Surprise , surprise : WikiLeaks - relate headlines stay to detonate at the ending of the calendar week . Most compelling ? The old guard hackers of 2600 cartridge clip condemning Anon kiddies , a Homeland Security employee protesting governing access bans , and American spy charges tower over Assange .
2600 vs. Anonymous
If there ’s anyone who knows hacking , it ’s the crew behind 2600 : The Hacker Quarterly . And not just because it ’s in their name . 2600 is the Jedi Council of hacking — the wise establishment . They are antithetic to the pimply - faced script kiddie stereotype that hacker has taken on today . They hack on principle . They hack well . They ’ve been hacking for a prospicient prison term . So when they speak out against the loosely-4Chan organized Anonymous attacks , it reverberate clamorously .
2600 publisheda statement of condemnation , saying the week ’s DDoS attacks have done more to harm the WikiLeaks cause than help it : “ This will play flop into the hands of those who wish to paint us all as threat and clamp down on exemption of speech and impose all variety of new limitation on the Internet , not to remark the fact that the precise same types of attacks can be used on ‘ us ’ as well as ‘ them . ' ” A fair point . The general public seldom mobilise behind a DDoS squelch of the mention card caller they go to — even if ( or particularly if ) they do n’t know what the hell a DDoS is . “ It sure enough does not help Wikileaks to be associated with such immature and loutish activities any more than it helps the cyberpunk community of interests , ” 2600 ’s statement continues . In other words : tiddler , stop acting like such kids .
Homeland Security Employee Says Gov Is Hurting Itself Through Censorship
An anonymous ( no relation back ) employee at the Department of Homeland Security wants you to be intimate that his employer is ache itself . And you . Much like theLibrary of Congress ’ self - censorship , the tout says DHS is only hampering its own missionthrough WikiLeaks quelling . “ My grandmother would be permit to get to the cables , but not me . This seems ludicrous , ” they begin . But looking square compare to your gran is the least of it :
Part of making informed sound judgement about what a extraneous governing or drawing card will do or think about something is based on an understanding and analysis of what information has last into their own deliberative processes . If foreign government activity worker know about something in the Wikileaks documents , which distinctly originate with the U.S. , then they will sure enough ( and jolly ) arrogate that their US counterparts will know about it too , include the staffer . If we do n’t , they will assume that we simply do not care , are too arrogant , unintelligent or negligent to find and read the material , or are so insignificant that we ’ve been advisedly left out of the entropy loop .
DHS Person has a breaker point . admittance is power , period . We want the people responsible for our guard to have as much access as possible . Suppression based on unreasoning precept alone is nothing but an intercontinental ballistic missile to the foot .
Assange’s Lawyer Says US Spy Charges on the Way
The position for Julian Assange — already shut up up — could be getting worse . The only affair more perilous than Swedish Brassica napus charges?American spying charges . Assange ’s lawyer says US indictment charges could make it at any point , potentially immobilize Julian under the Espionage Act . Bad news . Whether extradition is on anyone ’s thinker remains to be seen .
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