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Assange permitted to file U.K. Supreme Court appeal in extradition case

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A British court ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can ask the country’s Supreme Court to block his extradition to the United States, where he’s accused of violating the Espionage Act and collaborating in criminal hacking activity. The High Court said there is a single “point of law” allowing Assange’s case to proceed. The U.K.’s Supreme Court has not decided whether it will take the case, and there is no guarantee that it will, but Monday’s ruling essentially buys Assange more time. The point of law has to do with the timing of when U.K. judges received and considered assurances from the U.S. about how Assange would be treated once on U.S. soil, according to the BBC. U.S. officials had said Assange would not be sent to a supermax prison or be held in long solitary confinement, but the question is whether those assurances came at the right time […]

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Smashing Security podcast #245: The Julian Assange assassination plot, and IoT toilets

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While Julian Assange was killing time in the Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA were trying to dream up ways to kill him, and urine trouble if you put your trust in an IoT lavatory.

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UK judge gives US a shot to appeal denial of Julian Assange’s extradition

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Britain’s top court has granted the U.S. government a chance to appeal a January decision denying its request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges. The appeal process comes after a U.K. judge denied U.S. prosecutors’ original request for extradition. Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that U.S. prosecutors met the bar for extradition, but she sided with Assange’s lawyers that the WikiLeaks ringleader was likely to commit suicide if sent to a U.S. prison. The appeal will be limited as to whether or not the court was right to deny the extradition on the basis of Assange’s mental health, Bloomberg News reported. Assange faces 18 counts of endangering U.S. national security, including conspiring to obtain and disclose hundreds of thousands of classified and sensitive government documents. He was charged under the Espionage Act for his role in allegedly publishing classified Department of Defense documents […]

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British judge says Julian Assange will not be extradited to the US

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By Deeba Ahmed
The US’ fight to get Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited so that he could stand a trial in a US court doesn’t seem to conclude anytime soon.
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After Assange indictment, DDoSecrets publishes old WikiLeaks chats, strategy sessions

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Every anti-secrecy group operates in the long shadow of WikiLeaks. But that doesn’t mean WikiLeaks is off limits. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a semi-anonymous group of transparency activists, on Tuesday released the AssangeLeaks. It’s a collection of files that DDoSecrets says is meant to “illustrate how WikiLeaks operates behind closed doors” at a time when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing criminal charges in the U.S. in connection with a series of disclosures that contained information stolen from the U.S. military and other sources. DDoSecrets on June 19 published an unrelated database called #BlueLeaks, a collection of files including police training materials, police safety guidelines, covert data collection techniques and protest containment strategies. Upon that release, scholars who have followed the past generation of information activism, in which groups like Anonymous and WikiLeaks publish hacked information, suggested that DDoSecrets had emerged as a leading group of digital demonstrators. Tuesday, DDoSecrets went […]

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US indicts WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for hiring Anonymous & LulzSec

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The US’s list of accusations against Julian Assange doesn’t seem like ending anytime soon.
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Julian Assange accused of conspiring with Anonymous and LulzSec in superseding US indictment

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The U.S. government has broadened its criminal case against Julian Assange in an indictment unsealed Wednesday that accuses the WikiLeaks founder of collaborating with hackers affiliated with the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups
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Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses

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Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians. Continue reading Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses→

Police raids after data on most of Ecuador’s citizens leaks online

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If you’re a citizen of Ecuador, chances are that you’ve had your personal and financial information exposed after an ElasticSearch server was left unsecured.
Victims even include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange…
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U.S. Charges WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange With Violating Espionage Act

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The United States Justice Department has unveiled charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts on the alleged violation of the Espionage Act by publishing classified information through WikiLeaks website.

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