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- By David Hamilton, July 05, 2010
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Wikileaks (www.wikileaks.org), a collaborative site with the intention of facilitating the free flow of information has reportedly kept crucial information from the public about its own operations, and its secure submission system, a cornerstone of the concept, has been offline for more than three weeks.
Months after Wikileaks director Julian Assange was caught lying about the identities of his organization's board members, Wikimedia Commons reports that the site's secure submissions server has been down since June 12 after the organization failed to pony up the $30 fee for its annual Secure Sockets Layer certificate renewal.
Launched in 2007, Wikileaks gained wide media attention recently for releasing a video of journalists being killed by US helicopters in Iraq. Following this attention, Assange was apparently the subject of unwanted attention from authorities. upon his return to his home country, Australia, airport security confronted him, taking his passport and searching his bags.
This incident and others (such as claims that gunman broke into his home in Kenya and attempted to kill him for Wikileaks' role in exposing government-sponsored killings there -- despite little evidence suggesting that it was anything more than a robbery) helps to further establish Wikileaks as a threat to authority. These incidents, however, have led some to the conclusion that Assange may be misreporting these events to make him seem like the target of conspiracies in an effort to stir publicity.
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Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
Here's a better title.
Increasingly Suspicious Website, thewhir.com, = FAIL
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
Even I can affford thirty bucks
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
Hehe! It must have been a lot of work, to copy these few statements from other sites. You should be nominated for the Pulitzer Price!
How good, that Adrian Lamo made me aware of this great site. Otherwise I never would know, what good investigative journalism means!
Thanks for the laughter
Sidd Reader
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
"wow.....sounds like some good propaganda there. go pentagon!"
Yep!Good try CIA but epic Fail! We don't believe you!
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
http://goodtimescomics.com/comics/2010-07-04-julian-assange-headshot.jpg
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
Attempts to discredit wikileaks are so transparant they're laughable.
Give it up.
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 05, 2010
I don't believe you.
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
you spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
Comment by johnnna donna on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Most of the comments on here? True
Your article? False
The only thing that surprises me is you haven't taken down the comments yet.
Honestly, what are we supposed to think about this kind of journalism?
Is it blantant propaganda? Is it blind plagiarism? Did you want to spur these kind of comments? What are you thinking?
Comment by johnnna donna on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
And what is up with the agree/disagree links? Tap agree and it comes back as offensive?
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Hilarious, what a pathetic attempt to smear wikileaks' reputation, you'll have to do better than a little damning speculation. Wikileaks is so powerful because it deals with unedited FACTS, why not try following suit?
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Wow.. what a pathetically politically motivated article. Major thumbs down on WHIR for publishing this in the guise of tech news.
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf
The above liink shows how governments can hijack the SSL certificate process. I understand that Wikileaks is now using a self signed certificate. While there are problems with that, given the circumstances there are probably less problems with it than paying for an SSL certificate that may be hijacked by government which certainly now seems to have sufficient incentive to do so. Looks like the mockery alledging that Wikileaks cannot afford to pay $30 for the SSL certificate is deliberate disinformation. Now consider, why is that so? Draw your own conclusions.
Comment by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
wow...horrid article, way to do your own research on the facts that you probably
stole from other authors..
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wow.....sounds like some good propaganda there. go pentagon!
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