Perhaps indicating a revival of a Red Scare initiative against Cyperhpunks in connection with promoting Wikileaks panic, three attacks have been published in recent days: 1. Bruce Sterling, 22 December 2010, opens with naming Tim May's writing on BlackNet and more: http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ 2. Philip Pilkington, 21 December 2010, attacks Cryptome by recylcing a Readers Digest smear from 2005: https://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/cryptome-org-weighing- in-on-the-debate-on-freedom-of-information/ 3. Jaron Lanier, 20 December 2010, attacks Tim May, John Gilmore and others: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-hazards-of-nerd-s upremacy-the-case-of-wikileaks/68217/ If the Red Scare is duplicated more of this will likely come as the conspiracy net is spread to round up co-conspirators, fellow travellers, fronts like EFF, EPIC, ACLU, ProPublica and many more. A long list of suspects here: http://cryptome.org/0002/siss.htm A shorter Wikileaks-related suspects and documentation here: http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-series.htm As the campaign heats up it will include deep-pocketed funders, traitors planted inside security agencies, universities and corporations, squeezed informants against the ringleaders, congressional hearings, subpoenas, frightened naming of names, scouring of files for connecting dots at Archive.org, search engines, social media, mail lists, news lists, chat rooms, IMs, email, and the bountiful data collected by corporations, researchers, governments and their contractors who claimed they were merely studying the fantastic growth of empowering digital culture or more sinisterly, preparing to protect the people from anarchist enemies of centralized authoritatives. Now this list predicted this reaction and described how to preposition defenses. Or was that just pretending overthrow of authoritatives? Read the EFF and others' letter to Congress yesterday defending Wikileaks and compare it to similar actions in the 1930s-1950s protesting clamp down on the worldwide Red Menace. Then read Sterling, Pilkington and Lanier more closely. These smart guys know which way the wind is blowing and, as they write, they want no part in the insanity of taking freedom of information too literally. In short, punish Assange, Wikileaks and co-conspirators as a lesson to others that dissidence is "taken very seriously."