Save Wikileaks -- donate now or lost it forever

Currently a poor CS student but I still donated 25 dollars. Wikileaks is one of only a handful of media organizations actually making a difference in the world; it needs to be supported.

Why would their costs be so high? They should post a breakdown of where the money's going.

We should scrape this and provide archives in P2P so that the information isn't lost and hopefully they will do a similar spray of unreleased docs if they go down. I'll have a look for existing documents tomorrow.

The last internet archive snapshot was in April 30, 2008 but it gives a good feel for the kind of info that was there.<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080430123942/http://wikileaks.org/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20080430123942/http://wikileaks.o...</a><p>Some of their major scoops include:<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080207141628/wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks:Submissions" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20080207141628/wikileaks.org/wiki...</a>

&#62;&#62;We have raised just over $130,000 for this year but can not meaningfully continue operations until costs are covered. These amount to just under $200,000 PA. If staff are paid, our yearly budget is $600,000.<p>So does that mean the staff costs $400,000? If so, it's basically like they're saying "hey can you also pay for the 4 of us to live pretty for the year too?"<p>Edit: To be clear, I don't know how many people are in said staff.

Given all the upvotes on this post, I'm guessing I'm in the minority. But, I'm not a fan of wikileaks' ethics. Whistler blowers are important, and I have a lot of respect for their bravery, but wikileaks feels like a metalayer on top of whistle blowing that feels slightly gamey and a little celebratory.

There have been some warnings that should WikiLeaks be sued in the US, all backers (PayPal trackable) could also be sued.<p>It was proposed that WikiLeaks should provide an untraceable payment method.

What happened with PayPal's freezing their account?