Tag: Julian Assange
"Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks web attacks lead to five arrests in UK
The UK's Metropolitan Police service arrested five men today who the belive have been involved in the recent series of pro-WikiLeaks attacks on major web destinations. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said that the arrests are in relation to "recent and…
POLL: Who should play Assange in the WikiLeaks movie?
News has begun to trickle in today about a proposed WikiLeaks movie, documenting the rise of the whistleblowing website, the consequenting controversy surrounding its many leaked wires and co-founder Julian Assange's "colourful" personal life. The public face of WikiLeaks, the…
WikiLeaks – The Movie in the works
The first few steps towards turning the WikiLeaks saga into a Hollywood movie are underway, according to Variety Magazine. A "suspenseful drama thriller", the planned movie will be a biopic focussing around the life of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks,…
APP OF THE DAY: WikiLeaks App
The inevitable has happened; there is now a WikiLeaks app for the iPhone and iPad. Offering a "continuous news feed regardless of Wikileaks server disruptions", you'll be able to keep abreast of all the latest leaks and underhand government shennanigans…
Facebook founder Zuckerberg crowned Time magazine's Person of the Year
The much-coveted Time magazine Person of the Year award has one to Facebook founder and multi-billionairre Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg took the prize for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a…
WikiLeaks' Assange tops Time's Person of the Year poll
Julian Assange, founder of the political whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has topped Time magazine's Person of the Year poll, seeing off the likes of Lady Gaga and even US President Barack Obama himself. The reader-voted institution saw 382,020 out of the…
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending?
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending? That's the rumour doing the rounds on the "internetz" right now, as conspiracy theorists are claiming that Twitter are the latest company to pull support for the whistle blowing webiste. Despite a huge buzz…
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange arrested (UPDATED)
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief and public face Julian Assange has been arrested by British police after an Interpol warrant for his capture was issued. However, the arrest does not (overtly at least) relate to any WikiLeaks leaked data, but instead on suspicison…
WikiLeaks to expose UFO cover-up?
On the run and out of favour with pretty much every governmental institution around the world, Julian Assange has had a very busy week. It could well be about to get even more crazy, as Assange has now confirmed that…
Interpol hunting WikiLeak's Assange on sex charge
Blimey, what a week for WikiLeak's Julian Assange! First his leaked international diplomatic documents kick up a politcal and media storm, then WikiLeaks comes under attack from hackers, before being locked down by the "Great Firewall" of China. Now he's…
