Many times you heared about wikileaks and you also treied to know what is wikileaks.Today let's know all about wikileaks.WikiLeaks is an international, online, self-described not-for-profit organisation publishing submissions of secret information,news leaks, and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.wikileaks website was launched in 2006 under the Sunshine Press organisation.
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The Sunshine Press (Wikileaks), is an international non-profit
organization funded by: Human Rights Campaigners Investigative
most of countaries in world are trying to stop wikileaks like australia,china,u.s,etc.
WikiLeaks claimed in April 2010 that Facebook deleted its fan page, which had 30,000 fans.
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Founder: Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director. Kristinn Hrafnsson, Joseph Farrell and Sarah Harrison are the only other publicly known and acknowledged associates of Julian Assange. Hrafnsson is also a member of the company Sunshine Press Productions along with Assange, Ingi Ragnar Ingason and Gavin MacFadyen.
WikiLeaks has no official headquarters.
Purpose:
The WikiLeaks website says their goal is "to bring important news and information to the public... One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth."
LOCATION:
firstly website was hosted by PRQ because PRQ don't ask client information.
but Wikileaks is currently hosted in a Bahnhof data center inside the ultra-secure bunker Pionen, which is buried inside the White Mountains in Stockholm.Bahnhof is a Swedish Internet service provider founded in 1994 by Oscar Swartz in Uppsala and was the first independent ISP in Sweden. Today the company is represented in Stockholm, Göteborg, Uppsala, Borlänge, and Lund.
Furthermore, "WikiLeaks maintains its own servers at undisclosed locations, keeps no logs and uses military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information." Such arrangements have been called "bulletproof hosting.
WikiLeaks strongly encouraged postings via Tor because of the strong privacy needs of its users.(i will soon post about "tor" so keep reading.)
According to Assange, Switzerland and Iceland are the only countries where WikiLeaks would feel safe to operate.
Financing:
WikiLeaks is a non-profit organisation, largely supported by volunteers, and it is dependent on public donations. Its main financing methods include conventional bank transfers and online payment systems. Annual expenses have been estimated at about €200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, but might reportedly reach €600,000 if work currently done by volunteers were paid for.
here is some more information about wikileaks so you can found out more:
Official website:http://www.wikileaks.org/
Created by :Julian Assange
Launched: 4 October 2006
Facebook official page:http://facebook.com/wikileaks
Twitter:http://twitter.com/wikileaks
wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
now current status of wikileaks is :
WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 701 days.
Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 698 days.
- 138 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Bradley Manning has been in jail without trial for 895 days.
Jeremy Hammond has been in prison without trial for 245 days.
A secret Grand Jury on WikiLeaks has been active for 781 days.
Julian Assange News:
Julian Assange was listed as one of TechCrunch's "20 Most Innovative People in Democracy 2012".
A Google search for "Julian Assange" and "Skyfall" shows that many are drawing comparisons between him and the latest James Bond villain.