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Nicholas Adams

Julian Assange police investigator a friend of sex assault accuser - 0 views

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assange Swedish Trial

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    Officer and Miss A met through political party and corresponded over internet months before WikiLeaks chief was accused. The pair corresponded on the internet 16 months before the allegations were made against Assange. Miss A commented on a Facebook update on the police officer's page as recently as 10 February including anti-Assange comments, and is a frequent visitor to the officer's blog. Questions have arisen as to whether Assange may even be expedited to Sweden given this information, and as to why the officer did not declare a conflict of interest if such allegations against Assange are true. Many have cited political motivations in the fight to have Assange incarcerated, raising even more questions.
Tom Zorc

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker - 0 views

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wikileaks Assange

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  • Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org.
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      interesting take on it
  • extensive catalogue
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      the new yorker's agenda seems to support assange through a tone that on a certain level undermines criticism / makes the documents seem "less serious" ...as compared to the response of other relevant parties 
  • The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      same tone here
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  • Assange calls the site “an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis,” and a government or company that wanted to remove content from WikiLeaks would have to practically dismantle the Internet itself. So far, even though the site has received more than a hundred legal threats, almost no one has filed suit.
  • Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
     
    *process of learning note* As I explore a certain aspect of a topic, I find myself opening the several links an article references in multiple tabs, reading those articles fully, and doing the same.  Each piece offers a slightly different perspective or take on the issue, yet rounds out the perspective.
Duncan Gillespie

Julian Assange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The judge said "there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what's the expression—surf through these various computers"[2] and stated that Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood.[27]
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 19 Mar 11
       
      It is interesting to see the effect Assange's troubled childhood had on his world views.
  • The fact that his fellow students were doing research for Pentagon's DARPA was reportedly a factor in motivating him to drop out and start WikiLeaks
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
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  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.[
  • awards and nominations
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • ] Assange has received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty
  • tions, including the 2009
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Assange has received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.[14] Assange has appealed a February 2011 decision by English courts to extradite him to Sweden for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation.[15][16][17][18] He has said the allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis".[19] Contents [hide]
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • awards and nominations
  • 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
Nicholas Adams

Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever - 1 views

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Egypt Tunisia Diplomatic Cables Wikileaks Julian Assange

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    The WikiLeaks founder says he believes the internet is not a technology that favors freedom of speech but rather spying. Assange disagrees with reports that Facebook and Twitter play a role in the unrest in the Middle East. He offers his reasoning why revolts cannot be started via Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites: they can all be used to round-up principal participants, so that they may be beaten, interrogated or incarcerated. Perhaps most disturbingly, he blames leaked diplomatic cables for the unrest currently in the Middle-East being that the United States had decided that in a necessary event, they would militarily back the Tunisian military over the political regime and would mobilize against neighboring countries if need be. There were further cables that also led to US disapproval of Mubarak in Egypt.
Nicholas Adams

DreamWorks lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book - 0 views

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Dreamworks movies Wikileaks Assange

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    Interesting article on how the media is grasping this story and how filmmakers wish to portray the events surrounding Assange. Could the making of several documentaries and movies surrounding this issue lead to a larger question of legitimacy? Can film researchers potentially uncover answers to some of the questions that are being offered by many around the globe? Will the movies be politically charged, such as the allegations surrounding his trial in Sweden? How will the government react to this new interest in producing films around Wikileaks?
Tom Zorc

WikiLeaks and Tor: Moral use of an amoral system? | Invisible Inkling - 1 views

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  • Before launching the site, Assange needed to show potential contributors that it was viable. One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site’s foundation, and Assange was able to say, “We have received over one million documents from thirteen countries.”
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      So China's hacking the Tor network to obtain the docs that Assange is going to release anyways...? 
Tom Zorc

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • The edited film, which was eighteen minutes long, began with a quote from George Orwell that Assange and M had selected: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      And how fitting is it that Assange is concerned with political language, and how it is "designed." Maybe I'm just stuck on this idea at the moment...  But the connotations language has upon its effect is incredibly powerful.
Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks diplomatic documents put educators in a quandary - Philly.com - 0 views

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  • "I personally think what Assange did was reprehensible," says Frank Plantan, codirector of the international-relations program at the University of Pennsylvania, echoing all the scholars with whom we spoke. "However, I do not see an ethical issue in using the materials once leaked. . . . There is nothing better than real-world examples."
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      First two highlights get into using the leaks as an educational tool...this section begins to address the ethical issue surrounding such use of leaked confidential documents
  • "Strictly speaking, even the most innocent, well-intentioned educators" may be prosecuted for "disseminating classified materials," he says. "But it's a long shot whether the government would decide to prosecute."
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      Legal implications. (Educational, ethical, and legal addressed in this article)
  • Christina Paxson, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, says universities should foster the free exchange of ideas."We feel strongly that faculty should have a lot of discretion for what is appropriate for their classes," she says.
Tyler Sax

WikiLeaks - Submissions - 0 views

213.251.145.96/Submissions.html

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    • Randall Bass
      Randall Bass on 02 Mar 11
       
