WikiLeaks
Long, but interesting, profile of WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange from The New Yorker.
Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantánamo Bay, and the “Climategate” e-mails from the University of East Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo account.
This is only peripherally related, but Bradley Manning—an American soldier—has been arrested for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Another article from The Guardian, directly related to Manning.