Category: Operating Thetan
A central figure in the famous Wikileaks/Manning "cablegate" case from last year is Adrian Lamo, the "homeless hacker" who ratted out Manning to the feds and led to the latter's imprisonment. I first met Lamo about ten years ago, when he surprisingly took me up on an offer to spend the night in my New York apartment and come in to talk to a high school networking class I was teaching at the time. (He was called the homeless hacker because he didn't have a fixed address, not because he was living on the streets.)Continue
A British court has agreed to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden to face rape charges. His attorneys have said they will appeal the decision.Continue
"You've angered the hive," said Anonymous, in response to the efforts of security firm HBGary's attempts to infiltrate and expose its inner workings. As we reported yesterday, the loose collective of online vigilantes - Anonymous - responded to a story in the The Financial Times and the actions of HBGary's CEO Aaron Barr by hacking into the company's systems and releasing tens of thousands of its emails and documents.Continue
The contentious whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks has ruffled so many feathers that it's been shut down not just in the countries we think of as repressive, but in those we like to think are open. Because of that, mirror sites have proliferated. But accompanying the mirrors are clones. Clone sites reproduce access to some or all of the material available on the home site or serve a similar function as WikiLeaks but independently of that group. All of them add value by focusing on a specific concern or geography.Continue
In September, a number of prominent personnel from the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, left that organization. They argued that its founder, Julian Assange, was autocratic and heedless of the safety of those whose names appeared in the leaks the organization released. He also over-focused on the U.S. and his political goals were untenable.Continue
Well, that didn't take long. The unofficial WikiLeaks app has been yanked from the Apple Store. The app was approved on December 17, but yesterday developer Igor Barinov received word that the app was removed from sale.
Apple is by no means the first or only tech company to take this sort of action against WikiLeaks information. It joins the ranks of Amazon, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, and Tableau Software in closing the doors to WikiLeaks. Continue
Julian Assange, leader of the whistle blower website Wikileaks, has won the reader's poll at TIME Magazine for Person of the Year in 2010, the magazine announced today. Assange won with more than three hundred and eighty two thousand votes, more than double the second place finisher, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergodan.
TIME Editors will ultimately make the Person of the Year selection and it's sure to be controversial whether they choose Assange or not. The winner will be announced on the TV show Good Morning America this Wednesday. Continue
As we mentioned before, "Wikileaks was not a story, but an ongoing continuum of stories . . . It's a story that is destined to keep on giving." In that short time since that post, it has indeed done just that. Continue
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