dan tynan on Jun 17 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, National insecurity, politics
It’s like a Hollywood thriller. A military spy is arrested, betrayed by someone he thought to be a comrade in arms — a brilliant yet mentally unstable hacker. A journalist is on the run, hunted by the authorities who want to know what he knows. All we need is to add a love interest [...]
dan tynan on Mar 16 2010 | Filed under: Crazyass cults, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, National insecurity, Privacy, Spy v spy, censorship
I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that’s pretty wild. It accuses the US government of deliberately trying to take the whistle-blower site down two years ago.
As proof, Wikileaks has posted a 32-page classified document [PDF] from the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis program, dated March 2008, which details "the [...]
dan tynan on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy, censorship, politics
We have interrupted our nonstop coverage of Apple iPad mania to bring you this important word about the freedom of information. And, more specifically, Wikileaks.org.
I’ve written about Wikileaks several times over the last few years, in part because it’s a classic example of why the Internet is such an extraordinary telecommunications tool.
Wikileaks is usually [...]
dan tynan on Aug 31 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy, censorship
Google is at the heart of yet another Internet anonymity battle, this one between muckraking journalists and a Caribbean land developer. Will the search giant roll over and crush the little guys?
dan tynan on Feb 23 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks
The famous whistle-blower site just blew its own whistle, leaking the email addresses of dozens of its financial supporters. Is this the beginning of the end of Wikileaks?
dan tynan on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, National insecurity, Privacy
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
If God had wanted me to be an attorney I’d have been born with a dorsal fin and razor sharp teeth. So the subtleties of the law sometimes elude me. But there have been a couple of recent court decisions that raise [...]
dan tynan on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy
Since it seems to be All Baer v. WikiLinks, All the Time here at Tynan on Technology, here is the latest on the case, courtesy of CNet’s man on the spot, Declan McCullough:
SAN FRANCISCO–Wikileaks may get its domain name back sooner than later.
A federal judge here has spent 90 minutes or so hearing arguments [...]
dan tynan on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy
It’s like an itch you can’t help scratching — or at least I can’t. Yesterday’s press release by the Bank Julius Baer’s PR minions left me with more questions than answers. So last night I shot off a few queries to the crack PR team, just to see if they will respond.
I really don’t expect [...]
