'...[the] response that Facebook sent back ... includes text printouts of Markoff's wall posts, photos he uploaded as well as photos he was tagged in, a comprehensive list of friends with their Facebook IDs (which we've redacted), and a long table of login and IP data. This document was publicly released by Boston Police as part of the case file. In other case documents, the police have clearly redacted sensitive information. And while the police were evidently comfortable releasing Markoff's unredacted Facebook subpoena, we weren't. Markoff may be dead, but the very-much-alive friends in his friend list were not subpoenaed, and yet their full names and Facebook ID's were part of the document. So we took the additional step of redacting as much identifying information as we could -- knowing that any redaction we performed would be imperfect, but believing that there's a strong argument for distributing this, not only for its value in illustrating the Markoff case, but as a rare window into the shadowy process by which Facebook deals with law enforcement.' -- Innocent until associated with the guilty.

'WikiLeakers may have to think twice before clicking on that “classified” document. It could be the digital smoking gun that points back at them. Darpa-funded researchers are building a program for “generating and distributing believable misinformation.” The ultimate goal is to plant auto-generated, bogus documents in classified networks and program them to track down intruders’ movements, a military research abstract reveals. “We want to flood adversaries with information that’s bogus, but looks real,” says Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor leading the project. “This will confound and misdirect them.” Under this plan, the decoy docs would undermine hackers’ trust in the integrity of data, make them question whether releasing it in the public domain would be worth it, and force WikiLeakers to do more work verifying their authenticity.'

'The riots are great political theatre, but in our view they are not serious, or not yet. Most of those involved are perfectly sincere – and agonized – over what is taking place, but at the top, history is being manipulated and plans are being set in motion. It is too pat, too perfect. The mainstream media – an entirely controlled apparatus in our view – is bringing us all the sound and fury of these civil conflicts from the riots in Europe to the demands of Occupy Wall Street in America to the soundbites of the Modern Technological Messiah, Julian Assange, on the steps of St. Paul's in Britain. TV, news, even the Internet is ablaze with modern, scripted chaos. There are wars in the Middle East and Africa, a growing (controlled) global protest, the world's remaining pillar of economic stability – China – teeters perilously over a pit of stagflation and recession. There is talk of revolution ... and guillotines. Russia Today, seemingly part of the Hegelian Dialectic after all, brings us rioting in full color over the Internet. All that is left now is to increase the agony while gradually introducing the final structures of globalism as the antidote. It is perfectly possible that the emergent – and unexpected – era of the Internet has thrown the schedule for globalism in disarray. These are in any event dangerous forces the elite toys with. What seems initially controllable and correctly "channeled" can easily spill over the banks and turn into a raging and uncontrollable flood. The stakes have never been higher, not ever in world history.'

'The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named "cables.csv," which is reportedly circulating somewhere on the internet, according to Steffen Kraft, editor of the German paper Der Freitag. Kraft announced last week that his paper had found the file, and easily obtained the password to unlock it. Assange had reportedly given the password for the file to an "external contact" to access the file's contents. With both the file and the password now online, the leak is complete. WikiLeaks responded to the leak on Twitter on Monday by writing: "There has been no 'leak at WikiLeaks'. The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual."' -- Implausible deniability is implausible.

30min documentary -- 'WikiLeaks the dream of an idealist, or a tool to manipulate global politics? Who is the real Julian Assange? He says his dream is a world without secrets. But is that true? Find out in a new XL Report only on RT.'

'At last — at long last — the homemade nitroglycerin in the old cypherpunks blast shack has gone off. -- Crypto guys — (and the cypherpunks were all crypto guys, mostly well-educated, mathematically gifted middle-aged guys in Silicon Valley careers) — are geeks. They’re harmless geeks, they’re not radical politicians or dashing international crime figures. While others stare in awe at Assange’s many otherworldly aspects — his hairstyle, his neatness, his too-precise speech, his post-national life out of a laptop bag — I can recognize him as pure triple-A outsider geek. Man, I know a thousand modern weirdos like that, and every single one of them seems to be on my Twitter stream screaming support for Assange because they can recognize him as a brother and a class ally. They are in holy awe of him because, for the first time, their mostly-imaginary and lastingly resentful underclass has landed a serious blow in a public arena. Julian Assange has hacked a superpower.'

'Mega article on Assange. At first poorly sourced, but good stuff later: http://is.gd/69YodA and http://is.gd/lYYUzD' -- First link to cryptome.org: 'The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange'

'Much of what passes for valid knowledge becomes simply the individual’s unconscious acceptance of the dominant view. Knowledge generated and indoctrinated into each individual now becomes the moral compass that guides their actions. In the age prior to the time of ubiquitous internet communication, the gate was tightly governed. It was like the eye of a needle that very few could get through to participate in unfolding perception. What those in power absolutely fear is a collapse of the projections that guard the system of expert knowledge, which has replaced individual capacity to listen to ones own conscience. They are afraid of people marching side by side with those individuals who refuse to carry the given script and instead create their own and walk through the gate of the future on their own terms. What WikiLeaks has done is lifted up the perception of the masses that up to now has been governed by illegitimate authority of ‘expert’ knowledge.'

