Bitcoin's block chain can store more than transactions. According to Julian Assange, it provides a way to preserve history.
From my own experience, cryptocurrency developers (see Dogecoin) do not want anyone tagging along on their blockchain. The cries of "but teh child pr0n!" are immediately heard once it's proposed.
To me, it's a great idea and the reason why I helped fund the development of Link protocol (by Travis Savo) which allowed a user to attach a magnet link to the Feathercoin blockchain. But, when I tried to get it implemented on the Dogecoin blockchain I met strong resistance (see below).
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, still confined in the Ecuador embassy in London, revealed interesting bits of WikiLeaks – and Bitcoin – history in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) open Q/A session on Reddit today. The AMA was dedicated to Assange’s new book “When Google Met WikiLeaks.” …
Cryptome, the well-known and long-lived online repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance, is down due to a potentially malicious file found on the site. Apparently the file has "reappeared by restoring an old file during cleaning," and has been removed as soon as the site's administrators have been appraised of the matter.
Call out Glenn Greenwald ... then this ... hmmm.
Here is a conversation from 2011 where I tell Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt about Bitcoin. Fortunately he didn't listen, or else he'd own the planet...
A dad in Portugal had a nasty surprise when his 17-year-old son used his eBay account without his knowledge to place a £21,000 winning bid for a server previously used by WikiLeaks.
While Ecuador has received plenty of attention for granting asylum to Julian Assange and being one possible landing place for Ed Snowden, it's no secret that the country is not exactly known as a bastion of civil liberties protection. In fact...
Julian Assange had been using that term for a time, but economic censorship is as close to the mark as any. If you want to shut someone up, deprive them of funding, cut off the supply, hope they go quietly into the night, hopefully without breaking ...
USG claims collaborative research project using publicly available info is “criminal conduct”
The Obama administration has declared a public research project examining cybersecurity to be “criminal conduct” in another of its ongoing attacks on the press.
Source: crikey.com.au
WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-6 that had long been in the public domain, billing it as a victory for transparency.
White House warns of dangers posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, other 'hacktivists'
New Obama administration strategy says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct "economic espionage against U.S. companies."
The White House warned today of the threat posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, and other "hacktivist" groups that have the ability to target U.S. companies and expropriate confidential data.
A new administration-wide strategy (PDF) disclosed at a high-profile event in Washington that included Attorney General Eric Holder says the theft of trade secrets is on the rise and predicts such theft will undermine U.S. national security unless halted.
It's a "steadily increasing threat to America's economy and national security interests," Holder said at the event, which also featured officials from the State Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"Disgruntled insiders [may leak] information about corporate trade secrets or critical U.S. technology to 'hacktivist' groups like WikiLeaks," the White House warns. Such groups could "develop customized malware or remote-access exploits to steal sensitive U.S. economic or technology information."
Source: CNET
This is why WikiLeaks is important, and why the NYT should be defending it
Summary: The debate over whether WikiLeaks should be seen as a media entity like the New York Times took on a new urgency this week after the military prosecutor in whistleblower Bradley Manning’s trial said he sees no difference between the two.
Ever since WikiLeaks first emerged on the scene in 2010, there has been a debate about whether the organization should qualify as a media entity, and if so what duty we owe it. Many journalists have preferred to see it as merely an information broker, and a slightly seedy or disreputable one at that, and therefore nothing like a true journalistic entity. But the trial of former U.S. Army private Bradley Manning shows why that difference (if there is one) is largely irrelevant — and why WikiLeaks and Manning deserve the support of journalists and media entities of all kinds.
photo: Flickr / Carolina Georgatou
Source: paidcontent.org
Andy Greenberg's 'This Machine Kills Secrets' reveals WikiLeaks, Anonymous and other document leakers as either heroes or anarchists -- or both
Forbes magazine journalist Andy Greenberg takes readers on a terrific and revealing — if considerably unsettling — investigation into the shadowy war rooms behind our computer screens in “This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information.”
What we find can be idealistic, anarchistic and futuristic.
Sometimes all at once.
Source: cleveland.com