What happened to WikiLeaks?

In December 2010 wikileaks.org faced a flurry of setbacks. It was forced off-line once again when the site’s domain name provider terminated its account in the wake of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks; as with previous service interruptions, WikiLeaks remained available on mirror sites or by directly linking to its IP address.

What is WikiLeaks and who is Julian Assange?

WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 by Australian computer programmer and activist Julian Assange. Assange, a noted computer hacker, pleaded guilty to a host of cybercrime charges in 1991, but because of his youth he received only minimal punishment.

How old are the cables released by WikiLeaks?

In November 2010 WikiLeaks released selections from a trove of some 250,000 classified diplomatic cables between the U.S. State Department and its embassies and consulates around the world. Those documents dated mostly from 2007 to 2010 but included some dating back as far as 1966.

What did WikiLeaks do to help Edward Snowden?

When National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong, WikiLeaks staffers facilitated his travel to Moscow. They remained with Snowden during his monthlong stay in the international transit zone of a Moscow airport and assisted with his application for asylum in Russia.

500 days ago today, WikiLeaks was abruptly cut off from 95% of its funds. 500 days have passed since a cartel of the world’s largest financial players Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union instituted a consolidated, extra-ju…

What is WikiLeaks’ global intelligence files?

While WikiLeaks has been preoccupied with preparing its new release ’The Global Intelligence Files’ where we are releasing actual documents from the privatized spying world in collaboration with 25 newspapers, Ex… WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE.

Did WikiLeaks publish a ‘highly confidential’ Amazon document?

Today, 11 October 2018, WikiLeaks publishes a “Highly Confidential” internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon. The document from late 2015 lists the addresses and some operational details of over one h…

What is the past tense of buchstabiert?

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