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The shameful abuse of Bradley Manning - 0 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business. The president refused to comment on PJ Crowley's (State department Spokesperson) statement that the treatment of Manning is "ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid". Prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity - the punishments currently being levied upon Manning - come right out of the manual of the CIA for "enhanced interrogation". Such practices are applied in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. It's what the CIA calls "no-touch torture", and its purpose is to demoralise someone to the point of offering a desired confession regardless of whether it is true or false.
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Iraq war logs: An introduction - 0 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    The leaking of more than 390,000 previously secret US military reports details the hidden realities of the war in Iraq. More than 100,000 people have died and whole towns such as Falluja have been reduced to near-rubble, while allegations of brutal abuse by some US and UK soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere continue to surface. WikiLeaks has defied the Pentagon to pass this data on to a wide range of media organizations such as newspapers and other webpages.
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Iraq - WikiLeaks - More Damaging Revelations for the US - 0 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    The subject of wikileaks has opened much debate as to whether the website has gone too far or whether they are simply picking up the loose end of an underachieving US Media, however, even as such organizations as Amnesty International award the webpage, they have faced continued animosity as they reveal revelations that the US Government simply did not want publicized. Shockingly and contrary to government reports, troops manning checkpoints or riding convoy shoot at innocent civilians or torture prisoners. In one report, 69,000 out of the 109,000 deaths recorded from Army checkpoints were civilians.
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The greater problem of Wikileaks: When innocent sites become the victims - 0 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    This webpage discusses how other websites and corporations have been affected by the Wikileaks issues. Such issues as public censorship, which Amazon has for years condoned, resurfaced surrounding government and public pressures about Wikileaks. Now Amazon must consider if they are willing to pre-screen or censor material uploaded to their site. Twitter has faced similar issues, while PayPal has come under substantial fire from the government for supporting Wikileaks' Donation efforts.
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Grim truths of Wikileaks Iraq video | Douglas Haddow | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • chaeyouncho91 on 17 Mar 11
     
    About yet another stakeholder of wikileaks - how it forces the readers to face the 'grim truths' of reality
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Military's Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • chaeyouncho91 on 17 Mar 11
     
    Shows how even the media is under control. The article also states that the Wikileak release of video questions the accountability of publicized (and unrevealed) investigations by the US forces and calls for more transparency in order to prevent such incidents in the future.
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WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 'Collateral Murder' In Iraq - 0 views

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  • chaeyouncho91 on 17 Mar 11
     
    Especially note the media's fast reaction to the video release on wikileaks - the next day, The New York Times released an official cover story of the clip. Based on a US counterintelligence investigation into Wikileaks, the report determined that Wikileaks "represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, operational security (OPSEC), and information security (INFOSEC) threat to the US Army." (see highlighted)
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Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians | World news ... - 0 views

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  • chaeyouncho91 on 17 Mar 11
     
    Article on the Petagon's reaction to the release of the video by wikileaks, and declaring it as "a threat against national security"
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American Power: WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' is Left's Latest Attempt to Criminalize U... - 1 views

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  • chaeyouncho91 on 17 Mar 11
     
    A severe criticism of the Wikileaks for releasing a video on collateral murder of iraqi civilians - undermines the very validity of wikileaks and criticizes the editor for attacking the US intelligence. Shows how much government pressure and control wikileaks is under.
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WikiLeaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder. The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor, also known as “The Onion Router,” a sophisticated privacy tool that lets users navigate and send documents through the internet anonymously.
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 17 Mar 11
       
      This is an interesting note about something that isn't taled about very often -- where did Wikileaks come from in the first place?
  • The siphoned documents, supposedly stolen by Chinese hackers or spies who were using the Tor network to transmit the data, were the basis for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s assertion in 2006 that his organization had already “received over one million documents from 13 countries” before his site was launched, according to the article in The New Yorker.
  • Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
     
    (This article seems to have been debunked by another I bookmarked)
  • Tyler Sax on 17 Mar 11
     
    (This article seems to have been debunked by another I bookmarked)
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Plaintext over Tor is still plaintext | The Tor Blog - 1 views

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  • I write to remind our users, and people in search of privacy enhancing technology, that good software is just one part of the solution.
  • We hear from the Wikileaks folks that the premise behind these news articles is actually false -- they didn't bootstrap Wikileaks by monitoring the Tor network.
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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...? 
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WikiLeaks - About - 2 views

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

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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.
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WikiLeaks and Tor: Moral use of an amoral system? | Invisible Inkling - 0 views

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  • Reading the New Yorker’s piece on WikiLeaks, it’s hard to decide whether I’m reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, both.
  • The Tor Project blog responds, pointing out that Tor doesn't magically encrypt text, it simply allows for the anonymous transfer of files. So if you use unsecure connections and send data in plain text, it's just as safe as writing down the information on a piece of paper, folding it into an airplane, and throwing it across the street.
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From Facebook to WikiLeaks: Addressing privacy and security | EHR Watch - 0 views

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  • One can argue whether the privacy provisions were weakened or not. In the case of the WikiLeaks, Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, got to the heart of the matter when she said, "What WikiLeaks shows you is how security information is all about the integrity of individuals." The bottom line is that someone in the State Dept. leaked the documents. No iron-clad privacy provision in the world can protect against a person leaking information - whether it's paper based or computerized. Brase went on to say, "Once you get information on any kind of electronic format, it is very easy to take it, to access it, to share it, to download it."
  • The silver lining in the WikiLeaks scandal is that it puts a laser focus on privacy and security issues, which are things we need to keep working on to make it right.
  • Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
     
    An interesting view of WikiLeaks through the perspective of health care and privacy information. Argues that security information relies on integrity of individuals.
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Twitter data privacy in dispute in WikiLeaks case - Technology & science - Security - m... - 1 views

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  • The dispute cuts to the core of the question of whether WikiLeaks allies are part of a criminal conspiracy or a political discussion
  • The U.S. is investigating whether WikiLeaks should be held responsible for leaking classified information, even though it was not the original leaker.
  • "The First Amendment guarantees their right to speak up and freely associate with even unpopular people and cause," attorneys wrote.
  • Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
     
    How exactly would the U.S. government hold WikiLeaks responsible (i.e. Would they identify a person within the organization, the entire organization etc.) Who determines whether WikiLeaks "are part of a criminal conspiracy or a political discussion"?
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WikiLeaks to release over half a million 9/11 intercepts - 1 views

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    • Hadley Stein
      Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
       
      Are there circumstances where the Wikileaks are specific enough that the source ultimately comes out? If so, does this dissuade people from potentially revealing information?
  • While we are obligated by to protect our sources, it is clear that the information comes from an organization which has been intercepting and archiving US national telecommunications since prior to 9/11.
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Collateral Murder - 0 views

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  • WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 16 Mar 11
       
      Wikileaks emphasizes its overall mission
  • Update: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist)
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 16 Mar 11
       
      One of the most famous and graphic files released by wikileaks.
  • The Apache crew and those behind the cover up depicted in the video have yet to be charged.
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  • He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait.
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