Doku-Trailer: We Steal Secrets – The Story of WikiLeaks
Hier der Trailer zu Alex Gibneys (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Freakonomics) „We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks“, der bereits im Vorfeld von Assange als „unethisch“ und „tendenziös“ kritisiert wurde: „’We Steal Secrets’: an unethical and biased title in the context of pending criminal trials. It is the prosecution’s claim and it is false.“
Der Trailer selbst sieht nach ‘ner spannenden Doku aus, ob an den Vorwürfen etwas dran ist, wird man sehen müssen.
Youtube Direktwikileaks, via First Showing
Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. Detailing the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history, the film charts the enigmatic Assange’s rise and fall in parallel with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the brilliant, troubled young soldier who downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from classified U.S. military and diplomatic servers.
Delivery for Mr. Assange
Die !Mediengruppe Bitnik hat ein Päckchen an Julian Assange in der ecuadorianischen Botschaft in London geschickt. Im Päckchen befand sind eine Cam, die durch ein Loch die komplette Reise fotografiert hat, die Pics wurden live auf Twitter gespostet, die Bitniks bezeichnen das als „REAL_WORLD_PING, a SYSTEM_TEST, inserted into a highly tense diplomatic crisis“.
Die Idee mit dem fotografierenden Päckchen in der Post ist alles andere als neu, ich glaube, die erste Iteration der Idee kam 2006 von Tim Knowles und seiner Spy Cam, wahrscheinlich gab’s noch viel frühere ähnliche Arbeiten. Die diplomatische Dimension mit Herrn Assange in der Botschaft und seiner Dylanesken Kartenmessage über die Cam gibt dem ganzen dann aber tatsächlich ‘nen sehr hübsch Spin.
A parcel containing a camera is sent to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London through the Royal Mail. Through a hole in the parcel, the camera documents its journey through the postal system. The images are transfered to this website, where the status of the parcel can be followed in realtime.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik will post the parcel around noon on Wednesday, 16 January 2013. The parcel is due to arrive at its destination within 24 hours. Should the first parcel fail to reach Julian Assange, a second and third parcel will follow within the next few days. We want to see where the parcel will end up. Will it reach its destination? Which route will it take?
The parcel is a REAL_WORLD_PING, a SYSTEM_TEST, inserted into a highly tense diplomatic crisis. Julian Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012. Although he was granted political asylum by Ecuador in August 2012, he is unable to leave the embassy premises for fear of being arrested by UK authorities.
DELIVERY FOR MR. ASSANGE – A LIVE MAIL ART PIECE RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRADICAL REALTIME (via AnimalNY)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Chess-Hacking Londons CCTV-System
Underground: The Julian Assange Story – Trailer
Youtube Direktassange, via Animal NY
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Hier der Trailer zu einem von – soweit ich weiß – zwei Filmen über Julian Assange und Wikileaks, Dokus nicht mitgezählt. Der hier entstand für den australischen TV-Sender Ten und hatte gestern Premiere auf dem Toronto International Film Festival. Für Nerds wie mich trotz Fernseh-Optik ein Must Watch.
Underground, which premieres Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival and will air on Australia’s Network Ten later this year, is a study in how Assange became Assange. Based on Suelette Dreyfus’ 1997 book of same name, the film traces how a Melbourne teenager became a member of the hacker group International Subversives in the late 1980s and first appeared on the radar of authorities all over the world.
Underground Brings Drama to Julian Assange’s Teenage Hacker Days
Julian Assanges Asylum granted
Julian Assanges Asylantrag wurde von Ecuador gewährt. Jetzt bin ich mal sehr gespannt, wie das ausgeht und wie der aus dem Land kommen will. Vom Guardian:
13:38 BST
Asylum is granted
Ecuador is to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, says Patino.13:41 BST
Patino adds:We can state that there is a risk that he will be persecuted politically…
We trust the UK will offer the necessary guarantees so that both governments can act adequately and properly respect international rights and the right of asylum.
We also trust the excellent relationship the two countries have will continue.
UK droht Ecuador mit Verhaftung Julian Assanges in der Botschaft
Gestern nacht hat laut dem ecuadorianischen Außenminister Ricardo Patino England damit gedroht, Julian Assange auch innerhalb der Botschaft zu verhaften und die Bude notfalls zu stürmen. Das bricht, neben so unwichtigen Dingen wie dem gesunden Menschenverstand, vor allem mit dem Wiener Übereinkommen über diplomatische Beziehungen und wäre in der Geschichte Englands ein völliges Novum. Good times!
