Julian Assange Started His Journey For Australian Senate on Behalf of WikiLeaks Party

Julian Assange Started His Journey For Australian Senate on Behalf of WikiLeaks Party

The world knows Julian Paul Assange, as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers, will now see a different avatar as Mr. Assange have taken the first step toward a Senate run in the Australian state of Victoria as a member of the newly formed WikiLeaks Party. According to sources, Assange's electoral enrollment application was submitted to the Australian Electoral Commission in Melbourne by WikiLeaks supporters, including Assange's father, John Shipton. Mr Shipton said Mr Assange's enrolment was ''a first step'' in a political campaign that would focus on ''the democratic requirement of truthfulness from government''. The party, not yet registered with the Australian Electoral Commission, has an initial 10-member national council comprised of close associates of Mr Assange and pro-WikiLeaks activists. Its constitution highlights the promotion of openness and transparency in government and business. Mr Assange has nominated his mother's home in Mentone, in the federal electorate of Isaacs, as his address for eligible enrolment before his most recent trip overseas in June 2010 -reported a reputed Australian daily. 

According to post of The Age we came to know that --Australian citizens living overseas can enrol to vote as an overseas elector, and consequently run as a Senate candidate if they left Australia within the past three years and intend to return within six years of their date of departure.

Mr Assange has indicated that if elected and unable to return to Australia to take up a seat in the Senate, a WikiLeaks Party nominee would fill the vacancy. Opinion polls last year by UMR Research, the company the Labor Party uses for its internal polling, suggest that Mr Assange could be a competitive Senate candidate in Victoria. 

But the WikiLeaks founder has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than six months — eluding Swedish authorities, who have an outstanding arrest warrant for him in connection to a sexual assault investigation.
Assange spoke of his political ambitions in December, when he said he was interested in running for Senate, adding that "a number of very worthy people admired by the Australian public" had signaled they'd be willing to join him on a party ticket. A representative for the Australian Electoral Commission said the application for electoral enrollment is a private matter between the applicant and the commission, so he would not discuss individual cases.

While talking about Jullian Assange and WikiLeaks, we would like to give you reminder that in this year we got several leaks from WikiLeaks, among them -'Detainee Policies' containing more than 100 classified or otherwise restricted files from the United States Department of Defense covering the rules and procedures for detainees in U.S. military custody. SpyFiles, GI Files (Global Intelligence Files & Five Million E-mails From Stratfor) & The Syria Files Containing 2.5 Million Emails of Syrian Politicians, Govt, Ministries & Companies.

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">Julian Assange Started His Journey For Australian Senate on Behalf of WikiLeaks Party"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2013/02/Julian-Assange-to-run-Australian-Senate.html</a>

WikiLeaks Launches Vote WikiLeaks 2012 Donation Campaign (Presidential Election Intervention)

WikiLeaks Launches Vote WikiLeaks 2012 Donation Campaign (Presidential Election Intervention)

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both rising their chances for the 2012 election as their respective party’s candidates who stood  in the coming US president election. In the mean time  WikiLeaks has launched "Vote WikiLeaks: 2012 Donation Campaign". Through this campaign WikiLeaks has threatened the pentagon once again.  According to the press release of WikiLekas on last Friday - Pentagon spokesman George Little demanded WikiLeaks destroy its publications, including the Iraq War logs which revealed the killings of more than 100,000 civilians. Little said: “continued possession by WikiLeaks of classified information belonging to the United States government represents a continuing violation of law”. The Pentagon also again “warned Mr Assange and WikiLeaks” against “soliciting” material from U.S. military whistleblowers. In response, WikiLeaks has decided to intervene in the U.S. election campaign.

The United States government claims Mr Assange and the WikiLeaks organization are within its jurisdiction. In reply, we place the Obama administration within our jurisdiction. All American school children are taught that being subject to laws without representation is an injustice. This is the backbone of the American Revolution. We claim our representation and now initiate a campaign to transform Democratic and Republican votes into economic and political support for WikiLeaks and its First Amendment values. This election day, do not vote for the Republican or Democratic parties. Instead, cast the only vote that matters. Vote with your wallet – vote for WikiLeaks.

