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[Archive] The series Wikileaks


Summary written between November 30 and December 8, 2010 According to the Washington Post
, a complaint could be filed against Julian Assange, the (co) founder of Wikileaks
. The Federal Authorities U.S. investigating the publication of government documents (including internal mails of U.S. embassies) by Wikileaks seeking to know if it is a criminal act or an act of espionage. The American keeper Eric H. Holder Jr. said that the Justice Department and the Pentagon conduct "currently a criminal investigation." Similarly, the FBI would investigate anyone who has had access to these documents and having been able to connect to Wikileaks, but also on the organization itself. However, it is unclear whether or not these investigations will lead to a federal lawsuit. - Remember that "Julian Assange, an Australian 39 years is [that] the subject of international arrest warrant last week for acts of rape and sexual assault committed in Sweden in August. "(AFP, 24/11/2010) . - On Europe 1, a dispatch from today (30/11) tells us that Ecuador is ready to welcome Julian Assange. Visit Ecuadorinmediato
, Ecuadorian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs said: "We will invite him to come in Ecuador so he can freely exhibit, not only on the Internet, but also in various public bodies the information it has and all documentation.
Latest Wikileaks publications are not as revelations as "indiscretions," said a journalist from Le Monde. We learn what we have imagined: in diplomacy, as elsewhere, the actors have a "thinking behind" the felicitous phrase of the philosopher Pascal. - But after the revelations about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Wikileaks announces a new set of documents for banks, as can be read in Le Figaro dated today: "After the diplomatic sphere, Wikileaks tackles finance. The site specializes in information leak that put the public square of hundreds thousands of documents classified as confidential and diplomatic telegrams also reveals that he has incriminating documents to a large U.S. bank, without giving any names. " In an interview with the magazine Forbes (11/11/2010), Julian Assange said: "This will give an overview and true representative of the policy adopted by the management of banks, and I guess it will cause investigations and reforms." In the following interview, we learn that this is one of the largest banks in the U.S. and the publication of documents is expected in early 2011. Wikileaks is
a kind of new power-cons, both against the powers of the States, "some news" and the private sector (especially economic), which would not have been possible without the advent of the Internet. Thus, Wikileaks is part of what might be called the "Alternative Web", which here takes a turn decidedly political and militant. The company is risky, because the powers in question are not joking, and all means are good to end the project hacking and viruses, infiltration and disinformation, threats to life and the lives of employees, Julian Assange in mind. Without being "wet", some major newspapers, such as Der Spiegel
or The World reflect the information provided by WikiLeaks. But would they go to protect their "source"? Here are Alain Frachon, editorial director of "The World" which, unlike his colleague quoted above, believes that U.S. diplomatic notes Wikileaks is indeed a "revelation".



As reported by the newspaper Le Monde today (1 / 12): "The largest U.S. bank, Bank of America (BofA) has lost more than 3% Tuesday [30/11] to the Exchange because of fears of revelations compromising the site Wikileaks. "The newspaper also quoted the U.S. site Huffington Post, which delivers an online interview with the Computerworld magazine where Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) said he would hold: " 5 gigabytes of data from the Bank of America, the hard drive of one of its leaders ". Finally, the paper quoted a statement from the Bank of America on
AFP
(I retranslated): " here over a year, Wikileaks claimed possession the hard disk of an officer of the BofA. - Apart from this claim itself, no evidence to support such an assertion. It is unknown whether new claims on the Bank of America

