Julian Assange

WikiLeaks Dumps a Million Saudi Cables and More Docs From the Sony Hack

Just a month after WikiLeaks officially started accepting documents again, it’s just unloaded two prominent troves of data. First up, yesterday it dropped a second bucket of Sony documents! Second, earlier today, the organization dumped a million diplomatic cables. So what’s in there? Well it’s hard to say for sure because these are tons of…

WikiLeaks Just Started Accepting Secrets Again 

WikiLeaks is accepting submissions again, after a nearly five-year hiatus. Anyone who wants to submit a document can do so by accessing a new Tor site to anonymously upload whatever scandalous files you’ve obtained. Submissions were paused in October 2010 after vicious infighting among staff, as Wired’s Andy Greenberg pointed out: The site’s administrators wrestled…

Julian Assange To Be Questioned By Swedish Prosecutors in the UK

Since his arrest in 2010, Julian Assange has been dutifully avoiding sexual assault allegations brought against him in Sweden. Now, Swedish prosecutors have decided to question Wikileaks in London instead. The BBC reportsthat prosecutors have given up on attempts to question Assange in Sweden. The U-turn has occurred because potential charges against him are set…

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Julian Assange Is Crowdfunding a Life-Size Statue of Himself

Julian Assange remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London with ailing health and plenty of time on his hands. So much time, in fact, that he’s decided to… crowd-fund a life-size statue of himself, presumably so people don’t forget what he looks like? The Independent reportsthat Assange is attempting to drum up funding…

Julian Assange Says “Apolitical Futurism of Star Trek” Fits Google

Julian Assange is currently answering questions in a live chat over at Gawker, promoting his new book, When Google Met Wikileaks. One of the most interesting exchanges for readers of Paleofuture actually comes from a question by Matthew Phelan who writes the Gawker subdomain Black Bag. Phelan asks about the culture of Google and whether…

Julian Assange held a press conference this morning to announce that, after being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two years, he needs medical care for “heart and lung ailments.” He’s also has suffered from a vitamin D deficiency due to a lack of sunlight. It’s not yet clear how or when…

The Fifth Estate Review: More Questions Than Answers

It was once said that history is written by the victors, but that changed when something called the internet came along and put endless information at everyone’s fingertips, letting each of us come to our own conclusions. And this idea of uncensored, unfettered access to information was taken to its most extreme with Julian Assange’s…

Teen Tries to Buy WikiLeaks Server with $33,000 of His Dad’s Money

The eBay auction for the server that once hosted the WikiLeaks documents, including Cablegate, has finally come to a close with a winning bid of $33,000. There’s only one problem: the winner is a 17-year-old boy who used his dad’s account to bid and is in no position to cough up the cash. After the…

The WikiLeaks Server That Hosted Cablegate Is for Sale on eBay

Shopping for a new server? Want a piece of whistleblower history? Want to piss off Julian Assange? You can do all three of these things at once, if you buy the server that hosted hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks a few years ago. And it still works! Like most WikiLeaks-related things,…

The Fifth Estate Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Just Like Julian Assange

DreamWorks has been working on its WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate, for a while now—and this trailer reveals that Benedict Cumberbatch plays a hugely convincing Julian Assange. After reading a script for the film, Assange declared it a “mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organization, and the character of my staff”. Not a huge fan,…

Turns out Julian Assange had a secret meeting with Eric Schmidt in 2011. You can read a full transcript on WikiLeaks.

Will You Read Julian Assange’s New Book?

Julian Assange has penned a new book about his worries over government control of the Internet and surveillance. Written along with Jacob Appelbaum, Jérémie Zimmermann and Andy Müller-Maguhn, it will be published in November. Assange explains: “In March 2012 I gathered together three of today’s leading cypherpunks to discuss the resistance. Two of them, besides…

The US Military Has Designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as Enemies of the State

Documents released by the US Government under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed what we’ve more or less known all along: The government really freaking hates Julian Assange. So much so that it has deemed him an enemy of the state. The information comes from an investigation into an Air Force cyber systems analyst…

Julian Assange Loses Fight to Remain in the UK

Julian Assange has just lost his legal battle against extradition from the UK. That leaves the doors wide open for him to be deported to Sweden to finally face allegations of sexual abuse which took place on its shores. The Guardian reports that Britain’s highest court ruled this morning that Assange’s pleas to remain on…

Julian Assange to Appear on The Simpsons

The news just broke that Julian Assange will play himself on the 500th episode of The Simpsons, which is set to air February 19th. The Entertainment Weekly report comes just days after we heard that Julian Assange would have his own TV show in mid-March. Apparently, when you’re an international man of secrets who is…

Julian Assange Is Getting His Own TV Show

Julian Assange has announced that he’s going to have his own TV show, where he’ll interview “key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries”, and it’s going to be hitting the screens in spring. Is there anything this man won’t do? The announcement was made on the WikiLeaks website yesterday, and explained how Assange is “uniquely placed…

Julian Assange: You’re All Screwed

Yesterday we reported how Wikileaks has uncovered a global network of surveillance companies for hire. Now Assange is telling it like it is. Talking at a press conference, which you can watch here, he explained that “the reality is intelligence contractors are selling, right now, to countries across the world, mass surveilance systems for [iPhone,…

WikiLeaks Twitter Account Details Handed Over to US Authorities

Cash-strapped serious-gossip portal WikiLeaks is about to come under renewed scrutiny from the US Justice Department, thanks to a court ruling forcing Twitter to hand over details of who accessed the site’s account. The ruling doesn’t cover the actual messages posted from, through or to the WikiLeaks Twitter account, though — only the IP addresses…

UK Customs Confused Wikipedia and WikiLeaks; Jimmy Wales Momentarily Famous

Is it flattering to have people mistake you for Julian Assange? That’s what happened to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who confused UK border controls when they thought the Wikipedia man was notorious international man of mystery Assange. The story comes from Wales himself, who’s clearly quite flattered about it all. Arriving at UK immigration, Wales…