Cho đến ngày 22-12-2010 đã có 1862 điện văn được tung ra (TẢI VỀ MÁY 1862 điện văn)Độc giả có nhu cầu tìm hiểu xin tải về máy:
1- Hồ Sơ Excell. Sơ đồ tên các nước liên quan và số lượng điện văn-Những mật ngữ Điện Văn .
2- Hồ Sơ Excell.. Toàn bộ 251 ngàn Tiêu Đề tên các Điện Văn
3- Phim tài Liệu về nhóm Wikileaks, nguyên nhân tách ra của cái gọi là OPENLEAKS.. 350MB
NHẮC NHỞ ĐỘC GIẢ BA ĐIỀU CĂN BẢN VỀ WIKILEAKS:
1- NHỮNG ĐIỆN VĂN NÀY là của BỘ NGOẠI GIAO MỸ được NHÂN VẬT QUAN CHỨC NÀO ĐÓ trong Bộ Ngoại Giao Mỹ tung ra chuyển đến Wikileaks.
2- NỘI DUNG của các ĐIỆN VĂN này KHÔNG NHẤT THIẾT CHUẨN XÁC hay LÀ SỰ THẬT mà CÓ THỂ chỉ là những NHẬN ĐỊNH CHỦ QUAN của quan chức Mỹ như trường hợp về tập phim tài liệu SICKO của Michael Moore- Điện văn Mỹ báo cáo rằng Cuba cấm chiếu Sicko- Nhưng thật sự nhà nước Cuba cho trình chiếu khắp nơi.
3- Nhóm Wikileaks chỉ là NƠI NHẬN CÁC THÔNG TIN NÀY và CÔNG BỐ - Wikileaks không phải là TÁC GIẢ có trách nhiệm về QUAN ĐIỂM và độ chuẩn xác của NỘI DUNG.
Với mục tiêu nào đó mà cho đền nay, chưa thể khẳng định, cho đến khi toàn bộ nội dung 251 ngàn điện văn được phổ biến. Trong tổng số 251 ngàn điện văn từ năm 1966- 2010-có 15, 652 điện văn loại "bí mật" (secret) 101,748 kín không phổ biến (confidential) và 133,887 điện văn nội bộ nhưng không thuộc loại kín (unclassified). Nội dung phần lớn là trao đổi về TRUNG ĐÔNG IRAQ khối HồI Giáo với những điện văn trực tiếp từ Bộ Trưởng Ngoại Giao.. Hơn một nửa tổng số các điện văn thuộc loại liên quan đến bang giao chính trị với các quốc giia khác của Mỹ -(External political relations – 145,451) và những vấn đề Nhân Quyền là 55,211 điện văn, 28,801 ĐIỆN VĂN trao đổi đề tài Khủng Bố và 6,532 điện văn liện quan đến LHQ và Hội đồng bảo An LHQ...
