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Randall Bass

EDITORIAL - The Abuse of Private Manning - Editorial - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Randall Bass on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • And every morning he is required to stand outside his cell, naked, until he passes inspection and is given his clothes back.
  • Forced nudity is a classic humiliation technique. During the early years of the Bush administration's war on terror, C.I.A. interrogators regularly stripped prisoners to break down barriers of resistance, increase compliance and extract information.
  • Far more troubling is why President Obama, who has forcefully denounced prisoner abuse, is condoning this treatment.
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  • Philip Crowley, a State Department spokesman, committed the classic mistake of a Washington mouthpiece by telling the truth about Private Manning to a small group (including a blogger): that the military's treatment of Private Manning was ''ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.'' He resigned on Sunday.
    • Randall Bass
      Randall Bass on 10 May 11
       
      shows the abusive techniques of his captors
  • Shida Zhang on 25 Mar 11
     
    "President Obama, who has forcefully denounced prisoner abuse, is condoning the abusive treatment to Manning. 
Lee Stromberg

All- Found this event in GU Weekly Events Email - 4 views

Video Contest for Cyber Civility Sponsored by: Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies - Technology Management Details: Do you believe in the right to free speech online without fear o...

started by Lee Stromberg on 27 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Ian Palm

Data Mining - the effects of browsing - 5 views

The following article shows a few methods to block people from mining data. http://www.minousoft.com/2010/12/a-few-notes-on-technology-wikileaks-data-mining-and-privacy/

Data Mining Privacy

started by Ian Palm on 13 Apr 11 1 follow-up, last by Ian Palm on 13 Apr 11
Randall Bass

Anonymous and attacks on 'anti-wikileaks' sites - 4 views

Ian--I like these questions. That is, even if you understand what denial of service attack is, it still raises the question of how does one launch one, how easy is it to do so, etc.?

Anonymous

started by Ian Palm on 03 Apr 11 1 follow-up, last by Randall Bass on 03 Apr 11
Randall Bass

L. Gordon Crovitz: From WikiLeaks to OpenLeaks | Full Comment | National Post - 0 views

fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...tz-from-wikileaks-to-openleaks

Openleaks distributed

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  • Randall Bass on 03 Apr 11
     
    Another good piece on the differences between WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks. This one also emphasizes that distribution of responsibility for vetting documents, checking validity, and making determinations about security breaches, etc. to the publishers. The notion of distributed intelligence and distribute responsibility is a key Web concept that has many manifestations. But this is an interesting and important version of it. "Distributed intelligence" is also one of those concepts that has both social and technological implications. 
Randall Bass

Difference Between Wikileaks and Openleaks | Difference Between | Wikileaks vs Openleaks - 0 views

www.differencebetween.com/etween-wikileaks-and-openleaks

Openleaks distributed intelligence

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  • Randall Bass on 03 Apr 11
     
    A basic and useful article on the differences between Wikileaks and Openaleaks. Chief among them that Openleaks claims to be politically neutral. However, there is also a key technical and functional difference in that Openleaks does not store documents but merely acts as a middleman site between whistleblowers and publishers. 
Nicole Wallace

The Impact of Wikileaks and the Federal Pay Freeze: Today's Q's for O's WH - 11/29/2010... - 1 views

blogs.abcnews.com/...reeze-todays-qs-for-os-wh.html

Interview

shared by Nicole Wallace on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  •   And I wouldn't rule anything out. 
    • Nicole Wallace
      Nicole Wallace on 31 Mar 11
       
      It's is interesting here that even with the release of the documents the government is still trying to keep the public in the dark. Gibbs speaks in very general statements.
Shida Zhang

Hacker group releases BofA employee correspondence | Reuters - 1 views

www.reuters.com/...a-emails-idUKTRE72D1WK20110314

shared by Shida Zhang on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Consumer groups have accused major U.S. lenders of foreclosing on many homes without having proper documentation in place.
  • The group's email release also includes correspondence between Anonymous and the former employee, in which the former employee described the bank as a "cult" and said the company is now intent on destroying his career.
  • They saw to that when they showed everyone my picture and labelled me as a terrorist."
Nicole Wallace

All About WikiLeaks - 0 views

www.financialexpress.com/...717798

Wikileaks Description

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  • —had put US troops and Afghan informers at risk
    • Nicole Wallace
      Nicole Wallace on 21 Mar 11
       
      This raises an interesting question. Maybe certain information is kept from the public for the safety of others. If this is the case is keeping certain information secret of more importance then keeping the people informed in order to avoid corruption? The problem with this is how does one decide what information is dangerous and what is not?
Nicole Wallace

WikiLeaks: Japan Was Warned About Nuclear Plant Safety, Cables Show - 0 views

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Japanese powerplant

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  • The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week's earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      I read Tyler's "irrelevant but relevant" article on the problems of nuclear power reactors/how they work/their safety and decided to try and find a direct connection with Wikileaks.
  • The overall picture that emerges from the cables is of a government afraid of interfering with the powerful nuclear industry, which supplies about one-third of Japan's electricity.
  • Another cable sent from Tokyo to Washington in October 2008 alleged that the government had hidden past nuclear accidents. In 2008, Taro Kono -- a senior member of Japan's lower house of parliament -- told U.S. diplomats that the ministry of economy, trade and industry was "covering up nuclear accidents, and obscuring the true costs and problems associated with the nuclear industry."
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  • . But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Nicole Wallace
      Nicole Wallace on 21 Mar 11
       