'"We have the collective sources, personalities and learning to be, or rather appear to be, the reclusive ubermensch of the 4th estate". ...if WikiLeaks was to ... win support from philanthropic bodies such as the Soros Foundation, the hacker-cypherpunk origin of the inner circle needed to be disguised. "We expect difficult state lashback [sic] unless WikiLeaks can be given a sanctified frame ('centre for human rights, democracy, good government and apple pie press freedom project' vs 'hackers strike again')." The key to WikiLeaks was that its true revolutionary ambitions and its moderate liberal public face would be difficult for opponents to disentangle. Open government and freedom of information were standard liberal values. However, as explained in the theory outlined in "Conspiracy as Governance", they were the values in whose name authoritarian structures would be undermined world-wide, through the drying up of information flows and a paralysing fear of insider leaks.'

'The key to WikiLeaks was that its true revolutionary ambitions and its moderate liberal public face would be difficult for opponents to disentangle. ..."we'll take our torch to all." -- In early April 2010 hardly anyone had heard of Julian Assange. By December he was one of the most famous people on Earth, with very powerful enemies and very passionate friends. A future extradition to the US was almost certain to ignite a vast Left vs Right global cultural war, a kind of 21st-century equivalent of the Dreyfus Affair. Ironically, if that broke out, his staunchest and most eloquent defenders were likely to be people such as John Pilger or Tariq Ali, whom Assange privately had once derided as followers of the "Progressive Commie Socialist" agenda... He would also be championed by millions of "average shy intellectuals" across the western world who had watched on passively as the political and business elites and their spin-masters in the US and beyond plunged Iraq into bloody turmoil...'

'Greenleaks, Enviroleaks, Ruleaks, BrusselsLeaks, Tradeleaks, Balkansleaks, Indoleaks, and Unileaks -- My first reaction to reading about this [HBGary vs Anonymous] story was simple: Gosh, I said to myself. A bunch of documents got leaked to the general public, and then self-organized groups of that public combed through the data and found the stuff that was damning. That looks a lot like what Julian Assange had said WikiLeaks was trying to achieve but which it had given up trying to do when people didn’t step up and respond as they’d hoped. But Assange’s cynicism may have been premature. And it would be deeply ironic if the post-WikiLeaks effect of WikiLeaks was to allow quasi-anarchist organizations like Anonymous to accomplish what the original WikLeaks (in its far more utopian iteration) had despaired of accomplishing, even as they laid the foundations.' -- WikiFlood

'#7. Cryptome does not do what Wikileaks does and it is unfair to both and inaccurate to make that claim. Cryptome is not a leak site and resents being labeled that way for it distorts our purpose to be a library with no desire for publicity. We do not solicit press coverage, send out press releases, hold press conferences, make accusations, brag about our work, plead for funding. We do not attempt to keep our operation secret -- that would be a conflict with our role as a public library. We do not sell information or make deals with the media. We do not claim to be threatened by authorities although we have had visits from them. We do not consider Cryptome to be a journalistic endeavor and do not claim protection as journalists. We call ourselves public scholars... We pay for Cryptome out of our pockets. #9. My critique of Wikileaks -- earliest and latest -- is intended to be constructive and to guard against praising a fledging operation due the weakening effect of excessive praise.'

'Imagine that instead of the many iterations of Wikileaks now appearing to receive and publish documents, that more of the Anonymous-type hacks simply steal and torrent the family jewels of the spies, officials, lobbyists and corporations believing they own the territory in order to show the extent of their secret predations on the public. The digitization of vast archives of government, commercial and non-governmental organizations to facilitate their hegemony provides a bounty to be hacked repeatedly despite attempts to prevent it by vainly inept cybersecurity agencies... The cyber-racket cartel will yell, hit the Internet Switch. Too late, too late. Anonymous controls the switch. Sure, Anonymous can be compromised with sufficient hostile and friendly inducements, but so can the predators, perhaps moreso the latter now revealed to be vulnerable. ...Anonymous and the promise it offers surpasses the Nymous authoritatives of secrecy frantically attempting to ban its greatest threat.'

Dox

'Open and secret information are always united with each being used to increase the value of the other. Open to publicize the product’s availability with alluring samples, then secret distribution to those with capability to pay for exclusive access. Wikileaks is a crafty newcomer to a very old practice and is likely to be screwed for love until able to convert to the gold standard by marrying a rich mate, or more accurately, several mates simultaneously and serially. Julian is inside the mansion being clothed, fed, bedded and feted like a prince after being on the run from hoodlums on his tail, and he looks quite pleased with his concubinage in ankle bondage. The promise of this exalted stature to last several years of litigation and madcap media bloodsucking his droning verbiage must be intoxicating as if a Chaplinesque dictator. OpenLeaks is setting out to do the same marketing of virginity, awaiting proposals for polygamy.'

'Although WikiLeaks has claimed for months that its submission system is down due to a backlog of documents it has no time to process, Daniel Domscheit-Berg writes in Inside WikiLeaks that he and a top WikiLeaks programmer seized the submission system when they defected from the organization last September, along with documents in the system at the time. “This is the first time we’ve told anyone about this,” Domscheit-Berg writes. “Children shouldn’t play with guns,” Domscheit-Berg writes. “That was our argument for removing the submission platform from Julian’s control … We will only return the material to Julian if and when he can prove that he can store the material securely and handle it carefully and responsibly.” ...the current site has no SSL support, Domscheit-Berg warns that anyone who visits the site to read submission instructions could be monitored. “The current system has become a security risk for everyone involved,” he writes.' -- Leaky

'It is no coincidence in our view that one now finds Assange and his WikiLeaks at the center of many recent “historical” events. He is to be subject of a major motion picture and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (shades of Barack Obama). He is being promoted. He is a “special deal.” Transparency works well as a faux-rallying cry for Internet rebels such as Assange because it does not imply a wholesale change in the way that modern societies are built or operate. Governments, according to Assange, are not intrinsically bad—even regulatory democracy itself is tolerable. What is necessary is accountability, provided by far-seeing democratic activists such as himself. With so many of its dominant social themes essentially foundering in the era of the Internet, the powers-that-be may have launched their “blond stranger” promotion without fully vetting the consequences. Ironic is it not? In a somewhat panicked reaction to the Internet, the powers-that-be may have miscalculated.'

