2012 Anonymous

2012 Anonymous Tube. Duration : 3.70 Mins.


At the time of writing this (June 15, 2010), WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange is being hunted by Pentagon over a possibly massive 260.000 diplomatic cables leak, after ex-'hacker' Adrian Lamo turned the supposed whistleblower to the FBI and ex-'hacker' Kevin Poulsen broke the very 1st rule of journalism on Wired by revealing his name. Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 in hopes of ending the Vietnam War, told MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan that he not only sees a parallel between himself and the person who recently leaked a video of an assault by US forces on Iraqi civilians but also fears for the safety of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who published the video. "What if WikiLeaks was a sort of Wiki-BitTorrent, served by thousands of people around the world running a background process on their computers," mused Edward Benson, a Ph.D. student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "No fundraising needed here, it's all P2P. And if the Wiki is maintained Wikipedia style, then we no longer need to pay for a centralized staff to curate it. Plus, there's no centralized staff to kill or jail. It can be a decentralized, collaborative process." WikiLeaks has started to serve Magnet links, yet the role of the Editor (Julian) is maintained in order to supervise and to assign priorities to what is leaked and what is not. Unfortunately, this puts the role of the Editor in great personal danger and in risk of being ...

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