significant fraction of the Internet through China for eighteen minutes in April of 2010 James Cowie. “China’s 18-Minute Mystery.” Renesys blog, November 18, 2010.
where he sat two seats away from the president Mark Small. “Other Paths.” Berklee Today, Fall 2007.
a price low enough that it didn’t affect the antivirus giant’s accounting enough to be disclosed. Stephen Shankland. “Symantec acquires @stake.” CNET.com, September 17, 2004.
“providing us with the ability to identify such covert activities” Mudge. “Insider Threat: Models and Solutions.”: login, December 2003.
reverse tunnels are symptoms of actions initiated from internal machines that are already compromised Ibid.
combed the site and found a critical flaw in the code Peter Bright. “Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack.” Ars Technica, February 2011.
it had scrambled them with a type of encryption called cryptographic hashes Ibid.
HBGary didn’t use salting Ibid.
So once the attackers owned his account, they owned all of them Ibid.
“Aaron was peddling fake/wrong/false information leading to the potential arrest of innocent people?” Chat logs between HBGary employees and Anonymous, February 7, 2011, available at http://pastebin.com/x69Akp5L
“we are kind of pissed at him right now” Ibid.
“PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WE HAVE ALL YOUR EMAILS” Ibid.
permaculture expert whose anarchist activities only extended as far as home gardening Dan Tynan. “Who is Anonymous’ Commander X? Not this guy.” ITWorld.com, February 16, 2011.
severing relations with HBGary Federal Robert McMillan. “Hacked and now vandalized, HBGary pulls out of RSA,” IDG News, February 16, 2011.
Hoglund canceled a talk of his own at the simultaneous RSA conference in San Francisco Ibid.
excoriating essays on the military-industrial complex’s dirty tactics in the digital realm Glenn Greenwald. “The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters.” Salon.com, February 11, 2011.
The Colbert Report aired a segment mocking Barr. “Corporate Hacker Tries to Take Down WikiLeaks.” ColbertNation.com, February 24, 2011.
he resigned from his position at HBGary Federal Andy Greenberg. “HBGary Federal’s Aaron Barr Resigns After Anonymous Hack Scandal.” Forbes.com, February 28, 2011.
“Anonymous should be as cold as ice and get on to the next operation” Ibid.
“At least we destroyed him in anonymous style” Ibid.
HideMyAss, which some Anons had used in lieu of Tor, admitted it turned over data to law enforcement Mathew Schwartz. “LulzSec Suspect Learns Even HideMyAss.com Has Limits.” InformationWeek.com, September 27, 2011.
a twenty-four-year-old man in Doncaster Steve Ragan. “FBI says Anonymous is a potential threat to national security.” TheTechHerald.com, September 9, 2011.
He had infiltrated and identified Anonymous’ inner circle. Jana Winter. “Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader” FoxNews.com, March 6, 2012.
“Or are you still doing what you believe in and trying to put a dent in the universe?” Mudge’s keynote talk at the Black Hat 2011 conference, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGjWYIToFU
“nothing to do with humans” Ibid.
“you’re still remaining true to the cause” Ibid.
“Tomorrow is zero hour,” and “The match begins tomorrow” Jane Mayer. “The Secret Sharer.” The New Yorker, May 23, 2011.
By the time the project was canceled in 2006, it had become a $1.2 billion boondoggle Ibid.
no one acted to rein in the program Ibid.
including one that focused on Trailblazer Ibid.
a team of armed FBI agents arrived at his home Ibid.
“send a message to the silent majority of people who live by secrecy agreements.” Jesselyn Radack. “Judge Has Choice Words for Justice Department’s Prosecution of Drake.”Whistleblower.org, July 18, 2011.
“unconscionable” Ibid.
Jeffrey Sterling, an ex-CIA analyst who gave information to author James Risen Scott Shane. “Judge May Order Reporter to Testify Against Ex-CIA Officer Accused of Leaks.” The New York Times, June 28, 2011.
Shamai Leibowitz pleaded guilty to leaking classified transcripts of bugged conversations Richard Silverstein. “Why I Published US Intelligence Secrets About Israel’s Anti-Iran Campaign.” Truth-out.org, October 14, 2011.
