Friday, July 16, 2010

Feds Look for Wikileaks Founder at NYC Hacker Event

Declan McCullagh writes on C|Net News:

Federal agents appeared at a hacker conference on Friday morning looking for Julian Assange, the controversial figure who has become the public face of Wikileaks, an organizer said.

Eric Corley, publisher of 2600 Magazine and organizer of The Next HOPE conference in midtown Manhattan, said that five Homeland Security agents appeared at the conference a day before Assange was scheduled to speak.

The conference program lists Assange -- who has been at the center of a maelstrom of positive and negative publicity relating to the arrest of a U.S. serviceman and videos he may have provided the document-sharing site -- as speaking at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday.

"If he shows up, he will be questioned at length," Corley told CNET. Assange did not immediately respond to questions late Friday.

More here.

1 Comments:

At Sat Jul 17, 03:27:00 PM PDT, Anonymous nader paul kucinich gravel mckinney said...

You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

 

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