Unlimited Wikileaks Shenanigans

[Cain]

Most of the leaks are from the last three years.  Most pressing international issue in the last three years has been Iran.  No real surprise there.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

My mom's buying into the "this thing is scary and Al Qaeda are jumping for joy" thing. 

[Triple Zero]

Blight, well it's not too hard to point out how that is completely wrong, I guess?

Main reason why politics reacts so harsh is because they fear their corruption to be exposed (even more).

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in sex case

This my friends is a sad day in history...

well, he did go to the police voluntarily, and then they arrested him:

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court today after his lawyers said he would meet police to discuss a European arrest warrant from Sweden relating to alleged sexual assaults.

Some quotes from your LA Times article:

Julian Assange, founder of the controversial WikiLeaks website, was arrested here Tuesday morning at the request of Swedish authorities who want to question him about allegations of sexual assault, Scotland Yard said.

and

A trumped up rape charge against this hero is laughable. He so obviouisly gay he's probably never touched a woman in his entire life. (...)

Heh.



Another link about the arrest:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40544697/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/

Another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said the WikiLeaks founder had voluntarily offered to cooperate with Swedish prosecutors because he "is very keen to clear his name," but his offers have been refused.

She said it was "disproportionate" to seek an arrest warrant rather than a formal summons for his interrogation.

"Mr. Assange still has not seen the full allegations against him or the potential charges he faces in a language which he understands, which is English, and this is in clear breach of his human rights under the European Convention of Human Rights," Robinson said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The pressure on WikiLeaks mounted from other quarters Monday: Swiss authorities closed Assange's bank account, depriving him of a key fundraising tool.

Shit is happening, fast.

[Triple Zero]

Blight, this might be a good one for your mum to read, the opinion essay Assange wrote a few hours before he got arrested:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332

Every time WikiLeaks publishes the truth about abuses committed by US agencies, Australian politicians chant a provably false chorus with the State Department: "You'll risk lives! National security! You'll endanger troops!" Then they say there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks publishes. It can't be both. Which is it?

It is neither. WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time we have changed whole governments, but not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed. But the US, with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands in the past few months alone.

US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to the US congress that no sensitive intelligence sources or methods had been compromised by the Afghan war logs disclosure. The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in Afghanistan. NATO in Kabul told CNN it couldn't find a single person who needed protecting. The Australian Department of Defence said the same. No Australian troops or sources have been hurt by anything we have published.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Blight, this might be a good one for your mum to read, the opinion essay Assange wrote a few hours before he got arrested:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332

Every time WikiLeaks publishes the truth about abuses committed by US agencies, Australian politicians chant a provably false chorus with the State Department: "You'll risk lives! National security! You'll endanger troops!" Then they say there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks publishes. It can't be both. Which is it?

It is neither. WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time we have changed whole governments, but not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed. But the US, with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands in the past few months alone.

US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to the US congress that no sensitive intelligence sources or methods had been compromised by the Afghan war logs disclosure. The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in Afghanistan. NATO in Kabul told CNN it couldn't find a single person who needed protecting. The Australian Department of Defence said the same. No Australian troops or sources have been hurt by anything we have published.

Thanks Trip, I'll email it to her.

[Lies]

*apparently*, I can't say for sure since I haven't verified this myself, but the insurance key has been released:

(probably bullshit but redacted by ECH anyway. Lys, I'd appreciate it if you don't post things here that could draw unwanted attention to us, especially since I'd probably lose my job over it.)

[Cain]

Nothing about it on the Wikileaks Twitter, which is where I would expect the info to be released.

[Triple Zero]

... and now, after Paypal and Mastercard, also Visa "has taken action to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules.".

I hope he can still scrape some cash together to pay that bail.



Lys, hmm it looks weird to me. An AES256 key is supposed to be 256 bits. The key you posted is 91 characters (minus the space in the middle), it's not hexadecimal (which only uses characters 0123456789ABCDEF) and while it *could* be a base64 encoding, it's rather unlikely that it contains only uppercase characters (base64 also allows lowercase). Only option I see is that it could be a plaintext key that needs to be hashed to yield the real 256 bit key.

Biggest question is, Lys, what's the source? Where did you find it?

[Triple Zero]

Anyway, live updates at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates

not going to xpost it all.

[Cramulus]

if anybody doubted it, this is a good reminder that we're living in the most exciting period of history to date

is this guy a super hero or a bond villain? It depends on which papers you read, but either way, this shit is going in the history books under the heading WTF

I am on the edge of my goddamn seat!

[Triple Zero]

HE'S A FUCKING SUPERHERO

also, this is pissing me off, and somehow more than recent stupidity:

2.58pm: The journalist John Pilger and the film director Ken Loach have also been seen in court, according to various sources. They together with Jemima Khan are apparently all there to provide surety if bail is granted to Assange.

because really, okay first Paypal bent over and took it 1 or 2 days ago, but the exact morning right when Assange needs his money most, Mastercard and Visa both simultaneously decide to freeze Wikileaks legal defence accounts

[Triple Zero]

okay I said I wasnt going to xpost anymore but more from Guardian live feed, FUCKING GODDAMNIT

3.04pm: Assange was refused bail, and will be remanded in custody till 14 December.

[East Coast Hustle]

*apparently*, I can't say for sure since I haven't verified this myself, but the insurance key has been released:

(probably bullshit but redacted by ECH anyway. Lys, I'd appreciate it if you don't post things here that could draw unwanted attention to us, especially since I'd probably lose my job over it.)

To clarify, if you want to link to another site where that key can be found, I don't see a problem with that but I'd prefer it not be explicitly posted on this site.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

okay I said I wasnt going to xpost anymore but more from Guardian live feed, FUCKING GODDAMNIT

3.04pm: Assange was refused bail, and will be remanded in custody till 14 December.

He's going to disappear, or simply have a bad accident in the latrine.

[Triple Zero]

I'd have preferred the link, anyway, for source+context

But it's ECH+Faust's site, so if one of them doesn't feel comfortable with posting that, it's their right (everything is happening too quick to form much more of an opinion about for me), but it's not really something to make a big deal about anyway, since if that code really is released, it'll be all over the web in no time.

3.04pm: Assange was refused bail, and will be remanded in custody till 14 December.

He's going to disappear, or simply have a bad accident in the latrine.

If that happens, that key will be released real quick.