Stephen Kim, an arms expert for the State Department, the military, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab, was prosecuted for leaking Scott Shane. “U.S. Pressing Its Crackdown Against Leaks.” The New York Times, June 17, 2011.
John Kiriakou, who had at times defended and criticized the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding, was indicted John Rudolf. “Arrest of Ex-CIA Official, John Kiriakou, for Leaks About Detainee Torture Is Criticized.” HuffingtonPost.com, January 25, 2012.
“should be encouraged rather than stifled” President Obama’s website Change.gov, available at http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/
CHAPTER 6: THE GLOBALIZERS
spontaneously ejected a twelve-mile high mushroom cloud of steam and ash into the sky Ian Sample. “Grimsvötn volcano’s worst eruption may be over, but concerns remain.” The Guardian, May 23, 2011.
“There are technical problems and no one to take care of them” Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark. “‘The Only Option Left for Me Is an Orderly Departure.’” Der Spiegel, September 27, 2010.
“in the end, there must be a thousand WikiLeaks.” Ibid.
ScienceLeaks, TradeLeaks, UniLeaks All the leaking sites listed at Leakdirectory.org
threatened legal action against each other over the rights to the name Claudia Parsons. “WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, GreenLeaks and more leaks.” Reuters, January 28, 2011.
only one thing was missing from this newborn leaking movement. Leaks. Greg Mitchell writing on Twitter, March 30, 2011.
“even planted a tracking cookie file in the user’s browser” Hanni Fakhoury. “WSJ and Al-Jazeera Lure Whistleblowers with False Promises of Anonymity.” Electronic Frontier Foundation Deeplinks Blog at EFF.org, June 7, 2011.
“Pro tip: if you’re going to create a document leaking Website—have a clue!” Jacob Appelbaum writing on Twitter, May 5, 2011.
“They reserve the right to sell you out” Fakhoury.
It was an agreement from the Bulgarian Department of Energy outlining the construction of a nuclear power plant “Memorandum of Belene prepared by Bogomil Manchev?” BalkanLeaks.eu, December 8, 2010, available here: http://www.balkanleaks.eu/en/memorandum.html
“a member of the Masonic lodge, has an answer to this question” “Information on the Masonic Lodge in the judiciary.” BalkanLeaks.eu, December 10, 2010, available here: http://www.balkanleaks.eu/en/masoni.html
“a true guide to the methodology of bribery in the judiciary” “Special Investigation Methods Santirov-Petrov-Popov.” BalkanLeaks.eu, December 11, 2010, available here: http://www.balkanleaks.eu/en/legal-srs.html
BalkanLeaks had arrived: a lone beacon of success in the leaking diaspora All the above-mentioned leaks are available at BalkanLeaks.eu
a raid by the dreaded antimafia police known as the “berets.” “A Tale with Freemason-Mafia Aftertaste and Bulgarian Homebred Prosecution.” BalkanLeaks.eu, September 6, 2011, available at http://www.balkanleaks.eu/en/angeldonchev.html
the country has the least freedom of the press of any in the European Union “WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2011-2012” Reporters Without Borders, available at http://en.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2012/C_GENERAL_ANG.pdf
No one was charged in any of the three cases “Bulgaria: Website editor beaten with hammers in Sofia.” Committee to Protect Journalists, UNHCR.org, September 23, 200
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he died in a hospital three days later “Ricin and the umbrella murder.” CNN.com, October 23, 2003.
He points instead to an agreement made at the end of World War II between the intelligence agencies Clay Shirky, speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference, January 24, 2011, available here: http://personal democracy.com/pdf-presents-symposium-wikileaks-and-internet-freedom-ii
they traded off Ibid.
“obviously superior from the point of view of the leaker to any previous system” Ibid.
“that is the struggle we’re going to see today” Ibid.
“please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons” E-mail from Gottfrid Svartholm to Dennis L. Wilson, August 21, 2004, available at http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt
suggest a specific model of baton to Apple’s attorneys, the Asp twenty-one-inch E-mail from Gottfrid Svartholm to Ian Ramage, April 21, 2005, available at http://static.thepiratebay.org/apple_response.txt
Sealand refused to sell to them “Piratebay’s sovereign ambitions blasted.” TheRegister.co.uk, January 17, 2007.
allegedly defaming the prosecutor of 2011’s Amanda Knox murder trial Candace Dempsey. “Sweden rescues Italian Amanda Knox blog. Google, are you watching?” SeattlePI.com, May 13, 2011.
took pictures, and published the story Assen Yordanov. “Illegal cigarettes factory near Burgas.” Standard, March 31, 1995.
