Wikileaks

[Swiftdude]

soooooo........the dude that made wikileaks is now behind bars . he got charged for a sex offender in sweeden or britain....maybe both? sad thing is they still have nothing on him for releasing anything ... i asked one of my teachers if you could be charged for war crimes...he said not yet. but he prolly will get charged for it sometime

/discuss

[Ian]

read this, it's very interesting and easy words to understand..

WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure from the United States and its allies since it began posting the first of more than 250,000 U.S. State Department documents November 28.

Since then, the site has been hit with denial-of-service attacks, been kicked off servers in the United States and France, and found itself cut off from funds in the United States and Switzerland.

In response, the site has rallied supporters to mirror its content "in order to make it impossible to ever fully remove WikiLeaks from the internet," with more than 500 sites responding to the appeal by Monday evening, it said.

WikiLeaks has also posted a massive, closely encrypted file, identified as "insurance" -- a file Assange's lawyer has described as a "thermonuclear device." Assange has said the more than 100,000 people who have downloaded the file will receive the key to decoding it should anything happen to him or should the site be taken down.

"The insurance file will only be activated in the gravest of circumstances if WikiLeaks is no longer operational," Hrafnson said.

Ira Winkler, a former National Security Agency analyst, said the file is nearly impossible to decode without the key.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said he has authorized "significant" actions related to a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks, saying U.S. national security has been put at risk.

"We are doing everything that we can," Holder said Monday, though he declined to answer questions about the possibility that the U.S. government could shut down WikiLeaks.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the leaked information is also a danger to British national security, calling the leaks "reprehensible" and "irresponsible."

"Governments have to be able to transmit confidential information, to share confidential information, of course, for them to be able to go about their job," Hague told CNN affiliate ITN. "We think it can be a danger to our national security."

Holder also refused to say whether the actions involved search warrants or requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes wiretaps or other means, describing them only as "significant."

Asked Tuesday in Afghanistan for his response to the arrest, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, "I haven't heard that, but it sounds like good news to me."

Source: CNN

[Zen]

He did nothng Illegal as long as he himself didnt obtain those documents illegally.

[lockdown6435]

I'm glad someone is finally sticking up against government. But the sad thing is government's are trying to shut him down with fear tactics. He is facing two problems right now though:

1.)Financial problems, since he run completely on donations, and credit card companies are slowly not allowing people to donate using their visa/mastercard i think it is.

2.)Threatening of censorship of the government. From all government's and countries that is. SInce his soon to be released insurance, encrypted files are basically going to give names of informants among other things, we are forced to do Nothing. But then again i'm proud of one man standing up for what's right.

EDIT: By the way, the encrypted file is 256 characters long, and only Julian knows the code.

[Ali]

wikileaks is a proof then US goverment is fucking every nations he deals with

[CyberGenius]

wikileaks is a proof then US goverment is fucking every nations he deals with

I dont understand? what you mean by that!

[Spartanlol]

I'm glad someone is finally sticking up against government. But the sad thing is government's are trying to shut him down with fear tactics. He is facing two problems right now though:

1.)Financial problems, since he run completely on donations, and credit card companies are slowly not allowing people to donate using their visa/mastercard i think it is.

EDIT: By the way, the encrypted file is 256 characters long, and only Julian knows the code.

The Mastercard and Visa card not being able to be donated should not be aloud, People should spend money on what they want.

And sound's like someone needs too be Waterboarded.

And it means our Goverment is handling this the wrong way. ( Hope I'm not Wrong?)

[[MPGH]Austin]

hes australian

his hosting server is somewere in northern europe.

he released shit about americans and other countries.

its all international.

anything other than war crimes, are fake charges.

[Heartview]

BLAME THE US GOVERMENT FOR EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENS!!!!

>.>
And I read somewhere in Ian's post about them having a fucking thermonuclear bomb? And they will set it off if wikileaks gets shut down? Quite frankly, that sounds as bad as some of the stuff the goverment does.

[Canadian]

Fuck the united states of america.

[Swiftdude]

I dont understand? what you mean by that!

that were bitches to all other countries? but he should be tried for war crimes soon...

[Canadian]

that were bitches to all other countries? but he should be tried for war crimes soon...

He's proving that the american government are a bunch of fucking lying piece of shits.

[Spartanlol]

He's proving that the american government are a bunch of fucking lying piece of shits.

I think it's time to move too Canada. At least they won't get nuked "Eh".

[Swiftdude]

He's proving that the american government are a bunch of fucking lying piece of shits.

its not just us hes talking about...were the main shit but he has stuff on all the countries.

[Krypton1x]

Haha, that sucks for him.