'The proposal was quickly developed by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies, after a request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm that currently counts Bank of America as a client. Some of the things mentioned as potential proactive tactics include feeding the fuel between the feuding groups, disinformation, creating messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization, and submitting fake documents to WikiLeaks and then calling out the error. “Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed to not be secure they are done. Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France putting a team together to get access is more straightforward.”' -- HBGary sez anons "intentionally falsified certain data.”

'By becoming a regular NGO, WikiLeaks may still be able to score some scoops but it seems that its real talents lie elsewhere. It has now garnered the unprecedented support of thousands of geeks all around the world – and it would be silly not to capitalise on it. Finding a way to make online information resistant to censorship has always been an objective for WikiLeaks, even though only a secondary one. Given the high profile it has obtained with the geek community – with plenty of coders willing to work for free to help it stay online – what Assange should do is to make it his primary objective. This task looks particularly formidable and worthy after last week's internet shutdown in Egypt. This is an area where the WikiLeaks community can achieve progress relatively quickly, as many of the initiatives underway are technology projects that simply need an injection of new coders – and many of them will jump at the opportunity once Assange blesses it.'

'Greetings HBGary (a computer "security" company), Your recent claims of "infiltrating" Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How's this for attention? You've clearly overlooked something very obvious here: we are everyone and we are no one. If you swing a sword of malice into Anonymous' innards, we will simply engulf it. You cannot break us, you cannot harm us, even though you have clearly tried... You think you've gathered full names and home addresses of the "higher-ups" of Anonymous? You haven't. You think Anonymous has a founder and various co-founders? False. You believe that you can sell the information you've found to the FBI? False. You have blindly charged into the Anonymous hive, a hive from which you've tried to steal honey. Did you think the bees would not defend it? Well here we are. You've angered the hive, and now you are being stung.'

'We’re going through a process of horizontalising of everything, of “small pieces loosely joined”, of “high cohesion and loose coupling”. Platforms are now no longer hierarchical, they’re closer to being independent layers, often of different sizes and shapes. Attempts to implement end-to-end control in such environments are doomed to fail; in essence there is no point in attempting to tighten what is designed as loose coupling, it doesn’t work. Which is why platforms leak. The horizontalising nature of the internet and the web, of the digital age, needs to be understood. Layers must be independent of each other. Where they are not, the joins will come apart. And leakage will happen. Of course, given what happened with Wikileaks, given what happened with Egypt, there will always be attempts to recreate vertically integrated control. And more leakage will happen. Because the internet, and the web, route around obstacles. By design.'

'Richard Maybury: I think Wikileaks is the beginning of what will turn out to be the biggest political development in a thousand years. Or say for the next thousand years. Pretty soon it will be impossible for governments to operate in secrecy and once everybody knows what every government is doing it's going to be a different world. -- Daily Bell: We think the elite is fighting back with false flag operatives. We think Julian Assange might be one. Agree? Richard Maybury: I don't know anything about Mr. Assange personally so I can't really comment on that, but as far as false flag operatives, that has to be a near certainty. Once everybody knows what you are doing your only defense for what you are doing is to spread a bunch of lies so that nobody believes anything. I think that's what governments are probably doing now. They are trying to spread so many lies that no one will believe anything, including the truth.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Assange is a blond stranger come to save the world. -- The power elite, having finally absorbed the message that the Internet is palpably powerful phenomenon has apparently decided to create an entity that can redirect the truth-telling of the Internet into supporting its messaging. By building up Assange, the elite profits from his credibility and co-ops that of the Internet itself. Assange is thus, potentially, a very important person in the scheme of things. Assange is situated at the center of important elite memes: the Internet itself; transparency as a way of making global government more tolerable and even appealing; and the "outsider" as a force for good, remaking centralized authority into an intimate and responsive endeavor. Assange, despite his libertarian musings, seems not to want to reduce the size of government so much as to make it more efficient and viable. The more this narrative unfolds, the more confident we are of this analysis.'

'The Anglo-American power elite has apparently decided to destablize the Middle East in order to create regulatory democracies with an Islamic tinge (an arrogant assumption in my view). The ultimate goal is to butress the war on terror and deliver enhanced authoritarianism to the West – and the Western middle classes that are always the targets of the elite. But as usual, the Internet has apparently upset elite plans. WikiLeaks could have released these cables at any point. They did it yesterday, apparently. It is as if the collective hand of the elite has been forced. Yes, it seems to me that with its plans exposed, Western elites may have decided to take credit for the Middle Eastern uprisings. Perhaps the UK Telegraph became the designated conduit. Why is it a desperate maneuver? Because the average youthful Egyptian or Tunisian is not going to look kindly on the idea that he and his world is being manipulated yet again by ruthless Western powers-that-be.'

