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In a statement on its website, e-Dot declares that:

• WikiLeaks.nl will be hosted by Byte, which will be supported by XS4ALL;
• it cannot be of assistance to Wikileaks without the possibility of affecting the interests of other customers;
• it has never passed (a moral) judgment on WikiLeaks;
• the domain name was registered at e-Dot two years ago and the recent upheaval has come as a surprise to e-Dot;
• e-Dot has not been put under pressure to cease support of WikiLeaks;

(my summary and translation)

Dutch language press release: http://www.e-dot.nl/content/mededeling/79/

XS4ALL has been co-founded by Rop Gonggrijp, one of the “co-producers” (Dutch language video in which Gonggrijp explains his role) of the classified US military video in Iraq and one of two named people besides Assange, apparently essential to the release of that video according to this article: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38309

Previously:

Gonggrijp: Hackers must save the internet
http://vrritti.com/2010/07/05/gonggrijp-hackers-must-save-the-internet-and-civil-rights-and-the-freedom-of-the-press/

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday he and his client were in the process of arranging to meet British police.

http://tinyurl.com/22pp73b

…especially when it is acting to both protect itself from institutional critics and protect its founders from prosecution for crimes that are, depressingly, typically evaded by powerful men.

One other question: Doesn’t this secret cache of emergency documents contravene the idea that all information should be freely available? Now, rather than serving the governments or corporations it was lifted from, or at least public awareness, it appears that WikiLeaks is using the power of that information for its own benefit.

http://tinyurl.com/25b2nyv

with the publication of data which will be useful background reading for any would-be terrorist, the situation has changed. Wikileaks is now no longer just a nuisance or a purveyor of embarrassing diplomatic information; they may potentially be aiding and abetting terrorists and foreign powers wishing in future to strike at vulnerable targets in the West.

What does that mean in reality? If attacks do take place, and can in any way be linked to the data that Wikileaks has made public, Mr Assange and his colleagues should regarded as accomplices

More: http://tinyurl.com/2fpjowm

“PostFinance has ended its business relationship with Wikileaks founder Julian Paul Assange. The Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process. Assange entered Geneva as his domicile. Upon inspection, this information was found to be incorrect. Assange cannot provide proof of residence in Switzerland and thus does not meet the criteria for a customer relationship with PostFinance. For this reason, PostFinance is entitled to close his account. If there is any indication that the information provided by an account holder may not comply with the detailed valid provisions, PostFinance investigates the circumstances in detail and draws the appropriate conclusions.

Much more: http://tinyurl.com/2a2fhhc

Sweden has now supplied all the information requested from the British police relating to an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, its state prosecution authority said on Monday.

“Director of Prosecution Ms. Marianne Ny has supplied the British Police with the requested additional information,” the prosecution authority said in a statement. “The matter is being dealt with by competent judicial authorities, as defined in the European Arrest Warrant Act.”

British police have received the arrest warrant, a source said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6B53XK20101206

It just seems bizarre to me — and I’m curious to know whether it seems bizarre to you too — that the biggest global news story of the year would fail to trend under these circumstances.

Twitter has not come out with any official response yet, nor has Technolog received any from a request made earlier today.

http://tinyurl.com/28bj9qw

The Swiss post office bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

http://tinyurl.com/32dd642

Games producers use a simple technique based on a 1950s study of rats feeding themselves by pressing a lever

http://tinyurl.com/2cqvqbv

While it wasn’t immediately clear why, he said it was probably due to a distributed denial of service attack — a technique in which remote computers hijacked by rogue programs jam a website with massive amounts of data.

In a brief tweet to its followers, WikiLeaks said simply that it was having difficulty with its PRQ severs.

“We are investigating cause,” the organization said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=12322155

The organization Anonymous, an informal but intensive group of hackers and activists, called on its supporters Sunday to attack sites of companies that aren’t supporting WikiLeaks and to spread the leaked material online.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/06/More-than-200-sites-copy-WikiLeaks-content/UPI-97061291643698/

Previously:

http://vrritti.com/2010/07/19/why-do-anonymous-geeks-hate-scientologists/

The Swiss Pirate Party, which is now hosting WikiLeaks, says it was getting about 3,000 visitors per second yesterday.

Assange is also turning to Switzerland’s credit and postal systems. The website shows that he’s seeking donations to an account under his name through the Swiss postal system. He’s also using a Swiss-Icelandic credit card processing system.

http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.international/24d84255-www.wlos.com.shtml

Previously:

WikiLeaks registers company in Iceland
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/13/3065456.htm

Wikileaks starts company in Icelandic apartment
A new business which has been founded in Iceland by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, is registered to a block of flats in the Mosfellsbaer municipality near Reykjavik. A Wikileaks spokesperson says that, as yet, the company is not involved in any activity and has no turnover. The brand new company registered on behalf of Wikileaks is called Sunshine Press Production – the same as the formal international name of Wikileaks, RUV reports. The chairman of the company is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and he shares the board of directors with filmmaker Ingi Ragnar Ingason and journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson. The deputy board member is Gavin MacFadyen, a professor of journalism in London. The company is registered at the home address of one of the board members at Klapparhlid in Mosfellsbaer. Kristinn Hrafnsson told RUV that the company is not engaged in any economic activity in Iceland yet and it is not clear what it will eventually do to make money. No staff have yet been hired and no premises rented or purchased. In the description of the business held by the national register of companies, Sunshine Press will work, among other things, in the production and distribution of multimedia material, pictures, printed and press material.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/11/13/wikileaks-starts-company-in-icelandic-apartment/

WikiLeaks has released a secret list of key infrastructure sites around the world whose loss or attack by terrorists could “critically impact” US security.

http://tinyurl.com/3yh3lge

CHRISTOPHER “MOOT” POOLE – 4CHAN, ORY OKOLLOH - USHAHIDI, JODY McINTYRE – LIFE ON WHEELS, HAN HAN – BLOGGER, PETER SUNDE – THE PIRATE BAY, WALID AL-SAQAF – YEMEN PORTAL, TOM STEINBERG – MYSOCIETY

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/28/internet-radicals-world-wide-web