Computer Computer Digital In Monograph Origin Science Text

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Computer Computer Digital In Monograph Origin Science Text

Computer Computer Digital In Monograph Origin Science Text

By the end of 2010, in tandem with computer technology evolution, advances in the information-age and increasing disenfranchisement many individuals felt, WikiLeaks arose. Global, new media and non-profit making, it released millions of documents acquired from anonymous and leaked sources.

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This publishing of secret, confidential, controversial and embarrassing files from inter and intra-governmental communications, horrified administrations and their agencies and possibly compromised security, but fed the appetite for disclosure that the internet and social networking birthed.

The founder of the platform, Julian Assange, was wanted in a number of nations on a variety of charges, as people and officials responded in different ways to ‘leaking’. A group of internet-activists/hackers, known as ‘Anonymous’, in December 2010 claimed to have crashed MasterCard and other websites by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.