Julian Assange Really Likes His Fans
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new profile in Rolling Stone makes one thing very clear: Assange very much likes the people who like him and he'll remind you there are still plenty of them.
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With a cache this massive (and thus far, not that shocking), what you find all depends on what you're searching for — like, say, the Russian predilection for soft rock.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new profile in Rolling Stone makes one thing very clear: Assange very much likes the people who like him and he'll remind you there are still plenty of them.
It was an eventful day at the fourth hearing of alleged WikiLeaker PFC Bradley Manning in Ft. Meade, Maryland Monday.
In a small victory for the WikiLeaks founder, Britain's Supreme Court agreed to hear Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden on rape allegations.
Even the Associated Press is jumping on board the idea that there's something fishy about Bradley Manning's trial taking place at the same Maryland military base in close proximity to the National Security Agency "cloak-and-dagger sanctum."
The founder of WikiLeaks has staved off extradition from Britain to Sweden on sex crimes charges with a thin legal victory, but he will likely face Swedish prosecutors in the new year.
After the premiere of the Channel 4 documentary WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies, the whistleblower organization posted an almost incomprehensible tirade accusing the film of being yet another Guardian conspiracy against Julian Assange.
Each year Jimmy Wales stares us into donating to Wikipedia; this year it's even easier than ever to make fun of the Wikipedia founder.
When a federal judge ruled that Twitter must reveal the private data of three WikiLeaks associates on Thursday, privacy advocates died a little inside.
The case of a U.S. Army police officer arrested on espionage charges in Alaska over the weekend immediately got compared to Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst currently facing charges of leaking documents to WikiLeaks, but so far there's just no solid evidence to support that.
London's High Court has rejected an attempt by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to block his extradition to Sweden to face rape charges.
"Leaking to the mainstream press. How safe is it? Not very," WikiLeaks tweeted last week—a bold statement after the organization's best source has spent two and a half years behind bars.
With donations running dry from a credit card companies refusing to allow donations on its website, Julian Assange announced that WikiLeaks will be suspending all publishing.
At their main trade show GEOINT this week, the intelligence community talked a lot about making progress in preventing the next Bradley Manning from leaking government secrets.
Federal agencies will be instructed to safeguard their secrets to prevent future leaks
Diplomats work hard to protect the profits of drug makers
U.K. publisher Canongate explains why it released the WikiLeaks founder's book
Peter Van Buren says he's being punished for linking to a WikiLeaks document
Assange claims Canongate published his autobiography without permission
The publisher is already making excuses for its modest sales
Against the WikiLeaks founder's wishes, "An Unauthorised Biography" is now for sale in the UK
A dramatic year has sucked up all his money from a book he didn't finish
The newspaper censored WikiLeaks memos at the State Department's request
The secret-sharing organization's latest fundraising tool is a hodgepodge of an online auction
What's left for Julian Assange and his organization?
Despite warnings of dangers, Assange's group is publishing names and all
Following the leaking of the entirety of the group's U.S. cables, the story keeps changing
The Guardian is accused of leaking a password that led to the release of secret cables
They claim they will release the decryption key at the "appropriate moment"
"There has been a grossly negligent mainstream media error, to put it generously"
The company waged a failed crackdown on iPod knockoffs
Internal strife and a scoop-free batch of cables sheds light on the troubled organization
A cache of 55,000 cables covers Libya, China, Israel, Russia and more
Author of 'Inside WikiLeaks' says he trashed 3,500 files
No one is safe from the Wikileaks leader's charming advances.
The two organizations joined forces to encourage a boycott of the web site
The WikiLeaks founder remains on tenterhooks as the London High Court takes its time
At his lawyer's behest, the WikiLeaks founder avoided big speeches and bombast
The WikiLeaks founder has a new legal team
Activists weren't pleased by reports Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were invited
A corporate hiccup briefly ended Visa and MasterCard's financial blockade
The credit card giant is denying reports by the Associated and Forbes
The Guardian says he's worried about giving 'ammunition' to prosecutors in the U.S.
The "banking blockade" doesn't cover money he's raising to fight rape charges
Hollywood deals mean journalists stand to profit from upcoming film projects
As the Wikileaks founder's legal fees mount, he's resorting to gimmicky fundraisers
Plus: the former Hollywood agent who couldn't abide New York's elevators
The latest batch of cables released shows U.S. bullied ally
"Facilitating access to the Internet for all individuals... should be a priority for all States"
A hacker who posted a phony Tupac story on PBS's web site talks to Forbes
Still under house arrest, the WikiLeaks founder enters a chat room discussion with PBS
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