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WikiLeaks Postpones New Leaking System

Assange cites fears for sources' safety

(Newser) - If you’ve got a giant trove of government secrets ready for release, you’ll just have to sit tight. Today was supposed to see the launch of WikiLeaks’ system overhaul, aimed at making it safer for sources to hand documents to the group. But Julian Assange tweeted over the...

Twitter Ordered to Spill on Tweeters Tied to WikiLeaks

Court says tweeters can have no expectation of privacy

(Newser) - In a key case concerning online privacy rights, a federal court has ordered Twitter to turn over information on three tweeters believed linked to WikiLeaks documents. The Justice Department had sought information on the trio, including IP addresses, which could be used to track down their computers without a warrant....

UK Denies Assange's Extradition Appeal

WikiLeaks founder likely headed to Sweden within 10 days

(Newser) - Julian Assange is likely headed to Sweden after a British court today rejected his claim that extraditing him to face sex assault charges there would be "unfair and unlawful." Charges of rape and sexual coercion, stemming from alleged incidents last August, await the WikiLeaks founder in Sweden. "...

Julian Assange Says WikiLeaks to Stop Leaking Secrets Thanks to Credit Card Fight
 WikiLeaks to Stop Leaking 
Oct 24, 2011 10:42 AM CDT

WikiLeaks to Stop Leaking

Because it's strapped for cash, Julian Assange says

(Newser) - WikiLeaks won’t be releasing any more secrets in the near future, Julian Assange announced today; the credit card companies have brought it down. In a statement, WikiLeaks said it was making the move in response to the “blockade” against donations established by banks and credit card companies . “...

Feds Secretly Grabbing WikiLeaks Email Info

US snagging IDs, critics say law violates Constitution

(Newser) - In its "active criminal investigation" of WikiLeaks, the US government is using secret court orders to force Google and Internet service providers to turn over information about editor Jacob Appelbaum, reports the Wall Street Journal . Appelbaum has not been charged with any crimes related to his WikiLeaks work, but...

WikiLeaks Cables May Imperil Baghdad Jews

'The older ones are refusing to leave,' priest says

(Newser) - Baghdad's few remaining Jews are being warned to flee after WikiLeaks published cables including their names last month, McClatchy reports. An Anglican priest working with the US embassy is trying to persuade the city's last Jewish members—all nine of them—that they are in danger. "Most...

Assange Memoir Sells Just 644 Copies

Sales of unauthorized biography slow despite controversy

(Newser) - A war of words between Julian Assange and publisher Canongate generated plenty of free publicity for Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Autobiography but that hasn't translated into sales. The book—which the WikiLeaks founder worked on with a ghostwriter before withdrawing from the project earlier this year—sold only 644...

Julian Assange Slams Unauthorized Autobiography

 Assange Slams 
 'Unauthorized 
 Autobiography' 
Ironic Leaks Dept.
Sep 22, 2011 2:48 AM CDT

Assange Slams 'Unauthorized Autobiography'

Publisher releasing 'unfinished, erroneous draft,' WikiLeaks founder complains

(Newser) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is clashing with a British publisher over a memoir being released without his consent. The "unauthorized autobiography," which will go on sale in the UK today, is being published because Assange used a $500,000 advance to pay his legal bills then withdrew from...

Saudi King Was Popping Viagra at 92

And he's 10 years older than we thought: WikiLeaks telegram

(Newser) - Saudi Arabia’s king isn’t letting age slow him down—even if he’s a decade older than the US thought he was. Even at 92, he hadn’t given up on romance, though he needed a little boost from Viagra, a WikiLeaks release shows. The US State Department...

WikiLeaks Blames Guardian for Cable Leak

Newspaper leaked password for unredacted files, WikiLeaks complains

(Newser) - A lesson in the importance of changing your passwords, courtesy of WikiLeaks and the Guardian : An unredacted version of WikiLeaks' entire trove of US diplomatic cables has been leaked online and WikiLeaks says it's all the newspaper's fault, the BBC reports. A message from the site posted on...