'I assume you are prepared to be suspected, ridiculed, smeared, betrayed by "insiders," homes and offices burgled, servers tampered with, ISPs tricked into shutting you down, personal lives lied about, made the butt of comedy, accused of technical incompetence, in cahoots with evildoers, the usual compliments indicating you are moving in the right direction. Beware of praise for it is the most manipulative, self-praise a fatal flaw. I will assume that you will never forget to anonymize participants from each other. Let me know how best to support your absolutely hopeless endeavor as it travels from enthusiasm to embarassment to disaster to calamity to catastrophe to harm maximization to recrimination to crocodile tears of apology to taking a well-paid job with what used to be the enemy. This is not about WL. You will understand that the opening praise is a nasty trick. To test your gullibility. And toughen your skin for far worse. Worst regards, John'

"At electric speed, everything becomes x-ray." -- Electric Age: #1974 End of secrecy #1976 Instantaneous/simultaneous information world #1977 Post-literate generation #1977 Surveillance #1977 Loss of private identity

'...a stranger in a mall or restaurant could photograph you, then go online to profile you. "People will be able to instantaneously find out about you," Calo says. Still, in a world of pervasive sensors, troubling data correlations are cropping up in unanticipated ways. For instance, most consumers are ignorant about how smartphones equipped with GPS location finders routinely "geotag" photos and videos, embedding images with the longitude and latitude of the location shown in the image. Last summer, industrial designer Adam Savage, co-host of the TV show MythBusters, used his iPhone to snap a photo of his Toyota Land Cruiser parked in front of his house, then posted it on Twitter. In doing so, Savage, in effect, publicly disclosed where he lives.

'From human rights to poverty to official corruption, AJTU will fairly evaluate and pursue all leads and content submitted, without geographical, political, cultural, or religious bias. -- Al Jazeera has gone to great lengths to ensure your submissions are kept safe. All materials are encrypted while they are transmitted to us, and they remain encrypted on our servers. Submissions can only be accessed by Al Jazeera Transparency Unit journalists using a secure terminal. Additionally, we highly recommend that you encrypt your files using PGP encryption software with our Public Key. This will guarantee Al Jazeera Transparency Unit will be the only party allowed to view the submitted files. We also recommend that you use the Tor network to add an extra layer of security.'

'I am beginning to wonder if they are at cross-purposes to myself and everyone else who is an advocate of the private property society. Here is a short list of stand-out themes conveyed in the press conference that raised red flags for me: #1. Swiss banking secrecy must end (this was a point-blank, unconditional statement made by one of the various handlers during the press conference) #2. Western government public welfare systems are threatened by tax evasion enabled by bank secrecy; people ask "where is the money?" for these programs and the answer is the wealth has moved offshore to bank secrecy havens (this is a decidedly pro-welfare, statist reason for attacking bank secrecy) ... -- WikiLeaks is sounding less and less like a freedom-oriented outfit and more and more like a bunch of well-intentioned but ultimately gullible and therefore dangerous statist dupes. If they're not an outright fraud and a simple front for the very elites they're supposedly working against.'

'We’ll take that Facebook password, please: It soon got much worse. The Committee to Protect Journalists said its own research found that “the [state-run] Tunisian Internet Agency is harvesting passwords and usernames of bloggers, reporters, political activists and protesters by injecting hidden JavaScript” into many popular site login pages.'

'approx 12,000 more following @wikileaks now than before US Gov started demanding user info.'

'WikiLeaks lost nearly 3,000 followers in the several hours after the announcement. But WikiLeaks Tweeted yesterday: “Too late to unfollow; trick used is to demand the lists, dates and IPs of all who received our Twitter messages.”'

'This blog exists so that people may anonymously post links to peer-reviewed scientific papers that been liberated from behind journal-subscription paywalls.'

"The reason we haven't been shut down is that we're useful to them to see what kind of attention is paid to this material. We think they actually feed us material..." -- "You should know that governments leak more information than all of us put together for their own purposes. They run operations to leak secrets to test their own systems." -- "There are schools to train people like Bradley Manning in doing just that... They actually teach young people how to run these sting operations by leaking information..." -- "If you don't have threats, you don't need the system." -- "If Wikileaks hadn't invented itself – let's assume that it did – it would have been invented." -- "[Wikilkeas] has all the earmarks of [a sting operation]. Some low-level employee was able to access a classified system and he just had this bright idea to take it and give it off to someone." [Who benefits?] "CYBERCOM does; they just got huge funding." -- "Conspiracy theory was invented by the spies."

'One problem is that information in oceanic magnitudes can confuse and confound as easily as it can clarify and empower, even when the information is correct. A sufficiently copious flood of data creates an illusion of omniscience, and that illusion can make you stupid. [Exceptionalism?] Vigilantism has always eroded trust and civility, but what's new online is the sterile imprimatur of a digital ideology that claims to offer automatic betterment. Vigilante information violation is a form of assault that degrades society for everyone. [Define "society"] Anarchy and dictatorship are entwined in eternal resonance. One never exists for long without turning to the other, and then back again. [Evidence?] The only way out is structure, also known as democracy. [Slavery?] We sanction secretive spheres in order to have our civilian sphere. We furthermore structure democracy so that the secretive spheres are contained and accountable to the civilian sphere, though that's not easy.' -- LOL!

'Digital records are the impulses travelling through the nervous systems of dynamic, distributed organisations of all sizes. They are intended, from the beginning, to circulate with ease. Otherwise such organisations would fall apart and dynamism would grind to a halt. The more flexible and distributed organisations become, the more records they need to produce and the faster these need to circulate. Due to their distributed aspect and the pressure for cross-organisational cooperation, it is increasingly difficult to keep records within particular organisations whose boundaries are blurring anyway. People are asked to identify personally with organisations who can either no longer carry historical projects worthy of major sacrifices... This creates the cognitive dissonance that justifies, perhaps even demands, the leaker to violate procedure and actively damage the organisation of which he, or she, has been at some point a well-acculturated member (this is the difference to the spy).'

