December 10, 2010
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. Two weeks on, the ripples from the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables spread around the world. In Washington, legislation has been drafted with the potential to criminalize certain practices of WikiLeaks, but also journalism in general. |
| 0:21.7 | Governmental agencies have sought to bar their employers from accessing Wikileaks, classified |
| 0:26.1 | documents, now broadly accessible by everyone. |
| 0:30.0 | Meanwhile, amid calls for the capture or execution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from |
| 0:35.5 | certain quarters of Capitol Hill, |
| 0:43.2 | the New York Times reports that European papers are decrying hypocrisy in the land of free speech across the sea. And in Pakistan, faked cables indicting Indian intentions were planted in newspapers, |
| 0:51.4 | possibly by Pakistani intelligence. |
| 0:56.3 | And if things couldn't get any more complicated, |
| 1:02.2 | the Swedish newspaper Dagenzniheter reports that disaffected former WikiLeaks staffers will launch OpenLeaks, a WikiLeaks alternative, on Monday. |
| 1:06.9 | All over the world, lines are being drawn in the battle among freedom of information absolutists, |
| 1:13.2 | moderates, and security firsters. And first blood in this battle has now been drawn in cyberspace. |
| 1:20.5 | This week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself into British authorities to answer Swedish |
| 1:26.1 | rape charges, but a group of avenging angels is still at large. |
| 1:31.3 | Hackers known collectively as anonymous have been launching online attacks |
| 1:35.3 | against the perceived enemies of WikiLeaks. |
| 1:38.3 | The weapon of choice, distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks, |
| 1:43.3 | illegally crashing servers by flooding them with data requests. |
| 1:48.0 | Anonymous, formerly known for targeting anti-file-sharing sites and Scientologists, this week |
| 1:53.7 | attacked PayPal for deleting WikiLeaks account, Visa and MasterCard for blocking credit card |
| 1:59.4 | transactions related to WikiLeaks, and the Swiss Bank post-finance for seizing WikiLeaks accounts. |
| 2:06.0 | Most recently, Anonymous threatened to go after Amazon for kicking WikiLeaks off its server. |
| 2:12.2 | Anonymous calls its campaign of internet sabotage Operation Payback. |
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