The Democratic Party promised to open government. But instead it is building a state within a state, placing nearly five million Americans under the national security clearance system. It has classified more documents than any previous administration, classifying even the process used to decide who will live and who will be killed. The U.S. administration hurtles towards dystopia: secret laws, secret processes, secret budgets, secret bailouts, secret killings, secret mass spying, secret drones and secret detention without charge. The collapse of the Soviet Union could have led to the withdrawal of the U.S. security state, but without moral competition from another system it has grown unchecked to influence almost every American policy. Four more years in the same direction cannot be tolerated.

Watch WikiLeaks’s Campaign Video below:-

You can donate to WikiLeaks using a variety of easy methods, including workarounds for Visa, MasterCard and PayPal. These donations go to fund WikiLeaks’ publishing and infrastructure costs and our legal costs to fight the financial blockade. For Detailed information about the campaign click Here. 

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">WikiLeaks Launches Vote WikiLeaks 2012 Donation Campaign (Presidential Election Intervention)"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2012/10/Vote-WikiLeaks-2012-Donation-Campaign.html</a>

Illicit Networks Summit Decided -Google Will Tackle Internet Crime

Illicit Networks Summit Decided -Google Will Tackle Internet Crime

Bad news for those who relies on GHDB also widely known as Google Hacking Database while finding vulnerability. This Tuesday the internet giant Google has launched a new policy  to turn the tables on criminals and terrorists who exploit the internet by using its search capabilities to expose and disrupt illicit activity.  A two-day summit in Los Angeles called Illicit Networks: Forces in Opposition has assembled victims, law enforcers, politicians, academics and technology experts to devise strategies. In their report Guardian says- Google Ideas, the company's thinktank, has teamed up with the Council on Foreign Relations, Interpol and other organizations to look for ways to use technology against organized crime, jihadists and others."Google is in a great position to take these on," Rani Hong, a survivor of child trafficking in India who is now a special adviser to the United Nations, told reporters on the eve of the event. "They're a powerful medium and they have great tools to solve this problem."
Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who helped organise the event, told "It might sound like a different path for Google, but technology companies today have a lot of powerful tools for bringing transparency to these illicit networks, to fight back against corruption and empower those who are trying to combat transnational crime."
Participants will discuss how illicit surgeons and organ brokers smuggle kidneys and other organs; how whistleblowers can expose narcotics networks; how insurance fraudsters and counterfeiters use evade borders. Another topic will be how recovered human skin and bone is transformed into dental and cosmetic products for plumping up lips or smoothing wrinkles.

 

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">Illicit Networks Summit Decided -Google Will Tackle Internet Crime"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2012/07/illicit-networks-summit-decided-google.html</a>

US Govt. Asked Google To Handover All the Wikileaks Data

The U.S. government has asked Google and Sonic to give up any WikiLeaks-related information and data, following with an order for them to turn over hacker Appelbaum's e-mail contact list -- without a warrant. In 2006, infamous international non-profit WikiLeaks set out to publicly expose the government's most classified information. More than 1.2 million secret documents were released in the media group's launch after their first year. Led by activist Julian Assange, several of their releases have received worldwide recognition, yet their mission has been met with global criticism from those who do not support the site's agenda.
Over the next few years, the WikiLeaks submission system would be occasionally suspended as the organization's leaders underwent federal investigations. To this day, the legality of what WikiLeaks is doing remains undetermined. The contradiction lies primarily in WikiLeaks' status as a "protection intermediary," as Assange puts it. In other words, they do not directly leak information to the press, but rather receives the documents from external whistleblowers and, in turn, leaks the documents on their behalf.
Multiple governments have since been attempting to criminalize Assange on grounds of thievery. As a result, he was later represented by computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum in July of 2010. Now, the U.S. government has gone as far as going after Google and Sonic for evidence to further prosecute.
Inevitably, this brings us back to the biggest question of our tech-centric age today: the legality of companies storing user data. According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, court orders can extend to collect an individual's online and mobile information without providing any notification. Opposing lawmakers hold the position that this violates our Fourth Amendment right guaranteeing the protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Thus far, this matter remains unsettled as it has been decided on a case-by-case basis. To this end, Appelbaum's current case sheds light on the ongoing disagreement over governmental access to civilian digital information. WikiLeaks operates on the basis that users have the ability to submit information anonymously, but if policies like this become strictly enforced, this could be the end of such independent organizations. What WikiLeaks aims to do and how they do it may be condemned by many, but, as far as history is concerned, has there ever been a medium devoted solely to exposing the real truth to us? More importantly, is this what America needs?