Đặc biệt với người Việt Nam, độc giả luu ý là có 2,325 điện văn gửi đi từ tòa đại sứ Mỹ tại Hà Nội (Embassy Hanoi) và 777 điện văn gửi đi từ tòa lãnh sự Mỹ ỏ Sài Gòn - Nội dung chưa được rõ nhưng theo đánh giá chung DỰA THEO BẢNG PHÂN LOẠI của chính WIKILEAKS thì không có điện văn nào thuộc diện (đỏ) TỐI MẬT ..(không có mầu Đỏ, chỉ có một số it thuộc diện mầu Cam, và đa số là mầu Xanh)
Do Đó cho đến nay, xuyên qua các PHẢN ỨNG ĐIÊN CUỒNG PHI PHÁP và BẠO NGƯỢC của TẤT CẢ CÁC NHÀ NƯỚC LIÊN QUAN- chúng ta có thể tạm an tâm để kết luận là dù như thế nào thì sự phơi bày này đã giúp cho nền TỰ DO DÂN CHỦ-TỰ DO NGÔN LUẬN và vạch trần bản chất tội ác của các NHÀ NƯỚC CHÍNH PHỦ. Và triết lý chủ trương và hành động của Wikileaks được công bố là:
Để thay đổi hành xử của chế độ chính trị một cách triệt để Chúng ta phải suy nghĩ rõ ràng và táo bạo, bởi vì nếu chúng ta thật đã học được bất cứ bài học gì, thì chính những chế độ chính trị không muốn bị thay đổi. Chúng ta phải suy nghĩ vượt lên qua khỏi những ngừoi đi trước chúng ta đã khám phá ra những thay đổi kỹ thuật giúp cho chúng ta thêm can đảm với những phương cách để hành động mà những thế hệ cha mẹ của chúng ta đã không thể thực hiện được. ..Một tổ chức càng bí mật càng bất công, thì sự phanh phui càng khiến đưa dến lo sợ và đa nghi trong hàng ngũ lãnh đạo và nhóm điều hành của nó... Vì những hệ thống bất công, bản chất của nó đã tạo ra đối kháng, và ở nhiều nơi bọn họ cũng khó ở thế thượng phong, việc phanh phui bí mật hàng loạt đặt bọn chúng vào vị thế cực kỳ yếu ớt để những ai tìm cách thay thế bọn chúng bằng những mô thức chính phủ mở rộng trong sáng hơn. (WikiLeaks: "To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. ..... "the more secretive or unjust an organisation is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. ... Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance."
Ghi chú- Tu Chính Hiến Pháp thứ nhất của Mỹ khẳng định ĐẶT LỆNH NGĂN CẤM rằng:
"Quốc Hội KHÔNG ĐƯỢC LÀM LUẬT can thiệp vào việc thành lập một tôn giáo, hay ngăn chặn quyền tự do thể hiện tôn giáo đó, hay ngăn cản tự do ngôn luận phát biểu, tự do báo chí, hay QUYỀN của dân chúng TỤ TẬP HỘI HỌP , và quyền ĐỂ KIẾN NGHỊ ĐÒI HỎI Chính Phủ SỬA SAI những sai phạm bất công." “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." (First Amendement)
(Duy Việt)
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Tháng 12 năm 2007:
Những việc tra tấn phạm pháp bất nhân của chính phủ Mỹ ở trại giam Guatanamo
Tháng 9 năm 2008:
Hộp Tín thư của Sarah Palin lúc đang là ứng viên phó tổng thống, sử dụng như là hộp thư chính thức của văn phòng thống đốc để luồn lách pháp luật cho lợi ích riêng tư,. mà luật tiểu bang đòi hỏi công bố..
Tháng 11 năm 2008:
tên tuổi, nghề nghiệp địa chỉ, của hơn 13 ngàn thành viên thuộc ĐẢNG CỰC HỮU KỲ THỊ ANH QUỐC được phơi bày trong một hồ sơ. Trong đó bao gồm cả nhân viên cảnh sát, sĩ quan quân đội cao cấp, bác sĩ và các nhà chuyên môn khác.
Tháng 10- năm 2009: bản tường trình Trafigura phơi bày bản tường trình bó mật về vụ "xả rác ô nhiễm " tại các nước nghèo như Ivory của các đại công ty năng lượng, để lại những tác hại môi sinh sức khỏ như chất luu huỳnh.
Tháng 11- năm 2009:
Phơi bày hơn 1000 (một ngàn) tín thư trao đổi bí mật của các giới chức khoa học thuộc Trung Tâm Nghiên Cúu Thời Tiết của Đại Học East Anglia bẻ méo các dữ kiện khoa học cho mục tiêu "bảo vệ khí quyển" để trao đổi tài trợ
Tháng 11 năm 2009:
Công bố gần nửa triệu tin nhắn máy cá nhân (pager) được gửi trong ngày 9-11-2001, trao đổi về vụ 911, gồm cả những nạn nhân lúc đó đang còn sống trong 2 tòa cao tầng..Những thông tin ngắn này có thể sẽ giúp điều tră nguyên nhân của việc sụp đổ..
