Anfang Januar entscheidet ein Londoner Gericht, ob Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange an die USA ausgeliefert wird. Ein Gespräch mit Assanges Anwältin Jennifer Robinson über einen Prozess, in dem Gerechtigkeit offensichtlich keine Rolle spielte.
Die Ankündigung zum Chaos Communication Congress, dass Julian Assange und Jacob Appelbaum über denWiderstand von Sysadmins in einer überwachten Welt sprechen wollen, wird von den prospektiven Besuchern des Kongresses in Blogs und Tweets diskutiert.
“WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.” "We deal with organizations that do not obey the rule of law. So laws don’t matter. Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. […] For corporate leaks, yes, free speech laws could make things easier. Not for military contractors, because they’re in bed with intelligence agencies. If a spy agency’s involved, IMMI won’t help you. Except it may increase the diplomatic cost a little, if they’re caught. That’s why our primary defense isn’t law, but technology."
Every state wants to see the diplomatic cables of every other state. It will bend heaven and earth to get them. It’s just, that sacred activity is not supposed to be privatized, or, worse yet, made into the no-profit, shareable, have-at-it fodder for a network society, as if global diplomacy were so many mp3s. Now the US State Department has walked down the thorny road to hell that was first paved by the music industry. Rock and roll, baby.
In einem Interview hat der schwedische Anwalt Claes Borgström erklärt, warum Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange der Vergewaltigung beschuldigt wird. In Schweden, so der Anwalt der beiden Frauen, die gegen den Australier Vorwürfe erheben, ist dieser Tatbestand weiter gefasst als in anderen Ländern.
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.