Introduction The WikiLeaks phenomenon has certainly appeared in the news many times over the last decade for a whole range of different reasons. The site now claims to host more than one million documents and a number of these have had many months of coverage. In this essay I will be taking a look at the effects felt from ethical, legal and social viewpoints. Ethical The WikiLeaks website says that it accepts "classified, censored or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic or ethical
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The Rise of WikiLeaks was both necessary and inevitable ¨Reality is an aspect of property, it must be seized, and investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful¨(Assange 59), thus spoke Julian Assange, the praised and hated founder of Wikileaks. A Wikileaks, a non-profit international organization founded in 2006, definitely opened a new dimension of journalism by releasing information that should not be banned from the public in the name of the American idea
Julian Assange’s website, WikiLeaks made global headlines in the last few years. Assange started out by leaking documents he had acquired over the internet about banks in various European countries. Chelsea Manning, Army Private at the time stationed in Iraq joined up with Assange and delivered to him thousands of classified documents that Manning, a military intelligence analyst had access to. Manning was in contact with a former hacker named Adrian Lamo who he asked advice of, advice whether or
What is WikiLeaks? Well WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organization that brings important news and facts to the public eye. WikiLeaks provides an innovative, safe and anonymous way for sources to leak information to their journalists. WikiLeaks is a young organization that grew quickly. Since 2007, which is when the organization launched, WikiLeaks has been working to report on and publish important information and news. Now the main question here that needs to be asked and answered; is WikiLeaks
“KEEP US STRONG, HELP WIKILEAKS KEEP GOVERNMENTS OPEN,” Wikileaks states in its website. Since 2006 Wikileaks has been known as an organization that provides people the secrets of governments. After it was originally launched, it published 1.2 million documents within its first year. Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, has said that Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes documents of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous sources and news leaks. Although
WikiLeaks: It’s Effect on the American and World Society By: Sam Karnan WikiLeaks has created an enormous effect on American society and the world in terms of national security and government transparency. WikiLeaks was created as a not-for-profit media organization whose main goal is to bring important news and information to the public. Much of the information that WikiLeaks has published would be considered sensitive material and extremely classified by the US Government and many other governments
The Controversy of Wikileaks: Right to Free Speech versus Right to Privacy Wikileaks creates a great amount of discussion on the private information it releases to the public. Not only does it cause a debate over the content of the site, but also many other issues it raises; the newspaper articles presented add to the ongoing controversy of the Wikileaks site. The argument of whether Wikileaks has the right to reveal certain private information or not creates the biggest controversy; the discussion
documents controlled by the United States government. An organization named WikiLeaks has changed the law to a whole new level. Government transparency is their goal. The WikiLeaks website has released undocumented files in large amounts to the public. According to author of “From FOI World to WikiLeaks World”, WikiLeaks "…has been claimed to be the biggest leaker of secret information in history” (Hood, 2011). WikiLeaks has gone over the line of what stays secret or not. The organization is influencing
WikiLeaks is more than just a website. It is one of the fastest growing, nonprofit news organizations in the twenty first century. With millions of documents posted, WikiLeaks has recently released over 250,000 documents related to US Embassy message traffic; a majority of which are either Secret NOFORN (No Foreign Nationals) or Classified. The disclosure of these documents has seriously impeded diplomatic relations between various countries, with the US being the primary target. In these various
Wikileaks, a non-profit organization which implied much on freedom of press and freedom of speech started its activities in 2006, leaking sensitive information to other sources and shared online for public view and responses using internet as a base of operations and moved journalism to a new level. “As Daniel Ellsberg, and then Woodward and Bernstein, remade journalism into a transaction of reporters and sources, now it will be a hacker’s function” (Wolff, 2010). This phenomenon is shifting the
This essay will offer a critical analysis of the 2010 WikiLeaks Controversy. For this paper, I will attempt to demonstrate different ethical standpoints of the controversy through a media case study. I will investigate if it was ethical for the media to collaborate in this agreement in order to figure out what kind of person Julian Assange was. The question of whether the media was being moral in this situation depends on the question of whether he is a hacker or a journalist. The title of a hacker
an online activist who collaborates with Julian Assange on WikiLeaks. He is also very dedicated and enjoys the mentorship of Assange. But later his relations with Assange becomes strained due to which several arguments arise which ultimately results in his suspension from the website. He was more concerned about the security of people and tries to block Assange from
Journalist or Terrorist Julian Assange an Australian editor, activist, journalist and publisher launched the WikiLeaks website in the year 2006. From that moment, the site spiraled rapidly into the limelight all over the world. It then came to be known as the most powerful whistle-blowing and also the most scandalous “media” in the online world. WikiLeaks profanes and violates the right of privacy, right of accountability and confidentiality among Information and data sharing also it has a negative
today is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist named Julian Paul Assange, which he's known for as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks. His website publishes anonymous news sources and whistleblowers. Its similar to Wikipedia on how its open to the public and anyone can post something on the website. Except WikiLeaks is news sources from people that post information on whatever is g...
daily, our national security has been impacted by the growing popularity of social engineering attacks and counterintelligence. The website WikiLeaks majorly impacted the US with the release of the Afghan War Diary in July of 2010. If that was not bad enough, there was another major release of documents entitled the Iraq War Logs that was posted on the WikiLeaks website in October of 2010. So social engineering attacks and counterintelligence of this type has cause major changes to take place in regards
the website Wikileaks. Wikileaks is/was an online organization, dedicated to exposing corrupt governments and large corporations. Since its upbringing in October of 2006 by Julian Assange, it has published over one million articles and is credited as one of the largest ‘leak’ sources in modern society. These articles, mainly published by anonymous civilians, vary in degree from patent battles to millions of confidential government documents (Wikileaks & Wikileaks Wikipedia). Wikileaks was in the news
encouraging transparency all over the world, Wikileaks. WikiLeaks is an profitless website which publishes confidential information and data leaks from unidentified sources. According to the WikiLeaks website, its goal is "to bring important news and information to the public... One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth.“ Supporting Wikileaks will benefit our society by bringing us
expose the inhumane way that the war was being conducted and forces a change in policy. This is what whistleblowers do; expose governments for what they are hiding. Julian Assange is one of these whistleblowers and the creator and main editor of Wikileaks (an organization built around exposing governments and businesses for their secrets). He is justified because he leaked a video showing reporters being mowed down with gunfire in Afghanistan. In addition, he leaked important documents detailing the
The actions of cryptographer and cryptography groups such as L0pht and WikiLeaks play large rolls in people’s lives. In the cryptography group one member in particular, Mudge, is well known and had provided many important changes in cryptography. According to Zetter, “Mudge and his wife, Sarah, a former NSA mathematician, have