'The Assange saga is turning into the single-most astonishing event we have ever witnessed. ...we hope of course that Assange is all that he says is. But his story is almost too dramatic for words. It's a trickster story as we've pointed out; or at least it has the hallmarks of one. The trickster is in fact, someone who brings “order out of chaos” – a figure who is not what he appears to be and is a polarizing but magnetic personage. The trickster figure is tens of thousands of years old; it is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, narrative in existence. It has tremendous unconscious resonance for people, whether they realize it or not. The power elite, the Anglo-American axis that orchestrates these dominant social themes, is well aware of the power of such story telling. If the elite is purposefully reducing nation-states to ruin, it will need to offer an alternative. They will need to offer the world a Chosen One.' -- Motoko: "Kuze is becoming extraordinary!"

'...from what might be called the Communications Security Administration (CSA), we can expect a 'no send' list. If you're on the list, you can't send or post messages, and no reasons will be given. They will be arbitrarily restricting your ability to connect with people remotely. Consider also the invasive screening process at airports. Everyone is treated as a potential terrorist, until they pass the invasive screening process. Similarly, every message anyone tries to send will be treated as a 'potential cyber threat', until it passes an invasive 'threat filter'. Google is already deploying such a filter, and calling it a spam filter. Air travel and the Internet have been the 'great global connectors', of people and of ideas. The thrust of 'security' measures has had little to do with terrorism, and everything to do with making 'connection' more and more difficult. WikiLeaks is indeed the 9/11 of the Internet.'

'Could it be that WikiLeaks has finally shoved western civilization beyond Huxley’s dystopian clarion call and into a New Brave New World? It would seem we are at a promising crossroads, where Julian Assange might just escape the fate of John the Savage who in Huxley’s vision, appeared first as a chance for salvation against the ruthless hegemony, but was then forced into a self-loathing exile, ultimate submission, then death. Assange seems poised to avoid this fate, as he is willing to fight rather than run—and he has help, from lawyers and wealthy backers and like-minded supporters throughout the world. But are they yet a match for today’s Power Elite, with its mindless worker bees, ideological goons, demagogues and parasites, all trying to “kill” Julian Assange? To the power structure, the alternative is loss of control. The alternative, or so they say, is anarchy. That is why the elite is so comfortable calling Julian Assange an “anarchist,” whether they know what it means or not.'

'How will governmental representatives from North America, Europe and the Middle East react to having their dirty laundry leaked? Is it all just an insidious Blue Beam Psi-Ops plot hypnotically seeded by MK Ultra, the Rhodes Scholars and the TriLateral Commission? Will the world ever be the same again? Join your affable host Robert Foster, as he executes a rhyme inquisition on some of the key players in the Wiki-saga. It's diplomatic Rhym-aggedon...'

'[Tyler Kent] was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution. He was convinced that Germany should be allowed to destroy both Communist Russia and the Jews. And America should not get in the way of that being allowed to happen. Looking back, most people now feel that Daniel Ellsberg was right in 1971 because the Vietnam War had become a horrible disaster that needed exposing. Today, we are not sure of Bradley Manning’s motives (and it hasn't been proven that he is the source of the leak), but again there is a general feeling that it was good thing because the cables have exposed an empty nihilism at the heart of America’s foreign policy. But the perspective the Tyler Kent story brings is the realisation that diplomatic leaks are not automatically a good thing. It just depends on who is using them. And why.'

'While the Hegelian Dialectic is a great society molding tool, it has one logical flaw: At certain times of great social stress the elite has to readjust the dialectic to include arguments that it had dealt with previously but which are reappearing. What this means practically is that it has to reintroduce spokespeople to represent the side of the argument that it has already left behind. If society in some fashion has reignited a debate that the elite believed was already doused, then the elite is a position of re-endorsing perspectives that it had intentionally done away with. This is what is happening now. What the elite may have failed to grasp is that the control mechanisms of the 20th century are not configuring the conversation in the desired manner in the 21st. ...the Internet is a process not an episode. The Anglo-American axis is a linear enterprise with a single focus, apparently: world government. But linear solutions are not going to work in the Internet era.'

'Dear friends, Following the example of the whistleblowers site Wikileaks we opened this site to promote transparency and fight the nexus of organized crime and political corruption in the Balkan states. We are deeply convinced that we're not alone in this battle. There are plenty of people out there that want to change the Balkans for good and are ready to take on the challenge. We're offering them a hand. If you have any confidential documents related to political, criminal or financial topics and you want to share them with the press in a secure, anonymous way, you can use our secured and encrypted upload server. We will review the documents and publish them after checking the information.'

'He's not doing it to give to uncover the lies and corruption of the of the U.S. Government – that's the byproduct. That this will force institutions and departments to wall off and not communicate with one another – that's the primary goal. That's why Assange doesn't care whether the cables are salacious or revealing, only that there be a lot of them, leaked slowly over time – to make people too nervous to work. His goal isn't to tell you what's in the truck but to stop trucking. If people know their secrets might be leaked, they'll be reluctant to put their secrets in a truck. Eventually, they will simply stop trucking. When they stop trucking, they go out of business. Will it work? I doubt it: individual human beings (today) assume they are able to control when and how other people perceive them... If the government can't control the cargo or the trucks, it will try to control the roads. Since it can't, it will get private sector industry to do so.'