-News Source (ibtimes)

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">US Govt. Asked Google To Handover All the Wikileaks Data"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2011/10/us-govt-asked-google-to-handover-all.html</a>

Thousands of Sources in Written-Password (SNAFU) Exposed By WikiLeaks

The cone of silence over WikiLeaks' thousands of sources - many of whose lives are at risk if identified - has been shattered, all thanks to the most mundane, all-too-human security screwup imaginable.

To wit: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wrote down the password on a piece of paper, and then forgot to change it later. The security breach has thrown open the doors to WikiLeaks' entire archive of 251,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables.

To the horror of the media partners it has worked with in the past to carefully redact the documents - The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde - WikiLeaks has published its entire archive, unredacted, putting in danger several thousands of people whom the U.S. has tagged as being at risk if exposed. The documents also cite more than 150 whistle blowers.

"We deplore the decision of WikiLeaks to publish the unredacted state department cables, which may put sources at risk," the organizations said in a joint statement. 

"Our previous dealings with WikiLeaks were on the clear basis that we would only publish cables which had been subjected to a thorough joint editing and clearance process. We will continue to defend our previous collaborative publishing endeavour. We cannot defend the needless publication of the complete data – indeed, we are united in condemning it."

The media partners made it clear that this time, with this move, Assange got no help from them. "The decision to publish by Julian Assange was his, and his alone," they said in the statement. Der Spiegel has chronicled the archive’s publishing, tracing it back to a meeting between Assange and David Leigh of The Guardian.

According to the account, as the British journalist recounts in his book "Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy", Leigh and Assange at one point sat down to discuss how Assange would provide Leigh with a file including all of the diplomatic dispatches received by WikiLeaks.

According to Der Spiegel, Assange placed the file on a server and wrote part of the password on a slip of paper. To make it work, one had to complete the list of characters with a certain word.

Can you remember it? Assange asked. Of course, Leigh said.

"At the time, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who later founded the site OpenLeaks, was the German spokesman for WikiLeaks. When he and others undertook repairs on the WikiLeaks server, he took a dataset off the server which contained all manner of files and information that had been provided to WikiLeaks. What he apparently didn't know at the time, however, was that the dataset included the complete collection of diplomatic dispatches hidden in a difficult-to-find sub-folder," according to Der Spiegel.

With the dataset in the hands of Domscheit-Berg, Leigh went on to describe his meeting with Assange in his book. In the book, however, he included not only the portion of the password on the slip of paper, but also the part he had been asked to commit to memory.

What followed included feuding between Domscheit-Berg and Assange, attempts to prove that Assange wasn’t trustworthy, and the eventual disclosure that not only was the entire dataset circulating, but that the password could be found in Leigh's book.

At this point, fingerpointing is rampant. WikiLeaks' Twitter feed blames The Guardian. The Guardian is protesting its innocence, putting out a statement claiming that it had been told the password was only temporary.

The U.S. Embassy in London and the U.S. State Department were notified of the possible publication on August 25 to enable officials to warn the named informants. Hopefully, this has given them enough time to remove themselves from harm.

Whether that is possible for all the sources who’ve been put in harm's way is an open question.

But one thing is certain: The platforms to which whistleblowers have hitherto brought their leaks are compromised. They are as riddled with security holes, as flailing with common human weaknesses, as the most ridiculed home user running an unsecured wireless network and the most inept office worker writing down his password on a Post-It note.

Let us hope that this carelessness, this breathtaking lapse in security hygiene, leads to no loss of life.

