Criticism Of Assange And Appelbaum Because Sony-Mails

Both WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum said to be in favor of privacy and internet freedom, but this does not seem to hold true for the employees of Sony. WikiLeaks recently published an archive of e-mails and documents that were stolen by Sony.

Appelbaum, who in addition to his role as a developer of the Tor software also volunteered with WikiLeaks is involved , was recently interviewed by Fusion . There he lets first know that any form of surveillance is illegal. "Everyone has the right to privacy and should know that his emails are not read, even if the horrible people like the police in Ferguson."

For large enterprises has Appelbaum less understanding. He thinks it is right that WikiLeaks published the stolen Sony emails. As Appelbaum puts the Sony summit as "racist bastards" who have been "negligent". The statements of the Tor developer as the actions of Julian Assange to put the stolen Sony-mails online can count on criticism of the media. Both columnists Business Insider as The Guardian denounced the double standard that seem to handle the two privacy activists

WikiLeaks Publishes, Thousands Of Stolen Sony-Mails

Whistleblower site Wikileaks has once again thousands of e-mails late last year at Sony Pictures Entertainment were stolen published. The e-mails have been added to an online archive that WikiLeaks last month put online and that all 30,000 documents and more than 173,000 e-mails to and from more than 2,200 Sony email addresses contained. That made ​​the whistleblower site known via Twitter .

According to WikiLeaks, the stolen e-mails and documents newsworthy and the online archive offers a special glimpse into the workings of a large "mystery" multinational ties with both the White House and the US military-industrial complex would have. After the online publication of the " Sony Archive "Sony responded furiously condemning WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks Weather Accepts Submissions Fom Whistleblowers

WikiLeaks yesterday evening put a new system online so that it can receive further submissions from whistleblowers. Through the system, which is still in beta and the Tor network uses, according to WikiLeaks people can upload files anonymously.

The announcement late WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange know there was going to be four possible solutions examined which whistleblowers can upload files. Previous solutions, however, would not provide sufficient protection against government surveillance. One of the problems with public systems, "bootstrapping" writes Assange, who still resides in the Embassy of Ecuador in London.

"The fact that a source for instructions see how they can upload material can be used as evidence against him as the SSL key is cracked. To avoid this we have complete instructions and keys placed on millions WikiLeaks pages," said Assange .Moreover, using the "submit" button for uploading files would hardly generate network traffic because the data are downloaded every time someone looks at a WikiLeaks page.