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WikiLeaks Cable And Links To Child Abuse Images Embedded Into The BitCoin Blockchain
Posted: 2013/05/06 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsThe information that was published is now going to be in public domain forever More: http://www.btcpedia.com/ped0-links-in-bitcoin-blockchain/ See also: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191039.msg1980099#msg1980099 http://garzikrants.blogspot.nl/2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam-and-evil-data.html https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11381.0 Dutch language news article: http://daskapital.nl/2013/05/zo_kwam_er_kinderporno_in_de_b_1.html
WikiLeaks’ Assange: Companies That Issue Certificates Are Either Corrupt Or They Can Be Hacked
Posted: 2013/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data ProtectionDutch language news article: https://www.security.nl/artikel/46040/1/Julian_Assange_wil_nieuw_cryptosysteem_ontwikkelen.html See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=diginotar&submit=Search
Supreme Court of Iceland rules firm must process donations for WikiLeaks, whether the firm likes it or not
Posted: 2013/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsOn Wednesday, the Icelandic Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling finding that Valitor (formerly VISA Iceland) had illegally terminated a contract with DataCell, WikiLeaks’ Icelandic Web host, thereby stopping processing donations to the embattled site. Valitor will now be forced to pay 800,000 Icelandic krónur ($6,824) per day if the gateway to WikiLeaks donations […]
Wikileaks launches searchable archive of government records, but nobody cares…
Posted: 2013/04/09 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution…except maybe those wanted by the U.S. government… http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57578420-38/wikileaks-launches-searchable-archive-of-government-records/
Blast From The Past: “I guess all I can say is I’ll take what I can get” (Cyberbunker, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, CB3ROB, XTC, Porn, Pirate Bay, WikiLeaks, Fake WHOIS, Leaked Prefix, IP Tunnel)
Posted: 2013/03/28 in Copyright, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Net Neutrality, Network Security, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution“I guess all I can say is I’ll take what I can get” Source: http://hermes-grp.com/spammers/cb3robthreat.txt “From a reliable source I have learned that SIDN doesn’t like the fact that their customer leaves his offices to head for Arnhem with a couple of friends and some metal objects. Very good method to ‘advise’ them to provide some […]
Bradley Manning: “I am the type of person who likes to know how things work. And, as an analyst, this means I always want to figure out the truth” (WikiLeaks)
Posted: 2013/03/17 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsA press freedom group has released the illegally recorded testimony of Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old Army private who leaked documents that came to be known as Wikileaks. The organization obtained Manning’s testimony even though the military banned recording devices from the trial. The Press Freedom Foundation released Manning’s February testimony, giving the public its first […]
Manning first tried to leak the millions of war documents he had to two leading US newspapers – and was turned away (WikiLeaks)
Posted: 2013/03/01 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsManning said a message he left at the New York Times was not returned, and a reporter at The Washington Post didn’t take him seriously. He also considered contacting the website Politico, but ultimately didn’t approach them because of bad weather conditions. Spokespeople for the Post and the Times both said today that those newspapers […]
Jemima Khan, once a strong ally of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, has lashed out at the whistleblower
Posted: 2013/02/07 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports…comparing him to the father of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard after he criticized a film about WikiLeaks that she produced. On Wednesday, Khan, who is an associate editor of the New Statesman, wrote a several-page article about her relations with Assange, accusing him of becoming a cult and warning the whistleblower he might end up […]
Pirate Bay’s Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Helped Wikileaks On Several Fronts Among Which War Video Publication & Site Hosting
Posted: 2013/02/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe upcoming Pirate Bay documentary TPB AFK will highlight some under-reported details about the connection between the BitTorrent site and Wikileaks. Among other things, Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was credited for his involvement in getting the “Collateral Murder” video out to the public. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, further recalls travelling to […]
Iceland interior minister says he refused to help FBI’s WikiLeaks investigation in 2011
Posted: 2013/02/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy, Stats / reportsIceland’s interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country’s police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of the secret-busting site. Ogmundur Jonasson told The Associated Press that he was upset when he found out that FBI […]
WikiLeaks: Internet activist Aaron Swartz assisted the organization, was in contact with Julian Assange, and may have been one of the organization’s sources
Posted: 2013/01/20 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57564881-83/wikileaks-says-aaron-swartz-may-have-been-a-source/ Previously: Aaron Swartz Discovered That There Are Only Bad People…And Bad People Pretending To Be Good People http://vrritti.com/2013/01/19/aaron-swartz-discovered-that-there-are-only-bad-people-and-bad-people-pretending-to-be-good-people/
Forget WikiLeaks: Massive espionage malware targeting governments undetected for 5 years
Posted: 2013/01/14 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsResearchers have uncovered an ongoing, large-scale computer espionage network that’s targeting hundreds of diplomatic, governmental, and scientific organizations in at least 39 countries, including the Russian Federation, Iran, and the United States. Operation Red October, as researchers from antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab have dubbed the highly coordinated campaign, has been active since 2007, raising the […]
