WikiLeaks Chat

By ChatRooms.NET - 2010-11-29

Information on the WikiLeaks website including instructions for accessing the WikiLeaks chat room

The WikiLeaks website is a not-for-profit media organisation founded by Julian Assange. The goal of the WikiLeaks website is to bring important news and information to the public via their website at wikileaks.org "We specialise in allowing whistle-blowers and journalists who have been censored to get material out to the public," said Mr Assange.

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher and internet activist, best known as the spokesperson and editor-in-chief for WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website. Before working with the website, he was a physics and mathematics student, hacker, and computer programmer.

The WikiLeaks website, launched in 2006, and is run by The Sunshine Press. Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.

WikiLeaks is hosted by PRQ, a Sweden-based company providing “highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services.” PRQ is said to have “almost no information about its clientele and maintains few if any of its own logs.” The servers are spread around the world with the central server located in Sweden.

WikiLeaks has won a number of awards, including the 2008 Economist magazine New Media Award. In June 2009, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award (in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances", a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya. In May 2010, the New York Daily News listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news".

Wikileaks has mentioned that its next release of documents would be nearly seven times larger than the nearly 400,000 Pentagon documents relating to the Iraq war it published in October when Wikileaks posted online almost 400,000 documents detailing events in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, months after releasing some 90,000 secret records of US military incident and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan. From the WikiLeaks Website, "At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army."

Anyone can submit to Wikileaks anonymously, but a team of reviewers - volunteers from the mainstream press, journalists and Wikileaks staff - decides what is published.

Submitting information to WikiLeaks

You can chat to WikiLeaks online and they will answer questions on any problems you might have with submitting information. WikiLeaks chat is designed to be both secure and anonymous. Visitors are protected by many layers of security. They can not see each other. There is a mechanism in place to stop logging and the server forbids potentially dangerous commands that could reveal other user's identity. Communication is secured with SSL encryption.

WikiLeakS.org has a new IRC chat setup. You can connect to WikiLeaks IRC Chat at - https://chat.wikileaks.org

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