Well, it looks like hackers took out — at least — the website of the bank that froze WikiLeaks’ funds. I can’t imagine they stopped there. Oh wait this isn’t just a website, it’s the bank’s Internet portal. I keep forgetting you no longer “go to the bank,” especially a Swiss bank. And the irony is just fabulous — the Swiss, who will hold money for Nazis and war criminals and the mafia, are too pure for WikiLeaks.
Well, there went my 10 euro to Wikileaks down the tubes…
That’s quite a butterfly effect. A major bank, National Bank of Australia, had shut down its internet banking site last week due to some strange malfunction.
At this point it’s kind of bizarre that that donation link is using PayPal.
Ha ha. Just kidding. . .kind of.
Put on a list? Santa’s list?
Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech
Journalists should wake up and realize that the attacks on the whistle-blower are attacks on them, too
Salon.com
Journalists cover wars by not taking sides. But when the war is on free speech itself, neutrality is no longer an option.
The WikiLeaks releases are a pivotal moment in the future of journalism. They raise any number of ethical and legal issues for journalists, but one is becoming paramount.
As I said last week, and feel obliged to say again today, our government — and its allies, willing or coerced, in foreign governments and corporations — are waging a powerful war against freedom of speech.
WikiLeaks may well make us uncomfortable in some of what it does, though in general I believe it’s done far more good than harm so far. We need to recognize, however, as Mathew Ingram wrote over the weekend, that “Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity.” What our government is trying to do to WikiLeaks now is lawless in stunning ways, as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald forcefully argued today.
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How safe is it to donate here . . .
http://www2.piratpartiet.se/donate
I’d hate to be put on some list. . .but, then perhaps I’m already on one.
Not sure how much more info is in these links but the action is claimed by Operation Payback. 🙂
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-bank-that-froze-julian-assanges-bank-account-has-now-been-taken-down-by-hackers-2010-12
Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange’s Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers
Joe Weisenthal | Dec. 6, 2010, 5:11 PM | 56,670 |
It’s war!
Earlier today we noted how the Swiss bank Switzerland Post Finance (a bank associated with the Swiss post office) had frozen Julian Assange’s bank account for his defense fund.
Well, payback.
As NYT reports, their site has now been taken offline, and a group calling itself Operation Payback on Twitter claims credit for the DDOS.
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