“A scent of death bleeds into the scent of Christmas” Birgitta Jónsdóttir. The Chameleon’s Diary (Radical: Reykjavík, 2005), p. 5.
published in the newspaper Helgarpósturinn Birgitta Jónsdóttir. “Svartar Rosir.” Helgarpósturinn, May 21, 1982.
“I have erected an iron raft in my back, it will not bend” Jónsdóttir, p. 10.
“I was being prepared for the times we are facing on my nearly bankrupted island” Birgitta Jónsdóttir. “Living in suspense.” Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s official blogspot, October 7, 2008, available at http://joyb.blogspot.com/2008/10/living-in-suspense.html
so we never forget/ the true horror of war Birgitta Jónsdóttir. “The Horror of War,” available here: http://this.is/birgitta/poems/peace/horror.html
100 percent of the country’s gross domestic product to 1000 percent CIA World Factbook entry on Iceland, available here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html
The stock market value of Icelandic companies fell 90 percent Peter Gumbel. “Iceland: The country that became a hedge fund.” CNN.com, December 4, 2008.
had been forced to pay in its crippling Treaty of Versailles after World War I “Cracks in the crust.” The Economist, December 11, 2008.
“SMS terrorism” “Lawmakers hailed last night by text messages.” Vesti.bg, February 29, 2008.
the “Crusade Against Strandzha” Maria Nikolaeva and Assen Yordanov, Politika, September 2, 2007.
“you know what happens to curious journalists. They get acid thrown at them.” “Acid threat against journalist.” Reporters Without Borders, February 23, 2007.
Her left eye was so badly damaged that it had to be surgically removed “Chronicles of courage.” GlobalJournalist.org, July 1, 2001.
“the unacknowledged legislators of the world” Bruce Sterling. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), p. 235.
led to everything from the Thirty Years’ War to the Spanish Inquisition John Perry Barlow speaking at the Reykjavík Digital Freedoms Conference, July 5, 2008, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snQrNSE1T7Y
“it could become like the Switzerland of Bits” Ibid.
billion dollars, for instance, went to the bank’s main owners “Financial collapse: Confidential exposure analysis of 205 companies each owing above EUR45M to Icelandic bank Kaupthing.” WikiLeaks.org, September 26, 2008 available at http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Financial_collapse:_Confidential_exposure_analysis_of_205_companies_each_owing_above_EUR45M_to_Icelandic_bank_Kaupthing,_26_Sep_2008
would eventually be arrested in London and Reykjavík Cahal Milmo. “Billionaire brothers Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz arrested in Fraud Office raid.” The Independent, March 10, 2011.
Afterward, strangers on the street offered them hugs and bought them drinks in bars Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Inside WikiLeaks (New York: Crown, 2011), p. 117.
“You mentioned to me this idea that in Iceland we should become a vanguard of publishing freedom” Silfur Egils, November 29, 2009, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzyPB5eEuI&feature=player_embedded
“Why not pull all this together, and become the center for publishing in the world?” Ibid.
“a principled, holistic, and modern set of laws fit for the digital age” Heather Brooke. Assange Agonistes. Amazon Kindle Single, location 24
Of the cable’s original 5,226 words, all but 1,406 were missing Full cable at WikiLeaks.org: http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2005/07/05SOFIA1207.html
“US embassy cables: Organised crime in Bulgaria.” The Guardian December 1, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/36013
“Bulgarian Organized Crime, Uncensored” Bivol.bg, October 17, 2011.
“cable cooking” WikiLeaks Twitter feed, September 8, 2011.
the wealth of scandals they had hoped for The full Bulgarian WikiLeaks cables are available at http://www.balkanleaks.eu/wikileaks-balkans.html
withhold nearly half a million dollars in aid until they were paid “WikiLeaks: Diplomats’ Unpaid Parking Tickets Threatened US Aid to Bulgaria” Novinite.com, August 27, 2011.
