Wikileaks turns submissions engine back on
- 21 July, 2010 04:35
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Wikileaks has turned back on its system that allows whistleblowers to securely submit documents to the site after it was down for maintenance, according to the organization's blog.
Users can upload documents to the Web site using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), as it now has a new certificate. People can also use TOR (The Onion Router), a worldwide network of servers used to help anonymize people's Web traffic. Wikileaks plans to use SSL for other services such as Web sites but that feature is not available yet.
The organization said it also added "additional means of protection" to its Web-based IRC client, which allows people to chat with Wikileaks staff.
The archive has also been reactivated although Wikileaks is still improving it. "The most visible changes so far are the support for torrents and magnet links for files referenced in the archive, a facelift of the design, content cleanup," according to the blog. "Public edits are still disabled but will be enabled again. Public comments will be disabled until we have an appropriate solution in place."
Wikileaks also said it undertook steps to hide the identities of users working on its wiki and protecting the identity of people who visit the site. Accounts that were unused for more than a year were also deleted. Wikileaks staff could not be immediately reached for comment on the changes.
Started in 2006, Wikileaks has broken big news stories via submissions, including startling footage released on April 5 of an Apache helicopter attack in Iraq in 2007 that killed up to a dozen civilians, including two employers of the Reuters news service.
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I think your site and the person who leaked these documents should all be court martialed. Everyone with any brains at all knows that war is terrible, but if we were not being protected by our soldiers over there then the terrorist would be over hear and everywhere else, but it appears to me that it seems to be okay with you people that those crazy people can go around blowing people up while committing suicide themselves. Our people do not intend on killing the innocent but the bad guys do not care if they are put in harms way during this awful time for everyone. Our soldiers and our country are something to be proud of. It is too bad that you people feel this way, maybe you should go and live with the terrorist since you think what they are doing is okay. You people and the one who leaked these documents are just as bad if not worse because now you have put even more innocenct people in harms way. Hope you all feel proud of yourselves.
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