The New Dark Age

21 January, 2011 — creative-i.info

WikiLeaks: the latest developments
The Guardian (blog)
Defence lawyers for five former Guantanamo detainees have used WikiLeaks-published cables in court to argue for their acquittal. …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/21/wikileaks-latest-developments

Persecuted By WikiLeaks
Wall Street Journal
The WikiLeaks founder says he needs the money to cover the legal expenses
arising from charges that he raped two women in Sweden. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576094310544475924.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Ellsberg: With Wikileaks, Google, Facebook must take a stand
Computerworld
Ellsberg was on a panel talking about Wikileaks and the relationship
between the US government — eager to shut it down — and corporations such
as Amazon, …
www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205738/Ellsberg_With_Wikileaks_Google_Facebook_must_take_a_stand?taxonomyId=13

Countries to be less candid post-WikiLeaks: US
The Hindu
PTI Slamming WikiLeaks for compromising its ability to have confidential
communication with other countries, the US has said several nations have
told it …
www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1108373.ece

Cranberry firm: WikiLeaks actively searched for documents
Tribune Review
By Adam Brandolph A Cranberry Internet security company says it turned over
evidence to the government that WikiLeaks actively siphoned documents with
…
www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_719199.html

WikiLeaks-linked banker found guilty
Stuff.co.nz
Former banker Rudolf Elmer has been found guilty of violating bank secrecy
by giving data to WikiLeaks and has been arrested for further questioning.
…
www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/4559504/WikiLeaks-linked-banker-guilty

Assange extradition ‘courts matter’
The Press Association
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has insisted his government will
play no role in deciding whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be
…
www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hxPfKXsjyzDI_HmD1f7ecsnFUaoA?docId=N0276401295573817387A

WikiLeaks: Iran ‘has had nuclear weapon-building capability for two years’
Telegraph.co.uk
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent 11:26PM GMT 20 Jan 2011
The leaked diplomatic cables, published by WikiLeaks, published a
memorandum of a …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8272345/WikiLeaks-Iran-has-had-nuclear-weapon-building-capability-for-two-years.html

Lawyers for former Guantanamo inmates cite WikiLeaks cables in French …
The Canadian Press
PARIS — Lawyers for ex-inmates of the Guantanamo prison camp used
documents released by WikiLeaks to argue for their acquittal in a French
terrorism trial …
www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5im5I0QDSkMhUjD5D6eEcWzrNa6yQ?docId=5709283

Russia’s Own WikiLeaks Takes Off
The Moscow Times (blog)
By Olga Razumovskaya Lefteris Pitarakis / AP A new web site striving to
become Russia’s answer to WikiLeaks became an online hit this week with the
…
www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russias-own-wikileaks-takes-off/429370.html

Circulating WikiLeaks may affect candidacy for government jobs
Student Life
WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organization that publishes
submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news
sources and …
www.studlife.com/news/2011/01/21/circulating-wikileaks-may-affect-candidacy-for-government-jobs/

US cable claims Swiss linked Iran, Gitmo to UBS
Washington Post
The July 1, 2009, cable obtained by WikiLeaks cites a senior US diplomat in
Bern saying the Swiss government would stop Swedish-owned company Colenco’s
…
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012002186.html

OpenLeaks: the Wikileaks of 2011? (VIDEO)
CBS News
As the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks made headlines last year for
revealing the inner workings of US diplomacy, as well as the Iraq and
Afghanistan …
www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20029080-503543.html

Ethics@Work: WikiLeaks in the private sector
Jerusalem Post
By ASHER MEIR WikiLeaks made big news at the end of last year when it
published a trove of classified US diplomatic cables. Now it is making news
without …
www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=204580

Paranoia over legal status of WikiLeaks breeds new generation of scams
The Guardian
“Your computer and IP address have been noted as visiting the WikiLeaks
site,” says the recorded message. The penalty for doing this: a $250000 or
$25000 …
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/20/wikileaks-phone-scam-america-illegal-access

Wikileaks Exposes Torture of Christians in Eritrea
allvoices
By Success Kanayo Uchime A US embassy cable recently published by Wikileaks
exposes the deplorable conditions of detained Christians and other
prisoners in …
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7953402-wikileaks-exposes-torture-of-christians-in-eritrea

Bildt critical of Iraqi refugees: WikiLeaks
The Local.se
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Migration Minister Tobias
Billström are the subject of renewed criticism after a new WikiLeaks
surfaced regarding …
www.thelocal.se/31558/20110121/

Singapore’s response to dealing with Wikileaks—devil is in the details
ZDNet Asia (blog)
By Bryan Tan on January 20, 2011 (22 hours ago) The papers last week
screamed of the parliamentary debates involving Wikileaks. …
www.zdnetasia.com/blogs/singapore-s-response-to-dealing-with-wikileaks-devil-is-in-the-details_bp-63022600.htm

