Wikileak had over 1.2 million leaked documents to publish

WikiLeaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations."

In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish. An article in The New Yorker said:

One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site's foundation, and Assange was able to say, "we have received over one million documents from thirteen countries."

Assange responded to the suggestion that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a crucial part in the early days of WikiLeaks by saying "the imputation is incorrect. The facts concern a 2006 investigation into Chinese espionage one of our contacts was involved in. Somewhere between none and handful of those documents were ever released on WikiLeaks. Non-government targets of the Chinese espionage, such as Tibetan associations were informed (by us)".The group has subsequently released a number of other significant documents which have become front-page news items, ranging from documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war to corruption in Kenya.

The organisation's stated goal is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents, as happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In an interview on The Colbert Report, Assange explained about the limit to the freedom of speech, saying, "[it is] not an ultimate freedom, however free speech is what regulates government and regulates law. That is why in the US Constitution the Bill of Rights says that Congress is to make no such law abridging the freedom of the press. It is to take the rights of the press outside the rights of the law because those rights are superior to the law because in fact they create the law. Every constitution, every bit of legislation is derived from the flow of information. Similarly every government is elected as a result of people understanding things".

The project has drawn comparisons to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In the United States, the leaking of some documents may be legally protected. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution guarantees anonymity, at least in the area of political discourse.Author and journalist Whitley Strieber has spoken about the benefits of the WikiLeaks project, noting that "Leaking a government document can mean jail, but jail sentences for this can be fairly short. However, there are many places where it means long incarceration or even death, such as China and parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks

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New Info : Wikileaks now has 1.2 million leaked documents on line

Wikileaks is unable to comment on specific sources, since we do not collect this information. All we can say is that journalist and dissident communities report successfully using the network.

Some documents that Wikileaks leaks in future will no doubt seem mundane to some people, but interesting to others. A lot of people don't bother to read the business pages of the daily paper, yet the section is still important enough for the paper to publish it every day.

One of the areas Wikileaks is currently working on is how to structure ethically leaked information into meaningful, easy to access classifications. Do you break it down by country? By language? By subject? We want it to be reader friendly so obviously this is important to get right as a sort of foundation lattice for incoming information to be attached to.

Wikileaks needs make sure catagorization and analysis systems are robust and encompassing of material in multiple formats, languages and content. We're trickling new material into the wiki as old material is analyzed, expanding our knowledge of what types of catagorization and automation are needed and what kind of organizational processes are needed to motivate and support analysis.

As each analysis nears completion we will trickle in more material. We'll need many thousands of active analysts to transform extensive source material into something journalists can use easily. We do not require that every source document is analyzed, but it is important to get the framework right so political impact is strong.

How do you measure the authenticity of any document?
Wikileaks does not pass judgement on the authenticity of documents. That's up to the readers, editors and communities to do.

How can Wikileaks provide more exacting scrutiny than many organizations?
The scrutiny will come from the world community's ability to see the original document online, and then analyze and comment on it next to the document.

This will be of great assistance to journalists. It's hard for a journalist to be an expert in all areas they cover. The comments attaching to documents online will provide instant sources for the journalist's comment as well as analyses to consider.
Source : http://www.democraticunderground.com

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Labor demonstrations in Cikarang industrial area, access roads paralyzed

Exit lane motorway in West Cikarang barely move this morning. Congestion has reached 2 km down to the main lane toll-Cikampek. The cause of the workers' demonstrations in Cikarang Jababeka arterial road.

Long traffic jams are justified by the officer Traffic Information Center (TIC) of PT Jasa Marga, Faisal. Congestion has even reached the main trail. He suggested that motorists who have not already affected by traffic jams to seek alternate routes.

Meanwhile, workers of the Road demo Trade Agreement, Cikarang, West Java (West Java), not only causes congestion at the exit toll gate of West Cikarang. Traffic in Trade Agreement faltered too good to Jababeka industrial estate and Lippo Cikarang.


Demonstration mass concentrated near the major intersection after exiting the toll booths West Cikarang. At that location, mass, amounting to hundreds gathered and closed roads. The location of the demo was in after the fork, about 200 meters to the Hyundai.

Traffic from the direction toward the Lippo Cikarang Jababeka barely moving. As a result of the demo was a lot of employees who are late into the office.

Source: http://www.wartapersada27.blogspot.com

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