Wikileaks

Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT

Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.

Julian Assange on Anonymous

This was a very apolitical group that had absolutely no understanding about the military-industrial complex whatsoever, and no understanding about international finance. As a result of joining our battle and trying to protect themselves, they have come to see that the threats related to Internet freedom come from the military-industrial complex, the banking system and the media.

– Julian Assange, in Rolling Stone, referring to Anonymous

List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 3:40 pm PT

As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.

News Byte

U.S. Court Orders Twitter Account Opened in WikiLeaks Investigation

Drake Martinet in News on November 12, 2011 at 8:14 am PT

A U.S. district court decided Thursday to grant the Justice Department access to the Twitter account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic Minister of Parliament and WikiLeaks volunteer. Federal Judge Liam O’Grady ruled that Twitter users gave up privacy rights, including those to IP address information, when signing up for accounts on the popular microblogging service.

Feds Can Get Twitter Users’ Data Without Warrant, Judge Says

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on November 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Should the government be able to collect information related to your Internet use without a warrant? According to a U.S. District Court opinion in the case of three WikiLeaks associates, it should.

Financial Problems Could Shut WikiLeaks

Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 24, 2011 at 11:45 am PT

WikiLeaks said it will shut down by year-end if financial-services companies don’t lift restrictions on donations that have hobbled the organization.

Secret Orders Target Email

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 10, 2011 at 3:45 am PT

The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

FBI Moves on Anonymous in New York and California

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 19, 2011 at 12:32 pm PT

FBI agents are arresting people and executing search warrants nationwide as part of its investigation into the hacking group Anonymous.

LulzSec Goes All Wikileaks on Arizona State Cops

Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm PT

LulzSec dumps a load of documents belonging to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Apparently they don’t like a controversial immigration law there. Also, the group has yet another rival gang that aims to bring them down.

Turkey Arrests 32 Alleged Members of Anonymous, Days After Arrests in Spain

Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 13, 2011 at 11:52 am PT

Turkey becomes the latest country to arrest a batch of alleged members of the amorphous Wikileaks-supporting hacker group know for its denial-of-service attacks on the Web sites of organizations it doesn’t like. Meanwhile, LulzSec warned a game publisher that it’s next in its sights.