      The Wikileaks postings are meant to be the beginning of a chain of reference. 
  • That is why we have created our novel method of submission based on a suite of security technologies designed to provide anonymity. We have put a great deal of technical and design work into the drop box because we take the journalist-source relationship very seriously.
    • Randall Bass
      Randall Bass on 02 Mar 11
       
      What is the security architecture of Wikileaks? What makes the drop box secure? (RBass)
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  • Communication is secured with SSL encryption.
  • 3.3 High risk postal submissions
  • This is because our journalists write news stories based on the material, and then provide a link to the supporting documentation to prove our stories are true. It’s not news if it has been publicly available elsewhere first, and we are a news organisation.
  • we do not solicit it
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 02 Mar 11
       
      This assertion was certainly challenged when it came to the most recent US government document leaks. Some speculated that Assange (or someone on his "team") helped the US soldier gain access to the documents
Tyler Sax

WikiLeaks - About - 2 views

213.251.145.96/About.html

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  • Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box).
    • Jaclyn Udell
      Jaclyn Udell on 16 Mar 11
       
      Do WikiLeaks have a bias/ulterior motive in leaking this information? How can we be certain that the electronic drop box is anonymous and ensures the safety of those submitting the information?
    • Jaclyn Udell
      Jaclyn Udell on 16 Mar 11
       
      I heard an interview on NPR one time and the people were talking about how authors should reveal their bias in their publications. Since WikiLeaks keeps submitters anonymous how do they expose the bias in their publications?
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      While there is a bias in promoting certain data or info over others... a tool commonly used across many media sources, it seems to me that Wikileaks has been determined to release everything credible that comes across their desks, no matter what. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Not much bias there. Bias on the side of the submitters though, I don't think that's Wikileak's responsibility to uncover... nor a possibility?
  • One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.
    • Jaclyn Udell
      Jaclyn Udell on 16 Mar 11
       
      Who in the company WikiLeaks is responsible for the repercussions of the information that is exposed? In America we have the right to express ourselves through words, but how does this impose upon other social norms in places where freedom of speech is limited?
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 16 Mar 11
       
      The question about responsibility is a great one. Obviously Julian Assange is taking a lot of heat right now, but he can't be the only one... wikileaks is an organization of paople all around the globe, most of whom work anonymously. 
    • Tom Zorc
      Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
       
      Does the responsibility of the repercussions of the content not lie with its creator? The issue of secrecy is interesting here - their communications obviously would have been very different if they *knew* it would be public information. So is secrecy a necessary part of the institution of government? Would the US political engine be designed differently if Wikileaks were a factor from day one? How might it be affected from here on out?
Shida Zhang

BBC News - Anonymous leaks Bank of America e-mails - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-12731312

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  • In late 2010, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said he planned to release documents in early 2011, which could bring down a well known bank.
  • Previously, he had claimed to be in possession of a hard drive containing internal documents from a senior Bank of America official. The Wikileaks release has yet to appear, and it is unclear if those files are the same ones obtained by Anonymous. One of the documents appears to show an employee of Bilboa Insurance asking a colleague to delete certain loan identifying numbers from their computer system.
  • the e-mails form the first part of a series of planned leaks that will prove Bank of America engaged in improper mortgage foreclosure practices.
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  • Subsequently, sites mirroring the content have sprung up and the documents have also been released through peer-to-peer networks.
  • Anonymous members have engaged in a campaign of action against websites and companies that assisted the United States government in its attempt to isolate Wikileaks.
Ihsaan Patel

Facing WikiLeaks Threat, Bank of America Plays Defense - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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wikileaks bank of america corporate threats

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  • take down” a major American bank and
    • Ihsaan Patel
      Ihsaan Patel on 20 Mar 11
       
      It is interesting to see the ability that wikileaks has to move markets and its impact on the world of finance, where information is king. Is it possible that wikileaks could help huge financial firms because it provides information that was previously unavailable?
  • That Mr. Assange might shift his attention to a private company — especially one as politically unpopular as Bank of America or any of its rivals, which have been stained by taxpayer-financed bailouts and the revelation of improper foreclosure practices — raises a new kind of corporate threat, combining elements of law, technology, public policy, politics and public relations
  • reveal an “ecosystem of corruption” with a cache of data from an executive’s hard drive. With Bank of America’s share price falling on the widely held suspicion that the hard drive was theirs
Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks diplomatic documents put educators in a quandary - Page 2 - Philly.com - 0 views

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  • "There is an ethical and moral dimension here that cannot be ignored," he says. "Some people have suffered because of this [leak]; they may even be dead." Danspeckgruber says there is evidence that a number of foreign sources cited in the cables have been punished, perhaps even executed, for passing on information to U.S. diplomats.
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      This professor touches on the ethical dilemma of even reading the documents
  • "It has been made clear by the government," she says by e-mail, "that it would be unwise for those who will need security clearances to avail themselves of the cables."Vladeck lays it out: "The government routinely asks potential employees whether they have had access to classified information in the past."If you've read the WikiLeaks material, he says, "you'd either have to say yes, and admit you've broken the law, or you'd have to lie." Not advisable, given the screening process, which often includes a polygraph test.
  • few weeks later," says Meunier, "one student in the [college military program] ROTC found out from his chain of command that reading the actual cables could prevent one from getting a security clearance."
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