Wikileads

Most targets of Wikileaked documents respond defensively when they find out about the sensitive, private material posted about them online.
The Church of Scientology and the Mormon Church sent cease-and-desist letters when Wikileaks published their secret theological documents, and a U.K. spokeswoman emailed Wikileaks to request that these early drawings of the atomic bomb be taken [...]

Most of the recently published analyses on Wikileaks have been written by professional reporters, for professional news organizations.
The BBC tackled this leak, a recording of an official at Kingston University telling students their degrees “will be shit” if they don’t lie on a national survey that ranks higher education in the UK. The Times [...]

Check out this fascinating article about Wikileaks from the Toronto Globe and Mail. The article’s writer, Ivor Tossell, discusses Wikileaks in the grand sense — what the site means for governments, dissidents and the Internet, and how the group’s legal invincibility and pro-citizen moral code have allowed it to take full advantage of the Internet [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]