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I disagree to a point.
Yes, there is a need for some secrecy, but if we're embarassed by it when it comes to light or are acting in the opposite way of what we say, we're hypocrites and need to be called on it.
I disagree to a point.
Yes, there is a need for some secrecy, but if we're embarassed by it when it comes to light or are acting in the opposite way of what we say, we're hypocrites and need to be called on it.
What's this "we" stuff? I could be wrong, but I thought you didn't even live in the US?
And please, name one country that doesn't have private policies for their own self-interest that might be seen publicly in an unfavorable light.
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That's a good question. Here are a couple of more:
1. Why is Wikileaks still operating?
2. How do our government officials know what's about to be leaked? Does Wiki give them a heads up or what? Could it all be a disinformation campaign?
It is still operating because the CIA wants it to operate. If they did not, it would be gone in less than a minute. The Dept of Justice can kill any website it wants and has done so to many of them. See: Homeland Security seizes domain names - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
So knowing that the government has the POWER to shut down any site it wants, why does it not shut this one down??? The answer is obviously that the site is there for the purpose of misinformation by the CIA. While the American shepple might believe what the papers say, anybody with a brain knows better!
No documents had been posted on WikiLeaks, which said via Twitter earlier Sunday that it was under cyber attack, when five newspapers - the New York Times, the Guardian in England, Le Monde in France, Der Spiegel in Germany and El Pais in Spain - put details from the leaked documents on their websites.
Berlin, Nov 29 (DPA) An apparent hacker attack crashed the Wikileaks website Sunday, just as 250,000 leaked US diplomatic despatches were being made public, but news media sites carrying edited versions of the cables remained operational.
The Wikileaks Iraq and Afghan War Diaries domain was brought down by a method known as distributed denial of service (DDoS), in which a huge number of computers repeatedly demand web pages from the server, shutting out ordinary human users and causing the server to jam.
DDoS is just a temporary means to prevent the leaking, as I have no doubt they will dump the data from another server. Although it would be interesting to know just which computers and IP addresses are being used during this attack. Can't help but chuckle thinking that the government is using spyware infected citizen computers to act as zombies flooding the server.
~ mom ~ my world of warcraft connection is really slow, did dad pay the ISP bill this month?
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