Google has enabled encrypted searching using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) which it says will prevent "employers and internet service providers" from reading what is sent. The possibility that employers and ISPs might be watching peoples' search traffic clearly concerns Google, and it has often concerned employees.

I knew it was privacy and anonymity, I was testing you sir.

Madness?

Excellent find! Keep it up.

"The study had asked 200 students at the university to abstain from using all media for 24 hours. They then had to blog about their experiences"

"Obnoxious Pentagon spokesperson issues formal threat against WikiLeaks: Destroy everything, or else." The US Defense Department has formally asked WikiLeaks to delete all copies of military documents it has received and return any documents not yet published. Founder Julian Assange has rejected offer

Wikileaks began life in December 2006 with a promise to publish leaked sensitive government or corporate documents, after verifying their authenticity. It promises to protect the anonymity of its contributors. At the bottom of the article there is some information about Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo account and other documents released by wikileaks.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.