Wikileaks - It's time to open the archives

[weltweit]

... Still, you never know - it might finally reveal the truth about Area 51

When will the release actually take place?

 

[Random]

Who's going to go through all of these files, though? We can't rely on the Guardian et al to find the stuff that we're interested in.

 

[weltweit]

Who's going to go through all of these files, though? We can't rely on the Guardian et al to find the stuff that we're interested in.

As far as I can tell they just make them available on the net and you can help yourself no?

Of so - Fill your boots!!

 

[Random]

Yes, but who's actualy going to spend the time doing this?

 

[weltweit]

Yes, but who's actualy going to spend the time doing this?

Not me..

I just went and had a look at wikileaks and there did not seem to be anything there at all.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Yes, but who's actualy going to spend the time doing this?

journos, of course. its what they're paid to do (find stuff out, sort through the dross for the real "story" etc) and its why we read their papers.

 

[weltweit]

How did wikileaks suddenly arrive and start leaking stuff?

Can they not be shutdown by legal action?

Do we really want there to be no secrets?

 

[newbie]

Not me..

I just went and had a look at wikileaks and there did not seem to be anything there at all.

Wikileaks has distributed an insurance file
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance
It's heavily encrypted, no-one knows what's in it, but there seems to be speculation that this is the raw data. All will become clear when they release the key.

There's some discussion here

As to who will read it for us, the Daily Telegraph gained hugely in both sales and reputation because it devoted so many resources to the MP expenses story. Editors, individual journalists and campaign groups will probably mine this for years to come.

 

[xes]

They didn't suddenly arrive, they've been around for ages. i think they've just changed how they release things. By announcing it first they create more interest and make a bigger kerfuffle. And there are plenty of people out there willing to scour through this stuff. Conspiracy theorists are creaming their pants waiting to plough through it.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

How did wikileaks suddenly arrive and start leaking stuff?

Can they not be shutdown by legal action?

Do we really want there to be no secrets?

you can find out history here http://wikileaks.org/

btw: after the fitwatch episode will we be able to post details and links here when the info is released?

 

[yield]

btw: after the fitwatch episode will we be able to post details and links here when the info is released?

Of course we will. Everyone else will be doing it.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Of course we will. Everyone else will be doing it.

I hope so.. there was a slight wobble previously for a few hours until we could confirm to Ed et al, the legitimacy of information....

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Yes, but who's actualy going to spend the time doing this?

Grauniad, Spiegel and NYT will have had access to the whole thing for ages and will already know exactly what stories they want to run with.

 

[weltweit]

Wikileaks boss has asked the Americans exactly which / whose lives will be put in jepardy from the releasing of the materials.

 

[free spirit]

I hope so.. there was a slight wobble previously for a few hours until we could confirm to Ed et al, the legitimacy of information....

yes, that was a long way from urban's finest few hours.

 

[elbows]

Britain's Guardian newspaper, which has been working with Wikileaks on publishing the files, said they would include an unflattering US assessment of UK PM David Cameron.

Guardian journalist Simon Hoggart told the BBC: "There is going to be some embarrassment certainly for Gordon Brown but even more so for David Cameron who was not very highly regarded by the Obama administration or by the US ambassador here."

It has not confirmed when the documents will be made public, but there is some speculation that the release will take place on Sunday. The Guardian said it would publish extensive details on Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11856122

 

[AKA pseudonym]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has told whistleblower WikiLeaks that its expected release of classified State Department material is illegal and will put "countless" lives at risk.

A letter from the State Department's top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney also says the release threatens global counterterrorism operations and jeopardizes U.S. relations with its allies.

The letter also demands the release be stopped.

U.S. diplomats around the world are scrambling to warn foreign governments about what might be in the secret documents. They are believed to contain highly sensitive assessments about world leaders, their policies and America's attempts to lobby them.

Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

worried?

 

[xes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858637

Wikileaks under attack from hackers. Looks like they're trying to stop the release. But many people have downloaded the insurance file, which is thought to have this, plus what ever else they have inside it. (thought to have, as nobody has been able to look inside it)

 

[creak]

What're the legal implications of downloading the insurance file, does anyone know?

 

[AKA pseudonym]

WikiLeaks has said that its website has been hacked, just hours before the expected release of a tranche of secret US diplomatic documents.

"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," Wikileaks said on its Twitter page.

But WikiLeaks said that five publications "will publish many US embassy cables tonight" even if the website goes down.

Meanwhile, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said the imminent release of the classified documents by the whistle-blower website will amount to a "diplomatic history" of global affairs.

"The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country," Assange told reporters in Jordan by video link from an undisclosed location on Sunday.

WikiLeaks is reportedly hours away from releasing hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, with several governments fearing damaging revelations.

Source: Al Jazeera

 

[elbows]

I cant remember the last time I anticipated anything quite so much as this, I love reading this sort of thing and Im going to be overwhelmed by powerful information, joy.

 

[xes]

What're the legal implications of downloading the insurance file, does anyone know?

Without know what it contains, nobody can know. But many many people have downloaded it. So if they're going to run round banging everyone up for having downloaded it, they'd better start putting the finishing touches to the FEMA camps

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Without know what it contains, nobody can know. But many many people have downloaded it. So if they're going to run round banging everyone up for having downloaded it, they'd better start putting the finishing touches to the FEMA camps

yup.. thats my attitude too... dying to know whats in it tho.. Im like a child on xmas eve..

if ya google wikileaks.. they show the amount of times wikileaks being mentioned on social media... couple of times every second lol

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Its unravelling NOW!!!!
current trending news
RT @wikileaks: Please use #cablegate to discuss the pending US Embassy cables release.

tomorrow's papers:

NY times

 

[creak]

Shit, check out the Guardian too...

 

[Santino]

"Inappropriate behaviour" by a British Royal lol.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable-leak-diplomacy-crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables

 

[goldenecitrone]

Looks like the Saudis and the Iranians are going to war then.

 

[laptop]

A-and they're off (according to the BBC): Wikileaks releases secret US embassy cables

 

[AKA pseudonym]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/