'Is the continued authoritarianism of the elite as regards its failing memes actually a dominant social theme of itself – a promotion that constitutes one side of a new dialectic? Seen from this perspective, one side is the (deliberately imposed) failure of nation-states economically, militarily and politically; on the other side is hypothetically a vision-in-the-making of a more trusting global world order – one of transparency and resolute reasonableness (perhaps led by a Julian Assange-type movement). If over time this observation proves out, it will mark a decisive shift in elite tactics, as we do not believe that such a dialectic was contemplated even a decade ago. The elite does adapt to circumstances... Alternatively, as we have suggested above, there is no further strategy, only the continued unraveling of elite memes, an increased reliance on authoritarianism to invoke more centralized world governance and, as a result, an increasingly pathological dysfunction.'

'The Wau upcoming release on WL donations will be merely a limited hang-out to test public gullibility. Then more if there is an outcry of disbelief, and then a bit more to see if that will calm the crowd, but never a total disclosure of sufficient magnitude that will initiate a criminal investigation of fraud, extortion, money laundering, bribery, threats -- ... -- as Assange clearly stated was his goal at the beginning of WL. Who else was behind the scam remains to be revealed. ...so-called non-profits are used to launder money and earn a cut (generous donation, paid as expenses, legal fees or hard-to-trace bags of cash...) for doing so. There is obviously a profit-sharing arrangement (publicity to attact donations) between Wikileaks and the media making boodles of money from the daringly scandalous "publication of classified information," always a big moneymaker above and below public view. Leaks were invented for that with evermore secrets to feed the stream.'

'This is a classified message from Anonymous. Mass-publication is strictly recommended. We are now moving forward to phase two of our war on disinformation-terror, introducing: Operation LeakSpin.'

'To improve the quality of the reports, we have chosen to introduce a concept of 'crowd-journalism' as a subform of crowdsourcing. -- This is Operation Leakspin. We believe that all the information provided by the leaked cables should be out in the open for the public to read, discuss, and most of all, understand. We will use as much manpower as possible to make the information found in the cables available to the public. We will speed up the process of uncovering, we will release facts that the media didn’t speak about, and we will summarize the diplomatic leaks into chunks that everybody can understand. The war against censorship should be fought, not only by attacking businesses facilitating it but by actively releasing all the information that can be released, to all the people it can be released to. We are against censorship, and this is how we prove it. This is what Operation Leakspin is about.'

JA: 'Who is the actual audience of the material that we release? Is it the general public? Is it actually the organization that it comes from? The sort of dissenters of that organization? The whole organization can become incredibly paranoid. If it is a closed secretive organization and information starts leaking out, it can become incredibly paranoid about who is doing some of this on the inside. No one trust insides anymore in the organization, they stop communication, with each other, they don’t trust their telephone lines, they don’t trust their computers. It can not think anymore as a group or as an organization. It can no longer out think its competitors. [...they fall in on themselves] ....they are no longer competitive as an organization compared to all those organizations that are more open than their opponents. So the power of these organizations start to shrink. And the market gap is then taken up by the more open organization that does not have the problem of secrecy.'

JA: 'If you control the present, you control history and then you control all the decisions that are made based on history. What I said before is that political parties, philosophies, all limited by what is our intellectual heritage. What is the historical record. If you control the historical record, you are in control, you control what decisions can be made. If you do not know about something, you can not make an accurate decision. So that is extremely worrying, that in fact the Internet is the easiest thing in the world to control. -- ...people have been censored, and they do not reveal that they are censored. The reason that they do not reveal that they are censored is because it reveals to the readership that it has been been betrayed. So the censorship is being self censored. -- We are going to get harmonization. Question is; is it going to be the walls of China, is it going to be the Swedish press freedom act? Is it going to be an Internet full of black lists?'

JA: 'We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left it is about understanding. Before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on. How does the world actually work. How do human civilisation and institutions actually work. What are they doing? Because, any remedy must be based on what is actually happening in practice. Because, if it is not based on what is actually happening it is based on some kind of fantasy. And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding. So, we say, to some degree all political ideologies are currently bankrupt. Because they do not have the raw ingredient they need to address the world. The raw ingredient to understand what is actually happening.'

'Amazon's decision to abandon WikiLeaks sends out a clear message: you can publish what you like – as long as it meets with the government's approval -- As far as the law of contract is concerned, Amazon can do what it likes. But this isn't just about contracts any more. "While Amazon was within its legal rights," MacKinnon warns, "the company has nonetheless sent a clear signal to its users: if you engage in controversial speech that some individual members of the US government don't like… Amazon is going to dump you at the first sign of trouble."' -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.

'As a former intelligence officer, I'm struck by a delicious irony in the situation we now find ourselves in with Wikileaks: Cables have been published by Wikileaks, apparently classified U.S. State Department reporting; the U.S. government hasn't commented on their authenticity, either to admit or deny... Really, there's a lot of "we don't know," or, worse, "we don't know what we don't know," with respect to authentication of documents and provenance. And so, a new concern... fakes. Fakes intended to produce reaction--in financial markets, in commerce more broadly, in politics, etc.--and fairly easily passed off as authentic in the current environment of "no comment" and source suppression. So, we're in the odd position that we're at risk of victimization by criminal fraud that only intelligence agency verification of provenance could really solve. But I very much doubt that they would do that ... And even if they did, would they actually be believed?' -- WikiFlood

"You thought he was your guy," the senior man said quietly. "But maybe he was in the mix all along." The junior man looked startled. "OK. Or maybe he's gone off the reservation." "He's sure getting news coverage. One article every two minutes at its height. That doesn't happen to everybody. Has to be ... arranged. So perhaps plans have changed. Maybe the idea is to admit a lot more now. And to build this guy up as the other side of the Hegelian dialectic. The trick is to win over those who don't believe. You have to appeal to the ones who DISTRUST the new order of things." "So someone like him—" the junior man said, glancing sideways. "Persecuted - Jailed." "Sure, he becomes the guy, the chosen one." "Someone who turns the Internet upside down—even gives us the rationale to crack down if we need to." "Exactly," the senior man said. "The other half of the dialectic." "I'm not sure I believe it," the junior man said. "That's pretty devious, but also obvious." "Hm-mm—just a thought."'