Cyberattack Crashes WikiLeaks
 Cyberattack Crashes WikiLeaks 
Aug 31, 2011 5:29 AM CDT

Cyberattack Crashes WikiLeaks

Website back up now: Reuters

(Newser) - WikiLeaks was under cyberattack again last night, according to messages posted on its Twitter feed. The website, which is in the process of releasing thousands more US diplomatic cables, was later brought back online, though some were still unable to access it. Sources have told Reuters that the latest document...

Leak From WikiLeaks Endangers US Sources

Entire unredacted cable file hits Internet

(Newser) - A file containing all of WikiLeaks’ 251,000 US State Department cables has—wait for it—leaked online, this time without the names of US sources redacted, meaning many of them could be in danger. The file leaked out thanks to some misunderstandings, some carelessness, and the feud between Julian...

McCain Pushed to Arm Gadhafi, WikiLeaks Reveals

Cable details 2009 meeting

(Newser) - John McCain may be talking tough about Libya these days, but back in 2009 he promised Muatassim Gadhafi—Moammar’s fifth son and his national security adviser—that he’d do what he could to help Libya obtain military supplies, particularly new aircraft, a cable released by WikiLeaks reveals. McCain...

WikiLeaks Releases Thousands of New Docs

Feds ask web host for info on Assange

(Newser) - WikiLeaks is releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished American diplomatic cables, and encouraging the public to look for nuggets of information in them using a searchable database . The cables, part of a cache of 250,000 leaked State Department reports WikiLeaks says it has, had previously only been released...

Ex-WikiLeaks Rep Deletes 3,500 Files

Founder Julian Assange accuses him of 'sabotage'

(Newser) - In the latest chapter of WikiLeaks' apparent implosion, a former spokesman for the group says he has destroyed 3,500 of its unpublished files, der Spiegel reports. Daniel Domscheit-Berg says he took the files when he left WikiLeaks last year and "shredded" them "in order to ensure that...

Feds Arrest 14 Alleged Hackers From Anonymous

They face charges related to last year's attack on PayPal

(Newser) - The hackers of Anonymous are apparently a far-flung group. The Justice Department today said it arrested 14 of them across nine states and the District of Columbia, reports the AP . They are accused of taking part in last year's attack on PayPal , which took place after the website suspended...

Bradley Manning Considered Switching His Gender

'Bradley felt he was female': counselor

(Newser) - Bradley Manning “felt he was female," and looked into changing his gender, his former counselor tells New York . Though the suspected WikiLeaker “really wanted to do surgery,” the counselor says, “he was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird.” Manning used...

WikiLeaks Spoofs MasterCard
 WikiLeaks Spoofs MasterCard 
Jul 1, 2011 11:07 AM CDT

WikiLeaks Spoofs MasterCard

Assange and Co. rail against banking blockade

(Newser) - WikiLeaks is fighting back against MasterCard and the banks that have cut it off with an Internet ad spoofing those ubiquitous MasterCard “priceless” ads. (Side note: Those pretty much have to be the most parodied ads of all time at this point, right?) The ad outlines all the costs...

Hackers Shut Down MasterCard Site—Again

'Anonymous' team protests moves against WikiLeaks

(Newser) - LulzSec may have disbanded, but hackers are still angry over WikiLeaks’ banking troubles. They’ve once again taken down the website of MasterCard—one of several financial firms that have “blockaded” Julian Assange’s group. Tweeted one hacker: “MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess...

Assange: My House Arrest Hampering WikiLeaks

Assange says WikiLeaks work is highly compromised

(Newser) - After six months under virtual house arrest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged today that his detention is hampering the work of the secret-spilling site. The 39-year-old Australian is living at a supporter's rural estate, and says he has become "a fixed target" for snoopers. "It is easy...

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