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Maybe he will host his site in China or Iran or North Korea in the future in order to be safe from censorship
I don't think this current witch hunt will stop bad words and deeds from surfacing, actually I guess they will get a lot of donations now. Nor is Assange alone, he has a lot of helpers, who will carry on without him. Those people are idealists and allergic to cover ups, opposition will only motivate them even more.
If it weren't for "climategate" and the leaked emails you'd be paying a pretty high utility bill right now with "crap&trade".
These cables are nothing...this is being done to prevent the NEXT leak..the one about a big US bank. That is the info they do not want leaked.
The leaks about Iraq and Afghanistan were more damaging than these leaks. These are not Pentagon leaks or CIA leaks or FBI leaks..these are Embassy leaks for pete's sake.
While I agree that these latest cables were not nearly as controversial as what has previously been released, there were some good nuggets in there.
There's Hillary Clinton telling ambassadors and diplomats to violate international law by attempting to steal passwords and biometrics from other diplomats. And there is definitive proof that the little barking chihuahua in the Middle East (Israel) effectively tried lying to the US in order to get them to bomb Iran.
It makes me wonder if the government ever heard of the "Read Only" setting that private companies use all the time including my own company. In my job I have access to sensitive information that my company would rather its competitors not get. It is all "read only". I can see it on my company laptop while connected to the company network or wireless VPN but I cannot make a copy of it, print it, download it or even do "print screen" or save it to any device including my own computer. I wonder why the government cannot do likewise.
They are working on it KevK. They said..just a few more years, that's all they need
This is the THIRD leak now..you'd think they'd have jumped on this seeing the Government has millions of employees. Surely someone there has computer security skills.
Learn to investigate. He's wanted because he didn't use a condom during consensual sex. Not using a condom in Sweden during sex is a charge of rape.
It is a little trickier than that. He has charges against him from two different women. For the first, a condom was used but broke. I'm not quite sure how this is a chargeable offense, but I've never lived in Sweden.
For the second women, she says the second time they had sex there was no condom used. She claims she said repeatedly that she didn't want to have sex without a condom, but then they ended up having sex without the condom anyway. The description is a little weird. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. She seems to be claiming they had sex without a condom against her will, but if this is the case then wouldn't technically the sex have been against her will?
They are working on it KevK. They said..just a few more years, that's all they need
This is the THIRD leak now..you'd think they'd have jumped on this seeing the Government has millions of employees. Surely someone there has computer security skills.
I specialize in IT security. The government has recruited me on no less than a dozen occasions in the last 10 years or so. The thing? They offer like 90 grand a year. In the private sector, I make almost double that.
So yeah, they have some security people, but they're no good. They go to DefCON (the hacker convention in Vegas) every year trying to recruit people, and pretty much never do.
It is a little trickier than that. He has charges against him from two different women. For the first, a condom was used but broke. I'm not quite sure how this is a chargeable offense, but I've never lived in Sweden.
For the second women, she says the second time they had sex there was no condom used. She claims she said repeatedly that she didn't want to have sex without a condom, but then they ended up having sex without the condom anyway. The description is a little weird. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. She seems to be claiming they had sex without a condom against her will, but if this is the case then wouldn't technically the sex have been against her will?
If you dig a bit deeper into the backstory of this case, you'll find that both of these women have pretty "questionable" tales as to the night in question. There is also the matter that both of them were seen driving significantly more expensive cars than they previously had just a few short weeks after making their claim.
What I want to know is if this guy can create a file code that is impossible to crack, why can't the government? If all this information is so "top secret," why wasn't it better protected?
Rijndael aka AES was not created by the government. It was created by 2 private Belgian cryptographers and selected by the government to store information up to the top secret level
He's going against the banksters here..the elite. These are the guys that run the global show.
"A note of appreciation from the rich
Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it — you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.
Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us — and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.
Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."
Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening — instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "******s," "Jews," Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.
We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!
Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.
So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" — without even knowing it!"
I specialize in IT security. The government has recruited me on no less than a dozen occasions in the last 10 years or so. The thing? They offer like 90 grand a year. In the private sector, I make almost double that.
So yeah, they have some security people, but they're no good. They go to DefCON (the hacker convention in Vegas) every year trying to recruit people, and pretty much never do.
I've also done work on a government contract. Worst job ever.
Why do they let various groups each do their own thing and then wonder later on why the two systems can't "talk to each other" to get data they both need ???
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