Openleaks? Probably a hoax. (Update: It is really happening)

I saw news about Openleaks on finnish Yle newsite. Source was swedish Dagens Nyheter. Quick search on google gave result only of one Slashdot.org article, which referred to same Dagens Nyheter story. Openleaks.org was tweeting 44 mins ago, "site coming soon". So nothing else, only source being swedish Dagens Nyheter and right now I really wouldn't believe anything what swedish media is trying to push out regarding Wikileaks.

This thing smells and pretty badly. If there was rumours about WikiLeaks being CIA operation, more likely I would bet my money that Openleaks really is something fishy, related to CIA operations. Why Dagens Nyheter article is written in english, since they normally write in swedish? Use google translate for reading comments there, most of them are in swedish and comments are really suspicious about the whole news.

Why Wikileaks group would split right now? There is nearly 1,200,000 supporters on Facebook and everything is going forward, despite of US goverment enormous pressure.

So... I would say, Openleaks is hoax, don't believe in it.



http://www.openleaks.org - Who is query leads to Berlin, Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagens_Nyheter - DN is biggest newspaper in Sweden.

Wikileaks - collected blog and news links until 6.12.2010.

Hi.

Here are collected blog and news links related to Wikileaks and Julius Assange:


Other (DNS issues etc.):

http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html , related to Wikileaks Domain pulled by everyDNS.


Blogs:

6.12.10 CrunchGear : Does Wikileaks Represent The End Of Internet History?

6.12.10 Salon.com : Glenn Greenwald - The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks

6.12.10 TechLiberation : Some thoughts on Cablegate

6.12.10 RAWStory: Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative

6.12.10 TNW: Wikileaks Now Running on Over 300 Domains

4.12.10 FDL: Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group

4.12.10 Political Tidbits: Wikileaks’ Julius Assange: hero or heel?

News (& blogs):

6.12.10 Guardian : Wikileaks cables: US fights flow of arms from eastern Europe to its enemies

6.12.10 CNET: Feds block workers from WikiLeaks, mirror sites

6.12.10 Guardian: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice

Most news sites have their special wikileaks-themesite, so I'm not covering here hundreds of wikileaks news articles, check for example Guardian, El Pais, Le Monde, NY Times, Der Spiegel etc.


Cables:

Guardian: US embassy cables: browse the database

Wikileaks: Cable Viewer

All published cables can be found from Wikileaks mirrors


Twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Wikileaks

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23cablegate


Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks


There is also plenty of Wikileaks stuff on torrent networks, google for 'wikileaks torrent'.

#cablegate picks , part 1 - Syria and US relationships.

In following days I will blog (quote) best picks from http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/ documents.

I'm following #cablegate hashtag on Twitter.


@ElijahLynn "Syria...had refused to cooperate with President Bush because it did not trust him and because..." #10DAMASCUS8

8. (S) Syria, Asad explained, had refused to cooperate with
President Bush because it did not trust him and because the
Bush Administration had wrongfully accused Syria of
supporting foreign fighters. When President Obama assumed
office, Syria tried to be positive. Asad he had proposed to
Special Envoy Mitchell the idea of a border security
cooperation initiative with Iraq as a first step. (Post
Comment: Asad's recollection is both selective and
inaccurate. U.S. officials first proposed a border security
cooperation initiative to a reluctant FM Muallim in May 2009.
President Asad agreed to participate after meeting S/E
Mitchell in late July 2009.) "This was a small step for me,
but big for you," Asad argued. Citing the U.S. inability to
control its long border with Mexico, Asad said the border was
not the major challenge. Syria's close intelligence
cooperation with Turkey enabled both countries to prevent
terrorists from crossing their 860-kilometer border without
relying on a huge border security presence. This
intelligence cooperation enabled Syria to "suffocate"
logistical networks critical to the movement of terrorists.
"In the U.S., you like to shoot (terrorists). Suffocating
their networks is far more effective," said Asad.

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10DAMASCUS8.html

Facebook leaks our IP addresses and current geo-locations.

Via Binary Intelligence:

"Facebook has nice email notifications whenever a friend comments on your status, sends you a message, or a variety of other reasons. The emails have subjects similar to "John Doe commented on your wall post." The unfortunate thing is that this email also appears to contain John Doe's (or your other friend's) IP address.

...

You will get the IP address of your friend and clicking on it will get a geolocation-based map. This will also show you if your friend used their cell phone to post and who they use as their service provider."

