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Archive for May, 2008

Wikileaks and the Straight Talk Express

Is it a secret anti-Democratic strategy sheet lifted from the McCain campaign, or a forged document, intended to stir controversy?
At this point, we can’t know for sure. The McCain campaign vehemently denied that the strategy sheet released by Wikileaks yesterday originated from their office. That makes it difficult to comment on what it means and [...]

How to be secure and anonymous on the Internet

Internet security is tricky, but if you follow a few simple steps, you should be able to keep your data secure and prevent others from finding out which websites you’re visiting.
Watch this handy how-to video I made to find out more:

Wikileaks uses Tor to protect its whistleblowers. To get Tor, visit torproject.org. For a handy [...]

Did the Wikimedia Foundation lie about its role in deleting Wikinews articles? Yes, according to articles’ author.

The Wikimedia Foundation ordered an admin to delete two controversial Wikinews articles, and Jay Walsh, the Foundation’s head of communications, knew more about this than he would like to admit, according to Wikinews author Jason Safoutin.
Safoutin contacted me after listening to this interview with Walsh. Walsh denied first-hand knowledge of an internal conversation about the [...]

Wikileaks pledge drive ends June 1

Wikileaks is requesting donations to help keep them going and help them pay their legal fees against the Scientologists and the Mormons: 
Over 200 people have signed up to our defence fund pledge. The sign up runs out on June 1. Join and foward! You can even create your own pledge.
http://www.pledgebank.com/defend-wl
“I will donate $200 towards defending [...]

Does the Wikimedia Foundation censors its writers? Not according to communications director Jay Walsh.

A few days ago, Wikileaks accused the foundation that heads up Wikinews and Wikipedia of censorship after a controversial article was deleted from Wikinews.
Jason Safoutin, a Wikinews volunteer, wrote an article about alleged child pornography on Wikipedia. At issue: a 1976 Scorpions album cover that depicts a prepubescent girl in a provocative pose. The album [...]

Blog and other buzz on Wikinews article censorship

The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
For full coverage, see this post.
For buzz, background and inside responses, check out the following links:
From a Wikinews Watercooler thread about the censored article, a comment by the article’s author, DragonFire1024:
My beef: this was an office [...]

Wikimedia’s dirty little secrets: Wikinews censors article about Wikipedia porn controversy

The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent company of Wikipedia and Wikinews, as well as a bunch of other free-content, user-created wikis. Wikileaks is not associated with Wikimedia.
Here’s the scoop. What happened, and when:

A Wikipedia article about [...]

Wikileaks and the Mormons

Not too long ago, Wikileaks posted two versions of the confidential Mormon Church Handbook of Instructions, until now only possessed by Church leaders.
Yesterday the Church issued a copyright infringement notice to Wikileaks. It also sent one to the Wikimedia Foundation because Wikinews had written an article about the Wikileaked document (Wikileaks is not associated with [...]

Scientology contract not for all Scientologists

The Scientology contract Wikileaks published two weeks ago is not intended for all Scientologists, according to the Church’s PR department.
Instead, only members of a fraternal order called the Sea Org are required to sign it.

Iron Hubbard/myspace
About 3,000 of the approximately 8 million Scientologists worldwide are Sea Org members, according to a Church public relations spokeswoman. [...]

Wikileaks on technology, security and the ethics of leaking

The New Scientist published an article about Wikileaks this week, offering interesting insight into the Wikileaks’ functionality and philosophy.
(A subscription is required to read the entire article, but a blogger posted it here.)
Some highlights:
How Tor, the anonymising internet technology Wikileaks uses, works:
Tor routes documents sent to the Wikileaks website into a cloud of hundreds of [...]