great stuff; one comment: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:

... But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power.. .. The U.S. Government's obsession with destroying WikiLeaks has been well-documented. And because the U.S. Government is free to break the law without any constraints, oversight or accountability, so, too, are its "private partners" able to act lawlessly.

only partly true. were it entirely true we'd have some cypherpunk corpses laying about... ;) [ to my knowledge they've only annoyed and inconvenienced with disk imaging and impromptu interrogations... ]