      Now that there is the potential for private documents to be leaked because of the founding of Wikileaks, will this prevent governments, corportations etc. from doing things behind the public's back? If Japan had known that papers would be revealed demonstrating that the disaster could have been avoided would they have gone to greater lengths to have tried to prevent the atmomic disaster?
Ian Palm

OpenLeaks, Wikileaks' successor - 8 views

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/commentary/content/fisher_gillespie_etal.html

OpenLeaks

started by Ian Palm on 18 Mar 11 3 follow-ups, last by Ian Palm on 20 Mar 11
Duncan Gillespie

Wikileaks: Saudi King Proposed Micro-Chip Implants for Gitmo Detainees - ABC News - 0 views

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  • Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah proposed that the Obama administration implant electronic micro-chips into the bodies of Guantanamo Bay detainees to track their movements when they are released, a leaked State Department cable shows.
  • Brennan responded politely, explaining that "horses don't have good lawyers" and the idea would likely face stiff opposition from civil libertarians in the U.S.
  • A recent Pentagon analysis found that around 20 percent of former Guantanamo detainees have returned to the fight against the U.S. and continues to climb.
Duncan Gillespie

WikiLeaks Archive - Haggling Over Guantánamo Detainees - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...30gitmo.html

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  • American diplomats went looking for countries that were not only willing to take in former prisoners but also could be trusted to keep them under close watch. In a global bazaar of sorts, the American officials sweet-talked and haggled with their foreign counterparts in an effort to resettle the detainees who had been cleared for release but could not be repatriated for fear of mistreatment, the cables show.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      Wikileaks cables show US deperately trying to get rid of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo.
Duncan Gillespie

Saudi Arabia's King Suggests Tracking Prisoners with Microchips - 0 views

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  • Saudi King Abdullah welcomed White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, S/WCI Ambassador Williamson, and Ambassador Fraker to his private palace March 15 for a 90-minute discussion focused on U.S. Saudi-relations, counterterrorism cooperation, the Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees, Iran, and Iraq.
  • HOW TO TRACK DETAINEES: “I’ve just thought of something,” the King added, and proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth. This was done with horses and falcons, the King said.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      A very odd suggestion from the King of Saudi Arabia.
  • Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
     
    Released Wikileaks Cable from 09
Duncan Gillespie

Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables - Yahoo! News - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...elations-from-wikileaks-cables

shared by Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • On Sunday, five international news outlets published a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the website WikiLeaks.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      The scope of "calbegate" is massive. It would be interesting to learn how a news agency would pour through such a enourmous repository of documents.
  • According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to "cut off the head of the snake"
  • 3. The Obama administration offered sweeteners to try to get other countries to take Guantanamo detainees, as part of its (as yet unsuccessful) effort to close the prison. Slovenia, for instance, was offered a meeting with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions.
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  • 7. The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts. The country's security services were "hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals," according to one cable.
  • Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
     
    Helpful to get a breakdown of the overall takeaways from some of the Wikileaks documents that an individual wouldn't be able to do on one's own.
Adam Rosenfeld

Will the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship? | E... - 1 views

www.eff.org/...ise-wikileaks-competitors-make

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  • When payment providers, service providers and even visualization software services cut off services, Wikileaks struggled to keep their site online, going down for periods of time and reducing the content they carry. But while the availability of Wikileaks content was restricted, the demand from readers and media organizations to access that information stayed strong. Now a new generation of Wikileaks-inspired websites is populating the Internet — decentralizing the concept of whistleblowing and making it harder to shut down speech merely by cutting off services to one site.
  • Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
     
    Short but very interesting article that touches on the phenomenon of multiple other websites similar to wikileaks springing up when wikileaks is attacked. Wikileaks has created a demand for such information and when the website is attacked by payment and service providers, other websites have stepped up to fill the void. Also, lots of interesting links built into this piece.
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."
Adam Rosenfeld

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

articles.philly.com/...iplomatic-documents-law-school

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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.
Lee Stromberg

BBC News - Bradley Manning wins support from Welsh MP and friends - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...uk-wales-12795170

manning

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  • he issue of Pte Manning's treatment has been raised with President Obama He said he had received assurances that the terms of Pte Manning's confinement were "appropriate".
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      That probably couldn't get any more vague
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      That probably couldn't get any more vague
  • Bradley Manning's detention at a high security US military prison has seen protests taken to the White House
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Has anyone seen this downtown?
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Has anyone seen this downtown?
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Manning gains Welsh support and his situation strains governmental popularity both in the US and UK
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  • But there has been mounting concern about the conditions he is being held in at a military prison.
  • She added: "While I consider myself a friend of the Americans, I think it ill becomes them to treat one of their own soldiers in this way before he has been convicted, before he has been tried."
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