The site, in true wiki fashion (Wiki typically refers to user-generated and user-editable content pages running on an open-source platform, and used at common sites like Wikipedia.com), allows web users from around the world to upload leak information that exposes "unethical behavior in their governments and corporations." According to some reports, there are more than 1.2 million documents posted to Wikileaks, sent in by users from all parts of the world.
The site was taken down in February after a California judge ordered the
website's DNS records removed (DNS records are what points a site's numerical web address to the "name" version of the site). However, the site reappeared shortly after, hosted this time in Sweden where it was outside of the California judge's order.
The initial request came from a Swiss
Bank which had found customer account information posted on the site (the site claimed that the documents exposed money laundering by the bank's Cayman Islands location). Another judge later deemed that the site's actions were protected by free speech, and as of about two weeks ago, the bank which filed the initial motion, Julius Baer & Company LTD, had dropped its suit.
Perhaps emboldened by its recent First Amendment protection, the site has continued to be the repository for newly leaked information. Among some of the supposedly legitimate documents that SecurityInfoWatch.com found on the Wikileaks website were details on intrusion detection systems and anti-terror programs. Listed are a number of the shocking documents related to corporate and national
security that could be found easily from the site's main navigation pages:
- A PDF document specifying how physical alarm
intrusion detection systems would be used at the U.S. Army's Secure Compartmented Information Facilities
- Description of the U.S. Marine Corps Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) program
- A shareholder proposal from a 2008 meeting for ConocoPhillips
- Standard operating procedure documents for some U.S. military camps
- Confidential document spelling out JPMorgan's policy on "Hedging and Monetization" for insiders selling stocks
- A document diagramming the world's first atomic bomb
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