WIKILEAKS, THE CURIOUS MACHINE SCOOP

WIKILEAKS, THE CURIOUS MACHINE SCOOP



It probably is not true, as some say, has produced more scoops' in three years that the Washington Post in the last 30. "It 's true, though, that it can boast several, many if you think that he was born at the end of 2006 and that, in this short time, has established itself as a global information universe benchmark for burning revelations. Governments, companies, armies, but also religious sects have come to know (and fear) WikiLeaks.org, the site that is proposed as a safe place for anyone with confidential documents and want to reveal them to the world. Just get the new material in the public interest, diplomatic, social, open the page of the website in charge of the loading, insert the file and you're done.

Among the institutions that has angered there is the Church of Scientology, after which in 2008 published the costly manual sect. In 2009 it fell to the government of South Africa to be angry when the site was made ​​available to the world the version without omission of a report on the country's banking system is intended to be only partially disclosed. In Peru, was to shake the political establishment-oil when the site appeared more than 80 wiretaps about the scandal called Petrogate.

As for the Pentagon, you'll be spoiled for choice in time WikiLeaks has slammed the streets of the procedures followed by the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, more than 500 000 sms messages sent by government employees on the day of the attack on the twin towers and , in April 2010, a video documenting the killing of civilians and journalists by a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. Reuters for years, for which they worked the reporter killed, had tried in vain to get the pictures. WikiLeaks has revealed under the eloquent title "Collateral Murder" collateral murder.

At the head of this curious organization whose utopia is total transparency is Julian Assange, 39 years old (but he did not confirm) and a past as a hacker. In his youth, along with a group of associates called International subversives, liked to penetrate the computer systems of the U.S. military-industrial complex ("but not distruggevamo nothing," says 20 years later). Today does not fit anywhere else but continues to anger the Pentagon by releasing from its archives that the eggheads stars and stripes nobody would read it.

To guard against the risk of his dangerous mission, leading a nomadic existence in Australia, Kenya and Iceland (where he recently was among the instigators of a revolutionary law on freedom of expression), use phones sparingly and multiple e-mail addresses. His creature is stateless, international and circumspect as him. Like its demiurge, Wikileaks jumps from one country to another in search of the environment best suited to their objectives: it has a headquarters, is registered in various countries of the world and maintains its servers in countries such as Belgium and Sweden, that guarantee greater protection to freedom of expression.

You can count on you force of 8 people full-time, regular employees and 40 between 800 and 1200 odd. The security and confidentiality of sources is guaranteed by sophisticated mechanisms of encryption and anonymization (the site uses a modified version of Tor, a popular system to prevent the surveillance network) even if the organization advises its deep ravines to send the materials in a cD-ROM or on paper through the good old snail mail.

With his silver hair Assange in and out of the media scene as you wish.
It has gone into hiding after the arrest of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier alleged to have passed to WikiLeaks video "Collateral Murder." And 'reappeared in the European Parliament after only a few weeks to let you know that the U.S. government was pursuing him that he had other scoop in Serbia. The publication of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan shows that he was not lying. The exclusive agreed with the New York Times, Guardian and Der Spiegel noted instead that the credibility of the site has not been affected by the controversy following the arrest of the soldier and that the mission of WikiLeaks to fight corruption and rewrite the rules of contemporary journalism can continue.

"If you seriously cop's death is part of the game. The same should happen to the reporter, "he said once complaining that in democratic countries to inform the profession has become too lazy.