Tháng 4 năm 2010 :
Vụ máy bay chiến đấu trực thăng Apaches Mỹ , bắn giết dân thường gồm hai ký giả phóng viên của Reuters Anh Quốc, vừa bắn giết vừa cứoi đùa coi thường nhân mạng..Không ai bị trừng phạt.. nhưng lại đi phạt ngừoi lính Mỵ đã chạy ra khỏi toán quân để cúu đứa bé còn sống sót!!!
Tháng 7 năm 2010: Hồ sơ hành quân Afghanistan
Hàng chục ngàn bản tường trường ký chú thường nhật của quân Mỹ tại A pHú Hãn được công bố, trogn đó những vụ giết ngừoi tàn bạo như trò chơi, như hồi Mỹ Lai, được lính Mỹ ghi nhận một cách lạnh lùng qua ngôn ngữ khinh bạc. Trong đó Taliban được nhóm tình báo Parkistan tiếp tế và Parkistan lại đươc CIA và chính phủ Mỹ tài trợ..!!!!
Tháng 10- 2010 : Hồ sơ chiến tranh Iraq
Gần 400,000 hồ sơ mật quân đội trong đó cho biết lính Mỹ, lính Iraq chính qui TRA TẤN hành hạ nạn nhân man rợ.. Con số tử thương của thường dân đươc ghi nhân cao hơn là con số CHÍNH THỨC BÁO CÁO ra báo chí.. Trong đó ít nhất có 66,000 cái chết tàn bạo do lính Mỹ gây ra..
Tháng 12 2010:
Vụ điệp viên đầu thú KGB của Nga chạy qua Anh Mỹ, bị ám sát từng bị đổ thừa cho NGA trách nhiệm, nay lộ ra là KGB của Nga theo dõi tên sát nhân để ngăn chặn vũ ám sát tại Anh quốc, trong khi đó tình báo Anh đã ngăn chặn cảnh cáo KGB khiến KGB rút lui và hôm sau ngừoi này đã bị hạ sát.
Ngoại trưởng ÚC Kevin Rudd được Mỹ "xếp vào" là viên quản trị nhũng việc nhỏ và nghị sĩ Úc Mark Arbib là nguồn tin điệp báo cho Mỹ về tình hình nội bộ đảng Lao Động Úc cho Mỹ..
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THAM KHẢO:
The WikiLeaks Time Line
When Did WikiLeaks Begin
Advisory Board
Though Julian Assange (pictured below) is often the only person mentioned along with Wikileaks, the organization has an advisory board of nine members. They are:
2006
Wikileaks began in 2006. It was originally supposed to be an open electronic forum for whistle-blower information. The "wiki" in the name indicates it's original open intent. Despite this, the domain name holder is listed as The Sunshine Press, indicating that this is a journalistic endeavor.
The organization was originally described as "having been founded by Chinese dissidents and journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from all over the world.
December: A document approving the assassination of Somali officials, signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, is leaked and posted on WikLeaks.
2007
August: A document detailing the corruption of the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi appears in The Guardian. The story is based on information obtained from WikiLeaks.
November: Wikileaks publishes a copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta from March 2003. This document details the standard operating procedure for handling detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the document implies that some prisoners are not to have any contact with the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Department of Defense responds by stating that the document is out of date and no longer used.
2008
In this year Wikileaks won an award from The Economist magazine's New Media Award.
March: WikiLeaks publishes what it calls the "collected secret 'bibles'" of Scientology. The Church of Scientology threatens to sue Wikileaks for breach of copyright three days later. This effectively validates the leak.
April: WikiLeaks releases information that implicates The Swiss bank Julius Baer, Cayman Islands of illegal activities. The bank sues WikiLeaks shutting it down temporarily with an injunction. A judged overturned the injunction citing first amendment and jurisdiction concerns.
