Updates to this story
Wikileaks has tweeted that the UK government has issued a D Notice to all UK editors over a bundle of more documents that it might, or might not leak, related to security and insecurity.
If you're a foreign reader, you might ask what a D Notice is. Wikipedia has it about right.
It is a way of stopping stories being published that might affect government security. It's not a law.
Back in 1956, during the Suez crisis, UK editors decided that enough D notices were enough. My uncle, who owned a garage in Ballater, tossed a newspaper into the back of his car one day and said: "Michael, can you explain why there are blank stories in the Aberdeen Press & Journal?"
I said no, Uncle Mac, I can't - why is that? He said that the editors had got so sick and tired of having endless "D Notices" about the Suez debacle being sent to them that they'd decided to print blank stories instead. The Wikileaks tweet is here.
I am a UK editor, but haven't received my D Notice yet....
Have just done a cursory search, nothing else as yet of significance..
Many thank
TBC
http://www.dnotice.org.uk/
Why give out D Notices to UK Editors? So, you stop British public reading stuff - but that is censorship surely?
It's not us who will use the information, it is foreign governments - stop them getting it!!
Does the government block the Wikileaks site?
How do hundreds of thousands of secret documents get copied from secure US government computers without someone detecting it, immediately? There is something badly insecure when this can happen.
Is WIkileaks bona fide? Something does not seem right about this.
Why can't they be closed down or 'attacked' by all these hitech geeks the US has in Fort Meade?
I recommend downloading the full Vidalia Bundle which includes Tor, Polipo, and Tor Button for FireFox. You do not have to be an exit node if you do not want to take on the risk.
Relay Information: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
If you plan on using Tor as a client, I recommend EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Plugin: http://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Governments around the world have ways to block things. They never succeed. OUCH.
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/7465-wikileaks-releases-site-attacked-as-uk-issues-d-notice-press-chiller.html