Wiki Leaks

Wiki Leaks

Introduction

Wiki Leaks is a global, not for profit organization, which circulates and subscribes to undercover, clandestine and private media news leaks. This website initiated in 2006. In its first year, Wiki Leaks published more than 1,200,000 documents. Wiki Leaks expresses its creators being a joint of Chinese nonconformists, reporters, start-up company technologists, and mathematician from the U.S, South Africa, Australia, Europe, and Taiwan. (Matthew, 2010) An Australian Internet activist Julian Assange is by, and large referred like its director. The site was initial commences being a user editable "wiki" but has gradually transformed to a new traditionalist site and no more acknowledges any user remarks or amends any descriptions.

Julian Paul Assange

Biography and the Organization in Making

Julian Paul Assange was born 3 July 1971 in Townsville in Australia. He was a computer and cyber militant Australian. He is best known as the founder, editor and a spokesperson for Wiki Leaks. Julian Assange found that there is an asymmetry of information between government and citizens and that asymmetric information primarily benefits the United States. In other words, this means that states are, on the one hand, able to control a large part of the communications of their citizens. Based on this observation, Assange believes that technical innovations offered by Internet now offer the possibility of reversing the asymmetry observed by deploying a strategy based on two main axes. The first of these areas is to protect the personal information of citizens through cryptography, cryptographic means development which Assange has already contributed actively and it is attached to distribute free. Such means may restrict greatly influence and control by the states over their citizens.

The second axis for him is to organize the publication / disclosure of systematic knowledge available to public authorities to reduce the communication flow of these, and thus, achieve a minimization of the state function designed as an authority. “The organization of leaks is inherently anti-authoritarian action "and Julian Assange claims. Assange is known for his actions in the organization Wiki Leaks; he participated as the Board of Directors. He is also one of his best-known spokesmen. He would even be called the founder and head of the website of Wiki Leaks. He has a right of veto on publication of any document submitted to Wiki Leaks.

Criminal Prosecutions

On 21 August 2010, he was accused with the allegation of “rape”, he was alleged with two rape cases, and unfortunately both the accusations have been made ??on the same day. A few hours later the prosecution raises the wanted notice saying that in fact Mr. Assange was not suspected of rape. The investigation is continuing aggressively however Julian Assange formally denies the facts. This accusation comes shortly after Wiki Leaks published 77,000 papers confidential U.S. Army on the war in Afghanistan , triggering the "fury of the Pentagon , "and announced on August 15, 2010, that he will publish 15,000 new documents. This coincidence does not seem coincidental to some commentators. This case looks very much like a ...