Lists potential leaks @ 07:14 -- !!!

'The pressure on WikiLeaks is increasing. DN.se reveals that several key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers. The goal: to leak sensitive information to the public. The new project, “Openleaks,” has been under way for some time and will be launched Monday. -- Unlike WikiLeaks, Openleaks will not receive and publish information directly for the public eye. Instead, other organizations will access the Openleaks system and in turn, present their audience with the material. Documents will be processed and published by various collaborating organizations.' -- http://www.openleaks.org

'An extensive search of the WikiLeaks database by the Guardian by date, name and keyword failed to locate any of the incendiary allegations. It suggests this is the first case of WikiLeaks being exploited for propaganda purposes. The controversial claims, published in four Pakistani national papers, were credited to the Online Agency, an Islamabad-based news service that has frequently run pro-army stories in the past. No journalist is bylined. Shaheen Sehbai, group editor at the News, described the story as "agencies' copy" and said he would investigate its origins. -- Noting that the story was bylined to "agencies" – a term that in Pakistan means both a news agency and a spy outfit – the blogger Cafe Pyala asked: "How stupid do the 'Agencies' really think Pakistanis are?"'

'Efforts to take down Wikileaks have proven futile, thanks to mirror sites. Meanwhile, Assange has been arrested in the UK on rape charges. He has vowed to release more documents in a 'nuclear' option if arrested or killed.'

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'Diversification: Not Without Its Problems: If you think for a moment, you'll realize that this rapid growth does create some potential problems with trust — when you click through to one of the myriad wikileak-look-alike sites out there, which ones are "real?" They all look pretty familiar, and share the same content at first glance. But there's no mechanism in place to allow you to know that you're looking at an unaltered, reasonably real-time mirroring of the official wikileaks.org website (which is, of course, no longer available for comparison). Is that incredible cable about the existence of alien bodies in New Mexico real, or is it a joke? The torrents don't suffer from this problem, because they are signed, and the WikiLeaks public key was distributed long ago. But when I visit, to pick a random example from the WikiLeaks mirror page, nepaliwikileaks.org, am I really reading the Real Deal? For that matter, which of the dozens of official WikiLeaks sites are the Real Deal?'

'The inner processes of statecraft have never been so completely exposed as they have been in the last week. The mythology of power – that leaders are somehow more substantial, their concerns more elevated and lofty than us mere mortals, who must not question their motives – that mythology has been definitively busted. ...the failures of Wikileaks provide the blueprint for the systems which will follow it, and which will permanently leave the state and its actors neutered. Everything is different now. Everything feels more authentic. We can choose to embrace this authenticity, and use it to construct a new system of relations, one which does not rely on secrets and lies. A week ago that would have sounded utopian, now it’s just facing facts. I’m hopeful. For the first time in my life I see the possibility for change on a scale beyond the personal. Assange has brought out the radical hiding inside me, the one always afraid to show his face. I think I’m not alone.'

'That's where the heartbeats come in. As the primary system releases a key, it stops sending and responding to the heartbeats, which triggers timers in the other systems, and they begin releasing their keys every 24, 48, or 72 hours. It would be like a series of political time bombs located all over the Earth, with no way to find them. ...the trigger doesn't even need to be a manual step. There could be code out there parsing Twitter feeds, Google News feeds, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post looking for specific keywords and balancing that against the news saturation of a story containing those keywords. Once a threshold is eclipsed, the key release process begins. There very well could be a few lines of Perl out there looking for "Julian Assange," "arrested," "state department," "trial," "bail," and so forth that has already started the process as you read these words -- ...very terrifying from the point of view of the U.S. State Department.'

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "The nation state is becoming much more cosmetic." blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

'"Leaking is inherently an anti-authoritarian act. It is inherently an anarchist act," Assange says.' -- Cool story, bro.

'...it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students... – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive... There is a delicious irony in the fact that it is now the so-called liberal democracies that are clamouring to shut WikiLeaks down. ...when, finally, the veil of secrecy is lifted, their reflex reaction is to kill the messenger.' -- Democracy: The God That Failed

'"Before they're finished, he could the most famous and heroic person in the world. Nothing will stick, or nothing big, even if he does go to jail for a while. And before he does, he'll release that insurance package of his. So who cares if he wanted to get laid? He's just going to look persecuted, like he's stood up to the most powerful bullies on earth. When the nation-states implode he'll be the most important person left standing. A war or two later, and people will look for leadership ... They'll virtually be begging for someone like him. He could lead the way to ... to ... " "Yes, yes, of course" the senior man said. "A kind of new world order." "His goal is to make closed societies more open," the younger man said emphatically. "People misunderstand his message. He doesn't want to do away with government, even big government. He just wants to make it better. He's playing a part, and we've got everyone watching. It's incredible. All over the world.'

