WIKILEAKS IS OBAMA’S 9/11
Dec. 13th, 2010 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAt least if you ask John Bolton, who – like Marc “WikiLeaks Is War” Thiessen – thinks there’s nothing wrong with WikiLeaks that a room full of cyberwarriors couldn’t fix.
Because as we all know, the Internet is a bunch of electrons flowing through a series of tubes.
Well, never mind. When it comes to sensible foreign policy, we all know about ol’ John, who’s always said there’s no problem that can’t be solved with disproportionate violence. Besides, the point of the article wasn’t so much to propose a realistic way to deal with WikiLeaks as it was to find a way to blame Obama for it.
While we’re on WikiLeaks (again), a couple more links worth passing on:
1. A good critique of WikiLeaks by someone who doesn’t resort to the ridiculous “WikiLeaks is al Qaeda/WikiLeaks is attacking America” meme.
In essence: WikiLeaks is doing more to destroy govt transparancy than to encourage it, because it will simply encourage the govt to improve its security and make it even harder for whistleblowers to have access to documents. Which is probably true.
2. Meanwhile, if yr actually more interested in the actual contents of the leaks than the drama over Assange and WikiLeaks itself, go here.
And that ought to do it for WikiLeaks posts. Today.
Leaky,
This is dF
Finally, the Pentagon's cyber-warriors need target practice in this new form of combat, and they could long ago have practised by obliterating WikiLeaks' electrons. Had we acted after the first release in July, there might not have been subsequent leaks, and lives and critical interests would have been protected.
Because as we all know, the Internet is a bunch of electrons flowing through a series of tubes.
Well, never mind. When it comes to sensible foreign policy, we all know about ol’ John, who’s always said there’s no problem that can’t be solved with disproportionate violence. Besides, the point of the article wasn’t so much to propose a realistic way to deal with WikiLeaks as it was to find a way to blame Obama for it.
While we’re on WikiLeaks (again), a couple more links worth passing on:
1. A good critique of WikiLeaks by someone who doesn’t resort to the ridiculous “WikiLeaks is al Qaeda/WikiLeaks is attacking America” meme.
In essence: WikiLeaks is doing more to destroy govt transparancy than to encourage it, because it will simply encourage the govt to improve its security and make it even harder for whistleblowers to have access to documents. Which is probably true.
2. Meanwhile, if yr actually more interested in the actual contents of the leaks than the drama over Assange and WikiLeaks itself, go here.
And that ought to do it for WikiLeaks posts. Today.
Leaky,
This is dF