September: A whistle-blower1 gains access to Sarah Palin Yahoo account and posts the contents of her email to WikiLeaks.
November: The membership list of the British National Party is posted on WikiLeaks.
2009
In this year WikiLeaks wins the UK Media award from Amnesty International for the publication of Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances."
January: WikiLeaks publishes eighty-six telephone intercepts between Peruvian business-men and politicians regarding the Peruvian Oil Scandal of 2008.
February: WikiLeaks posts almost seven thousand (6,780) reports generated by the Congressional Research Service.
March: Wikileaks releases the names of contributors to the Norm Coleman senatorial campaign.
WikiLeaks releases a set of documents belonging to Barclays Bank that had previously been purged from its website.
July: Releases documentation relating to a serious accident at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility. Later reports indicate the incident may have had something to do with the Stuxnet computer worm.
September: Internal memos from from Kaupthing Bank are posted on WikiLeaks. The documents reveal that large sums of money were loaned to various bank officer/owners along with the "write-off" of large debts.
October: The British Ministry of Defense Joint Services Protocol 440, is published. The paper offers advice to security services on how to avoid leaked documents. The twenty-four hundred (2,400) page document was written in 2001.
Though not the original publisher, Wikileaks hosts leaked email between climate scientists. This leads to accusations, in the press, of scientists colluding to falsify climate change data.
Half a million (570,000) intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the 11 September attacks are published on WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks publishes Australia, Denmark and Thailand's lists of forbidden or illegal web sites. Though the lists were originally created to prevent child pornography and terrorism, other, unrelated sites, are included in the lists.
Though Julian Assange (pictured below) is often the only person mentioned along with Wikileaks, the organization has an advisory board of nine members. They are:
- Phillip Adams, writer
- Chico Whitaker, Brazilian social justice advocate
- Wang Youcai, Chinese Democracy Party advocate
- Wang Dan, Tienanmen Square dissident
- CJ Hinke, writer
- Ben Laurie, Internet security expert
- Xiao Qiang, Chinese human rights activist
- Julian Assange, journalist
- Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Tibetan exile
2006
Wikileaks began in 2006. It was originally supposed to be an open electronic forum for whistle-blower information. The "wiki" in the name indicates it's original open intent. Despite this, the domain name holder is listed as The Sunshine Press, indicating that this is a journalistic endeavor.
The organization was originally described as "having been founded by Chinese dissidents and journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from all over the world.
December: A document approving the assassination of Somali officials, signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, is leaked and posted on WikLeaks.
2007
August: A document detailing the corruption of the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi appears in The Guardian. The story is based on information obtained from WikiLeaks.
November: Wikileaks publishes a copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta from March 2003. This document details the standard operating procedure for handling detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the document implies that some prisoners are not to have any contact with the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Department of Defense responds by stating that the document is out of date and no longer used.
2008
In this year Wikileaks won an award from The Economist magazine's New Media Award.
March: WikiLeaks publishes what it calls the "collected secret 'bibles'" of Scientology. The Church of Scientology threatens to sue Wikileaks for breach of copyright three days later. This effectively validates the leak.
April: WikiLeaks releases information that implicates The Swiss bank Julius Baer, Cayman Islands of illegal activities. The bank sues WikiLeaks shutting it down temporarily with an injunction. A judged overturned the injunction citing first amendment and jurisdiction concerns.
September: A whistle-blower1 gains access to Sarah Palin Yahoo account and posts the contents of her email to WikiLeaks.
November: The membership list of the British National Party is posted on WikiLeaks.
2009
In this year WikiLeaks wins the UK Media award from Amnesty International for the publication of Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances."
January: WikiLeaks publishes eighty-six telephone intercepts between Peruvian business-men and politicians regarding the Peruvian Oil Scandal of 2008.
February: WikiLeaks posts almost seven thousand (6,780) reports generated by the Congressional Research Service.
