WIKILEAKS- Terrorists?

[justintempler]

I feel like I'm in Iran now. I'm having get my news from Twitter and Facebook.

EveryDNS dropped Wikileaks from it's domain server, which means you have to find the latest mirror via:
http://wikileaks.info/
http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks
http://twitter.com/wikileaks

[sgreger1]

I feel like I'm in Iran now. I'm having get my news from Twitter and Facebook.

EveryDNS dropped Wikileaks from it's domain server, which means you have to find the latest mirror via:
http://wikileaks.info/
http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks
http://twitter.com/wikileaks

LOLOL, I was thinking the same thing this morning. I've been following them on twitter and am just amazed at the lengths they are going to shut this guy down.


Has he technically done anything illegal? The supreme court already ruled that it's protected under the first ammendment for someone to disseminate information without reprocussion. The private who gave him the info is going to fry but Wikileaks didn't do anything wrong here. They essentially got some documents in their mailbox, found them interesting and posted it on their blog. Right?

If this is so illegal, than I demand we re-open the Valerie Plame outing and put some people in jail.



WIKILEAKS is down again because of DNS issues. #Cablegate material can still be found at http://46.59.1.2

[sgreger1]

Assange: "However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs."



Disturbing: WikiLeaks cables reveal Obama and GOPers worked together to kill Bush torture probe | AlterNet

Its time to grab WikiLeaks Insurance file if you have not already!

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.


"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

[LaZeR]

....... The private who gave him the info is going to fry but Wikileaks didn't do anything wrong here.

^... I probably have to agree the most with this atm. ...^

[sgreger1]

UPDATE:
Wikileaks.org no longer exists. Domain now hosted in Switzerland as wikileaks.ch

WikiLeaks is Back in Switzerland

Breaking - Scotland yard to arrest Julian Assange today

Assange not actually accused of Rape. Dude just didn't use a Condom and is being busted by some random Exclusive-to-Sweeden law.

Want to know what actually happened between Julian Assange, the women he was with, and the accusations of rape? Read this story that actually includes the police report from Sweden. Rape? No. A woman scorned? Absolutely.

Live Q&A with Julian Assange (1300GMT)

WikiLeaks site down, Assange close to arrest

UK authorities "imminently" expect an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the BBC understands. Swedish prosecutors drew up a second European Arrest Warrant, after the first was rejected on legal grounds.

DNS service has been cut. You can now access Wikileaks at http://88.80.13.160

[lxskllr]

Aren't DDOS attacks illegal under US law? That means we're a rogue nation, right? Sweet! We can say high to our partners in the axis of evil.

[justintempler]

[Frosted]

Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls for the "assassination" of Julian Assange....



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=333_1291372894

[raptor]

What a scumbag, but no surprise as all of Harper's admin are scumbags

[sgreger1]

Aren't DDOS attacks illegal under US law? That means we're a rogue nation, right? Sweet! We can say high to our partners in the axis of evil.

Well the gov hasn't admitted to it. Orriginally it was a guy who called himself a "Hacktivist" who claimed responsibility for the DDOS attack. Oddly, the government arrested him shortly after he took credit for it (even though he was doing their bidding by DDOS'ing wikileaks). Yet the DDOS attacks continued... I am confident it is the government doing this to him.

[AtreyuKun]

Julian Assange is a hero. Dissent is a virtue not a crime.

[sgreger1]

For a great list of what is contained in the cable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cablega...ents_by_region

It lists each thing by region. A lot of things we already knew but that were always denied, such as the fact that Iran is directly supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq/Afghanistan to fight US soldiers. I said this in 09 when I first came to this forum and somebody said that I was just spreading US propaganda but now we know it to be true.


Anyways, lots of cool stuff if you care to read it.

[Joe234]

Alternate domain

http://213.251.145.96/



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[Simplysnus]

For a great list of what is contained in the cable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cablega...ents_by_region

It lists each thing by region. A lot of things we already knew but that were always denied, such as the fact that Iran is directly supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq/Afghanistan to fight US soldiers. I said this in 09 when I first came to this forum and somebody said that I was just spreading US propaganda but now we know it to be true.


Anyways, lots of cool stuff if you care to read it.

Cables saying we believe something is true are now facts? Whether I believe it or not, it's not confirmation, it's the public airing of opinions which were sometimes previously withheld.

[Frosted]

I can understand wikileaks being a whistle blowing site and that's fine, but I think they're overstepping the mark now. Just what are they hoping to achieve by this (taken from bbc news). I think it's criminal as terrorists wouldn't necessarily have been in 'the know' about these sites - well now they are.


A long list of key facilities around the world that the US describes as vital to its national security has been released by Wikileaks.
The US State Department in February 2009 asked all US missions abroad to list all installations whose loss could critically affect US national security.
The list includes pipelines, communication and transport hubs.
Several UK sites are listed, including cable locations, satellite sites and BAE Systems plants.
This is probably the most controversial document yet from the Wikileaks organisation.
The definition of US national security revealed by the cable is broad and all embracing.
In addition to obvious pieces of strategic infrastructure like communications hubs, gas pipelines and so on, it contains, amongst other things, a cobalt mine in Congo, an anti-snake venom factory in Australia and an insulin plant in Denmark.
The US missions were asked to list all installations whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security or national security of the United States.
In Britain, for example, the list ranges from Cornwall to Scotland, including key satellite communications sites and the places where trans-Atlantic cables make landfall.

What the list might do is to prompt potential attackers to look at a broader range of targets”

A number of BAE Systems plants involved in joint weapons programmes with the Americans are listed, along with a marine engineering firm in Edinburgh which is said to be "critical" for nuclear powered submarines.
'Targets for terror'
The geographical range of the document is extraordinary.
If the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror" then this represents a global directory of the key installations and facilities - many of them medical or industrial - that are seen as being of vital importance to Washington.
No wonder then that the Times newspaper in London has published the story under the headline "Wikileaks lists 'targets for terror' against the US".
Some locations are given unique billing. The Nadym gas pipeline junction in western Siberia, for example, is described as "the most critical gas facility in the world".

It is a crucial transit point for Russian gas heading for western Europe.
In some cases, specific pharmaceutical plants or those making blood products are highlighted for their crucial importance to the global supply chain.
Of course the critical question is that raised by the Times newspaper's headline: Is this really a listing of potential targets that might be of use to a terrorist?
The cable contains a simple listing. In many cases towns are noted as the location but not actual street addresses.
That, of course, is not going to hinder anyone with access to the internet.
There are also no details of security measures at any of the listed sites.
What the list might do is to prompt potential attackers to look at a broader range of targets, especially given that the US authorities classify them as being so important.
It is not perhaps a major security breach, but many governments may see it as an unhelpful development.
It inevitably prompts the question as to exactly what positive benefit Wikileaks was intending in releasing this document.
Former UK Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind condemned the move.
"This is further evidence that they have been generally irresponsible, bordering on criminal," Mr Rifkind said. "This is the kind of information terrorists are interested in knowing."