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Considering Wikileaks

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Wikileaks has today released what is reportedly a fairly obvious list of facilities that the US considers to be of strategic importance. Which to me raises the question of what purpose the leak serves. Wikileaks presents itself as serving public interest, but what public interest is there in releasing the sort of list that anyone who was interested in could probably produce on their own? As observed over at Harry’s place it’s not exactly a major security issue, but it’s not exactly helpful – either for the security forces or on the grounds of public interest. With some past leaks … Continue reading →

Court of protection striking again

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Anna Raccoon is highlighting the plight of Stephen Neary a 20 year old man with Autism who’s been wrenched from the care of his Father and is rapidly vanishing into the darkness that is the “care” of the court of protection. Go read the full article and then sign the petition to have him returned to his family. If you’re wondering what this has to do with you consider that he’s being held under legislation that allows people to be deprived of their liberty for their “own good” but doesn’t consider that to be “locking them up”. Currently you have … Continue reading →

No I’m wikileaks

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When fitwatch was taken down I commented that the powers that be should have gone after the DNS provider as that would be harder to fix, and so it has come to pass that the DNS for wikileaks has been “confiscated”. So via facebook it seems someone on twitter has suggested that everyone who has their own domain name should add their own entry for wikileaks. The DNS addresses for wikileaks seem to be quite in a state of flux though it seems they have got a new IP address after being kicked off the Amazon cloud. So if you … Continue reading →