WikiLeaks: Fantasy Hacker Cyberworld of Good and Evil
Credit.com News (blog)
We’re watching it unfold in real time through WikiLeaks’ Cablegate. The day
the cables were slated for release in major newspapers around the world,
…
www.credit.com/blog/2011/01/wikileaks-fantasy-hacker-cyberworld-of-good-and-evil/

WikiLeaks revelations: Pernicious influence of Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
It is clear from these cables that Royal Dutch Shell has the Dutch
government in their hip pocket. No surprise there, the Queen must get her
dividends. …
royaldutchshellplc.com/2011/01/21/wikileaks-revelations-pernicious-influence-of-royal-dutch-shell/

Where’s WikiLeaks’ Bank of America docudrama?
Creative Loafing (blog)
Last month, the rumor was WikiLeaks was about to drop a document bomb on
Charlotte’s baby, Bank of America. At first, BofA was all “no biggie,
we’re cool. …
blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/2011/01/20/wheres-wikileaks-bank-of-america-docudrama/

Protesters defend solider accused of leaking documents to Wikileaks
WTVR
The Wikileaks organization and it’s 1200 volunteers have published thousand
of classified US documents to it’s website for the public to see. …
www.wtvr.com/news/quantico-riot,0,376727.story

WikiLeaks Views Won’t Get Military Computers Wiped
Wired News (blog)
Couldn’t help but view a purloined WikiLeaks cable on your desktop? The
Pentagon has to insist you delete it. But don’t worry about having the rest
of your …
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/wikileaks-views-wont-get-military-computers-wiped/

WikiLeaks: BN 2008 loss Samy’s fault
Free Malaysia Today
S Samy Vellu’s neglect of the Indian community cost BN its victory in 2008,
according to Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks. PETALING JAYA: Former MIC
…
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/01/21/wikileaks-bn-2008-loss-samys-fault/

WikiLeaks and the Cloud: No Legitimate Connection
MSPmentor
I support Wikileaks. Why does the media keep trying to swing people towards
being against it? do they not realize we live in a world of government …
www.mspmentor.net/2011/01/20/wikileaks-and-the-cloud-no-legitimate-connection/comment-page-1/

UFO sightings going mainstream, while WikiLeaks safeguards UFO files
HULIQ
“It’s like we finally hit mainstream America with WikiLeaks revealing
what we all knew was out there, and National hitting 30000 confirmed UFO
cases. …
www.huliq.com/10282/ufo-sightings-going-mainstream-while-wikileaks-safeguards-secret-ufo-files

SEC to monitor WikiLeaks
FierceFinance
When it comes to WikiLeaks, people tend to have mixed feelings. The people
who most passionately oppose what it does tend to be aligned with entities
that …
www.fiercefinance.com/story/sec-monitor-wikileaks/2011-01-19

Letter: Tunisia and WikiLeaks
Manhasset Press
In a Letter to the Editor dated Dec. 9, 2010, I repeated the report that
between one and three million persons have access to those “secret”
government …
www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/opinion/13038-letter-tunisia-and-wikileaks.html

The effect of Anonymous on Wikileaks, Tunisia & the world
myce.com
Though mainstream press coverage of the groups influence has been sparse
after Wikileaks-related DDoS attacks died down, Reuters put out an article
this …
www.myce.com/news/the-effect-of-anonymous-on-wikileaks-tunisia-the-world-39001/

WikiLeaks: Swiss may have taken detainees to get UBS lawsuit settled
World Radio Switzerland
Did Switzerland accept detainees from Guantanamo in order to get the United
States to settle a civil lawsuit against UBS ?That is what is implied in
leaked …
worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/wikileaks-swiss-may-have-taken-detainees-to-get-ub.shtml?22756

Long live wiki-diplomacy
CNN International
By Parag Khanna, Special to CNN (CNN) — Since the WikiLeaks scandal
exploded at the end of last year, many commentators have declared this
episode marks …
www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/20/Khanna.wiki.diplomacy/

Did WikiLeaks Use P2P to Collect Classified Data? “ ZeroPaid.com
By Jared Moya
Tiversa, company that provides “P2P Intelligence services,” reports a
number of examples in which data posted on WikiLeaks was found to first
have been e.
www.zeropaid.com/news/92155/did-wikileaks-use-p2p-to-collect-classified-data/

Wikileaks Thriller Headed to Big Screen
By Adrian Chen
The production company behind the TV series Bones has announced a biopic on
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It will be a thriller—a “suspenseful
drama with a global impact”. But who’s going to play Julian Assange?
gawker.com/5739268/wikileaks-thriller-headed-to-big-screen

DoD Takes Flexible View on Deleting Wikileaks Docs | Secrecy News
By Steven Aftergood
Department of Defense employees who downloaded classified documents from
Wikileaks onto unclassified government computer systems may delete them
without further.
www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/01/dod_deleting.html

