Bank of America Prepares to Get WikiLeaked by Buying Up Negative Domain Names

Wikileaks Starts Working with Russian Paper
Bloomberg reports: Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with Wikileaks to expose Corruption in Russia. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven’t been published yet and Novaya Gazeta will help make them public, the newspaper said on its website today. “Assange sa...

The WikiLeaks strategy: Bank of America buys up abusive domain names
Source: Finextra December 22 2010 - 10:24 According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of Directors' and senior executives' names followed by "sucks" and "blows". For example, the company registered a number of domains for CEO Brian Moynihan: BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com. The wire report counted hundreds of such domain name registrations on 17 December alone. ...

Bank of America Now Controls BrianMoynihanSucks.com
Considering a website about Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan? You'll have to think of something more creative than "BianMoynihanSucks.com," since it and "BrianMoynihanBlows.com" were registered by Bank of America, possibly in advance of Wikileaks revelations. Don't worry, though! You've still got options. To the best of my knowledge, the following Domain Names have not yet been registered. BrianMoynihanIsPrettyLame.com BrianMoynihanTotallySucks.org OneThingThatSucksIsBrianMoynihan.ca UghBria...

Moscow paper teams with WikiLeaks to expose corruption
ST PETERSBURG: Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the Billionaire Alexander Lebedev, says it has agreed to join forces with Wikileaks to expose Corruption in Russia. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that have not been published and Novaya Gazeta will help make them public, the newspaper said on its website yesterday. ''As...

Norwegian newspaper claims to have all 251,287 leaked cables
© AP/Efrem Lukatsky Photo of a Wikileaks supporter Wednesday in front of the Swedish Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine A Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, now claims to have the full cache of over 250,000 State Department cables originally obtained by WikiLeaks. It's not clear how Aftenposten got the documents, which presumably were not provided directly from WikiLeaks. "We have no comments on how we have gained access to the documents," Editorial Manager Ronny Ruud told The Cutline. "Moreover,...

The WikiLeaks strategy: Bank of America buys up abusive domain names
© unk Bank of America has snapped up hundreds of abusive Domain Names for its senior executives and Board Members in what is being perceived as a defensive strategy against the future publication of damaging insider info from whistleblowing Website Wikileaks. According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering Domain Names including its board of Directors' and senior executives' names followed by "sucks" and "blows". For example, the company registered a number ...

WikiLeaks Joins Forces With Lebedev, Gorbachev to Expose Russia Corruption
Novaya Gazeta , the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Billionaire Alexander Lebedev , said it agreed to join forces with Wikileaks to expose Corruption in Russia....

No, WikiLeaks Has Not 'Confirmed' It Will Target Bank Of America
In the furious storm of speculation over which institution will be the subject of Wikileaks’ next document dump, the media’s definition of “confirmed” just got a little blurrier. But calm yourselves, Bank of America executives: your secrets are no more or less certain to be exposed than they were yesterday. On Tuesday, the Times of London published the first newspaper interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange since his release from Wandsworth Prison in London. In it,...

Julian Assange Has A Treat For Bank Of America
Unable to contain his excitement any longer, Julian Assange has revealed the target of his next ‘Leak- Bank of America, come on down! Given that this was the ‘large US bank’ most had assumed Assange was hinting at several weeks ago, it’s not that much of a surprise. He did however offer up this vague and slightly sinister statement however, which you should feel free to marinate on. “We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for,”...

CIA vs. WikiLeaks
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CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by WikiLeaks
Source: Washington Post CIA launches Task Force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by Wikileaks By Greg Miller Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 21, 2010; 5:24 PM Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA headquarters, it's mainly known by its all-too-apt acronym: W.T.F. The irreverence is perhaps understandable for an agency that has been relatively unscathed by WikiLeaks. Only a handful of CIA files have surfaced on the WikiLeaks Web site, and re...

US intelligence agency to probe impact of leaks
THE CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of US diplomatic cables and Military files by Wikileaks. The agency has been relatively unscathed by WikiLeaks; only a handful of CIA files have surfaced on the WikiLeaks website, and records from other agencies posted online reveal little about CIA employees or operations. Even so, CIA officials said the agency was conducting an extensive inventory of the classified information, which is routinely distributed on ...