'Dominant Social Theme: This fascinating man, Julian Assange, has thought of everything. He is the proverbial "Trickster [hero] who serves as a transformer who creates order out of chaos." -- If Assange is authentic, he is using the Internet in a heroic fashion to make increasingly authoritarian, Western states less feasible; if he is not authentic, he is still accomplishing some good by making government bureaucracies nervous. But we must add that if Assange's persona and work are indeed a promotional ploy, then this is certainly one of the most important dominant social themes of the 21st century. Assange, were he providing an elaborate kind of disinformation, is smack in the middle of the Trickster narrative. We are like wide-eyed children gathered nightly about the flickering flames. We lean forward, straining to catch the utterances of our sages. The Trickster speaks and we listen. Trickster explains; we internalize. We yearn to believe in the magic of these mystical narratives.'

'About 5,070,000 results.' -- Plague, Flood, Famine or War?

'ShtickiLeaks? RT @wikileaks Cablegate: Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built himself a boat.' -- Uh-huh

'For all its championing of transparency, secret-sharing website Wikileaks.org is more secretive than almost any media organization. You can help us shed some light on Wikileaks by submitting your tips and documents to: leaks@wikileakileaks.org. Anonymity guaranteed. We will process this data using the highly-scientific criteria of “does it look legit?” and post it here with commentary. (More info at Gawker.)' -- Whose responsible this?

'Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 208 sites (updated 2010-12-05 19:43 GMT)' -- A challenger appears

'The comparison between the Gutenberg press and today's Internet is a point we constantly drive home (as readers and Bell feedbackers know well). It was technology itself, specifically the Gutenberg press, that shattered the Dark Ages and brought about the Renaissance, etc. One could even argue that the formation of the Illuminati (a Jesuit-inspired group) was in a sense created to take back what had been lost. It was intended to reassert, secretly, the degraded power of the elites. The parallels remain strong in our view. Utilize the Gutenberg press as a kind of historical touchstone and interpretation of modern events becomes easier. We would not be surprised, for instance, if Julian Assange has some sort of relationship to Western intelligence agencies. The Venetians seem to have encouraged Martin Luther. Likewise, we are not surprised by the angry reaction to Assange's efforts. Just as the elites lost control of Martin Luther (in our view) so they may be losing control of Assange.'

Scenario: 'From an unknown location, Assange gives interviews explaining the immorality of the banking sector generally – and explaining how the banking sector cooperated with Wall Street to ruin Americans' hopes and dreams. When asked about his thoughts regarding a solution, he blurts out: "Oversight. These people simply cannot be trusted to monitor themselves. The whole financial sector – it's all about self-interest and greed. These people are pigs." People don't believe in regulation, in our view, with quite the same feverishness. This is a problem for money power that depends on regulation to increase the opportunities for mercantilism. Hypothetically, someone like Assange is the answer. Let Assange begin to attack the private sector (or what passes for the private sector, especially in the US) with vigor, and more regulation may soon be justified. Pelosi: "...it is what the American people want. And you know ... we couldn't have done it without Julian Assange and WikiLeaks!"

'Does Assange, for all his apparent cynicism, not get it? Rather than focus on the mercantilist intrigues of the Anglosphere, which uses the levers of government to advance its own private interests, Assange focuses attention on the government itself... For now these leaks seem to: ridicule diplomats and leaders outside the US; show that the US is not an all-powerful global entity but a paper tiger that cannot even track down Assange; show that the Internet is being employed by "perverts" like Assange to ruin the credibility of the [US's] ability to protect US citizens from harm; illustrate clearly a need to go to war with Iran; proffer evidence of China's perfidy in attacking US military/Internet facilities; make the point that US and European mainstream media organizations are "where the action is" when it comes to .. revelations of the US military-industrial complex. None of this is bad for the US as we see it, or Assange's intelligence handlers, if that is indeed what is going on.'

'...beware of imitators; not all is what it seems to be!'

'One minute, Iraq is building nuclear weapons and threatening the region with SCUD missiles, the next it is having to turn to “Iranian experts” to build pipe bombs. Has any nation ever suffered such a case of collective amnesia in the area of weapons technology before? There is a more insidious aspect to Wikleaks. Through representing itself as “anti-war” and “public spirited,” it carries forward a globalist agenda, promoting war, promoting regional strife, coincidentally all directly tied to Israel’s “hit list,” the nations Israel openly advocates someone else destroys. One could easily describe Wikileaks as a Mossad PsyOp. -- We have just received reports of Julian Assange fleeing Pentagon death squads. We are told he has virtually disappeared off the face of the planet. We also have a schedule of public appearances and interviews for Assange, who will mysteriously re-materialize when needed. Ah, to have powers such as those.'

'The documents seem to paint a picture that very much favours official U.S. positions on the Iraq war. -- Another factor that makes this “leak” highly suspect is that the Times, a newspaper that played a leading role in validating the illegal invasion of Iraq and is well known for its pro Zionist policy, was one of “few” media outlets that was given “early” access to these “leaked” documents. This meant that the Times was able to weave a narrative around the leaked documents that was then picked up by all the major networks. The fact that the supposedly damaging leaks are in fact bolstering American accusations against Iran while minimizing American complicity in Iraqi deaths leads some to believe that the leaks are in fact engineered by the Pentagon to either discredit Wikileaks, or are in conjunction with Wikileaks which is a U.S. government outfit.' -- Sockpuppetry?