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Submission + - WikiLeaks sold classified intel, says John Young

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: John Young revealed today in a radio interview that WikiLeaks sold classified information for money. John Young — recruited for WikiLeaks by Assange personally — said that he left WikiLeaks in early 2007 because its main goal is to "exaggerate its importance" and that it has "abandoned putting out useful material" in favor of popular targets. He also reported that he saw "red flags" that WikiLeaks was a criminal organization selling classified intelligence.

Submission + - Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Released 2

Submitted by Shining Celebi
Shining Celebi writes: Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6 today, which adds support for Personas, lightweight themes that can be installed without restarting the browser, and adds further performance improvements to the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine. One of the major goals of the release was to improve startup time and general UI responsiveness, especially the Awesomebar. You can read the full set of release notes here.
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox 3 Released

Submitted by Shining Celebi
Shining Celebi writes: Firefox 3.5 was released today by Mozilla; the final release is identical to the third release candidate if you've already installed that. 3.5 boasts of a new, fast Javascript JIT, support for several parts of HTML 5 including <video> and <audio>, improved CSS support including @font-face, improved privacy options, and better control over the Awesomebar, including the possibility of limiting it to search only URLs from history, plus plenty of performance improvements and bugfixes.
The Courts

Submission + - Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act

Submitted by Shining Celebi
Shining Celebi writes: U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero ruled in favor of the ACLU and struck down a portion of the revised USA PATRIOT Act this morning, forcing investigators to go through the courts to obtain approval before ordering ISPs to give up information on customers, instead of just sending them a National Security Letter. In the words of Judge Marrero, this use of National Security Letters "offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers."

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