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Assange: We're stepping up release of leaked docs
LONDON – WikiLeaks will step up its publication schedule of secret documents, founder Julian Assange announced Tuesday, promising more revelations based on the group's stash of confidential U.S. embassy cables and other leaks.
Assange, 39, spoke to reporters outside London's high-security Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, where he and his lawyers appeared for a hearing in his fight against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted in a sex-crimes inquiry.
WikiLeaks sparked an international uproar with the publication of hundreds of classified U.S. diplomatic cables late last year, revelations that caused weeks worth of embarrassing news stories for the U.S. and its allies. But the flow of leaks, published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El Pais, has slowed recently amid a barrage of online attacks, financial difficulties and the Swedish prosecution of Assange.
The Australian computer expert said that would soon change, hinting that new media outlets were being made party to the leaks.
"We are stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials," Assange said. "Those will shortly be occurring through our newspaper partners around the world — big and small newspapers and some human rights organizations."
He did not elaborate, returning to court with his lawyers without taking questions.
The WikiLeaks frontman has been under strict curfew at a manor in eastern England since his arrest last month on rape and molestation accusations stemming from encounters with two women during a trip to Sweden last summer.
The Swedish case has divided world opinion. Assange and his supporters say he is being prosecuted for political reasons, something denied by Swedish authorities and Assange's alleged victims, who insist it has nothing to do with WikiLeaks' activities.
Assange, wearing a dark suit, was in court for just 10 minutes for a discussion of his next appearance, scheduled for February 7.
A few people protested outside the court, with one standing behind a banner proclaiming: "Welcome to the show trial."
Earlier Tuesday, WikiLeaks released a statement decrying the death threats in the United States that have been made against Assange. It drew a link between his experience and that of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an Arizona massacre Saturday that killed six people and touched off a fierce debate over the toxic tone of U.S. political discourse.
WikiLeaks said its staff has been subject to "unprecedented violent rhetoric by U.S. prominent media personalities," naming former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as one of those who have called for Assange to be hunted down like a terrorist.
American officials are trying to build a criminal case against WikiLeaks, which along with the State Department cables has also published hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. intelligence files on Iraq and Afghanistan, and a secret helicopter video showing a U.S. attack that killed two Reuters journalists and Iraqis in Baghdad.
The U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., has demanded details about the Twitter accounts of Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst in custody who is suspected of supplying WikiLeaks with classified information.
U.S. prosecutors also targeted three other WikiLeaks supporters: Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian, Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp and U.S. programmer Jacob Appelbaum.
WikiLeaks said it suspects other American Internet companies like Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., have also been asked for information. Neither company has commented on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp
Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born February 14, 1968 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of the internet service provider XS4ALL.
In 1993, a number of people surrounding Hack-Tic including Gonggrijp founded XS4ALL. It was the first ISP that offered access to the Internet for private individuals in the Netherlands. Gonggrijp sold the company to the former enemy Dutch-Telecom KPN in 1997. After he left XS4ALL, Gonggrijp founded ITSX, a computer security evaluation company, which was bought by Madison Gurkha in 2006. In 2001, Gonggrijp started work on the Cryptophone, a mobile telephone that can encrypt conversations.[3]
Since 1989, Gonggrijp has been the main organizer of hacker events held every four years. Originally organized by the cast of Hack-Tic, these events have continued to live to this day.
Throughout the years, he has repeatedly shown his concerns about the increasing amount of information on individuals that government agencies and companies have access to. Rop held a controversial talk titled "We lost the war"[4] at the Chaos Communication Congress 2005 in Berlin together with Frank Rieger.[5]
In 2006 he founded the organization "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We do not trust voting computers") which campaigns against the use of electronic voting systems without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail and which showed in October 2006 on Dutch television how an electronic voting machine from manufacturer Nedap could easily be hacked.[6]
On May 16, 2008 the Dutch government decided that elections in the Netherlands will be held using paper ballots and red pencil only. A proposal to develop a new generation of voting computers was rejected.
Gonggrijp has worked for whistleblowing site Wikileaks, helping to prepare their April 2010 release of video footage from the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike.[7][8]
On December 14 of 2010, the US Department of Justice has had a court order issued to force Twitter.com to send them various bits of information regarding Gonggrijp's Twitter account as well as of the twitter accounts of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Jacob Appelbaum. The reason is Gonggrijp's collaboration in releasing the “Collateral Murder” video in april of 2010, a Wiki Leaks action.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_Jónsdóttir
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is a member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement.[1][2] Her district is the Reykjavík South Constituency.[1] She was elected to the Icelandic parliament in April 2009 on behalf of a movement aiming for democratic reform beyond party politics of left and right. Birgitta has been an activist and a spokesperson for various groups, such as Wikileaks,[3] Saving Iceland and Friends of Tibet in Iceland. She acts as a spokeswoman for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.
