Wikileaks: Homeland Security invokes Patriot Act on Assange; seeks server data

Zack Whittaker
ZDNet.com
August 25, 2011

Summary: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has invoked the Patriot Act on Wikileaks’ domain registrar, in a bid to access information on founder Julian Assange.

DNS hoster Dynadot has received a Patriot Act request by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to produce information held about WIkileaks founder Julian Assange, in a fully-fledged “espionage case”.

In a tweet by @wikileaks, the whistleblowing organisation confirmed the news.

(Image via Twitter)

The order seeks “all available information” on not only Assange, but Wikileaks also, held by the DNS hoster. The information will be handed to the U.S. grand jury in Alexandria, Virgina.

A Wikileaks press release has been issued:

“The Order demands Dynadot handover the following information for the time period November 1st 2009 to present, within three days of the date of the Order:

1. Subscriber names, user names, screen names, or other identities;

2. mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, e-mail addresses, and other contact information;

3. connection records, or record of session times and durations;

4. length of service (including start date) and typos of service utilized;

5. telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity; including any temporarily assigned network address; and

6. means and source of payment

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8 Responses to “Wikileaks: Homeland Security invokes Patriot Act on Assange; seeks server data”

  1. THANKS TO OUR TRAITOR EX PRESIDENT,THAT ALL THIS NEW DEVELOPMENTS ARE COMMING TO PAST, AND EVERYONE ONLY BLAMES OBAMA OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY WHEN, OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS, UNDERMINED, OUR FREEDOMS, LONG BEFORE THIS POPPET, CAME INTO THE PICTURE , THANKS TO THE INDOCTRINATION THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON, THROUGH OUT ALL MEDIA INCLUDING THOSE THAT WRAP THEMSELVES, IN THE FLAG, BUT, HAVE NO LOVE FOR THE FREEDOMS, THAT MADE THEM WHAT THEY ARE NOW, ITS VERY EASY FOR ANY PHONY PATRIOT TO SAY, HERE COMES THE BOOGY MAN, AND THE OTHER IS TO SHOW THE PICTURE WITH NAME OF THE BOOGY MAN.

  2. The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
    John F. Kennedy

  3. Don’t acknowledge these illegal laws and ignore these illegal pricks, don’t finance them and you would see how amazingly fast they would dry up and blow away.
    Sorry elitist pricks but WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY THE TRUTH WILL COME SHINING THROUGH IT SHALL SET YOU FREE!
    We’re not going ANYWHERE and YOU WILL NOT CONTROL ME, I AM A SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL WITH FREE WILL AND THE POWER TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE SCUM, YOU ARE THE ACTUAL TERRORISTS, ergo, YOU ARE OF NO SIGNIFICANCE NOR IMPORTANCE TO ME OR MY FAMILY.
    We, The People are the TRUE RED, WHITE BLUE Americans, NOT YOU OR YOUR MEDIA PUPPET MINIONS, YOU ARE THE EVIL ONES, YOU ARE THE TRUE TERRORISTS WHO HAVE INVADED OUR LAND, DESTROYED OUR CONSTITUTION, DESTROYED OUR ECONOMY SHREDDED OUR LIBERTY’S FREEDOM’S ALL TO MAKE US BOW TO YOUR WORLD ORDER.
    Got the hint yet assholes???…WE WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO YOUR TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION…NEVER!!!!

  4. ALERT: Another Distraction From The Global Financial PONZI SCHEME in progress as we speak!
    GO TO: FUTUREDATABANK*COM and watch the video exposing it ALL!

    Assange is CIA anyway. IT’S ALL THEATER!

  5. Now you know how the German people (excepting the f_____g Jews of course) and a number of other European nations began to feel in 1933 Good Luck USSA you are going to need LOTS of it.

  6. Just a matter of time before Anonymous take this into there control

  7. LOL so much for protecting their leakers. Pwned.

  8. The day they got their grubby hands on Assange I knew
    his *ss was pretty much grass from that point on.

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