their copy offline. To my amazement, no one had a back up, so us anti-ACTA campaigners simply lost the only leaked draft.

At the implementation level, it was a bad idea to simply cause all pages to give error 404. A page of "We need donations, we'll be back up when we get them" would have been better.

Lesson: take backups of important docs, even ones published by groups of good people.

They know your looking at IM, forums, google ect. http://wikileaks.org/ google cache has a link to
http://indect-project.eu/files/deliverables/public/INDECT_Deliverable_4.1_v20090630a.pdf/at_download/file
Anybody of interest knows to keep a very low profile.
Never buy too much of anything thats a direct step to a listed watched chemical.
Never talk to strangers online about political ideas.
Stay out of web 2.0. If mainstream US cable news and the US mil is talking up twitter, never use twitter.
Learn how to protest, learn how 1 person can change the system and then just melt back to be replaced by another random stranger.
If 10 or 100 or 10000 random strangers turn up the US mil is going to have a really bad day.
Do they allow a protest to grow, beat it down or try to re shape it.
They seem to be hoping Narus will allow them to pick out leaders and arrest/smear/turn them.
Someone needs to tell the US gov, the world has moved beyond leaders and cointelpro has been reverse engineered - people expect and enjoy infiltration, film it and lol at it.
The US is on the edge of 1980's Europe. They think the tech will save them.
Millions of online searches, chat and ip's will allow them to filter out the bright connected ones and somehow stop unrest.
The only winners are the people selling the Narus like tech and the people who know to never surface.

MSFT already is going after people who they claims to be violating copyright.

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

http://wikileaks.org/

http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf

MSFT already is going after people who they claims to be violating copyright.

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

http://wikileaks.org/

http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf

Apparently not.

MSFT had cryptome.org taken down under DCMA charges.

http://wikileaks.org/

for this:
http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

Apparently not.

MSFT had cryptome.org taken down under DCMA charges.

http://wikileaks.org/

for this:
http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

Wikileaks may not be mirroring Cryptome.org in its entirety yet, but they are hosting the "offending" material. Download and redistribute!

Wikileaks may not be mirroring Cryptome.org in its entirety yet, but they are hosting the "offending" material. Download and redistribute!

The document is already available via wikileaks.

Especially considering Wikileaks is currently offline and looking for financial support to continue paying the bills.

This may be somewhat offtopic, but Wikileaks is still desperately in need of donations.

The main goal with the proposal is to task the government with finding ways to strengthen freedoms of expression and information in Iceland, as well as providing strong protections for sources and whistleblowers.

Before you rewrite all your laws and start to upset other countries like the Brits, tossing a half million at them so they can finally come out of questionable status and my links to their site stop returning a 404.

That'd be a really good start and pretty much pocket change for a government. Wikileaks seemed to be operating just fine where ever their servers were located. Offer them asylum only if they need it.

Even better than that would be an IMMI award given out yearly to the whistleblowingest site out there. Let Cryptome and Wikileaks compete for eyeballs, usability and leaked documents.

Changing your laws will attract journalists to live there but, come on, the journalism industry isn't going to be pulling in huge import revenues for your country as it stands. So maybe the best thing would be to slightly improve the laws and use a little bit of change to encourage the principles the IMMI wants to support. Worry about becoming the Swiss Bank of Information and Dissent later when there's a huge demand for it. The places that need that stuff the most would sooner block all Iceland IP addresses than let you host damning news and evidence of them anyway.

The main goal with the proposal is to task the government with finding ways to strengthen freedoms of expression and information in Iceland, as well as providing strong protections for sources and whistleblowers.

Before you rewrite all your laws and start to upset other countries like the Brits, tossing a half million at them so they can finally come out of questionable status and my links to their site stop returning a 404.

That'd be a really good start and pretty much pocket change for a government. Wikileaks seemed to be operating just fine where ever their servers were located. Offer them asylum only if they need it.

Even better than that would be an IMMI award given out yearly to the whistleblowingest site out there. Let Cryptome and Wikileaks compete for eyeballs, usability and leaked documents.

Changing your laws will attract journalists to live there but, come on, the journalism industry isn't going to be pulling in huge import revenues for your country as it stands. So maybe the best thing would be to slightly improve the laws and use a little bit of change to encourage the principles the IMMI wants to support. Worry about becoming the Swiss Bank of Information and Dissent later when there's a huge demand for it. The places that need that stuff the most would sooner block all Iceland IP addresses than let you host damning news and evidence of them anyway.

