TED TALK

“Why the world needs

Wikileaks”
By Julian Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLo3A-YbbFY
 Wikileaks
• WikiLeaks is a multi-national media organization and associated library.
It was founded by its publisher Julian Assange in 2006.
• WikiLeaks specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of
censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying
and corruption. It has so far published more than 10 million documents
and associated analyses.
• WikiLeaks has contractual relationships and secure communications
paths to more than 100 major media organizations from around the world.
This gives WikiLeaks sources negotiating power, impact and technical
protections that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to achieve.
• Although no organization can hope to have a perfect record forever, thus
far WikiLeaks has a perfect in document authentication and resistance to
all censorship attempts.
 Julian Assange
Who Is Julian Assange?
• Journalist, computer programmer and
activist Julian Assange was born on
July 3, 1971 in Townsville, Australia.
He used his genius IQ to hack into
the databases of many high profile
organizations. In 2006, Assange
began work on WikiLeaks, a website
intended to collect and share
confidential information on an
international scale.
Biggest WikiLeaks
Revelations
Chelsea Manning and the rise of 'big data'
whistleblowing in the digital age
 Guantanamo Bay:
“Secret Files on all Guantanamo’s Prisoners”
“Extra Judicial Killings in Kenya”
“Banking Criminality”
“Religious Corruption”
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References:
• https://www.scienceabc.com/social-science/how-wikileaks-
formed-julian-assange-sweden-london-government-secrets.html
• https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/WikiLeaks
• https://wikileaks.org/
Information:
The New Language Of Science
by : Hans Christian von Baeyer
 Hans Christian von Baeyer
Hans Christian von Baeyer is a Chancellor
Professor of Physics at the College of William
and Mary. His books include Information:
The New Language of Science and
Warmth Disperses and Time Passes:
The History of Heat.
Information: The new language of Science by
Hans Christian von Baeyer
Information: the new language of science by Hans Christian von Baeyer

Harvard University Press, 2004

Cloth: 978-0-674-01387-2
Library of Congress Classification Q223.V66 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 501.4

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Confronting us at every turn, flowing from every imaginable source, information defines our era--and yet
what we don't know about it could--and does--fill a book. In this indispensable volume, a primer for the
information age, Hans Christian von Baeyer presents a clear description of what information is, how
concepts of its measurement, meaning, and transmission evolved, and what its ever-expanding presence
portends for the future.

Information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe, von Baeyer suggests; it will
provide a new basic framework for describing and predicting reality in the twenty-first century. Despite its
revolutionary premise, von Baeyer's book is written simply in a straightforward fashion, offering a
wonderfully accessible introduction to classical and quantum information. Enlivened with anecdotes from
the lives of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists who have contributed significantly to the field,
Information conducts readers from questions of subjectivity inherent in classical information to the blurring
of distinctions between computers and what they measure or store in our quantum age. A great advance in
our efforts to define and describe the nature of information, the book also marks an important step forward
in our ability to exploit information--and, ultimately, to transform the nature of our relationship with the
physical universe.
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Reference:
https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780674013872