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from the streets of canada. the website. tapping. quest. is staying it's chilly and such a thing that adults are detected and what's hot in the bag the journey exists utterance and. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the fourth day is to get information out about the real world today anyone can find out what information the government the military and bankers have kept under lock and key secrecy is the biggest. going to be able to preserve is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics julian ward's on and on anger.

what motivates julian assange does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame or does he act on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will it whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. junius january twentieth a decision with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown genius to demand the immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over twenty three years after several days of tensions resulting bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth this. is the events that took place in the north african country in january when an idiot leapt on to the jasmine

revolution choosing in kuwait also has another name in the wiki revolution. this man is a professor at one of the universities in tunis. as a political activist he prefers to be known by his nickname. he didn't take part in the attacks on government buildings but he said to be one of the main driving forces of the revolution. after registering his web site to leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange in the person of twenty ten. at the first time with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got others. the sensation as i said it was really very very very interesting to note the two facts that the u.s. government is waiting. to leave the u.s.

government was. really not supported banally for human rights violation. discontent with the president could look good in power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after student and i am a blessing is a sense of self on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the community and government. after when. i came back and the hammond was what he did. i think tunisia was a major or two. to start to change what's happened in tunisia and also in egypt and it's happening in a few other places these diplomatic cables troll the people. they were actually right and not trusting in thinking that there is something that is corrupt.

can you don't steinberg shuns the public spotlight he's going to stay in the shade although in actual fact he's just as much a godfather of the wiki leaks project as julian assange. yes my name is daniel smith this is julian a son's we're here to make a short presentation about the wiki leaks project every dot daniels on steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site that together he understands took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reality that wiki leaks i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian. he was already working on weekend except on the time so i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young register the weekly leaks german name in late

december two thousand and six although young had already created something similar to wiki leaks several years before previously he used the cryptome dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. enemy of democracy. it is way over good and so threats to democracy are coming from your side apart from the secret people. and that they need to be exposed during the first few years of weekly leaks the resource was treated as a project created by internet fringes we can lease lives off donations and they were inconsistent at the time. for twenty years we were one and a half years we start tried to build up we can he said as a project we published a lot of documents we tried to get funding and it was all very difficult so we have all put in all our private funding into the project and tried to sustain it but that really didn't work out so well at least not an infinite amount of money and.

this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and then modernize during the cold war so we have equal structurally so we're data structures of welcome you know and i will show you the facility this bunker in stockholm was built to protect swedish army personnel from a nuclear attack telltale reminders of its original purpose can be seen all over the place. we're getting these type was actually in submarines and so they are jorma submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm starts alarmists actually. today behind at least thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data.

this is the counting up and you feel down to see these two these two hundred because it's over swedish law is provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers morals or a security system they'll only flow through the roof becoming a fire well you know what they were feel think it must be a big deal to make it a material thing there for the wrong. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their service after this video was posted on their site traffic to safety of. iraq. back in two thousand and seven american army servicemen were caught on camera shooting dead a reuters reporter and his driver in a baghdad suburb after they mistook them from terrorists three years after the

tragedy when he links published the video sparking a massive international right now one that it shows you errors in the internal division within islam. and it shows you that reports about what who is insurgent who is not an insurgent but appear in the media following the bit where people were killed cannot be trusted several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets published the afghan dossier a one. wiki leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the spot reports about the course of the campaign a zone said they had received the classified information from a man employed at the u.s. department of defense. it covers a six year period of war nor any two thousand reports and almost every instant serious incident u.s. military i was in called it with the royals and what occasional people. as

soon as the afghan dossier was made public the sons and his team soared to instant fame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common accusation was that the names of afghans collaborating with allied troops and details concerning american agents had not been redacted from the reports the taliban were quick to pledge to kill all those who had helped the u.s. army. it was appears the mostly via media beat up a program where we're looking at the issue seriously. if you hold back you mean thousand reports awful for the very quick they had to sort of patient it's because that made it look like nothing of the through your fridge the white house was their resistance. or publish the white house and or if the west. every week once a week we're meeting of this if eight years the party leadership we've just had