So absurd sich die Situation anhört, die Drohungen Enlands beruhen auf dem „Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, that would allow us to take actions in order to arrest Mr Assange in the current premises of the Embassy.“ Demzufolge müsste England der ecuadorianischen Botschaft den Diplomatenstatus aberkennen und die Polizei wäre good to go. Absurd, aber das ist es, worauf sich die englische Regierung beruft, mehr dazu auf Head of Legal: Julian Assange: can the UK withdraw diplomatic status from the Ecuadorian embassy?
Just seen a couple of police enter side door of
#ecuador embassy.#wikileaks#assange— James Albury (@alburyj) August 16, 2012
Es gibt mehrere Livestreams von Leuten vor der Botschaft, hier, hier noch einer. Hier das Statement von Wikileaks, Snip aus der New York Times:
CARACAS, Venezuela — The government of Ecuador is prepared to allow Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection, a government official said in Quito on Wednesday night. Mr. Assange has been holed up in the embassy for two months seeking asylum.
Amid an escalating confrontation with Britain over Mr. Assange, Ecuadorean officials said they would announce the decision of the country’s president, Rafael Correa, on Thursday. The official said that the British government had made it clear it would not allow Mr. Assange to leave the country to travel to Ecuador, so even with a grant of asylum or similar protection, he would probably remain stuck in the embassy.
Earlier Wednesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, said that the British authorities had threatened to barge into the country’s embassy in London if officials did not hand over Mr. Assange. “Today we have received from the United Kingdom an explicit threat in writing that they could assault our embassy in London if Ecuador does not hand over Julian Assange,” Mr. Patiño said at a news conference in Quito, adding defiantly, “We are not a British colony.”
Ecuador to Let Assange Stay in Its Embassy, Guardian: Julian Assange can be arrested in embassy, UK warns Ecuador (Bild via Occupy London)
Julian Assange Asylum granted by Ecuador (UPDATE: Maybe…)
Ecuador hat Julian Assange Asyl gewährt, nachdem der vor ein paar Wochen in die Botschaft geflohen war. Ob er jetzt tatsächlich ausreisen darf ist mehr als unsicher, ich wünsch ihm trotzdem schonmal ‘ne gute Reise. Wohin auch immer…
Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa has agreed to give Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador’s government have said. The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador’s London embassy since 19 June, when he officially requested political asylum. “Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange,” said an official in the Ecuadorean capital Quito, who is familiar with the government discussions.
[…] But it remains unclear if giving Assange asylum will allow him to leave Britain and fly to Ecuador, or amounts to little more than a symbolic gesture. At the moment he faces the prospect of arrest as soon as he leaves the embassy for breaching his bail conditions. “For Mr Assange to leave England, he should have a safe pass from the British [government]. Will that be possible? That’s an issue we have to take into account,” Patino told Reuters on Tuesday.
Julian Assange will be granted asylum, says official (via /.)
[update] Von uebel aus den Comments: „Das sagt der Guardian. Correa selbst sagt, dass es noch keine Entscheidung gibt: https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/235473581738434561“.
Julian Assange on the run in Ecuadors Embassy
And the world keeps beeing a strange place: „Ecuador’s foreign minister said Tuesday that WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.“
[update] Statement der Botschaft:
This afternoon Mr Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy seeking political asylum from the Ecuadorian government.
As a signatory to the United Nations Universal Declaration for Human Rights, with an obligation to review all applications for asylum, we have immediately passed his application on to the relevant department in Quito.
Rolling Stone interviews Julian Assange
Michael Hastings vom Stone hat sich vor Weihnachten mit Julian Assange getroffen und ein spannendes Interview geführt.
Assange sits on a tattered couch, wearing a wool sweater, dark pants and an electronic manacle around his right ankle, visible only when he crosses his legs. At 40, the WikiLeaks founder comes across more like an embattled rebel commander than a hacker or journalist. He’s become better at handling the media – more willing to answer questions than he used to be, less likely to storm off during interviews – but the protracted legal battle has left him isolated, broke and vulnerable. Assange recently spoke to someone he calls a Western “intelligence source,” and he asked the official about his fate. Will he ever be a free man again, allowed to return to his native Australia, to come and go as he pleases? “He told me I was fucked,” Assange says.
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview (via The Browser)
