Well, we’ve all been wondering which would be the next company to withdraw support for Wikileaks and now we know that it’s Apple. An unofficial Wikileaks app that allows you to read content from the website on your iPhone or iPad has been pulled from the app store, as reported by TechCrunch. The app, which [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks
The Wikileaks story rumbles on as we near the end of 2010 and the latest company to withdraw its support is the Bank of America. This follows on from other financial institutions including a Swiss bank, Mastercard and PayPal. The reason the bank gave for refusing to handle payments from the controversial website was that [...]
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Data Leaks – Preventing the Inside Job
The Wikileaks story continues to roll on around the world but as the story now moves its focus to the website founder Julian Assange, questions are now beginning to be asked about how the information was able to have been stolen in the first instance. Only this week have the US military blocked the use [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Wikileaks under DDOS attack on eve of new revelations [Comment]
Tomorrow WikiLeaks is set to reveal a new series of classified US documents that have been sent by United States Embassies around the world. The revelations set to shed new light on the country’s relations with friendly and unfriendly states alike, and now the site itself has come under a distributed denial of service attack. Despite [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Wikileaks founder on rape charge
It’s not been a good time in recent months for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after the publication of a series of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan that’s had the Pentagon up in arms. Now Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant on accusations of rape and molestation.
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Wikileaks not bothered by US Army arrest
The website for whistle-blowers, Wikileaks is apparently not bothered by the arrest today of a US Army analyst who has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified material to the website, according to the BBC. The US Army’s detention of Bradley Manning was arrested in Kuwait and was “placed in pre-trial confinement for allegedly releasing [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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British Telecom Phorm report leaked
An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom’s validation of Phorm, also known as (aka 121Media), Deep Packet Inspection. According to that report 18000 users were chosen as test objects without their knowledge or consent. In that 2-week period more than 18 [...]