a half day meetings as well and the leadership a little bird has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to live over the next couple years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own that's why they meet in this cafe in stockholm the movement has held wiki leaks greatly by sharing its knowledge on creating a growing network of mirror sites as well as decoding and processing information. when we stepped in to support wiki leaks in august of last year they were not as known as they are know. they have received from thousands of thousands of people so they are not. our aid doesn't make as much difference today as it did know that said however it was still the swiss pirate party then went in and. brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online one that went offline during that

hectic week of information. similar projects have been launched around the world including russia. most people in russia don't speak english that's why we wanted to make wiki leaks documents available to all russians online so we set about spotting reports of interest to people living in russia and countries of the commonwealth of independent states such reporters are either fed to translation websites or the people themselves translate them after receiving them via email russian pirates have launched a similar site called leaks and largely mimics what to some has been doing it wiki leaks a few leaks have already been made public. what the informers will post their reports on the internet site we will know absolutely nothing about them we see the whole thing as a black box turning our documents from time to time. so the big question though is

how are they going to send their stuff. in the summer of twenty ten a sound gathers circle of accredited journalists for wiki leaks these people were supposed to get the news before it would appear on the site i doing this wanted to secure the leaks and give them greater exposure. the first russian publication to disclose wiki leaks data was the magazine russian reporter of the same time other magazines and newspapers had also received such invitations but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. but that is clearly the newspaper's running it for a whole race first they may have suspected that they might get involved in somebodies gamble considering that the material had not been properly assessed second they may have had their doubts about how that would affect relations with the u.s. embassy and third they may have been worried by the uncertain prospects of relations

with the russian leadership of historical material which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first weeks or a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop additional shower frankly when we saw the first set of documents sent in response to our request we didn't know how we should go about them at first glance many of them were unlikely to arouse interest you have to read them very carefully to find something anywhere near a scoop i think some in our audience had been looking forward to wild stories that u.f.o.'s or people devouring children when they found nothing of the kind so they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier wiki leaks website and its founder a song could become the world. odds may newsmakers the australian spent most of his spare time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words again welcome to stockholm and authority.

it's unlikely that julian a song speaking before the journalists at this seminar in some call could have full seem that in a few months he would be in jail nor would have imagined that has close companions were deserted all the visitors it to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall . culture is the same of you i can't tell if i killed her former publicist or intel folks if they drift to the right all across europe and the us more and more people are giving the political right a new look and more times than not it is the. download the official anti up location on the phone or i pod touch from the queue saps to. life on the go. see video on demand parties mindful of

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august twenty ten in a song to become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder save the glory of being alone find on the sole adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the us authorities to norms for prosecution against mr song proved unsuccessful and wiki leaks founder had. i'd to be legally irreproachable until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish than during his visit to sweden mr saunders met two young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women accused the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police primarily. discussed with the police to tell the police what we have been through and get advice or try would do and when they tell their stories both of them

separately from each other and they tell the stories to the police the police officer realized they're telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't shine a bag a son has always had a weakness for women we were at a conference in budapest and he told a lot of people at our conference that he has children on every continent. swedish authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder had landed in britain many describe the criminal prosecution against him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claim that it was a routine criminal case. it's nonsense it has nothing whatsoever to do with the wiki leaks actually my two clients are very much in favor of the big leagues that's why they were attending the seminar or the lecture from seoul and they still are for. it is unfortunately

a rather common case of sexual abuse we have these cases all over again in sweden great britain everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with the difference that we suspect the person of the song. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface songes friend and colleague daniel don't feel like berg said he could no longer work with him he withdrew from the project along with many others. i'm really very sorry to see the project winding up the problem is that julian is intent on cracking down on any dissenters as a matter of fact now he's one of the kind of people that we've been trying to oppose so i quit at the right moment after that negative trend had emerged within the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences virgina songe also had a personal conflict when berg introduced her sons to his future wife. disapproved

