Tynan on Tech

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 [...]

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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?

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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?

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(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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