{"id":276336,"date":"2010-02-04T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=96865"},"modified":"2010-02-04T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:45:47","slug":"wikileaks-raises-enough-to-keep-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276336","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Raises Enough to Keep the Lights On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-96866\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/04\/wikileaks-raises-enough-to-keep-the-lights-on\/2071464440_326fecc39b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"2071464440_326fecc39b\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/2071464440_326fecc39b.png?w=275&#038;h=180\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96866\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks, a non-profit agency that exposes government and corporate secrets by publishing documents through its web site, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/8613426708\">said on Twitter<\/a> that it&#8217;s managed to raise enough money to continue operating, but not enough to pay its staff. The site suspended operations <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/01\/29\/wikileaks-on-life-support-looking-for-funding\/\">recently<\/a>, saying it didn&#8217;t have enough funding to pay its expenses. It also  asked for donations, claiming it required at least $200,000 just to pay its costs, and as much as $600,000 if it were to begin paying its volunteer staff. At last check, the note was still on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\">Wikileaks site<\/a>, but the Twitter message said the minimum amount had been raised.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/digg.com\/api\/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Ftech_news%2FWikileaks_Raises_Enough_to_Keep_the_Lights_On%3FOTC-ig' height='82' width='55' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-96873\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/04\/wikileaks-raises-enough-to-keep-the-lights-on\/screen-shot-2010-02-04-at-7-55-52-am\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 7.55.52 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/screen-shot-2010-02-04-at-7-55-52-am.png?w=300&#038;h=166\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96873\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks, which is run by a non-profit entity called The Sunshine Press, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/oct\/22\/in-praise-of-wikileaks\">described by The Guardian<\/a> as &#8220;the brown paper envelope for the digital age.&#8221; In one recent case, the service published documents relating to the Trafigura scandal in Britain, documents that a corporation involved in the scandal tried to prevent newspapers from publishing. It also recently released 500,000 pager messages relating to the 9\/11 attacks in New York.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-posts-96865\" class=\"widget inline-related-posts alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"widget-title-wrap clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">More on <span><a class=\"category-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/topic\/ipad\" title=\"iPad\">iPad<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-related-posts\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/06\/what-rupert-murdoch-still-doesnt-get-about-the-internet\/\">What Rupert Murdoch Still Doesn&#8217;t Get About the&nbsp;Internet<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/04\/ipad-launch-spawns-a-tablet-appfund\/\">iPad Launch Spawns a Tablet&nbsp;AppFund<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/03\/no-skype-on-iphone-for-now-skype-for-ipad-on-cards\/\">Atleast for Now, No Skype on iPhone via 3G, But an iPad App Coming&nbsp;Soon<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/02\/ipad-prognostications-what-matters-in-web-tablets\/\">iPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web&nbsp;Tablets<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"widget-bottom clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The site says it has defended itself against over 100 legal attacks to date. In 2008, a California judge <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/18\/california-judge-shu.html\">forced the site<\/a> to remove itself from DNS records due to a complaint by a Cayman Islands-base corporation. Although the founders of the site kept their identities secret for some time after Wikileaks was founded in 2006, it is known that they include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileads.net\/2008\/06\/01\/wikileaks-julian-assange-discusses-the-ethics-of-corporate-leaking\/\">Australian hacker<\/a> Julian Assange and Australian broadcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillip_Adams\">Phillip Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Wikileaks Twitter stream says that the organization is working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/8614240243\">proposal<\/a> to &#8220;transform Iceland into world centre for investigative media,&#8221; in part because awareness of government corruption and incompetence has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism20.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/in-iceland-wikileaks-could-become-a-more-powerful-tool-for-journalists\/\">heightened<\/a> by the recent meltdown of the country&#8217;s banking industry. In the video embedded below, from the 26th Chaos Communications Congress, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaos_Communication_Congress\">annual hacker conference<\/a> in Berlin, two members of Wikileaks discuss their proposal to create an information &#8220;data haven&#8221; in Iceland, or what they call a &#8220;Switzerland of bits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VWNfIvG4z-g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VWNfIvG4z-g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aagriego\/\">griegophoto<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/96865\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=96865&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=BntPswn4BmA:a7bsg5_0Gag:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/BntPswn4BmA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks, a non-profit agency that exposes government and corporate secrets by publishing documents through its web site, said on Twitter that it&#8217;s managed to raise enough money to continue operating, but not enough to pay its staff. The site suspended operations recently, saying it didn&#8217;t have enough funding to pay its expenses. 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