Media News - Tuesday, November 29, 2011
WikiLeaks delays launch of new online system
WikiLeaks has delayed the release of a new online system to allow whistleblowers to pass secrets to its website, in another blow to Julian Assange’s campaign for radical transparency amid a barrage of legal, financial and technical challenges. WikiLeaks’ electronic submission system has been offline for more than a year, impeding its mission to blow open government secrets. Mr Assange and his team have been working to “re-engineer from scratch” its submission system because existing security technology “could not be trusted”, he said last month. However, a planned event on Monday to unveil the new system was indefinitely postponed at the last minute. In a posting from its Twitter feed over the weekend, WikiLeaks said: “Constructing the system is very complex. Due to the deteriorating state of internet security which directly impacts the ability of sources to communicate with journalists and human rights activists securely, WikiLeaks has decided to postpone the launch initially scheduled for Monday 28th 2011 in the interest of source protection.” WikiLeaks now plans to hold a press conference on Thursday December 1 to launch a “new phase” in its operations, detailing “extraordinary privacy threats” to its journalists ahead of what the organisation has described as a “dramatic month” in prospect. (Financial Times)
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