Brett Scott: The Safe Deposit Box – Creating a Financial Wikileaks
By Brett Scott, who operates as a consultant bridging the gap between finance and those involved in socio-environmental justice and international development. He has also written for the Guardian, the Ecologist, New Internationalist and Open Democracy. Brett blogs at www.suitpossum.blogspot.com and tweets [...]

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Most debate has centered on the TPB attack, probably because its problems became known first. An Anonymous-hating former supporter calling himself (or herself, of course) AnonNyre on Twitter claimed responsibility for the TPB attack. “Tango Down – thepiratebay.se – The Reason – http://pastebin.com/j0PLqynP” he tweeted at the time. The linked Pastebin [...]

WikiLeaks was down for the count longer than The Pirate Bay.

On Wednesday The Pirate Bay mentioned on its Facebook page that Wikileaks was also under a DDoS attack. WikiLeaks confirmed the report via Twitter, stating that the whistle blowing site had been under sustained DDoS attacks over the last 72 hours. The site’s [...]

SYDNEY, May 19 (UPI) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently fighting extradition from Britain to Sweden, would be a strong Australian Senate candidate, a poll indicates.

The survey was done by UMR, internal polling firm for the Australian Labor Party, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Among supporters of the [...]

Majid Jamali Fashi, the executed Iranian kick-boxer who was incorrectly reported to be have been identified to the Iranian government by a WikiLeaks release.

Since WikiLeaks first released its flood of classified State Department memos in December of 2010, the secret-spilling site’s critics have been searching for evidence that Julian Assange’s [...]

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WikiLeaks: The sleazy criminal organization dedicated to publishing U.S. secrets may loudly deny its leaks led to the hanging of a man in Iran Tuesday. But that’s irrelevant because WikiLeaks gave Tehran the pretext it sought.

A 24-year old Iranian man was the latest victim [...]

WikiLeaks and the Pirate Bay suffered denial-of-service attacks this week that brought both websites down.

WikiLeaks suffered the more intense attack. The whistle-blower site tweeted Wednesday that it had been getting attacked for the last three days.

The site was down for some time, and the organization actually had to put up a [...]

Two weeks ago Birgitta Jonsdottir, the self-styled activist Member of Parliament from Iceland and central figure in the important and ongoing Twitter-WikiLeaks cases, was in Ottawa. We sent her a tweet, got a quick reply, then met to talk about whistle-blowers, privacy and the role of the free press in [...]