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Wikileaks exercises caution in what it leaks. I highly doubt wikileaks would leak personal information of millions of users. Their aim is to open up governments
by prayag 16y ago
Wikileaks exercises caution in what it leaks. I highly doubt wikileaks would leak personal information of millions of users. Their aim is to open up governments and public agencies, not people's personal lives.
- kenjackson 16y agoChange Wikileaks to 4Chan.
- hugh3 16y agoThat was their story last week. This week their story is "We're going to leak a bunch of folks' Swiss bank account details because some of them might be avoiding taxes!"
- ebaysucks 16y agoYeah, that story confirms my suspicion that Assange is anti-authoritarian rather than just anti-coercion. I think he'll be losing some of his libertarian fans if he publishes information of people who simply want to be more free.
- nroman 16y agoThey didn't redact informants and collaborators names from many of the documents they leaked. I would hardly call that exercising caution. I understand that in some cases redacting names weakens the impact of the leak and its political statement. However, releasing the name of some random informant working on the ground in Iraq has no substantial effect on the impact of the whole leak, but can have an enormous effect on that person's life, especially if he's killed.
- theli0nheart 16y agoAssange asked the US government to specify which names and identities should be anonymized prior to the leak, but the US refused to cooperate.