WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study

itwbennett writes "WikiLeaks has launched a new submissions platform, along with a study of the global trade in surveillance products. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told press conference attendees in London that all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users in the crowd were 'screwed.' 'The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right now to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all of those products,' Assange said."

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"all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users"

[ickleberry]

Running one's own email & XMPP server FTW and most of the privacy-invading features of Android can be disabled

Also no my life hasn't turned to shit, I don't spend 6 hours every evening trying to manage these things while wearing a tinfoil hat. Yes sometimes changes need to be made when SSL certificates expire (although I prefer self-signed for a lot of this stuff, as Governments can compel CA's to issue false certs I consider them of little value) or what recently happened was the guy who wrote my mail server stopped developing it and IMAP was always just around the corner so I finally had to install a "proper" email server which had a bit of a learning curve but it's not terribly unweildly either.

Ridiculous is the state of our society

[unity100]

When non government organizations end up doing the tasks governments should be doing, but not doing, and end up getting prosecuted for it.