G.W. Schulz: Is WikiLeaks Driving Bank of America to Seize Ugly …
By G.W. Schulz
A little-known company that specializes in protecting the public image of
Fortune 500 companies is quietly buying up hundreds of domain names that
could be used to host online criticism of Bank of America.
www.huffingtonpost.com/gw-schulz/is-wikileaks-driving-bank_b_810702.html

WikiLeaks Movie: The Most Dangerous Man in the World – FilmoFilia
By Fiona
It was only a matter of time. And for sure it was inevitable because of
almost daily stories about WikiLeaks and against Julian Assange which
gracing the front pages each day.
www.filmofilia.com/2011/01/20/wikileaks-movie-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/

Zimbabwe: WikiLeaks Treason Charges Considered
By The Huffington Post News Editors
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s top lawyer may seek treason charges against
former opposition politicians named in diplomatic cables released by
WikiLeaks, a move that drew criticism Thursday from a prominent legal
rights group.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/zimbabwe-wikileaks-treason_n_811494.html

Biopic About Wikileaks Founder In The Works | TheWrap.com
By Joshua L. Weinstein
The secretive founder of Wikileaks, now under house arrest in England, is
going Hollywood – a biopic about Julian Assange is in the works. Josephson
Entertainment and Michelle Krumm Productions have optioned a still-to-be-
published …
www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/biopic-about-wikileaks-founder-works-24076

Does WikiLeaks Gain Its Info Through Peer-to-Peer Networks …
By Benzinga Staff
Wikileaks has been condemned by the U.S. government for posting secret data
leaked by insiders. The report says that Wikileaks may have used music and
photo sharing networks to obtain and publish classified documents,
according to a …
www.benzinga.com/news/11/01/794702/does-wikileaks-gain-its-info-through-peer-to-peer-networks

The WikiLeaks revolution continues – The Hill’s Pundits Blog
By mlaws@thehill.com (Ronald Goldfarb)
Recent press reports about the continuing adventures of WikiLeaks assure:
1) that this phenomenon will not go away anytime soon; 2) that the
definition and role of media is changing in warp speed; 3) and that the
virtue of …
thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/139095-the-wikileaks-revolution-continues

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange’s Life to Be Exposed in Biopic
By AceShowbiz.com
Julian Assange, a founder of controversial website WikiLeaks, is apparently
an interesting subject for filmmakers. His life is about to be turned into
a big screen project, according to Variety. Josephson Entertainment and
Michelle …
www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00038059.html

Dominican Republic: WikiLeaks Revelations · Global Voices
By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
Dominican Republic. In Ahiqueprende [es], José Ernesto Devárez hijo
comments on the content of the cables revealed by WikiLeaks related to the
Dominican Republic. Tweet · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious ·
Instapaper …
globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/20/dominican-republic-wikileaks-revelations/

WikiLeaks Biopic in the Works – The Daily Beast
Prepare for next year’s Social Network—sort of. Josephson Entertainment
and Michelle Krumm Productions have announced plans for a big-screen bi.
www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/wikileaks-biopic-in-the-works/matter-of-time/

Wikileaks-Inspired Phone Scam
By pk
A caller reported she received an automated phone call telling her that her
computer and IP address had been noted as having visited the Wikileaks
site, and that there were grave consequences for this, including a $250000
or $25000 fine …
paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/01/wikileaks-inspi.html

WIKILEAKS: China Could Ask U.S. To Get Out Of South Korea
By Gus Lubin
How could Chinese-American military tensions ratchet higher? What if China
told America to get out of Korea. American diplomats have warned about this
scenario, according to a Wikileaks cable released in time for Hu’s visit.
…
www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-china-south-korea-2011-1

WikiLeaks cited in French Guantanamo trial | Citizens for …
By legitgov
WikiLeaks cited in French Guantanamo trial 20 Jan 2011 Lawyers for
ex-inmates of the Guantanamo prison camp used documents released by
WikiLeaks to argue for their acquittal in a French terrorism trial
Thursday. …
www.legitgov.org/WikiLeaks-cited-French-Guantanamo-trial

WikiLeaks and the Cloud: No Legitimate Connection | MSPmentor …
By Ted Roller
While the WikiLeaks debacle is cause for alarm around the government’s IT
security process, errant reports have wrongly put some blame on cloud
computing.
www.mspmentor.net/2011/01/20/wikileaks-and-the-cloud-no-legitimate-connection/

Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks – Glenn Greenwald …
The private statements and reports continue to come out that contradict the
administration’s public claims.
www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2011/01/19/wikileaks

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
WikiLeaks today condemned calls from the chair of the House Committee on
Homeland Security to “strangle the viability” of WikiLeaks by placing the
publisher …
213.251.145.96/WIKILEAKS-PRESS-RELEASE.html

WikiLeaks to reveal Swiss bank account details of ‘tax evader …
A former Swiss banker handed the whistle-blower two CDs reputedly
containing details of up to 2000 wealthy individuals and corporations,
including 40 …
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347950/WikiLeaks-reveal-Swiss-bank-account-details-tax-evader-celebrities-politicians.html