of his choice. i fell in love quite immediately and opposed to him as my friend about it and the only thing he had to recommend was that i should try to find as much. on her as i can get so that if she annoys me i have something in my hands against her. and that was a really weird recommendation of the loss of half of his team was not the most serious consequence of the split for us so much much more important was an archive of three thousand unpublished secret materials which bergen the other defectors took away with them for bag this data is a form of insurance. daniel had all the reason in the world to fear a stone and was enraged by his betrayal sones had even threatened his former friend he once said that if i ever put any sources in danger i'm in what hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat

a couple of times was others that asked him. on december the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for sunday's arrest a week later the wiki leaks chief voluntarily showed up at a police station where they arrested him a week later he was released on bail and the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. the whole people around the world. let me. lord it widely while being away. shortly after he was bailed assan shocked the world with a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to share their secrets denounced the publication on wiki leaks of huge volumes of information on private accounts in swiss banks. on january the seventeenth two thousand and eleven a former employee of the julius bank and go film publicly handed over to respond to

this with information on the personal bank accounts but i want. to know if. i could ever get it. in order to. have it investigated and making a decision on it. works as a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information theft investigated the two thousand and seven purchase by the german government of disks with information from anonymous sources on german citizens hiding their money abroad. there are seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german names on it some of our to go to court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this and the more than one billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective

even depositors whose names were not on the desk field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes in twenty ten angela merkel's government once again purchased from anonymous sources another disk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks and helped her to return almost two billion euros to the state treasury many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence of the wiki leaks effect. of pretty comparable because on the one site the people sell that are to us or lots of money for millions of money on the other side you have wiki leaks and so this is nonprofit so there are people who their intention is different but exposing the bank secrets subsequently transformed wiki leaks into a completely nontransparent organization in financial terms but songs is the only

person who knows everything about the whereabouts of the huge donations made to the organization. but there were other money trails where no one knew actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as a just natural if you're working in a team of maybe five to ten people at that time there's no need to have secrets you know at least it feels like. when you ask someone what's happening to the money in australia and how much money is there really and that person tells you or you don't have to know. after his rift with a songe bird wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own web site called open leaks but begs site is different they will operate according to the black box principle the website will receive material from anonymous informers but will dispatch them to traditional media outlets for further publication it will be impossible to enter

the website and read the information first hand. everything is simple and transparent wants to ditch spy schemes published under self advertising which is sound seems to like so much this image as well julian wants to create because it characterizes. our. somewhere between a hacker and freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing and this is what people think they should. so this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all. than the actual information. that ministration was introduced at old universities in china zero after the

revolution the students didn't have time to attend classes in the first weeks following the coup of it but they were too busy debating how to protect the progress made in the january revolution. beautifully that the only solution we didn't succeed in all its goals. we are pretty busy and steep but thinking by discussing doing everything about the new government had me under underneath our business. it's just that see if there's evolution. each of the students took part in the overthrow of the ben ali regime many of them took to the streets after they had read information on corruption scrupulously accumulated on the website kunal leaks. you can see that when early in the regime of an idea. the first victim. of this who

gets asked about and his friend an assistant some event well the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they learned to walk in the old port town of bizet or pirates and used it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago the junior leagues founders likened themselves to such pirates of centuries past there are not any more pilots but because words for. freedom for transparency and so for human rights and for democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics via the internet the proof maybe was. the leaks that have been published by him really and by wiki leaks laid there all we don't know we cannot know. how big it was but it does help at the fair and come and that means instead of about the corruption of the family

and close lump of the family sure we. are not far distant and it's. a hard to hide certain things. later that same day the streets of tunis years swelled with crowds of people again . but this time around they were not protesting it was a celebration in egypt president hosni mubarak had been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its goal the revolution you know on the the pros engine is here has already swept across several countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future.

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