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Isn't all this theorycrafting a bit overcomplicated? Compare it to the idea that wikileaks is doing what wikileaks has always done in general, and w/r/t US poli
by forgottenpass 10y ago
Isn't all this theorycrafting a bit overcomplicated? Compare it to the idea that wikileaks is doing what wikileaks has always done in general, and w/r/t US politics Hillary simply represents the corrupt establishment (her last name is even Clinton). And wikileaks isn't even choosing the hacking targets (presumably).
- tptacek 10y agoBut sourcing has always been a problem with the Wikileaks model! They can't generate their own info, so they're beholden to the kinds of interests that will exfiltrate huge databases of sensitive information. So far, we've seen that these kinds of interests come in two flavors: * Well-intentioned but rash whistleblowers who relay to Wikileaks troves they can't, simply due to scale, fully vet, and as a result either (a) end up in prison or (b) end up accidentally doxing almost every woman in Turkey. * Russian intelligence. Unless you think the US is going to engage Russia head-on in this "information war" and start feeding Wikileaks dumps from Russia, it simply stands to reason that Wikileaks is going to end up serving an anti-US narrative controlled to a significant extent by foreign intelligence services.