On 18 June 2010 she told ABC News' Brian Ross that Wikileaks will be releasing a leaked video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan "hopefully very soon".[9]
On 7 January 2011, Birgitta announced on her Twitter page that she had been notified by Twitter that it had been served by the United States Department of Justice with a subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009."[10] According to Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
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Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security hacker. He currently is employed by the Tor project and spoke as a representative of Wikileaks at the 2010 Hope conference.[5][6][7] He has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008. [8]
In 2005, he gave two talks at the 22C3.[9] The first was titled Personal experiences bringing technology and new media to disaster areas and covered his travels to Iraq and post-Katrina New Orleans. The second was A discussion about modern disk encryption systems, discussing legal and technical aspects of full disk encryption. In 2006 at the 23C3 he gave a talk with Ralf-Philipp Weinmann titled Unlocking FileVault: An analysis of Apple's encrypted disk storage system.[10][11] They subsequently released the VileFault free software program for accessing Apple's FileVault volumes.
He is also known for his research relating to the cold boot attack,[12][13] as well as SSL certificate authorities.[14]
Appelbaum co-founded the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman.[15] He is also a photographer[16] and ambassador for the art group monochrom.
According to CNET in an interview with Appelbaum, he told them that "other people who appeared in the address book of [his] seized cell phones also have encountered trouble at borders or in airports".[18]
A U.S. court (Virginia) have demanded Appelbaum's data from Twitter.[19]
Assange, 39, spoke to reporters outside London's high-security Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, where he and his lawyers appeared for a hearing in his fight against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted in a sex-crimes inquiry.
WikiLeaks sparked an international uproar with the publication of hundreds of classified U.S. diplomatic cables late last year, revelations that caused weeks worth of embarrassing news stories for the U.S. and its allies. But the flow of leaks, published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El Pais, has slowed recently amid a barrage of online attacks, financial difficulties and the Swedish prosecution of Assange.
The Australian computer expert said that would soon change, hinting that new media outlets were being made party to the leaks.
"We are stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials," Assange said. "Those will shortly be occurring through our newspaper partners around the world — big and small newspapers and some human rights organizations."
He did not elaborate, returning to court with his lawyers without taking questions.
The WikiLeaks frontman has been under strict curfew at a manor in eastern England since his arrest last month on rape and molestation accusations stemming from encounters with two women during a trip to Sweden last summer.
The Swedish case has divided world opinion. Assange and his supporters say he is being prosecuted for political reasons, something denied by Swedish authorities and Assange's alleged victims, who insist it has nothing to do with WikiLeaks' activities.
Assange, wearing a dark suit, was in court for just 10 minutes for a discussion of his next appearance, scheduled for February 7.
A few people protested outside the court, with one standing behind a banner proclaiming: "Welcome to the show trial."
Earlier Tuesday, WikiLeaks released a statement decrying the death threats in the United States that have been made against Assange. It drew a link between his experience and that of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an Arizona massacre Saturday that killed six people and touched off a fierce debate over the toxic tone of U.S. political discourse.
WikiLeaks said its staff has been subject to "unprecedented violent rhetoric by U.S. prominent media personalities," naming former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as one of those who have called for Assange to be hunted down like a terrorist.
American officials are trying to build a criminal case against WikiLeaks, which along with the State Department cables has also published hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. intelligence files on Iraq and Afghanistan, and a secret helicopter video showing a U.S. attack that killed two Reuters journalists and Iraqis in Baghdad.
The U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., has demanded details about the Twitter accounts of Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst in custody who is suspected of supplying WikiLeaks with classified information.
U.S. prosecutors also targeted three other WikiLeaks supporters: Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian, Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp and U.S. programmer Jacob Appelbaum.
WikiLeaks said it suspects other American Internet companies like Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., have also been asked for information. Neither company has commented on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp
Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born February 14, 1968 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of the internet service provider XS4ALL.
[edit] Biography
While growing up in Wormer in the Dutch Zaanstreek area, he became known as a teenage hacker and appeared as one of the main characters in Jan Jacobs's book "Kraken en Computers" ("Hacking and computers", Veen uitgevers 1985, ISBN 90-204-2651-6) which describes the early hacker scene in The Netherlands. Moved to Amsterdam in 1988. Founded the hacker magazine Hack-Tic in 1989. Was believed to be a major security threat by authorities in The Netherlands as well as in the USA.[1] In the masthead of Hack-Tic, Gonggrijp described his role as hoofdverdachte ('prime suspect'). He was convinced that the Internet would radically alter society.[2]In 1993, a number of people surrounding Hack-Tic including Gonggrijp founded XS4ALL. It was the first ISP that offered access to the Internet for private individuals in the Netherlands. Gonggrijp sold the company to the former enemy Dutch-Telecom KPN in 1997. After he left XS4ALL, Gonggrijp founded ITSX, a computer security evaluation company, which was bought by Madison Gurkha in 2006. In 2001, Gonggrijp started work on the Cryptophone, a mobile telephone that can encrypt conversations.[3]
Since 1989, Gonggrijp has been the main organizer of hacker events held every four years. Originally organized by the cast of Hack-Tic, these events have continued to live to this day.