WTF? OMG, LOL CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name
Source: The Guardian (UK) The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? Wikileaks Task Force, or WTF for short. The group will be charged with scouring the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the most embarrassing revelations was that the US State Department had drawn up a list of information it would like on key UN figures – it later emerged the CIA had asked for the information. "Officially, the panel i...

Bank of America Wants You to Know Its Executives Don’t Suck
Company defensively registers hundreds of Domain Names for its senior executives and Board Members. As Bank of American awaits a possible release of information from Wikileaks, it wants to ensure that you don’t think it’s executives suck. Or blow for that matter. For example, the company registered a number of domains for CEO Brian Moynihan: BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com. Just to be sure, it also picked up the .n...

Confirmed: WikiLeaks next target is Bank of America, Assange says
Stumble This! Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday the Swedish women who have accused him of Sexual Assault had got into a "tizzy" about the possibility they had caught a sexually transmitted disease from him. Assange told the BBC that one account of what happened in August -- the month at the centre of allegations against him -- was that the two women had panicked when they found out they had both slept with him and went to police who "bamboozled" them....

News links: With dont ask, dont tell repeal, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand emerges into the spotlight
The Obamas are back in Hawaii for Christmas break. Politico>>> Food fight. Sarah Palin accuses First Lady Michelle Obama, a vocal proponent of healthy eating, of being the grinch who stole dessert. Fellow conservative Mike Huckabee, formerly 280 pounds, disagrees. CNN>>> With the Repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the passage of the 9-11 Health Care bill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand emerges from the shadow of her colleague, Sen. Chuck Schumer. NY Tim

CIA Creates WikiLeaks Task Force
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WikiLeaks CableGate: December 23, Day 26
(Credit: Getty Images) Check and update this page often for the latest news and views on the Wikileaks saga, as well as our special report. DECEMBER 23, DAY 26 [AP] The United States and Britain should immediately stop supporting a Bangladeshi anti-crime force blamed for killing hundreds of suspects without trial if there is no visible effort to reform it, a rights group said Thursday. The Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, was responsible for more than 1,000 extra-judicial slayings in the prec...

'WikiLeaks to publish Israel files on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination'
Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website, says thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months....

'WikiLeaks to publish Israel cables on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination'
Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website, says thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months....

Guest Post: Assange Confirms that Bank of America Is the Target of Bank Leak
→ Washington’s Blog There has been widespread speculation that Wikileaks would target Bank of America. This has now been confirmed. Specifically, Agence Press France is reporting: Assange also confirmed that Wikileaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. ...

Assange Confirms that Bank of America Is the Target of Bank Leak
There has been widespread speculation that Wikileaks would target Bank of America. This has now been confirmed. Specifically, Agence Press France is reporting: Assange also confirmed that Wikileaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. Will the B of A documents be a bombshell, or sound and fury signifying nothing? ...

Bank Of America Needs Help Coming Up With All The Domain Names A Brian Moynihan Hater Might Want To Buy
Bank of America has apparently registered for the Domain Names BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com, possibly out of fear that Team Wikileaks would want them (though the decision could just be a defense against haters in general). Which is a pretty good idea, but if someone’s going to go to the trouble of coming up with and buying hate-domains, they probably won’t be deterred by getting beat out on these not terribly c...

Another Day, Another Annoying XMAS Poem
Maybe everyone has time on their hands these days for nonsensical cheery holiday sh-t like this, but  the outpouring of horrendous poetry circulating around our nation’s capital is on tilt. But we’re always game for crappy poetry. This one comes from a former Democratic Hill flack who says he “warmly embraces the prospect of being mocked.” Joshua Rosenblum , the poem’s author and Press Secretary for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, calls it “Anoth...

Wikileaks To Target Bank Of America In Next Release
The folks at Boing Boing have unearthed gold within a Times of London article: Julian Assange has confirmed he's holding a trove of information about Bank of America, slated for release early next year. AFP reports: Assange also confirmed that Wikileaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. "We don't want the bank to suffer unless it's called for," Assange told The Times. "But if its management is operating in a responsive way...