On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Tyler Durden wrote:
Fuck 'em. We won, plain and simple. And what is the persecution of Assange but some sort of revenge from a society that has, all of a sudden, woken up to the reality of the global internet? Not only is this cat out of the bag, but an identical cat is out of the bag in practically every country on earth.
And as amusing as Sterling can be to listen to, if he thinks BlackNet didn't happen then he has to be high: BlackNet has practically swallowed the internet and it poops out free files all over the place. No doubt too there's all sorts of anonymous transactions flowing in there.
Soon, the Pundits will be asking what diplomacy looks like in a world where big secrets can't be kept.
Jeff? You there Jeff??? //Alif -- "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech