Where is Julian Assange now?
In March 2022, the UK Supreme Court refused Assange permission to appeal. Assange has been confined in Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London since April 2019.
How is Wikipedia related to WikiLeaks?
The Wikimedia Foundation has officially stated that there is no relationship between WikiLeaks and Wikipedia or Wikimedia. In an 11 August 2010 article in The Daily Telegraph (London), Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales stated that he has had no connection with the Wikileaks.org website.
When was WikiLeaks made?
October 4, 2006, IcelandWikiLeaks / Founded
Who is the founder of WikiLeaks?
WikiLeaks. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claims a database of 10 million documents in 10 years since its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief.
What has WikiLeaks done for US?
In April 2013 WikiLeaks published more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, including the Kissinger cables. In 2013, the organisation assisted Edward Snowden (who is responsible for the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures) in leaving Hong Kong.
What is WikiLeaks’Legal Status?
The legal status of WikiLeaks is complex. Assange considers WikiLeaks a protection intermediary. Rather than leaking directly to the press, and fearing exposure and retribution, whistleblowers can leak to WikiLeaks, which then leaks to the press for them. WikiLeaks has stated it does not solicit any information.
What is the encryption for the WikiLeaks WikiLeaks cables?
The file is AES encrypted. There has been speculation that it was intended to serve as insurance in case the WikiLeaks website or its spokesman Julian Assange are incapacitated, upon which the passphrase could be published.