“Bulgaria’s Most Popular Politician: Great Hopes, Murky Ties” BalkanLeaks.eu, available here: http://www.balkanleaks.eu/en/06sofia647.html
receiving ten to twenty requests for data from law enforcement every day Christopher Soghoian. “The Law Enforcement Surveillance Reporting Gap,” University of Indiana, April 10, 2011, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1806628
hand over user data 5,950 times, and that the company complied in 93 percent of those cases Google Transparency Report, January to June 2011, available at: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/US/?p=2011-06
“Even if Iceland’s laws offer the best protections in the world, they’re still a Maginot Line” Arthur Bright. “Fortress Iceland? Probably Not.” Arthur Bright, Citizen Media Law Project blog, citmedialaw.org, February 16, 2010.
our high level of bilateral cooperation speaks for itself “US Embassy in Sofia Downplays Information from Wikileaks Cables.” Novinite.com, May 26, 2011.
“will not comment on yellow press publications” “Bulgarian PM Dismisses ‘WikiLeaks’-Alleged Ties to Lukoil, Russia.” Novinite, May 26, 2011.
“Armani-clad tough guy” “Bulgaria’s PM—‘Armani-Clad Tough Guy’ in WikiLeaks Cable—Report,” Novinite.com, August 18, 2011.
veto Bulgaria’s accession to the EU’s visa-free Schengen travel zone “Bulgaria, Romania’s Schengen Applications Formally Vetoed” Novinite.com, September 22, 2011.
CHAPTER 7: THE ENGINEERS
“dangerous, malicious conman” “Julian Assange live,” L’Espresso, March 30, 2011.
“raised by wolves” Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Inside WikiLeaks (New York: Crown, 2011), p. 64.
“Leaking Sky Prevents OpenLeaks Launch” Anna Sauerbrey. Die Zeit, August 12, 2011.
“Still interested in a job?” Domscheit-Berg, p. 8.
two members responsible for most all of its activities Ibid., p. 22.
even spend two months living together in Berg’s Wiesbaden home Ibid., p. 60.
even when meeting with government officials Ibid., p. 157.
“insurgent operation” Ibid., p 131.
temporary SIM cards and avoided all payment forms other than
cash Ibid., p. 40.
“a genius” Andrew Fowler. “WikiLeaks site in limbo without architect” abc.net.au, October 4, 2011.
worked with CIA agents during her time at the consulting firm McKinsey Julian Assange. “Statement by Julian Assange on the reported destruction of WikiLeaks source material by Daniel Domscheit-Berg,” August 20, 2011.
a real problem of methodology and, therefore, of credibility “OPEN LETTER TO WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE: ‘A BAD PRECEDENT FOR THE INTERNET’S FUTURE.’” Reporters Without Borders website, August 12, 2010.
“We were very, very upset with [the Afghan War release,] and with the way he spoke about it afterwards” John Burns and Ravi Somaiya. “WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed By Notoriety.” The New York Times, October 23, 2010.
“If you do not answer the question, you will be removed” Domscheit-Berg, p. 226.
“You behave like some kind of emperor or slave trader” Ibid., p. 226.
information that may have been used against the Belarusian political opposition “WIKILEAKS, BELARUS AND ISRAEL SHAMIR,” Indexoncensorship.org, February 5, 2011.
extracted a copy of the cables from the Icelandic WikiLeaker Smári McCarthy Kim Zetter. “WikiLeaks Volunteer Hacked a Reporter, Assange Autobiography Reveals.” Wired.com, September 23, 2011.
$20 million fine for distributing a WikiLeaks document, or even revealing the existence of the NDA itself. Kevin Poulsen. “WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty.” Wired.com, May 11, 2011.
In such circumstances, silencing dissent is not just ironic, it’s dangerous James Ball. “WikiLeaks, get out of the gagging game.” The Guardian, Thursday, May 12, 2011.
five gigabytes of internal data from Bank of America WikiLeaks Twitter feed, August 21, 2011.
have your very own copy of the WikiLeaks’ archive! How cool is that? Comment by user 5X32C54B, PirateBay.se, December 8, 2010.
AcollectionOfDiplomaticHistorySince_1966_ToThePresentDay#—Julian Assange’s 58-character password David Leigh and Luke Harding WikiLeaks (New York: Public Affairs, 2011), p. 135.
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