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I'm not sure I agree with you. Yes, classified information will continue to leak, as it always has. But WikiLeaks, at least to my knowledge, is deeply wrapped
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you.
Yes, classified information will continue to leak, as it always has.
But WikiLeaks, at least to my knowledge, is deeply wrapped up with Assange, and it is not clear (to me, at least) how it would function in his absence. In the words of this article (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-on-wikileaks/ http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-...), WikiLeaks is essentially a "Single Person Organization".
- cookiecaper 16y agoWith all this hoopla, Assange and Wikileaks will serve as an inspiration and martyr to others who will create sites for similar purposes. I'd even consider creating one myself if I had the resources. As for the content hosted by Wikileaks itself, thousands of mirrors and torrents of that have been going up since the fervor over the cables. I wouldn't worry too much about that. I think the real worry should be that Assange is about to get black-bagged.
- seabee 16y agoSimilar sites exist already e.g. Cryptome. It's just a matter of getting information to a source that will publicise it, and whether others have the chops to go as far as Wikileaks, even risking events like this.
- yuvadam 16y agoActually, I think Assange did a pretty god job of making it look like a one-man-operation when it is positively clear there are many more skillful people involved in WikiLeaks. Assange might take the fall, but the means nothing of the rest of the operation.
- blasdel 16y agoWhat evidence is there of skillful people helping out? All I see is total technical incompetence: https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikileak/ https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil... Wikileaks: It's not a wiki, and you can't leak anything through it