Έκτακτη είδηση - παραδόθηκε στις 11.30 ώρα Ελλάδος ο Julian Assange στο Λονδίνο

Wikileaks defended by Anonymous hacktivists

O ιδρυτής του Wikileaks.org Julian Assange παραδόθηκε στη Βρετανική αστυνομία βάσει Ευρωπαϊκού εντάλματος σύλληψης εναντίον του για σεξουαλικές επιθέσεις σε δύο γυναίκες στη Σουηδία.

Ο Αυστραλός επιθυμεί να αντιμετωπίσει τη δίωξη, την οποία απορρίπτει, ώστε να ξεκαθαρίσει το όνομά του και να συνεχίσει τη έργο του.

Θυμίζουμε ότι το Αντίβαρο φιλοξενεί σε mirror site τα έγγραφα που ως τώρα έχουν αναρτηθεί από τον Julian Assange.

Η διεύθυνση είναι http://wikileaks.antibaro.gr

Ενημέρωση 15.30 Ελλάδος: η ομάδα Hacktivists κρούει τον κώδωνα του κινδύνο με χλιαρές επιθέσεις σε εταιρείες που ενδίδουν σε κυβερνητικές πιέσεις και λογοκρίνουν το Wikileaks ή εμποδίζουν τη λειτουργία του (EveryDNS, Amazon, paypal, Mastercard, PostFinance και άλλες) ...

(πηγή είδησης - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539)

WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. WikiLeaks provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to their journalists. One of WikiLeaks most important activities is to publish original source material alongside their news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.

They are a young organisation that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. They also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities.

WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence their publishing organisation, their journalists and their anonymous sources. The broader principles on which their work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of their common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history.

They derive these principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular, Article 19 inspires the work of WikiLeaks journalists and other volunteers. It states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.

A mirror site is an exact copy of the original site, offering the same information and the same files. Mirror sites are created in order to distribute the bandwidth load and facilitate large numbers of simultaneous downloads. It eases the load on the server hosting the main site by distributing it around the mirror sites.

Most foreign officials are likely to overcome any reticence with the United States over the Wikileaks within a year. Governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like Uncle Sam, not because they trust Uncle Sam, and not because they believe Uncle Sam can keep secrets.

Most classified material is improperly classified; governments oftentimes invoke claims of secrecy to shield themselves from embarrassment, not to protect national security. The attention on minute and often mundane details that shouldn't be classified precipitate a closer look at overclassification, Leaks have a beneficial side effect.

There is a tension between individuals sharing their genuine opinions about another country, or that country's leaders, and concern that their candid assessments in private conversations be revealed. People do keep secrets from one another, including their kith and kin. It is basic human nature. And it is basic human nature to clam up the next time you're talking to a friend who recently blabbed your secrets to a third party.

Not all laws are sacrosanct, and much classified material shouldn't be. Releasing such information is a legitimate form of civil disobedience, because the laws governing release of documents are unjust. Overclassification and other resorts to secrecy to shield the government from public scrutiny are on par with far more egregious violations of the basic rights and liberties of all citizens.

Kleptocrats, traditional media, and courts have lost the power to control the way information is drip-fed in their self-interest. The closed doors of power need to be open to public review. We live increasingly in an Age of Secrecy. It has become the American Way of War, and increasingly draws the curtains over American democracy itself. The wars in Pakistan and Yemen are secret wars. The war in Afghanistan is dominated by secret US Special Operations raids and killings. The CIA has its own secret army in Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal's entire record in Iraq was classified. And so on, ad nauseam.

The official fear is we might revolt if we knew the secrets being kept from us. In Rolling Stone's expose of McChrystal's war this year, one top military adviser said that if Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular. McChrystal himself joked about sending out Special Forces units to kill at night then having to scold them in the morning. We should revolt against those who would keep the affairs of empire shrouded. We should not be distracted by the juicy tidbits that may or may not be better left unreported.

Anything that reminds the powerful that they cannot act with complete impunity all the time has to be a good thing. There has been a lot of anguish about how the disclosure of diplomatic cables will make kleptocrats think twice before they candidly express their views, and that this will impede the flow of important information to our government. But such leaks also impede unscrupulous behavior. If you believe our diplomats are unfailingly pure of heart and unerring in judgment, then there is no upside to forcing them to think twice about their words and deeds.

Greek dissident bloggers are arrested for exercising the right to free expression and are jailed on grotesque charges, such as treason, after sham trials. Graecokleptocrats are trying to take away Greeks' right to read what they want, and to say what they want. The Internet is making it possible for new voices to be heard, the voices of Greeks who simply could not afford to publish their ideas to a wide audience using the mainstream media. Graecokleptocrats fear new voices, and are trying to control what appears on the Greek blogosphere through new stupid laws and freakish regulations. Greek cybercops must be abolished now.

Graecokleptocrats persecute dissident bloggers using brutal cybercops, who are willing to do anything, including perjury. The stupidity and vindictiveness of certain Greek ministers is out of this world. Graecokleptocrats and Graecomedia are in cahoots to preserve the corrupt status quo, mudslinging dissident bloggers.

The Ministry of Truth or Minitrue in Newspeak was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by the government of Dystopia to control information in his seminal novel of 1984. Now, governments have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. But there is no way Minitrue can gag the internet. Greek cybercops must be abolished now.

Bloggers have to put up with the Greek government, the bully of blogosphere. Starting with no money, no backers, and no affiliation with elite institutions, the internet made it possible for many Greeks to succeed by making knowledge accessible and searchable on a scale never previously available in Greece. The intellectual playing field has been leveled and the internet changed the way we think about the very real possibility of fairness and opportunity in corrupt Greece that has for too long been rigged to favor Graecokleptocrats.

Graecokleptocrats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth, are trying to gag dissident bloggers, manipulating an infamous gang of cybercops. Graecokleptocrats have discovered this freakish gang is the best political tool, able and willing to destroy their opponents. That's why an influential dissident blogger would normally wait for brutal cybercops to eventually confiscate his computer before he buys a new model!

Greek bloggers cause anxiety to Graecokleptocrats. The Greek government is wary of Greeks posting news without being controlled journalists. Worse, bloggers sometimes raise sensitive issues which the traditional Greek media do not dare cover. Blogs have in Greece become the only reliable source of news. Greek cybercops must be abolished now.

Greek blogs are a fantastic tool for freedom of expression in Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth. They have unloosed the tongues of ordinary Greeks. Greeks who were until now only consumers of stupid news have become players in a new form of journalism, a grassroots journalism by the Greeks for the Greeks, united against Graecokleptocrats. Greek cybercops must be abolished now.

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