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US push for smash through the great firewall of China

The United States plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent…

WSJ launches a possible WikiLeaks rival with SafeHouse

The Wall Street Journal has launched SafeHouse – “Securely share information with The Wall Street Journal.” It asks: “If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence,…

‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented,’ says Assange

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit…

Zuckerberg, Huffington and Bieber — The online influencers

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Larry Page and Wikileaks’ infamous editor Julian Assange are among the online personalties to grace this year’s Time magazine’s list…

Hacker group Anonymous declares war on ‘global banking cartel’

The faceless, decentralised on-line community known as “Anonymous” posted a video on YouTube on Monday declaring war against the international banking system in a…

Exclusive: Talking internet freedom with Obama’s top official

On the back of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call for global internet freedom late last year, Daniel Baer was sworn in as…

Why journalists could (and should) become professional explainers

Information is cheap. It has to be, if a fourteen year old with no security clearance can learn state secrets with a regular dial-up…

WikiLeaks loses American domain name, moves to Switzerland

The noose is tightening on WikiLeaks, as it faces challenges on multiple fronts to stay operational. In the latest blow to the notorious whistleblower…

Amazon terminates hosting service for WikiLeaks

Amazon, after coming under fire for hosting WikiLeaks, booted it from its servers on Wednesday, prompting the whistleblower website to shift to Web-hosting services…

WikiLeaks faces second cyber-attack in three days

WikiLeaks used its Twitter account on Tuesday to reveal that it was under a new cyber attack, just three days after a similar incident…

WikiLeaks’ next bombshell could ‘take down a bank or two’

In an interview with Forbes magazine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed a fresh “megaleak” will target a major US bank “early next year”….

‘Hacktivist’ takes credit for WikiLeaks shutdown

A computer hacker known as the “Jester” who calls himself a “hacktivist for good” is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website….

World braces for new ‘extremely dangerous’ WikiLeaks revelations

Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the…

Wikileaks to release three million more secret documents

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million more secret documents in its next mass release of confidential material,…

WikiLeaks defends release of Iraq war documents

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the unauthorised release of 400 000 classified US military documents on the war in Iraq, saying they revealed…

US urges media not to publish secret WikiLeaks files

The Pentagon on Monday urged media outlets not to publish secret military files on Iraq obtained by WikiLeaks, as the website vowed to release…

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