Facing a booing crowd in Europe, a PayPal executive tried to explain why his company blocked donations to WikiLeaks. He cited a letter from the State Department calling the secrets-sharing site illegal. Sadly for him, no such letter exists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, which has drawn governmental criticism from around the globe for its release of classified American documents and whose founder, Julian Assange, is being held in Britain on accusations of sex offenses.
Targets included Mastercard.com, which stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which revoked server space from the group; the online payment service PayPal, which cut off its commercial cooperation; the lawyer representing the two Swedish women who have accused Mr Assange in the sex case; and PostFinance, the Swiss postal system’s financial arm, which closed Mr Assange’s account after saying he provided false information by saying that he resided in Switzerland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s foreign minister has said the US is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks, not its Australian founder, Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest document release by WikiLeaks has attracted predictable condemnation from those who have a vested interest in maintaining a veil of secrecy over their activities. To a large extent the Australian media have missed the point of the document disclosures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.
His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.
Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US regards the Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, as an abrasive, impulsive ”control freak” who presided over a series of foreign policy blunders during his time as prime minister, according to a series of secret diplomatic cables.
The scathing assessment, detailed in messages sent by the US embassy in Canberra to the secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton over several years, are among hundreds of US State Department cables relating to Australia obtained by WikiLeaks and made available exclusively to the Herald. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of academics is proposing a system of underground tunnels which could deliver food and other goods in all weathers with massive energy savings.
The Foodtubes group wants to put goods in metal capsules 2m long, which are shifted through underground polyethylene tubes at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour, directed by linear induction motors and routed by intelligent software to their destinations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
After years of planning and months of delays, the search giant Google started its e-book venture on Monday, creating a potentially robust competitor in the digital book market to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will be asked to investigate a fake letter from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) which demanded money from a user for breaching copyright law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’m (was?) a Twitter user. This past week I found it utterly weird that none of the words #wikileaks, #cablegate, #cables, #Assange were actually trending
. I even tweeted about this 5 days ago. Today, my fears of secret censorship seem to be coming true. It appears that Twitter is censoring all these words, so they don’t appear in the (much-used) Twitter trends
list. Update 1: A Twitter staffer replied to the blog post saying that their trending algorithm doesn’t always result to the most popular terms. Update 2: More investigation about what might be going on — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers are tracking a new botnet that has become one of the more active DDoS networks on the Internet since its emergence early last month. The botnet, dubbed Darkness
, is being controlled by several domains hosted in Russia and its operators are boasting that it can take down large sites with as few as 1,000 bots — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anonymous has launched a broad-ranging campaign in support of WikiLeaks, starting with a DDoS assault on a PayPal website.
The denial of service attack lasted for eight hours and resulted in numerous service disruptions, Panda Security reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nimbula — the build-your-own-cloud startup founded by Amazon’s former vice president of engineering — has released a public beta of its so-called cloud operating system, Nimbula Director — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of almost 200 prominent names have appealed to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to defend WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The hackers responsible for hitting parliamentary websites with denial of service attacks could face jail time of up to 10 years, police have said — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has again been unable to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A single licence for Avast security software has been used by 774,651 people after it went viral on a file-sharing site, according to the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been accused of possibly prejudicing any future case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by claiming he is guilty of illegality
for leaking US diplomatic cables — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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