Wikileaks

[BigDestiny]

Here's the thing about that supposed list of critical infrastructure.

Terrorists don't go after high-value infrastructure.

Terrorists go after A) easily accessible targets that B) cause terror. It's in the name.

Some mine in Canada is not a high-value target for them. They go after A) public locations where B) people are gathered so that they can C) inspire terror and D) cause us to take steps that negatively impact the lives of ordinary citizens.

I would be about a billion times more worried about suicide bombers boarding a crowded bus of christmas shoppers in New York, or the subway getting blasted, or a plane getting brought down, because those things inspire FEAR in the population, and then the (expensive but mostly useless) security measures we implement drain the economy. What's more likely, they go after a transatlantic cable in Al Qaida nuclear submarine, or someone walks into a shopping mall with a bomb?

I will agree that it's useless for wikileaks to release a cable like that, truth and justice and open government would not have been harmed in any way if they'd kept that one to themselves. But neither is it a shopping list for terrorists, they're busy figuring out what the next best thing is they can send UPS.

A good point. I feel much better about this leak now.

 

[fetaby]

It pisses me off that the hacker group (which associates with the sociopathic, populist and Guy Fawkes masks-buying Anonymous movement) is ruining the businesses of smaller companies and private persons by attacking bank and payment services.

The price you pay when you accept capitalism...

 

[Corny]

uh .. those "cyber attacks" are just another media-hysteria. they attack the websites ..

anyway .. bearboi maybe this helps you understand what this is about:

http://imgur.com/a/80HLI

or this:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/...ign=55e061fcf7-12_912_9_2010&utm_medium=email

 

[metta]

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[SLOPPYSECONDS]

uh .. those "cyber attacks" are just another media-hysteria. they attack the websites ..

anyway .. bearboi maybe this helps you understand what this is about:

http://imgur.com/a/80HLI

or this:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/...ign=55e061fcf7-12_912_9_2010&utm_medium=email

not say nothin but yeah



ans add

so what da game folks in powers great ins countrys playin? cause usin da latest fad of terroist aint singin sweet shit eva

methinks lot folk of many countrys flags no like be da dice of da few piss heads males no more

thankyou

ooh yeah it no question thing cause worlds of these folks leakys all time ans it putrid

world media do real serivce ta life fa once not ya egos ya usless morons

thankyou again



make fairys real happy millions a toons learn be not

 

[metta]

WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-shell-nigeria-spying

 

[goldenmoth]

Using that logic, the next time my neighbour forgets to lock his front door I’ll walk in, borrow a bunch of his stuff (maybe even very personal stuff) and display it to the whole world on his front lawn.

I’m just helping him realize his security flaws, right? Nothing bad about that. It's the same thing, really... providing that his sex toys could directly cause the deaths of many innocent people.

That's not really the same sort of thing. Governments are supposed to be open to the public, thats the only way you can keep them honest. Really the main reason Assange is being dealt with so severly is that the Americans are worried he would reveal something really incriminating.

 

[CGHJ]

Feminist Naomi Wolf had this to say about Interpol tracking down JA:

Dear Interpol:

As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating.

I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the alleged victims' complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women's apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, 'reading stories about himself online' in the cab.

Both alleged victims are also upset that he began dating a second woman while still being in a relationship with the first. (Of course, as a feminist, I am also pleased that the alleged victims are using feminist-inspired rhetoric and law to assuage what appears to be personal injured feelings. That's what our brave suffragette foremothers intended!).

Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone -- there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately. I also have firsthand information that John Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, went to a stag party -- with strippers! -- that his girlfriend wanted him to skip, and that Mark Levinson in Corvallis, Oregon, did not notice that his girlfriend got a really cute new haircut -- even though it was THREE INCHES SHORTER.

Terrorists. Go get 'em, Interpol!

Yours gratefully,

Naomi Wolf