*WikiLeaks** is an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website, launched in 2006 and run by The Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. The organisation describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits.* *Wikileaks’ James Bond Styled Secret Headquarters Revealed*
* * *If you thought Wikileaks is being operated out of a memory stick from a dinky cold basement by some sleep-deprived programmers ready to abandon their hideout at moment’s notice, think again. Recently pictures of the supposedly secret headquarters surfaced through a number of news sources – pictures that will blow your socks off. A headquarter located in a cave 100 feet below the ground in a former Cold War nuclear bunker futuristically redesigned to look like a set out of a James Bond movie. * *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (1)]* *The disused bunker turned datacenter was reopened in 2008 and redesigned by Swedish architects Albert France-Lanord. Complete with a 'floating' conference room, suspended glass corridors, lunar landscape flooring, designer furniture, and even, intriguingly, German U-boat engines as back-up generators. “All that is missing is the bleached-blond Assange himself, stroking a white cat”, writes The Daily Mail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337014/WikiLeaks-bunker-Julian-Assanges-subterranean-Bond-villain-den.html>. * *The bunker which could reportedly withstand a nuclear attack, vast cave, also houses dozens of computer servers used as storage by many companies. * *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (2)]* *The offices feature lunar-landscape flooring, glass corridors and a 'floating' conference room* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (3)]* *Two old submarine engines are used as emergency backup generators* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (4)]* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (5)]* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (6)]* *Above the main server room is a suspended glass corridor leading to a round see-through meeting room.* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (7)]* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (8)]* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (9)]* *The exterior of the main server room.* *[image: Wikileaks-Headquarters (10)]* *The floor plan of the office.* * ------------------------------ * * * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tamilcommunity" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tamilcommunity?hl=en.
