10-07-2010, 07:01 PM
There's been a stream of stuff about Wikileaks on Cryptome this past couple of weeks which I've just not had time to post. Most of it is from 'Wikileaks Insider' and arrives at Cryptome via 'pgpboard' which is a Yahoo encrypted messaging board. (I've signed WikiSpooks up to it too FWIW)
Not sure what to make of it all but, on balance, I'd say the stuff is kosher. Anyway the latest missive alleges the site is to be abandoned. It has already allowed its SSL certificate expire so no site traffic is encrypted anymore - and nothing has been posted since early this year.
My take is that Wikileaks, in its present incarnation, probably IS dead. I think Assange, having tasted fame and fortune, probably does harbour serious 'top table' ambitions such that any new incarnation will be designed to accomodate them. Not sure how compatible that is likely to be with the original Wilileaks stated aims either.
Not sure what to make of it all but, on balance, I'd say the stuff is kosher. Anyway the latest missive alleges the site is to be abandoned. It has already allowed its SSL certificate expire so no site traffic is encrypted anymore - and nothing has been posted since early this year.
Quote: A sends via PGPboard, 10 July 2010:The 'authentication code omitted' bit maybe something or nothing. It's just that John Young is a stickler for that sort of thing and simply reports the fact for other to make judgements.
WIKILEAKS WEBSITE TO BE ABANDONED
Within the last few hours we have learned that WIKILEAKS (Assange) will commit no more time and effort into restoring our website http://www.wikileaks.org .
The website has been effectively down in terms of document submissions for many weeks, and as we speak there is no way for the general public or potential whistleblowers to upload documents to the site.
We have been told that WIKILEAKS will be launching a completely new site hosted in Iceland. However, Assange would not provide any time lines, or any indication of user options and facilities.
During the exchange, Assange also confirmed that no legal team had been provided to Manning, and no one from WIKILEAKS had met Manning during his detention in Kuwait. This was completely at odds with recent WIKILEAKS emails requesting $50,000 in donor funding for a legal team to fly to Kuwait.
Wikileaks Insider
Authentication Code omitted.
My take is that Wikileaks, in its present incarnation, probably IS dead. I think Assange, having tasted fame and fortune, probably does harbour serious 'top table' ambitions such that any new incarnation will be designed to accomodate them. Not sure how compatible that is likely to be with the original Wilileaks stated aims either.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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