The Hacker News - Security in a Serious way WikiLeaks, a Postscript Add to that the three or four documentaries on the WikiLeaks adventure, the dozen books — including, weirdly, Assange’s unauthorized autobiography — and a couple speculative Hollywood projects, in which I have a twofold interest. (1. The very slight possibility that I might make some money for my small piece of the story. 2. The exceedingly remote chance that a director will take up my wife’s brilliant idea that Assange be played by Tilda Swinton.) It’s amazing they keep inviting me to these things, since I’m a bit of a spoilsport. My consistent answer to the ponderous question of how WikiLeaks transformed our world has been: really, not all that much. It was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transparency. Bart: “How ya doin’, Mr. Julian: “That’s my personal information, and you have no right to know about it.” Bada-bing. For good reason.
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects LeakDirectory FOODMATTERS® | Natural Health & Nutrition | FOODMATTERS® Why WikiLeaks Changes Everything by Christian Caryl WikiLeaks changes everything. We can act as if the old standards of journalism still apply to the Internet, but WikiLeaks shows why this is wishful thinking. On November 28 the Internet organization started posting examples from a cache of 251,287 formerly secret US diplomatic cables. The few thousand journalists in this country who regularly track the State Department’s doings would have needed a couple of centuries to wheedle out this volume of information by traditional methods; the linkage of disparate government computer networks (a well-meaning response to the compartmentalization of data in the pre–September 11 period) apparently allowed one disgruntled Army private to pull it off in a few moments. As WikiLeaks itself boasts, this is “the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain.” The scale is unprecedented. was not breaching secrecy for its own sake, unlike the WikiLeakers of today; he was looking to defeat a specific government policy.
Well Done Stuff | Amazing ideas | WellDoneStuff.Com discovers the innovation of human minds across the world. Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked Last weekend, rather than read stories about the US diplomatic cables that Wikileaks has released, I decided to read them directly myself. In doing so, I better understood why no one — certainly not the US State Department — is going to shove those cables back into the darkness. Finding Wikileaks My first step was to go to the Wikileaks site — which meant, as it does for many people, doing a Google search to find it. I discovered that Google wasn’t listing the site in its new location. Bing was, so I found it that way. Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website The story also explains that while finding the main Wikileaks site might be tough, it exists in many different locations. Cables, Meet Distributed Torrents When I arrived, there was no way to actually browse the cables. (NOTE: There IS a way to browse them, as has been pointed out to me in the comments below. I followed to the main post, entitled “Cable Viewer,” which at the bottom of the page had a download link:
Galactic Federation of Light. THE REUNION. A social network - Ascension to cosmic light. Extraterrestrials , Galactic beings and angels. Derrick Ashong: The Truth About Transparency - Why Wikileaks Is Bad for All of Us Last night while waiting for some friends to arrive for a long-overdue hangout, I checked in to the NY Times and ran headfirst into this article on the latest diplomatic dish from Wikileaks. As a brand-new HuffPo blogger I planned this morning to write my first post about sunshine, puppies & jelly-donuts -- the usual things I wake up thinking about on Mondays. But after reading what one witty reporter described as "TMZ for the Diplomatic set," I had to kick things off with a comment on the news of the day. There is a difference between holding government accountable for its decisions and holding government officials hostage to their words. With this release I am questioning both the value and motives of WikiLeaks itself. But is that really what's happening here? Yet that ability to both give and solicit candid assessments of people and circumstances is a prerequisite to doing the work of diplomacy. There is a distinction between truth tellers and high tech gossip-peddlers.