Wikileaks, the anonymous whistle-blower website, has been faced with a legal injunction to be taken down by orders of US District Judge Jeffrey White. The website, which is devoted to the battle against web censorship and for anonymity, published documents proving that a Swiss Bank – the Julius Baer Bank and Trust – engaged somehow in money laundering and tax evasion via the Cayman Islands – or something like that. [ Slashdot | Wired | The Register ]
Well, if the bank tried to protect its reputati0n, it certainly backfired: Newsoutlets from all over the world from the Guardian to the Taz report on the attempt to shut down the site, which recently leaked documents related to prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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