How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting
How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Contact

If you need help using Tor you can contact WikiLeaks for assistance in setting it up using our simple webchat available at: /talk

If you can use Tor, but need to contact WikiLeaks for other reasons use our secured webchat available at http://wlchatc3pjwpli5r.onion

We recommend contacting us over Tor if you can.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Tor

Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.

In order to use the WikiLeaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the Tor Browser Bundle, which is a Firefox-like browser available for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux and pre-configured to connect using the anonymising system Tor.

Tails

If you are at high risk and you have the capacity to do so, you can also access the submission system through a secure operating system called Tails. Tails is an operating system launched from a USB stick or a DVD that aim to leaves no traces when the computer is shut down after use and automatically routes your internet traffic through Tor. Tails will require you to have either a USB stick or a DVD at least 4GB big and a laptop or desktop computer.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Tips

Our submission system works hard to preserve your anonymity, but we recommend you also take some of your own precautions. Please review these basic guidelines.

1. Contact us if you have specific problems

If you have a very large submission, or a submission with a complex format, or are a high-risk source, please contact us. In our experience it is always possible to find a custom solution for even the most seemingly difficult situations.

2. What computer to use

If the computer you are uploading from could subsequently be audited in an investigation, consider using a computer that is not easily tied to you. Technical users can also use Tails to help ensure you do not leave any records of your submission on the computer.

3. Do not talk about your submission to others

If you have any issues talk to WikiLeaks. We are the global experts in source protection – it is a complex field. Even those who mean well often do not have the experience or expertise to advise properly. This includes other media organisations.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

After

1. Do not talk about your submission to others

If you have any issues talk to WikiLeaks. We are the global experts in source protection – it is a complex field. Even those who mean well often do not have the experience or expertise to advise properly. This includes other media organisations.

2. Act normal

If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion. In particular, you should try to stick to your normal routine and behaviour.

3. Remove traces of your submission

If you are a high-risk source and the computer you prepared your submission on, or uploaded it from, could subsequently be audited in an investigation, we recommend that you format and dispose of the computer hard drive and any other storage media you used.

In particular, hard drives retain data after formatting which may be visible to a digital forensics team and flash media (USB sticks, memory cards and SSD drives) retain data even after a secure erasure. If you used flash media to store sensitive data, it is important to destroy the media.

If you do this and are a high-risk source you should make sure there are no traces of the clean-up, since such traces themselves may draw suspicion.

4. If you face legal action

If a legal action is brought against you as a result of your submission, there are organisations that may help you. The Courage Foundation is an international organisation dedicated to the protection of journalistic sources. You can find more details at https://www.couragefound.org.

Submit documents to WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks publishes documents of political or historical importance that are censored or otherwise suppressed. We specialise in strategic global publishing and large archives.

The following is the address of our secure site where you can anonymously upload your documents to WikiLeaks editors. You can only access this submissions system through Tor. (See our Tor tab for more information.) We also advise you to read our tips for sources before submitting.

http://ibfckmpsmylhbfovflajicjgldsqpc75k5w454irzwlh7qifgglncbad.onion

If you cannot use Tor, or your submission is very large, or you have specific requirements, WikiLeaks provides several alternative methods. Contact us to discuss how to proceed.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Wikileaks has launched a case against Valitor hf. (formerly VISA Iceland)

21 June 2012

Today, a hearing is taking place before the Icelandic courts in Reykjavik to callenge the unlawful suspension of financial services aganst Wikileaks.

Since 7th December 2010, after publishing the biggest leaks in journalistic history, an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade has been imposed by Visa against Datacell, the Icelandic base company processing the donations for the transparency publishing group WikiLeaks.

The case of DataCell ehf. against Valitor hf. (formerly VISA Iceland) is the first of many legal responses of WikiLeaks to the banking blockage. The case number is E-561/2012.

DataCell is an Icelandic/Swiss data company that provides data hosting and other technical services. WikiLeaks made a service agreement to DataCell and according to the agreement, the Iceland based company processed credit card donations to the WikiLeaks project.

Originally DataCell had a merchant agreement with a Danish credit card processing company, Teller AS. VISA Europe forced Teller to close the service in December 2010.

In June 2011 DataCell, due to the illegal closure, sought a new merchant agreement to be able to facilitate its customer to pay with credit cards and process donations to WikiLeaks. DataCell signed this agreement with the Icelandic company Valitor (Visa Iceland) in une 2011. The gateway was tested and certified by Valitor and subsequently opened.

After a brief period where donations had been processed to WikiLeaks, Valitor terminated the agreement and closed the gateway, without any plausible explanation.

Datacell´s demands in court are clear: that Valitor reopens the gateway and honours the signed merchant agreement.

Valitor has cited alleged violations by Datacell for collecting donations for a third party. Its argument does not hold as

a) such limitations refer to merchant sales and b) Valitor was fully aware of the intent to collect donations.

A decision by the Reykjavik District Court in this case is expected in 4-6 weeks.

Contact for comment:

Sveinn Andri Sveinsson, lawyer for DataCell sveinnandri@lr.is telephone: +354 894 7406

Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for WikiLeaks khrafnsson@gmail.com telephone: +354 821 7121

For more information read: http://wikileaks.ru/Banking-Blockade.html