March: Wikileaks releases the names of contributors to the Norm Coleman senatorial campaign.
WikiLeaks releases a set of documents belonging to Barclays Bank that had previously been purged from its website.
July: Releases documentation relating to a serious accident at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility. Later reports indicate the incident may have had something to do with the Stuxnet computer worm.
September: Internal memos from from Kaupthing Bank are posted on WikiLeaks. The documents reveal that large sums of money were loaned to various bank officer/owners along with the "write-off" of large debts.
October: The British Ministry of Defense Joint Services Protocol 440, is published. The paper offers advice to security services on how to avoid leaked documents. The twenty-four hundred (2,400) page document was written in 2001.
Though not the original publisher, Wikileaks hosts leaked email between climate scientists. This leads to accusations, in the press, of scientists colluding to falsify climate change data.
Half a million (570,000) intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the 11 September attacks are published on WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks publishes Australia, Denmark and Thailand's lists of forbidden or illegal web sites. Though the lists were originally created to prevent child pornography and terrorism, other, unrelated sites, are included in the lists.
The Year 2010 to November
March: A thirty-two (32) page U.S. Department of Defense Counterintelligence Analysis Report, discussing the leaking of material by WikiLeaks is published. The report suggests ways to prevent and deter such leaks.
April: WikiLeaks posts an edited video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by an American gunship helicopter. The video is titled Collateral Murder. The incident took place sometime on July 12, 2007.
May: The New York Daily News calls Wikileaks one of the "websites that could totally change the news"
June: Former Army Specialist Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, (now PFC) is arrested after former hacker2 Adrian Lamo turns over chat logs to the authorities. Manning is alleged to have confided, in these chats, that he had leaked the "Collateral Murder" video along with roughly two hundred-sixty thousand U.S. diplomatic cables.
July: WikiLeaks releases ninty-two thousand (92,000) documents chronicling the war in Afghanistan. These papers relate to a period from 2004 and the end of 2009. The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel use excerpts from these documents as news items. The documents contain first hand accounts of friendly fire and civilian deaths.
WikiLeaks follows up by posting a link to a 1.4 GB encrypted file. Wikileaks threatens to release the file's encryption key should the site or Julian Assange be harmed for publishing the ninety-two thousand Afghan documents.
November: Wikileaks, along with El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, and The New York Times together publish the first two hundred ninety-one (291) documents from the alleged leaker, Army Private (former Specialist) Bradley Manning.
April: WikiLeaks posts an edited video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by an American gunship helicopter. The video is titled Collateral Murder. The incident took place sometime on July 12, 2007.
May: The New York Daily News calls Wikileaks one of the "websites that could totally change the news"
June: Former Army Specialist Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, (now PFC) is arrested after former hacker2 Adrian Lamo turns over chat logs to the authorities. Manning is alleged to have confided, in these chats, that he had leaked the "Collateral Murder" video along with roughly two hundred-sixty thousand U.S. diplomatic cables.
July: WikiLeaks releases ninty-two thousand (92,000) documents chronicling the war in Afghanistan. These papers relate to a period from 2004 and the end of 2009. The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel use excerpts from these documents as news items. The documents contain first hand accounts of friendly fire and civilian deaths.
WikiLeaks follows up by posting a link to a 1.4 GB encrypted file. Wikileaks threatens to release the file's encryption key should the site or Julian Assange be harmed for publishing the ninety-two thousand Afghan documents.
November: Wikileaks, along with El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, and The New York Times together publish the first two hundred ninety-one (291) documents from the alleged leaker, Army Private (former Specialist) Bradley Manning.
December 2010
Sweden asks Interpol to issue a "Red Notice" asking for information on the whereabouts of Julian Assange.
Amazon stops hosting Wikileaks servers. They are moved to somewhere in Sweden.
Assange, visiting England, turns himself in to the authorities.
A judge, hearing the case, refuses to grant Assange bail due to a flight risk.