A leaked copy was posted on wikileaks, but they took everything offline due to their financial problems.

I think you may have accidentally buried the lead here. All the wikileaks.org URL sub-paths are failing, except for their secure submissions page, and their home page where they plead for financial help. One of the lines on http://wikileaks.org/ says this:

"Even $10 will pay to put one of these reports into another ten thousand hands"

So I take it from this that you could probably get access to their ACTA leaks for a measly $10, and share it with 9,999 fellow Slashdotters to boot. You can request bank information for electronic transfer donations at wl-supporters@sunshinepress.org. Speaking of Slashdotters... everybody here should think deeply about this section on the wikileak.org plead page:

Support us technically

Wikileaks is currently overloaded by readers. This is a regular difficulty that can only be resolved by deploying additional resources. If you support our mission, you can help us by integrating new hardware into our project infrastructure or developing software for the project. Become patron of a WikiLeaks server or other parts of our technology, adding more pillars to the stability and balance of the WikiLeaks platform. Servers come trouble-free and legally fortified, software is uniquely challenging.

If you can provide rackspace, power and an uplink, or a dedicated server or storage space, for at least 12 months, or software development work for WikiLeaks, please write to wl-supporters@sunshinepress.org

I would say they are perpetually suffering from the "Slashdot Effect." I would be very surprised if no one here could help them out a bit with their technical issues. This seems like an excellent opportunity to test a new International distributed cache system, kind of like what Coral Cache was supposed to be. I wonder if my local hosting company would get mad if I actually took them up one their "unlimited storage and bandwidth" offer...

So if I substituted my news sources with, say, the Washington Post, would I be better informed about Darfur? A suppressed report on Ivory Coast toxic waste dumping? Policy laundering during the ACTA negotiations? Iranian protests? SCO v. IBM? Homeopathy? Anything involving science?

My ears are deaf to these arguments as long as the mainstream press continues to do such a terrible job of keeping the public informed.

I think I'll make another donation to Wikileaks

The article is a twitter post.

If you take a closer look at TFS you'll find there's also a link to wikileaks.org, which - whoop-de-freaking-do - states the very same.

Of course, why the editors had to leave that twit in there is anyone's guess - probably the usual laziness...

This is an issue which every politician should help to resolve. The few honest ones who actually support open government might actually do so!

I sent this email to my US Congress Representative - Harry Mitchell D-Arizona 5th District http://www.mitchell.house.gov/

"President Obama was elected on a promise of more openness in government. One of the organizations which support this goal is a website known as WikiLeaks. http://www.wikileaks.org/

Wikileaks does not accept government money in any form, but rely on independent donations. It appears that today PayPal has suspended their account as WikiLeaks struggles to raise funds for their 2010 expenses.

Quote from the website:
"Paypal has as of 23rd of January 2010 frozen WikiLeaks assets. This is the second time that this happens. The last time we struggled for more than half a year to resolve this issue. By working with the respected and recognized German foundation Wau Holland Stiftung we tried to avoid this from happening again -- apparently without avail.

We are working on resolving this issue as fast as possible. Please use our bank accounts for direct transfer in the meantime, or contact wl-donations@sunshinepress.org for any further questions.

WikiLeaks is not the only non-profit organization with this problem. This is a regular occurrence, that from our perspective should not be tolerated by the global community using this payment system."

This appears to be politically motivated and something which should be investigated!

I am sure you will agree that this is not merely an issue between private parties, but one of immense importance to supporters of open and accountable government everywhere.

As your constituent, I urge you to use whatever influence that you can bring to bear to investigate this situation and to expose whatever wrongdoing is involved - wrongdoing by EITHER party in this dispute.

TFA (such as it is, < 140 chars):

The SCUMBAGS at PayPal have frozen the assets of http://www.wikileaks.org/ ! I'll withdraw all my money from PayPal as soon as I can!

So don't deal with the scumbags at PayPal. I suppose they have it for taking donations. Maybe they should have a second bank account.

According to the Wikileaks 1.0 presentation Iceland could pass a bill which will provide a last resort for information which is suppressed in other European countries (currently on the Wikileaks website with a call for donations).

