The Inimitable Tiff

Not the best headline.  However, the post does note that:

In case there was any doubt, it’s now official: WikiLeaks has planted itself firmly in the corporate zeitgeist, in the form of a prominent mention in the 10-K that Ebay (EBAY)filed  late on Friday afternoon.

Technically, WikiLeaks has made an appearance in the Edgar database before — on Aug. 20, in a conference-call transcript attached to an 8-K from microcap cybersecurity and consulting firm Widepoint Corp (WYY). But that was a passing mention (as Chief Technology Officer Daniel Turissini mentioned how “our daily lives have been changed by the growth of the Internet, Wikileaks, and the growing threat to privacy in our nation’s infrastructure”).

Ebay goes considerably further, noting that it suffered denial of service attacks after it shut down a WikiLeaks account “due to a violation of unit PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy.”