Wikileaks Saga Reveals Governments' Hypocrisy, Deep Fear of Internet

[Tyler Durden]

Isn't it the other way around? We won the war, but battles still rage.

Even Lieberman's call to Amazon to shut down Wikileaks is archaic and merely
punative: the documents were already out, shutting down Wikileaks
did...nothing. And I see no way for similar actions to be prevented in the
future.

Tim May is cackling from his grave.

Seems Assange already announced some kind of dead-man protocol, though the way
the news is describing it, the "256 bit code" will be released if something
happens to him. I'm thinking it would be far better (in addition) for the
"nuclear" dump to automatically spooge if he does not check in at some point.

-TD



> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:43:34 -0600
> From: measl at mfn.org
> To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: Re: Wikileaks Saga Reveals Governments' Hypocrisy, Deep Fear of
Internet
>
> "We seem to be approaching something of a "perfect storm" of events, where
> the technology and policies of the Internet are colliding head-on with
> many traditional sensibilities of government."
>
> Ahhh... An Instant-Replay of the early 90's crypto wars: we didn't win the
> war, just the first few battles.
>
> //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