Jacob Appelbaum, a hacktivist and Wikileaks volunteer, opened Europe’s largest annual hacker meeting, the Chaos Computer Club conference, by warning that state security services are quickly building up their surveillance networks
Posted: 2013/01/01 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionHe warned that U.S. data center “wants to spy on all of us,” calling such surveillance an attack on human dignity. Will he now go and imprison himself for his own role in all this? Action = – Reaction AND vice versa… More: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=130004HFKKYK http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/28/jacob-appelbaum-on-resisting-the-surveillance-state/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=appelbaum&submit=Search
PayPal Bans BitTorrent, WikiLeaks & ‘North American Man-Boy Love Association’ Friendly Hosting Provider PRQ
Posted: 2012/12/24 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Online advertising, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsPRQ, the infamous ISP created by Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm of The Pirate Bay, has been nuked by PayPal. After a fruitful partnership lasting three years, PayPal decided to ruin their relationship with the so-called “bullet-proof” hoster by freezing the company’s funds for up to 180 days. On PayPal’s advice PRQ opened a second […]
WikiLeaks’ Assange: I’m In An Ecuadorian Prison, Please Let Me Out! And By The Way, I’m Going To Release 1 Million Secret Documents
Posted: 2012/12/20 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsYeah, that will generate a lot of sympathy dude…Sweden and U.S. will now definitely be in a hurry to talk you out of there… Dutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2988294/assange-roept-onderhandelingen-.html See also: Julian Assange: Wikileaks to release ‘million more files in 2013′ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20806355 Julian Assange addresses supporters outside Ecuadorean Embassy in London http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9759853/Julian-Assange-addresses-supporters-outside-Ecuadorean-Embassy-in-London.html
Christmas address: WikiLeaks’ Assange to outline battle plan for 2013
Posted: 2012/12/20 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reportsJulian Assange is due to appear on a low-level balcony of London’s Ecuadorian Embassy at 19:00 Thursday to deliver his Christmas speech More: http://rt.com/news/assange-embassy-christmas-address-440/
Swedish Pirate Party targets banks over WikiLeaks blockade
Posted: 2012/12/19 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe Swedish Pirate Party has filed a complaint against the country’s banks over their involvement in the financial blockade of the controversial whistleblower site WikiLeaks. International payment companies refused to process donations to WikiLeaks in December 2010 after the site published confidential diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world. The Swedish Pirate Party, which […]
New group – co-founded by EFF activist – acts as financially shielded middleman for WikiLeaks, others
Posted: 2012/12/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsA new coalition of transparency advocates have come together to provide a new way for donors to give money to WikiLeaks and like-minded groups using traditional methods, including credit cards, PayPal and others. The move is the latest way WikiLeaks has been poking holes in its financial blockade. The newly-minted Freedom of the Press Foundation […]
WikiLeaks’ Assange: Penetration of Facebook is larger than penetration of the Stasi in East Germany
Posted: 2012/12/08 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsAccording to Assange, we are trapped in “strategic interception, where everything flowing out of or into a country – and for some countries domestically as well – is intercepted and stored permanently.” “It’s more efficient to take and store everything than it is to work out who you want to intercept,” he concludes. Besides, as […]
British ‘Anonymous’ hacker faces jail for £3.5m cyber-attack on PayPal because it wouldn’t process WikiLeaks donations
Posted: 2012/12/07 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence, Network Security, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reportsChristopher Weatherhead found guilty of hacking several major websites Court heard he wanted to ‘rape’ and ‘kill’ the companies under attack Three others have admitted joining cyber-campaign to cause sites to crash Victims’ websites would get message: ‘You’ve tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung.’ Victim […]
TNO Scientist Jaap-Henk Hoepman Uses WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay & MegaUpload For ‘Hacking Back’ FUD
Posted: 2012/12/03 in Copyright, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe Dutch government is contemplating new powers for the Dutch police, among which the capability to hack computer systems of cyber criminals in certain specific cases and only in relation to serious threats. The activity is called ‘hacking back’. TNO Scientist Jaap-Henk Hoepman is wondering when ‘hacking back’ will truly be justified and argues that […]
EU: Card firms’ block on WikiLeaks did not break rules
Posted: 2012/11/27 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsA block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by Visa Europe and other credit card companies is unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday. DataCell, a company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, complained to the Commission about Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and American Express Co after they stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks in […]
Promoting Bahnhof Again: Deep Inside The Former WikiLeaks Lair
Posted: 2012/11/21 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsThat bunker, called Pionen White Mountains is located just south of Stockholm. Nearly 20 years after Sweden’s Civil Defense decommissioned it, Karlung converted it into a data center. A few years ago, it was briefly the most famous data center in the planet — home to WikiLeaks. More: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/bahnhof/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=bahnhof&submit=Search
WikiLeaks’ Assange Is Essentially Imprisoned. And He Doesn’t Like It
Posted: 2012/11/11 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy, Stats / reportshttp://rt.com/news/assange-leave-embassy-judge-443/ Previously: Did Julian Assange Just Put Himself In A Prison That’s Really Cheap To Maintain For The Americans And The Swedes? (WikiLeaks) http://vrritti.com/2012/08/21/did-julian-assange-just-put-himself-in-a-prison-thats-really-cheap-to-maintain-for-the-americans-and-the-swedes-wikileaks/