-News Source (Wikileaks & Naked Security)

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">Thousands of Sources in Written-Password (SNAFU) Exposed By WikiLeaks"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2011/09/thousands-of-sources-in-written.html</a>

WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Started OpenLeaks For Testing & Invites 3000 Hackers To Attack It

WikiLeaks spinoff OpenLeaks may be long delayed from its initial plans for launch early this year. But the whistleblower project is far from dead. In fact, the volunteers behind the site would like, very literally, to see you try and kill it. At the Chaos Communications Camp hacker conference in Finowfurt, Germany Wednesday, former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg launched four days of public testing of OpenLeaks.org, in partnership with four European newspapers and one non-profit group that have signed on as the initial round of outlets who will use the site’s tools to receive documents that sources wish to anonymously send them.
OpenLeaks’ testing won’t just be a mere tryout of the site’s submissions functions so much as a trial by fire: Domscheit-Berg plans to invite the 3,000 security-minded types at the German conference and anyone other willing hackers around the world to actively probe the site and seek out its vulnerabilities in a crowd-sourced penetration test. If they can demonstrate flaws that could damage its stability, its data’s security or, perhaps most importantly, the anonymity of its sources, those testers are asked to alert OpenLeaks’ team and help get the flaws fixed.

Update: the testing site will be live for now not at OpenLeaks.org, but on the Tageszeitung website here.

“We need to be sure for the people who use such a system that it can’t be compromised,” says Domscheit-Berg. “Whistleblowers are the ones who take the risks. And they’re the ones that get screwed if something goes wrong. So it’s inherently important for us to make these people as comfortable as possible.”
OpenLeaks also announced for the first time the names of its media partners: German newspapers Die Tageszeitung and the weekly Der Freitag, Danish paper Dagbladet Information, the Portugese newsweekly Expresso, as well as the German food- and environment-focused non-profit Foodwatch. Five other organizations are in talks with the group, Domscheit-Berg says. OpenLeaks’ security depends on those outlets as much as on Domscheit-Berg’s group of hackers. Reiner Metzger, one of three editors-in-chief of Tageszeitung, for instance, says that the paper had to remove many of the cookie-planting elements on its website, and create a “fog” of cover traffic to protect leakers. “We’ve really connected with OpenLeaks on the technological and the editorial level,” Metzger says.

Even after OpenLeaks’ testing week, Domscheit-Berg warns the site won’t be ready to go live, and the group won’t name a launch date. That may be seen as another frustrating delay for some who expected the site to start accepting WikiLeaks-style leaks as early as January. But Domscheit-Berg, who left WikiLeaks last September after a fallout with its founder Julian Assange, says that OpenLeaks won’t rush to launch at the expense of polishing the site’s security. “We stated much too early that we were going to be online,” says Domscheit-Berg. “If you want to do this correctly, it takes time.”

The group, which varies at times between five and seven volunteers, is creating tools not just for anonymous leaking but also the entire chain of submission and publishing. That includes secure ways for media partners to receive the documents so that they can decrypt it but OpenLeaks can’t, and application for them to redact the documents permanently and collaborate securely.
The difficulty of properly locking down a leak-focused site has been demonstrated in cringeworthy detail in attempts at similar projects by Al Jazeera and the Wall Street Journal. Both those outlets’ leak conduits have been criticized by the security community for making basic security mistakes and including legal fine print that fails to fully protect leakers from being exposed.
Domscheit-Berg argues that leaking sites’ security measures don’t need to be as tight as WikiLeaks’ were during Domscheit-Berg’s time with the group–they need to be tighter. Adversaries of leaking like corporations, law enforcement and intelligence, he says, have ramped up their security measures in the wake of WikiLeaks record-breaking breaches. “WikiLeaks appeared out of nowhere,” says Domscheit-Berg. “It cause a lot of new problems no one had thought about before. Now they’ve thought about this whole thing for a bit. The dust has settled. And it will never be as easy again.”

That means facilitating leakers needs to become more systematic and rigorous, Domscheit-Berg says. Later this week at the Chaos Communications Camp, OpenLeaks plans to hold a workshop for leaking sites, inviting hackers to spend a few hours probing other WikiLeaks copycat sites that have asked to be audted for flaws and creating a “best practices” checklist for anonymity and security.

--News Source (Forbes)

SHARE OUR NEWS DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:-
<a href=">WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Started OpenLeaks For Testing & Invites 3000 Hackers To Attack It"https://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2011/08/wikileaks-spokesperson-daniel-started.html</a>