were made by Wikileaks ". Several other information has filtered Julian Assange, which is now within the scope of a warrant" red "of Interpol ( "Red Notice", "Wanted Assange, Julian Paul "
) for acts of rape and sexual harassment charges against him in Sweden, and which he defends, saying it is a manipulation U.S. services, must now live in hiding. The proposal of the Vice-Minister of Ecuador to welcome in his country was questioned by President Rafael Correa, who says that such an invitation is not (this Tuesday in Guayaquil), it was only the personal opinion of the Minister Lucas. - Meanwhile, J. Assange began on Tuesday in connection with the American magazine Time
, which must publish the entire interview on December 3. J. Assange encourages the American Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton to resign if indeed it has fostered the espionage activities of U.S. diplomats abroad ... Indeed, in one of the tickets released by Wikileaks, Hillary Clinton wants the information is "sensitive data on the secretary United Nations General Ban Ki-moon, its employees and diplomats from other countries. "It would be" among others to collect personal information on credit cards, passwords and biometrics such as fingerprints and iris scans "(in Frankfurter Allgemeine , 30/11). - In addition, the Twitter feed of Wikileaks refers to a (new) Denial of Service ( quid?
), which poses a load of 10 Gb / sec on the server (30/11 8:59 pm). He also mentioned a video on YouTube (
CBC News ) where the adviser to the Prime Minister of Canada, a certain Tom Flanagan expresses the wish to see J. Assange murdered! - Last but not least, the former spokesman of German Wikileaks, who after leaving the project has revealed his real name (Daniel Domscheit-Berg) and says it wants to launch a similar platform during December 2010, a portrait unprepossessing J. Assange by lending these words: "I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, theoretician, critic, first timer, organizers, financiers and everything else. If you have a problem with me, break up. "(Süddeutsche Zeitung in
)
It is understood that the charges of sexual violence and autocratic grip de WikiLeaks rapportée par Daniel Domscheit-Berg sont faits pour créer le doute et jeter une ombre sur la personnalité de J. Assange, ce qui rejaillit nécessairement sur le projet WikiLeaks lui-même et devrait lui porter tort, du moins aux yeux du grand public.
Après avoir trouvé refuge en début de semaine dans le cyberspace du géant Amazon, qui semble paré contre un certain nombre d'attaques de hackers, WikiLeaks a dû plier bagage aujourd'hui. Aux
dernières nouvelles , WikiLeaks n'aurait "pas respecté certaines règles d'utilisation" d'Amazon ( ?
). A quoi
WikiLeaks
rétorque : "Si Amazon est gêné by the First Amendment , they should stop the trade in books. "And look for a new shelter in Roubaix, in the host OVH. Knowing that a mirror site is hosted by the Swedish partner Pirate Bay
Bahnhof, whose premises would be in an old bunker ... fallout! What next ... see below the call for the murder of Julian Assange (in English, on CBC News), mentioned above:
J. Assange As The Times reports that British and Swedish police would know where he is staying, but that his arrest would not have happened because of bad form completed by a Swedish prosecutor.
(3 / 12) By refusing to reveal sources, Wikileaks did not prevent the U.S. authorities arrested an American soldier of 23 years, Bradley Manning, jailed since May, faces up to fifty-two years of prison for passing, as the Pentagon and State Department, 75,000 secret papers on the war in Afghanistan, 400,000 of protocols American forces in Iraq and perhaps also three million cable and confidential status reports written by U.S. diplomats worldwide. (Frankfurter Allgemeine
- Friday -
redirects nowhere. Indeed, the organization has made clear on Twitter EveryDNS.net the service comes to his turn to jump ship. Reason: "
wikileaks.org became the target of several denial of service (DDOS). These attacks and future attacks threaten the stability of the infrastructure EveryDNS.net, which allows access to some 500,000 other sites "(


by another member or other entity ... " It seems obvious that these" jilting "Successive are orchestrated. Indeed, Wikileaks s is tackled big, very big. Without doubt, pressures on OVH, new French host site (with Bahnhof, Sweden), will they grow. The series is certainly not over, especially since the arrest of J. Assange seems inevitable and could intervene in these days ...