Wikileaks has a proposal to get a bunch of different free-speech, safe-harbor, journalist-protection style legislation through Iceland so as to both spur this kind of development, as well as provide a political safe-haven for data. Apparently it has caught on pretty well locally, and with a small population it's not particularly difficult to get such legislation passed on short notice.

http://www.wikileaks.org/

• A draft that was leaked via Wikileaks (actually, it's offline until Jan 18th, but that's where you'll find the link when they're back to usual business
• A few links and bits of info about the patent provisions (not the focus)
• Have others got links to concise analyses from other angles?

Of course, this draft is from last year.

Why don't you scan this document and put it somewhere online?

tl;dr proof or gtfo

I thought the same thing, but Wikileaks is currently down. They say they will be back when they've "gotten enough donations". what b/s

Wrong, they said they've suspended operations until January 6th, in order to poke us for donations. The actual quote is "To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have very reluctantly suspended all other operations, until Jan 6.".

You may repent for your assholery by donating $10 to wikileaks right now. I just now donated $10 to cover your sins in case you also count free-riding among your glittering social skills.

Imagine, you're surfing online logged in your google account, googling with your iGoogle, your waves, your youtube video's and account, linked with CC numbers, you locationdata (google latitude), linked with your cellphone, your facebook and what have you. It's all splending, your friend can follow you. And your government can make generated judgement on your potential dangerous activities.

Google has all this data, linked, even without the need of the crawlers. It's a wet dream of many to have access to such massive abundance of exact data.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009
Is just what IP tracking is for. You can have all the IM and browsers you want, over time the database logs 'you' and your friends once a set of "dictionary" words are tripped.
Every search and IM is now "Signals intelligence" to the gov and marketing to the .coms.
Or you can sell the 'data' to the gov too while running a marketing front :)

Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment - minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same?

Yeah... that's probably just a typo right?

look for yourself: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_emails%2C_data%2C_models%2C_1996-2009

Yes, there is fairly clear evidence that a large set of documents were stolen.

"Stolen"? The top-level directory of the archive is named FOIA/. Looks to me, the data was prepared in response to a FOIA request... Maybe, the CRU's management then tried to block the release (the revealed e-mails to discuss resisting such requests) and the collector decided to "leak" it in order to preempt the conspiracy...

And then, of course, the use of the term "stealing" regarding something intangible like data is rather hypocritical for Slashdot, is not it? CRU were deprived of no more property, than the entertainment companies are, when their wares are copied. This forum routinely frowns on **AA's attempts to label their nemeses as "thieves"...

If this comment does catch your eye, could you, please, respond to this one as well? Thanks.

And here's the one for MySpace: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/MySpace.com_Law_Enforcement_Investigators_Guide%2C_23_Jun_2006

It's a good thing it's already been archived on WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Yahoo_compliance_guide_for_law_enforcement%2C_23_Dec_2008

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009
They get you, the words/terms/jargon you use, your friends and friends of friends.
Then they track you all and sort your interests.
When you have something real to do, never do it online ;)

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_emails%2C_data%2C_models%2C_1996-2009

I can't get to my E-mail today. I am calling Tom to stop is Town Hall meeting due to that fact. Who am I?????

I hope he saved lives by cancelling the meeting. Article

2001-09-11 07:43:46 Metrocall [0956490] C ALPHA Frm: MSN Txt: President's daughter has charges dropped

Good morning. I haven't heard from you in a while. I'll try one more time and I suppose I will take the hint if you don't page me back. Have a good day. Todd

The files are now up at Wikileaks.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_emails%2C_data%2C_models%2C_1996-2009

So where is the leaked document so that I may judge for myself?

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US,_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts,_2009

ACTA Proposal (2007) was leaked by Wikileaks more than a year ago. Granted, this was a rough draft of a rough draft, but the principles are still the same.

Wikileaks has it. This is not exactly new news - it's been available (and worrying) for awhile.

WTF? No, it most certainly does not. It's got the original 2007 proposal which we are lead to believe is nothing compared to these new documents.

Why did you say that and not link to anything?

See what happens when you believe warm-fuzzy liberal propaganda!? They go and take your internet away!

Bush/McCain or Obama, it doesn't make a difference.

Either president could certainly have stopped this crap if he cared enough, these secret treaty negotiations started while Bush was running the show.

Yes it is OSS. It's not GPL, but an open source frontend with the right license would still be OSS.

If the underlying driver isn't also GPL'd, then it's not open-source.
 
And as long as we don't have access to that underlying driver, we have no way to guarantee that there's no backdoor into our communications.
 
Of course, we already know that the Austrian interior ministry has confirmed it has no problem listening to Skype conversations.
 