Throughout the years, he has repeatedly shown his concerns about the increasing amount of information on individuals that government agencies and companies have access to. Rop held a controversial talk titled "We lost the war"[4] at the Chaos Communication Congress 2005 in Berlin together with Frank Rieger.[5]
In 2006 he founded the organization "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We do not trust voting computers") which campaigns against the use of electronic voting systems without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail and which showed in October 2006 on Dutch television how an electronic voting machine from manufacturer Nedap could easily be hacked.[6]
On May 16, 2008 the Dutch government decided that elections in the Netherlands will be held using paper ballots and red pencil only. A proposal to develop a new generation of voting computers was rejected.
Gonggrijp has worked for whistleblowing site Wikileaks, helping to prepare their April 2010 release of video footage from the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike.[7][8]
On December 14 of 2010, the US Department of Justice has had a court order issued to force Twitter.com to send them various bits of information regarding Gonggrijp's Twitter account as well as of the twitter accounts of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Jacob Appelbaum. The reason is Gonggrijp's collaboration in releasing the “Collateral Murder” video in april of 2010, a Wiki Leaks action.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_Jónsdóttir
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of this article is an Icelandic name; the last name is a patronymic or matronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Birgitta.
| Birgitta Jónsdóttir | |
 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2009[1] | |
Parliamentary group chairman | |
| Born | 17 April 1967 Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Political party | The Movement |
[edit] Life and career
Born in Reykjavik, Birgitta is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and internet pioneer. Her first poetry collection was published when she was 22 years old by Iceland´s biggest publisher, Almenna Bókafélagið, AB books, in 1989. Birgitta organized "Art against war" where a number of Icelandic artists and poets came out to protest the war in Iraq. Birgitta set up the first Icelandic online art gallery in 1996 for the Apple Shop in Iceland. Birgitta has participated in several international projects related to writing and activism including "Poets Against the War", "Dialogue among Nations through Poetry", and "Poets for Human Rights". She also edited and published the two international books The World Healing Book and The Book of Hope which contains writings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove, Dalai Lama, Rabbi Michael Lerner, John Kinsella, and Sigur Rós. Birgitta is a founder of Beyond Borders Press and Radical Creations. Birgitta is a part of International Network of Parliamentarians’ for Tibet (INPaT)[edit] Press freedom initiatives
Birgitta was an active volunteer for Wikileaks and had an important role in the making of the Collateral Murder video.[4] She is also part of the movement to make Iceland a haven for press freedom and is the chief sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.[5][6][7][8]On 18 June 2010 she told ABC News' Brian Ross that Wikileaks will be releasing a leaked video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan "hopefully very soon".[9]
On 7 January 2011, Birgitta announced on her Twitter page that she had been notified by Twitter that it had been served by the United States Department of Justice with a subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009."[10] According to Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com:
The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.[10]
[edit] Present Parliamentary Committees
- Member of the Parliamentary Review Committee on the SIC report since 2009.
- Member of the Committee on the Environment since 2009.
- Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs since 2009.
- Member of the Icelandic delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2009.
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Jacob Appelbaum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Jacob Appelbaum | |
|---|---|
 Jacob Appelbaum | |
| Citizenship | US |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Tor project,[1] Noisebridge,[2] Cult of the Dead Cow,[3] Wikileaks |
| Known for | Hacker spokesperson for Wikileaks spokesperson for The Tor Project[4] |
In 2005, he gave two talks at the 22C3.[9] The first was titled Personal experiences bringing technology and new media to disaster areas and covered his travels to Iraq and post-Katrina New Orleans. The second was A discussion about modern disk encryption systems, discussing legal and technical aspects of full disk encryption. In 2006 at the 23C3 he gave a talk with Ralf-Philipp Weinmann titled Unlocking FileVault: An analysis of Apple's encrypted disk storage system.[10][11] They subsequently released the VileFault free software program for accessing Apple's FileVault volumes.
He is also known for his research relating to the cold boot attack,[12][13] as well as SSL certificate authorities.[14]
Appelbaum co-founded the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman.[15] He is also a photographer[16] and ambassador for the art group monochrom.
[edit] Detainment and questioning
Upon returning to the US from the Netherlands on 29 July 2010, Appelbaum was detained for three hours at the airport by agents, according to anonymous sources.[17] The sources told Cnet that Appelbaum's bag was searched, receipts from his bag were photocopied, and his laptop was inspected, although in what manner was unclear.[17] Appelbaum reportedly refused to answer questions without a lawyer present and was not allowed to make a phone call. His three mobile phones were reportedly taken and not returned.[17] On 31 July he spoke at DEF CON and mentioned his phone being "seized". After speaking, he was approached by two FBI agents and questioned.[17]According to CNET in an interview with Appelbaum, he told them that "other people who appeared in the address book of [his] seized cell phones also have encountered trouble at borders or in airports".[18]
A U.S. court (Virginia) have demanded Appelbaum's data from Twitter.[19]
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