The cables are memos containing confidential communications between the embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC.
No, it is not illegal for a person to view the cables on wikileaks.
Read cables from "cablegate" on Kenya. 32 results came out from search within the 1904 released cables from dazzlepod.com/cable; see related link.
On days when WikiLeaks releases new documents (such as November 28, 2010 when the US State Department cables were released) the website experienced a Dos or denial of service attack by various hackers and organizations and basically overloaded the wikileaks server. In some countries (United Arab Emirates, Thailand, China and Australia) WikiLeaks has been blocked before. Recently WikiLeaks changed domain names from wikileaks.org to wikileaks.ch ... try the new domain.
Embassy cables are a formal term for diplomatic messages sent from US embassies to foreign nations. The term comes from a time when messages were sent via submarine communication cables. WikiLeaks published hundreds of US embassy cables on November 28, 2010.
A confidential text-based message exchanged between an embassy or consualte and the parent nation.
Julian assange created wikileaks.
It is a formal term for diplomatic messages between embassies and foreign nations. They are sent over a secure government channel. The term comes from a time when messages were sent via submarine communication cables. WikiLeaks published hundreds of US embassy cables on November 28, 2010.
Julian Assange is the co-founder and director of WikiLeaks.
Wikileaks did not like a joke he made about them.
Julian Assange is the spokesperson and editor in chief for WikiLeaks.
All the WikiLeaks are available on wikileaks.org
No, as far as I know Wikileaks is entirely different from Wikianswers and even Wikipedia.