It was once said that history is written by the victors, but that changed when something called the internet came along and put endless information at everyone’s fingertips, letting each of us come to our own conclusions. And this idea of uncensored, unfettered access to information was taken to its most extreme with Julian Assange’s website WikiLeaks; a place where secrets didn’t exist.
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The eBay auction for the server that once hosted the WikiLeaks documents, including Cablegate, has finally come to a close with a winning bid of $33,000. There’s only one problem: the winner is a 17-year-old boy who used his dad’s account to bid and is in no position to cough up the cash.
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Shopping for a new server? Want a piece of whistleblower history? Want to piss off Julian Assange? You can do all three of these things at once, if you buy the server that hosted hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks a few years ago. And it still works!
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DreamWorks has been working on its WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate, for a while now—and this trailer reveals that Benedict Cumberbatch plays a hugely convincing Julian Assange.
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Art is rather like beauty – in that it’s always in the eye of the beholder. One of the strangest art projects I’ve heard of in a while has turned up in the form of a cardboard box packed with a hidden camera. The box was mailed to Julian Assange using the Royal Mail.
Inside the box is a camera set up to take an image of what it sees outside every 10 seconds and posts the image to the web. At first, there was nothing compelling about the images – often nothing but black. The image above is a nice, boring shot of a wall. However, it looks like the package has actually reached its destination as of tonight, as you can see from the images below:
Yep, that’s Julian Assange in the flesh. If you’re curious to see what the package (and Julian) are up to, you can follow it live over on Twitter.
Assange, as you might know, is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange can’t leave the embassy out of fear that UK authorities will arrest him for his work with his Wikileaks website. Assange was given political asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 and has lived in the embassy since June of 2012.
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Julian Assange has penned a new book about his worries over government control of the Internet and surveillance. Written along with Jacob Appelbaum, Jérémie Zimmermann and Andy Müller-Maguhn, it will be published in November. Assange explains: More »
Documents released by the US Government under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed what we’ve more or less known all along: The government really freaking hates Julian Assange. So much so that it has deemed him an enemy of the state. More »
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