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WikiLeaks Diplomatic Bombshell Reveals Strange Tech Snooping Schemes

Today’s not a good morning to wake up as an American diplomat. The weekend’s WikiLeaks disclosure of covert communications has revealed some strange tech plots surrounding world figures—Bluetooth bugs implanted in prisoners. DNA gathering. UN stalking. Weird stuff. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-burnt-lady-gaga-cd-helped-leak-thousands-of-intel-5701089 Bluetooth Human Tracking Implants First up—injecting released Guantanamo Bay prisoners with internal tracking devices, so that…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 29

How a Burnt Lady Gaga CD Helped Leak Thousands of Intelligence Files

Exactly 251,287 pieces of data from 250 US embassies and consulates was released yesterday by WikiLeaks, and while none of the information was particularly shocking, it’s been described as the largest intelligence leak in history. Here’s how it happened: http://gawker.com/5700705/all-the-hottest-diplomatic-gossip-from-the-latest-wikileak?skyline=true&s=i According to The Guardian, which was one of the chosen publications by WikiLeaks to help…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 29

Google Was Hacked by Chinese Politburo in January, WikiLeaks Docs Confirm

By now you should’ve heard that WikiLeaks released a bunch of new files yesterday, which are being called “cables.” The whole mess even has a “-gate” suffix! And sheds light on Google massive hack-attack last January… http://gawker.com/5700705/all-the-hottest-diplomatic-gossip-from-the-latest-wikileak?skyline=true&s=i If you remember, this was the act that provoked Google to threaten to pull out of China, after…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 29

This Is the Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located

This is Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War. https://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-may-get-immunity-thanks-to-swedish-pirate-par-5615703 Originally, it was just a bomb shelter built in 1943. In the 70s, the Swedes turned the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31

Wikileaks May Get Immunity Thanks to Swedish Pirate Party

After offering help against US government pressure in July, the Swedish Pirate Party has signed an agreement with Wikileaks. After the deal, if the party wins a Swedish parliament seat in September, it’ll be impossible to legally shut them down. As part of the agreement—signed by Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and Pirat Partiet’s Rick Falkvinge—the Pirate…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 18

Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That

Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? [View a larger map of insurance seeders on Google maps.] On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the…

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Afghanistan War Illustrated In Depressing Visual Simplicity

The big news in the grown-up media today is the latest WikiLeaks disclosure, which has seen 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan released to the press. The Guardian has created this grim mash-up illustrating key events. [The Guardian] https://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-defends-manning-decision-5591905

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jul 26

Wikileaks Critic Adrian Lamo Defends Manning Decision

He’s been called a snitch, a traitor, even a war criminal. He’s receiving death threats regularly. But Sunday Adrian Lamo took the stage at HOPE 2010 to defend his decisions, and then sat down with Gizmodo. Former hacker, columnist, and security consultant Adrian Lamo is one of a cast of characters in the story of…

Tech News Quinn Norton Jul 20

Wikileaks Keynote at HOPE 2010: No Assange, But Institutional Details Emerge

The part of scheduled keynote speaker Julian Assange, the Australian hacker US agents have made it clear they would like to question, was played by Jake Appelbaum today at HOPE. Appelbaum is increasingly the other public face of Wikileaks, while also being a spokesperson and developer for the Tor online anonymity project. Appelbaum led off…

Tech News Quinn Norton Jul 17

The Government’s Secret Fear of Wikileaks, Where Confidential Documents Live Forever

In March 2008, the Department of Defense supposedly published a memo about a perceived national security threat. The target: Wikileaks a site that had previously put out sensitive information about Abu Ghraib. It’s been two years since that memo, which Wikileaks has published (PDF), and there’s no clear evidence that Wikileaks was ever tampered with.…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 16

WikiLeaks Leaks its Own Sources Donors Due to Email Mishap

WikiLeaks, that controversial whistleblowing site that exposes confidential documents hinting at corporate or government malfeasance, was forced into a conundrum recently when somebody submitted their own secret mailing list as a leak. Updated A member of the site had sent an emergency fund-raising appeal on Saturday to previous donors. But instead of hiding the email…

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 19

WikiLeaks Diplomatic Bombshell Reveals Strange Tech Snooping Schemes

How a Burnt Lady Gaga CD Helped Leak Thousands of Intelligence Files

Google Was Hacked by Chinese Politburo in January, WikiLeaks Docs Confirm

This Is the Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located

Wikileaks May Get Immunity Thanks to Swedish Pirate Party

Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That

Afghanistan War Illustrated In Depressing Visual Simplicity

Wikileaks Critic Adrian Lamo Defends Manning Decision

Wikileaks Keynote at HOPE 2010: No Assange, But Institutional Details Emerge

The Government’s Secret Fear of Wikileaks, Where Confidential Documents Live Forever

WikiLeaks Leaks its Own Sources Donors Due to Email Mishap

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