Of course Facebook seems to have plenty of other privacy issues, but this is really ridiculous. I'm not really fancy about idea of all my Facebook friends to know my current location. Well they know now, if they really want and the actual problem is: I can't really do anything about it, I can't change my privacy settings for fixing this problem. Thanks Facebook, again.


Whole story:

Binary Intelligence: Facebook Leaks IP Addresses

Being bored when Facebook is becoming boring.

Development during last weeks on my Facebook stream, it is so obvious, whole Facebook is fading away. Rich content is really missing, my stream is just full pointless announcements about who is who's new friend and who 'likes' which commercial or non-commercial services, pages, pointless groups for just showing off your personal frustrations, racism etc. one word: BORING!

Nowadays Facebook is becoming really boring place and people are also showing it off with their lack of imagination status updates or complete inactivity. What it means for the business built around social media services like Facebook... really bad times. Facebook stocks, sinking down. Social media and Facebook? Train already passed by.

There is also really a lot of people who dislike constant changes on Facebook privacy settings. I also dislike it and I have been seriously considering about deleting (not just deactivating) my Facebook account.

If there will come up really interesting alternatives for Facebook, I will probably do it or atleast deactive the use of my Facebook account. Lot of my Facebook friends have already started the great escape, it is obvious, you can see it on the news stream, it is really dry and boring.

What interesting Facebook is offering for me today? Nothing. Changing the channel now.

iPad buzz and fuzz - so is it really worth it all?

iPad went on sale during easter (3.4.2010) and web is full of first user experiences.

Will iPad be something revolutionary or is it just a secondary coming of Cd-rom (boingboing)? Next days and weeks will show it. I guess applications are showing pretty much the direction and atleast myself I will be waiting for multitask-update before buying my own iPad.


Few iPad links to check out:

CrunchGear: Help Key: Everything you need to know about the iPad

BoingBoing: Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)

iPad Applications

Infinite Loop: iPad jailbroken already, using leftover security flaw (term Jailbreak::Wikipedia)

CultofMac: Profiling iPad Buyers: 74% own Macs, 66% have iPhones

and last, but not least...

Brand new ipad getting smashed by a baseball bat

Some Facebook users are just funny.

ReadWriteWeb posted an article about Facebook Connect and now it can be found on Google top search with "Facebook login". Site has got lot of visitors who think ReadWriteWeb is just another Facebook re-design.

Quote from mattstratton.com:

Yes. Here’s what these rocket scientists did:

1) To log into Facebook, instead of going to http://facebook.com in their browser’s address bar (or maybe, heaven forbid, use a bookmark), these Facebook users simply do a Google search for “facebook login” EVERY TIME THEY WANT TO GO ON FACEBOOK.

2) They ended up clicking on the RWW link in the results (which makes little sense, as even though it was a top 5 hit, it was never #1)

3) They simply see the Facebook Connect button and assume that “logs them into teh Facebooks”

4) They log in and think that the ReadWriteWeb site is “the new Facebook”. And get all pissed off.

5) Hilarity ensues.

Hah.

Read more:

http://mattstratton.com/hilarity/hundreds-of-facebook-users-are-apparently-really-dumb

Excellent post, showing really the essence of how some people are using internet and search engines. Don't blame them, blame the education or something... I don't know. :p

Some comments from RWW article:

7. I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!

9. please give me back the old facebook login this is crazy.................

15. What is going on? You are totally confusing me. Knock-knock. Anybody there? Let me in.

And so on...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php#comments

There is so far over fifty pages comments...

Automation Labs FaceBook Block: Just Another FB Scam

If you stumbled with status requiring blocking "Automation Labs.", it is a scam. You can enter on search field any keyword and something to block will pop up. More info:

http://www.softsailor.com/news/17174-automation-labs-facebook-block-just-another-fb-scam.html

So another Facebook hoax and probably there will be new ones coming... please, think twice before passing these to your Facebook friends. Your stupidity is the sugar for hoaxes to spread around the world.

Facebook UnNamed App is not a spybot.

If you are deleting UnNamed Application based on info spreading on Facebook... you are just falling on virally spreading Facebook rumour. UnNamed Application is only taking care of your Boxes tab.

If you are not using Boxes tab, no harm done, but if you were using it, you probably want to know how to get it back.

to put back your boxes tab:

1. go back to the page where you removed the Unnamed App from.
2. select "edit settings" for an app under the "added profile boxes" section
3. click remove, then click add when it appears.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100126190431AAJkPoW



More info:

http://www.thatsnonsense.com/index.php?location=view&id=647

http://www.facebook.com/help/?question=327204

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Tabbed_Profile


Lesson learned?

Don't believe everything on internet and Facebook.