Julian Assange arrested (merged)

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

The storey continues,

The Bank of America has recently been buying up disparaging domain names , like bank-of-america-blows.com, apparently in preparation for the upcoming bank-leaks next month.

It would appear that they have something to hide.

I'm very interested to see what 'leaks has on them.

On the Canadian front, the U.S.A. was upset at our lenient trade policies towards Cuba. Who would have guessed?

Our tax dollars hard at work, I see.

[TarJak]

Curiouser and curiouser: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...223-196mv.html

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Curiouser and curiouser: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...223-196mv.html

Thanks for the link, that's one of the clearest looks through the all murk of Assange's current situation - plus we now all know that he enjoys crayfish parties.

I would imagine that Wikileaks will avoid releasing anything embarrassing to government of Great Britain for the next little while.

[TarJak]

Bergstrom's involvement certainly seems to be politically motivated. It will be interesting to see whether the Swedish prosecutors actually proceed with the charges or whether the questioning and investigation will see them dropped once again.

I think the deleted tweets and blogs a quite telling though in terms of the clumsy attempt to clean up evidence. Surely they know you can't erase anything from the internet once it's in the public domain.

[Capt. Morgan]

Merry Christmas BTW

The point that jumped out at me was that the first warrant for his arrest on rape was issued only 15 min. into the initial interview with the two women - who at that time had only wanted to compel Assange to be tested for STD's. I guess it's no surprise that no effort, fair or foul, will be spared to punish him.

I'm hoping that Assange's extradition fails, because it seems that Swedens laws around sexual behavior are quite ill-defined at this time. That warrant had 3 charges for something that is best translated as "unfreedom"

Regardless of his fate, it looks like the cables will be released successfully. If fame was Assange's prime motivation, he has certainly achieved it.

Originally Posted by krashkart

I'm very interested to see what 'leaks has on them...

Me too. From my perspective as an outsider, it amazes me that the American government takes all the flak for the current economic collapse while the banks skate away unscathed - at least that's how it reads in the papers up here in the Great White North.


Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (among others) is reporting that the full 250,00 cable package is now in the hands of a sixth news paper, Norway's Aftenposten; "a development sure to heighten U.S. government fears that the public release of some uncensored diplomatic cables could endanger informants' lives".

At least it's nice to know it's all about getting the truth out and not the money...oh wait http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/8...-5m-book-deal/

[Platapus]

Follow the money

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

I would imagine that Wikileaks will avoid releasing anything embarrassing to government of Great Britain for the next little while.

So they wouldn't release anything like this then.

[Blood_splat]

[Oberon]

Anon gets its own DDOS:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12090245

Web wars!

[Gerald]

Always interesting to other news angles, but unfortunately, old news, but thanks for posted,

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

So they wouldn't release anything like this then.

Well, I guess it must be true that some people in Wikileaks really don't like Julian.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Anon gets its own DDOS:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12090245

Web wars!

Originally Posted by Vendor

Always interesting to other news angles, but unfortunately, old news, but thanks for posted,

The words pot, kettle and black spring to mind

[XabbaRus]

I'm still waiting for the guy to have an accident.

Saying that I don't like the guy and I'm really not sure what his motives are, but I wouldn't wish him dead. Of course the whole uproar could be his protection.

[Skybird]

Now it becomes a demonstration why you should not trust computer-supported so-called social networks: it is an unneeded, easy to abuse exposure of your private data and intimiate sphere.

Like in case of governments, amongst them that of Saudi Arabaia and America, demanding Blackberry to weaken its security protocolls so that governments can overhear the data transmissions done with them, a US court has ordered Twitter to reveal all data on persons that the US knows or just claims to be associated with the Wikileaks affair. The court also ruled it's decision to be kept secret - which meant that the effected people would not have learned about being spied out if Twitter apparently would not have fought back and won a legal battle so that now they were allowed to send emails to these peopel telling them that on the 17th January their private data on their Twitter accounts will be handed over to the US authorities.

Like the submissive obedience of Amazon, Visa and Paypal to US government pressure, this shows that the "independence" of the "free" internet is just an illusion, even more since practically all global key servers (or how are they called?) are located in the US. The SWIFT protocol also is such a case - every bank transaction even just inside Europe, gets indicated to US authorities with information on sending and receiving banking accounts. So much for sovereignity of non-US states. I wonder why the US could claim the even legalised freedom to sniff in my personal banking businesses - I am living in a foreign country and I am not even a US citizen, not even a suspect. But I know that already plenty of such data about me are stored in US intel databases - legally. TheEurpopeans have given the Americans rights and freedoms that the European nations either do not even have themselves inside their own countries, or not to such a far-leading degree! I assume that quite some Euro goivenrments like the arrangement - they can maybe participate in the benefits from such data tracking while not needing to fight the legal b attles to chnage national laws. Talking about underhanded behaviour by Euro governments.

I personally have drawn a consequence in so far as that I have cancelled my vasall Paypal membership and vasall Visa card after they kicked Wikileaks. No big loss anyway - I managed to live the better part of my life without their services.

Anyhow, here is the story according to German edition of Der Spiegel:

Comments:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20027893-281.html

http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=442

Original court documents:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...r/subpoena.pdf

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...ling_Order.pdf