wikileaks friday links

No commentary here just a few links. May be maimed asks “what has sex to do with the first world infowar against Wikeileaks?” (If you don’t follow any other links on this page read this article) Predictably some involved in the DDOS attacks have been getting arrested Wikileaks forks as people get fed up with Mr Assange’s ego 00

Wikileaks again

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

Distributing social networking

A while back I kicked in some money to fund the Diaspora project which was aimed at producing a distributed open source, privacy aware secure social networking platform , to replace the likes of Facebook. Outside of the states intrusion into our lives, the readiness with which people give up information to the likes of Google and Facebook (where the users data is the product) concerns me, not least because it provides a single point for governments to concentrate their power. Why bother bugging every ISP when 90% of the population are putting everything you want to know on a … Continue reading