Rachelle Matherne
Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal launched its own version of WikiLeaks. The site is called SafeHouse, and purports to provide a place where readers can help the WSJ “uncover fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing.” With the standalone site, WSJ is...
Rachelle Matherne
Major protests and riots in Egypt began a week ago today. Undoubtedly inspired by the recent uprisings in Tunisia, the current state of dissention has been a long while in the making. We have been covering the growing unrest in Egypt on the SixEstate blog for a few...
George Williams
I had a clever way to start this column but Ryan Singel, a columnist for Wired, beat me to the punch with it, so I’ll begin by quoting him: ANALYSIS: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world...
Rachelle Matherne
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has instigated yet another discussion about technology and legality. At the recent bail hearing for Assange in England, the judge allowed journalists to tweet during the hearing — the first time in the country that Twitter use...
George Williams
Julian Assange and his pet project, WikiLeaks, have been all over the news recently, their release of secret documents related to the Iraq War certainly stirring up a hornet’s nest. Prior to this point, the website was celebrated, and not just by a bunch of...