A day later the same judge overturns his own ruling and determines that Assange can go free on a $314,000 bond and wear a ankle mounted GPS device to track his whereabouts.
Sweden's attorneys challenge the ruling and Assange remains in jail for the next forty-eight hours.
Amazon stops hosting Wikileaks servers. They are moved to somewhere in Sweden.
Assange, visiting England, turns himself in to the authorities.
A judge, hearing the case, refuses to grant Assange bail due to a flight risk.
A day later the same judge overturns his own ruling and determines that Assange can go free on a $314,000 bond and wear a ankle mounted GPS device to track his whereabouts.
Sweden's attorneys challenge the ruling and Assange remains in jail for the next forty-eight hours.
Sex - Not by Surprise
Somehow a writer/reporter for AOL started the "sex by surprise" ball rolling and most journalists in the U.S. continued this false assumption claiming that the Swedish women charging Assange with a crime had something to do with birth-control devices and briefly non-consensual sex.
In reality Sweden has no such law. Assange is being accused, pure and simple, of rape.
An English translation of the pertenant statues can be viewed here.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45054644/Swedish-Rape-Law
The reader will notice, with careful study, that word "surprise" is never once used in the statutes.
Apparently, Assange faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
In reality Sweden has no such law. Assange is being accused, pure and simple, of rape.
An English translation of the pertenant statues can be viewed here.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45054644/Swedish-Rape-Law
The reader will notice, with careful study, that word "surprise" is never once used in the statutes.
Apparently, Assange faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
Attack and Counter-Attack
November 28th: The day that WikiLeaks released the Diplomatic Cables a number of Distributed Denial of Service(DDOS)3 attacks were launched against the site.
December 1st: Wikileaks moved it's site to Amazon's cloud of servers, but Amazon revoked it's hosting privilege after Senator Joe Liberman complains.
WikiLeaks moves it's site to a Swiss domain name (Wikileaks.ch).
December 4th: Paypal suspends donation transactions to WikLeaks citing the "illegal activity" clause in it's user agreement.
December 6th: MasterCard and Visa suspended donation accounts for WikLeaks. A Swiss bank account for WikiLeaks is also closed
December 7th: Julian Assange turns himself in to British police.
December 8th: DDOS attacks against the Swedish prosecution authorities and Claes Borgstrom (lawyer for the two women accusing Assange of sexual misconduct) brings these two sites down.
Early December: The U.S. government reminds it's employees that viewing or visiting WikiLeaks sites, while on duty, could get them reprimanded and/or fired.
December 10th: A large group of people identified only as Group Anonymous, launch a DDOS attack on Paypal, MasterCard, and Visa web-sites. Since the sites having nothing to do with actual financial transactions the results are somewhat questionable.
The U.S. Justice Department begins studying the law to determine if any charges can be filed against Assange. Of course this involves an investigation which the DoJ admits to.
December 13th: British judge denies Julian Assange bail.
December 14th: The U.S. Air Force isn't taking any chances. It's servers no longer grant access to The New York Times and twenty-five other sites. Though no reason is given it is assumed, in the press, that this is in direct response to WikiLeaks leaked diplomatic cables.
British judge reverses decision on bail. Swedish prosecutors appeal the decision and Assange remains in custody. The appeal will be reviewed Thursday, December 16, 2010.
December 15th: The U.S. Justice Department is trying to establish the level of involvement between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange regarding the video and reports leaked to the web-site. If the DoJ can establish that Assange helped or encouraged Manning it may be able to level a charge of conspiracy against Assange.
Excerpts of the chat between Manning and Lamo (the former hacker who reported Manning to the military) can be seen here.
December 1st: Wikileaks moved it's site to Amazon's cloud of servers, but Amazon revoked it's hosting privilege after Senator Joe Liberman complains.
WikiLeaks moves it's site to a Swiss domain name (Wikileaks.ch).
December 4th: Paypal suspends donation transactions to WikLeaks citing the "illegal activity" clause in it's user agreement.
