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Wikileaks again

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Following the on going saga of the actions taken against both Wikileaks and Julian Assange personally, he has now been arrested and denied bail despite turning up to court voluntarily and realistically probably not being much of a flight risk. Which does make one wonder about the reasons for such action when serveral people offered surety and to cover the bail. The final charges do seem to potentially be quite serious if one can trust any of the reports one hears both from prior to his actually being charged and subsequently due to the difference in how offences are labelled … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →