Rumours were abound earlier this week when Wikileaks founder and Ecuadorian embassy resident for the past four years, Julian Assange, found his internet connection severed. We were told it was by a state party and it turns out that party was Ecuador itself, which now admits that it was responsible …
Read More »Updated: UN rules in Julian Assange’s favour – he may walk free
Update: The BBC is now reporting that a day before the official announcement, the UN is said to have ruled in Assange's favour. Original Story: Wikileaks founder and long-time resident of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange, has said that he will hand himself over to police if a …
Read More »The UK has spent £10 million to keep Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy
£10,500 (or US$16,000) is a lot of money, especially if that much is spent every single day for the last 960 days, to prevent WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange from leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy. The money has been spent on police to guard the embassy 24/7, not in case of an attack or any terrorist threat, but incase …
Read More »Internet MANA in big final push before NZ election
With the New Zealand national elections set to take place tomorrow, Kim Dotcom and Laila Harré's Internet MANA party has been firing off its last salvos to try and get people out to vote, including encouraging people to vote for someone other than the Internet MANA party if it means …
Read More »Dotcom, Snowden, Assange, Greenwald all attack NZ PM
Yesterday, some of the biggest names in the public fight for internet freedoms and personal privacy made an appearance together in Auckland, New Zealand, to talk to Internet Party members and concerned citizens, about the upcoming New Zealand general election and they spent a lot of their time criticising the”adolescent” …
Read More »Swedish prosecutor website gets hacked
‘Anonymous' are clearly proving the critics wrong, having been branded by other groups as a bunch of script kiddies. They have managed to hack and take down the Swedish Prosecution Authorities website – the organisation set on going after WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange. The attack by Anonymous caused the site …
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