So… this Wikileaks thing…

[almostwitty]

Ob. disclaimer: My views alone

Wikileaks released a bunch of war logs. Nobody really cared.

Wikileaks released more war logs, essentially stating for the record what everyone suspected. Nobody really cared.

Then Wikileaks released the US diplomatic cable logs, essentially stating what everyone suspected.

Suddenly, domain names, servers and services are being attacked and shutdown on ever-more spurious criteria. Julian Assange is enemy no.1, hunted across Europe and arrested in the UK – and you’d have thought it’d be easy to find an Albino Australian.

It’s interesting how this is the first major real confrontation between a global Internet and a global government system, and the resultant manhunt is from every paranoid thriller that emerges from Hollywood.

It’s also interesting how the world governments didn’t react or kick into gear when they released the US war logs, but did kick in over diplomatic cables.

While wikileaks has revealed interesting things, so far most people have seemingly just shrugged and moved on – and the revelations have caused people to lose their jobs in democratic countries – goodness knows what the effects will be in less “progressive” places.

Mirrored from almost witty.

Comments

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Assange has been arrested on (possibly but I suspect probably not trumped-up) charges of molestation, not anything to do with Wikileaks.

[flyslip.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard, the women who are screaming "rape" are whining retrospectively about the lack of a condom. Or some such.

I really have no idea, but I've been raped for real, and not reported it, but the pendulum seems to have swung so far in the other direction over the past couple of decades, that a lot of women seem to be okay with screaming "OMG RAPE" when they were just too clueless to actually negotiate terms BEFOREHAND. And of course never mind that every so-called "free-minded" government and their goddamn dog want a piece of Julian Assange right now, so (possibly) trumped-up rape charges? WELL, if they can't get him on anything else... RIGHT?

I call bullshit. And if the USA were so fucking precious about their "intelligence" (LMFAOROTFL), then maybe they should have actually put some internal security in place, instead of just granting access to every "secret" "intelligence" communique to everyone bar the fucking janitorial staff all over the goddamn world.

But no. It's so fucking easy to blame the Aussie, and scream about espionage and (laughably) treason, when Julian Assange would have had next to nothing unless people (I suspect with actual US citizenship) had ACTUALLY LEAKED IT TO HIM...

But that's just fucking typical of the USA. Shoot the fucking messenger, and the hell with the fucking source. WHEN THE HELL ARE THOSE RETARDS IN WASHINGTON GOING TO WAKE THE FUCK UP AND SMELL THE INTERNATIONAL COFFEE? I, for once, won't be holding my breath, given the Yanks' propensity for chasing any and every shiny and inconsequential piece of garbage, whilst ignoring the REAL burglar in its backyard. So very shortsightedly American, in so many ways.

[bijziend.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden is laughing his ass off.

[flyslip.livejournal.com]

This too. Because an Australian (former) computer hacker and (paid-up union member) journalist is soooooooooo much worse than people who, you know, actually want to blow people up to prove a point.

But trust the American bureaucracy to miss the fucking point, as always. Shit, why should they stop now? It's been their calling-card for fucking DECADES, after all...

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

You are missing the point.

It's not the diplomatic cables that bother them - it's that he said he was going to release bank records next.

[bijziend.livejournal.com]

This. You don't fuck with the real big boys - the banks.

[bijziend.livejournal.com]

Also, did you see that 4chan is now on this? It's gonna end in bloodshed.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I posted about the 4chan thing about half an hour ago.

[bijziend.livejournal.com]

Nuts, need to refresh more often! :) I can't see Twitter being a huge problem, but PayPal is going to hurt, and hard. Can't wait. :)

[almostwitty]

It's almost as if Wikileaks is *goading* the authorities at this point. "We're gonna do this - see if you can stop us, ha ha ha!"