- Saturday - Eric Besson

That does it. One can read in La Depeche du Midi

this morning (4 / 12): "The Minister for the Digital Economy Eric Besson wants to silence Wikileaks, whose revelations sow confusion in the diplomatic world. But site host [OVH], it is for justice to rule and not the government ban. (...) - Eric Besson has asked the General Council of Industry, Energy and Technology (CGIET) to stop hosting the site Wikileaks in France, regarded as violating the secret diplomacy. "Taking a statement to AFP, Le Monde had already added
" the worst Internet has no right of citizenship in France "
. MP denounces
"vile methods"
of Wikileaks, which
"has no place in the Internet civilized we must build. " - An Internet
"civilized
"
("we" [?] Must build) (those that" we "are not) equipped to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction ... The face of civilization "on the ground" was, among others, revealed by these wild Wikileaks.
- forum: "Given [the] recent political statements, and pressures that are really starting feel, even here in Roubaix Valley, we decided to go to court for interim relief for a ruling on the legality of this site or not on French territory. This is not politics or OVH request or decide to close or not a site but to justice. It's like [it] that it should work in a country of law. "(Signed Octave, 3 / 12 16:24)
On the other hand, a new U.S. company, PayPal, closing the account as Wikileaks can read it here : "The online payment service has blocked financial transfers to the benefit of Wikileaks, explaining that its policy commercial "banned the use of online payment service to encourage, promote or assist any unlawful activity." - In addition, PayPal closed the account of the German
Wau Holland
(affiliated with the Chaos Computer Club ") which was "guilty" to give financial support to Wikileaks. - We also learn that "Public Table," a U.S. service data visualization has erased those of Wikileaks from its servers. Reason: It 's acts in a "response to public demand by Senator Joe Lieberman [" Senate Homeland Security Committee "], which has asked organizations to host Wikileaks terminate their relationship with the website. "Contrary to the explanations provided by Amazon, and PayPal EveryDNS, this statement has at least the merit of the franchise ... - Sunday - dint comment on the case of J. Assange or fate Wikileaks made by U.S. firms, we forget the documents themselves and their publication in French ç ais with comments and contextualized by the newspaper Le Monde
. - That said, there was read in the Washington Post
Thursday (2 / 12) section of a certain Jeffrey T. Kuhner (an openly conservative writer) for many alliterative and assonantique "Assassinate Assange. His prosaic conclusion is this: "The misfortune has been done; people died - and will die because of the actions of this childish narcissus, imbued itself [J. Assange]. Recent news say that the founder WikiLeaks of hiding in England. If this is true, we should treat Mr. Assange the same way that other terrorist targets of the first order: kill him. "
- Monday - On Twitter, Wikileaks announces a new denial of service attack against the server that hosts Sweden. By the way, we are told that wikileaks.ch redirect here to Sweden since the "French server [OHV] is offline "(it is almost certainly a mistake: nothing has filtered in France). - Tonight (6 / 12), the site of Figaro
gives the following information "The British police has received the new international arrest warrant issued by the Swedish justice against the founder of the website Wikileaks Julian Assange, announced today the television channel BBC News. Questioned by AFP, Scotland Yard declined to comment. "On the other hand the AFP reported this:" Postfinance, the banking subsidiary of Swiss Post, announced Monday it had closed the account of the founder of WikiLeaks site, Julian Assange, due to "misrepresented his domicile." The banking institution has "decided to terminate its business relationship" with Mr. Assange (...) The founder of the website Wikileaks had "indicated to be headquartered in Geneva, which proved to be false when reviewing the data, "said Postfinance. - According to the Vancouver Sun (Canada), Gail Davidson. cofounder of the Association" Lawyers against the War "(Lawyers Against the War) filed a complaint against Tom Flanagan, who called for the assassination of J. Assange on Canadian television (CBC). The latter had apologized, saying he was "not serious", and remains unreachable since, according to the Canadian newspaper. For his part, J. Assange said that Professor (Political Science at the University of Calgary) "should be prosecuted for incitement to murder." - Wikileaks mirror sites are multiplent. The Twitter feed
of the organization lists 355 to date (6 / 12). It seems more difficult, if not impossible, to "purge" Internet information delivered by the site. - Most German papers and English (and also the French press) report this morning of the potential targets of terrorist attacks identified by the news U.S. diplomatic posted. - After one of Hillary Clinton, J. Assange demand the resignation of President Obama in an interview Saturday (4 / 12) by phone at English daily newspaper El Pais

, if indeed he was aware of espionage draft UN diplomats . - According to the Tribune de Geneve
, J. Assange opened an account in Switzerland Post Finance, which is currently checking the information provided at its opening. J. Assange have also reported this approach over the Internet. Unfortunately, we are currently witnessing the rise of a cult of personality - both negative (The "marked man" for everything to stop) than positive (the hero of absolute transparency) - around J. Assange. On the home page Wikileaks can find this banner where the pose somewhat artificial "founding father" is revealing: - Tuesday - According to the Guardian , J. Assange should come today (7 / 12) before a British court in the case of sexual assault for which Sweden seeks his extradition. Other sources speak of a preliminary interview with the police to be held on Tuesday. A deposit ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 pounds Sterling and up to 6 guarantors may be requested to J. Assange to avoid detention. - A little later we learn that J. Assange was arrested at 9:30 (7 / 12) by the British police and should be submitted to the Court of Westminster (London) in the day ( here). Tonight The World
and
Guardian specify that J. Assange was denied bail and remain in custody at least until 14 December, before the decision for his extradition to Sweden is taken (or not). It would also "own safety" given the threats he experienced. Moreover, JA continues to deny the rape allegations and said they would be born again of "disputes about consensual sex, but unprotected." - Earlier in the day, we learned that some sites like PayPal were under attack "hacktivists" in response to refusals to work with Wikileaks ( here). - The Minister of Justice U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was also informed that the Espionage Act (Spy Act) could be one of the "tools" (tools) to indict J. Assange but there would be others, but without specifying which ones (press release picked up by Al Jazeera ). - According to the tech news site CNET , MasterCard follows suit to block PayPal and payments on behalf of Wikileaks. According to a spokesman for the credit card provider, customers would be blocked when they "support or facilitate directly or indirectly from illegal acts." - The site of the AFP , we learn this: "The French company OVH, which hosts some of Wikileaks, announced Monday (6 / 12) that the French courts had not imposed to close the controversial site , rejecting several motions asking judges to rule whether it was legal or not. (...) Mr. Klaba [Chief of Forums] said they had received no notification from the authorities about Wikileaks, while receiving "3-5 notifications per day, varying among the 6.5 million pages of site" OVH hosts on its network, for racist, xenophobic, etc. .. - The host suggests that after the decisions on Monday, he stops all legal proceedings in this case. "

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