December 6th: MasterCard and Visa suspended donation accounts for WikLeaks. A Swiss bank account for WikiLeaks is also closed
December 7th: Julian Assange turns himself in to British police.
December 8th: DDOS attacks against the Swedish prosecution authorities and Claes Borgstrom (lawyer for the two women accusing Assange of sexual misconduct) brings these two sites down.
Early December: The U.S. government reminds it's employees that viewing or visiting WikiLeaks sites, while on duty, could get them reprimanded and/or fired.
December 10th: A large group of people identified only as Group Anonymous, launch a DDOS attack on Paypal, MasterCard, and Visa web-sites. Since the sites having nothing to do with actual financial transactions the results are somewhat questionable.
The U.S. Justice Department begins studying the law to determine if any charges can be filed against Assange. Of course this involves an investigation which the DoJ admits to.
December 13th: British judge denies Julian Assange bail.
December 14th: The U.S. Air Force isn't taking any chances. It's servers no longer grant access to The New York Times and twenty-five other sites. Though no reason is given it is assumed, in the press, that this is in direct response to WikiLeaks leaked diplomatic cables.
British judge reverses decision on bail. Swedish prosecutors appeal the decision and Assange remains in custody. The appeal will be reviewed Thursday, December 16, 2010.
December 15th: The U.S. Justice Department is trying to establish the level of involvement between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange regarding the video and reports leaked to the web-site. If the DoJ can establish that Assange helped or encouraged Manning it may be able to level a charge of conspiracy against Assange.
Excerpts of the chat between Manning and Lamo (the former hacker who reported Manning to the military) can be seen here.
Coda
Because this story has so much interest the author has attempted to give the reader a summary of the actual events as they have occurred. It is also the author's desire to truthfully report some of the misleading rumors and wild speculation in the press about certain aspect of this affair.
Notably the charges Assange faces in Sweden.
It Will Not Go Away
Three facts must be kept in mind when assigning blame to a lone individual.
Wikileaks has a nine member board of advisers; Julian Assange is just one of them.
The actual founders of Wikileaks remain anonymous.
Though a "Thermonuclear option" has been alleged no one has yet published the decryption key or admitted to decoding the "insurance policy," though the file itself has been widely distributed and copied.
Notably the charges Assange faces in Sweden.
It Will Not Go Away
Three facts must be kept in mind when assigning blame to a lone individual.
Wikileaks has a nine member board of advisers; Julian Assange is just one of them.
The actual founders of Wikileaks remain anonymous.
Though a "Thermonuclear option" has been alleged no one has yet published the decryption key or admitted to decoding the "insurance policy," though the file itself has been widely distributed and copied.
Footnotes
1 By definition a whistle-blower is someone who reports illegal activities or violations of the law to authorities. The U.S. has laws protecting whistle-blowers.
2 Hacker can have three different meanings relating to computer security. a) someone who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, b) an expert at solving computer related problems, c) someone who is a computer security professional.
The second two meanings were the most valid until the press began equating "hacker" to "thief."
3 Denial of Service is a means of tying up a web-site by repeatedly accessing that site with bogus requests. It is relatively easy to accomplish with enough people behind such an attack. Such attacks can also be accomplished with automated programs.
It is very difficult to determine who is behind such an attack because computer errors, user errors, and errors in coding can all account for the effects of a DDOS attack.
DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.
2 Hacker can have three different meanings relating to computer security. a) someone who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, b) an expert at solving computer related problems, c) someone who is a computer security professional.
The second two meanings were the most valid until the press began equating "hacker" to "thief."
3 Denial of Service is a means of tying up a web-site by repeatedly accessing that site with bogus requests. It is relatively easy to accomplish with enough people behind such an attack. Such attacks can also be accomplished with automated programs.
It is very difficult to determine who is behind such an attack because computer errors, user errors, and errors in coding can all account for the effects of a DDOS attack.
DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.
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