If Austria can do it, it seems likely that other governments have that capability (even if they claim otherwise despite documentation to the contrary).

Thats where the NSA's better funded version of INDECT really shines.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009
They comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites building up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.
Then things fall into place. Literate basement dweller, not a problem for now .
Credible student with links to former politicians, journalists, grass roots campaigns, consulting or just writes a good blog?
Then you start to glow a bit more.
Fly in and out of the US too?

What?

The WikiLeaks "thanks to the following" list doesn't even include TPB.

1. Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
2. The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
3. The Associated Press - (AP) world wide news agency, based in New York
4. Citizen Media Law Project
5. The E.W Scripps Company - newspapers, TV, cable TV etc.
6. Gannet Co. Inc - the largest publisher of newspapers in the USA, including USA Today
7. The Heast Corporation - media conglomerate which publishes the San Francisco Chronicle
8. The Los Angeles Times
9. National Newspaper Association (NNA)
10. Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
11. The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
12. The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) 13. Public Citizen - founded by Ralph Nader
14. together with the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) 15. The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)
16. the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
17. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
18. Jordan McCorckle, the University of Texas

Take a look at their advisory board too - http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
I don't think WikiLeaks is in danger of collapsing due to lack of support from the 3 guys who run a torrent tracker...

The rise in tuition rates are the big issue. Without gov't sponsored loans, colleges wouldn't have as many customers who could pay the bills. The loans allow college prices to rise much faster than general inflation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a.VIge7LL0e0&refer=us College Tuition Rises Faster Than Inflation Yet Again "Costs rose 5.9 percent this year at private four-year colleges in the U.S., outpacing the biggest gain in inflation in 17 years and increasing the demand for financial aid."
The entire loan program is riddled with fraudulent activity including payoffs and kickbacks for the schools, school administrators, and alumni groups. This fraud is real, as detailed in a hundred page sealed indictment against some of the lenders for "defrauding the United States government". http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sealed_complaint_against_JP_Morgan_Chase,_Citigroup_and_Nelnet_for_defrauding_the_United_States_government,_19_May_2008

There is an older (2007) version available on Wikileaks.

The reason that the newest draft hasn't been leaked is that the only people who have access to it are politicians and greedy corporate lobbyists, and neither group particularly likes freedom of information. If they were the only ones allowed to watch the Spiderman movies then we wouldn't be able to download those either.

October 12, 2009 Summary

Revealing correspondence between the UK commodities giant Trafigura and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation over Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations, 14 Sep 2006.

Other than the toxic dumping issue and a surrounding criminal case, the correspondence mentions details of a gag order obtained against the UK press, specifically the Guardian:

Your questions of today do also reveal the fact that you are in possession of a draft, preliminary expert opinion produced by Minton Treharne & Davies Ltd, and that you appear to be ready to disclose information from this report. Trafigura looks very serious upon this, as disclosing any information from this report would be a clear breach of confidentiality and privilege. The report is clearly privileged and confidential and was obtained unlawfully by whoever is responsible for it coming into your possession. Please be aware that on Friday of last week, our clients sought and obtained an injunction in relation to this document and information contained in it against the Guardian newspaper and Persons Unknown, pending a further hearing.

Right enough, this is the correct link. I had made a note to fix it before posting but subsequently forgot.

Minton Report

It appears the URL has an unprintable character, so perhaps linking to the page about the topic will work.

Minton Report

It appears the URL has an unprintable character, so perhaps linking to the page about the topic will work.

That depends on what you regard as 'the problem'.

The 'super-injunction', as the press are calling it, was the injunction placed on the Guardian's publication of the Minton Report, and the associated gag order that prevented the paper from revealing the existence of the injunction.

The judge didn't directly apply the gag order to the parliamentary question tabled by Paul Farrelly (which didn't exist at the time), and by all accounts the gag order did not cover parliamentary proceedings in any case because of qualified privilege. The only reason it became an issue was because the Guardian received a specific legal threat from law firm Carter-Ruck:

"The threatened publication would place the Guardian in contempt of court ... please confirm by immediate return that the publications threatened will not take place."

As we all know, statements made by lawyers are often merely the legal opinions of said lawyers.

The gag order is the sinister part of the whole thing (not the injunction, which is perfectly reasonable given judicial oversight), but I'd like to point out that these are not uniquely British as the GP seems to be alluding. I'm put in mind of the National Security Letters sent out by arms of the US Government, which placed similar gag orders, but unlike this situation did not have any judicial oversight.