For all you lefty WIkileaks supporters...

[mrplunkey]

i don't see how that's much worse than news outlets writing stories about wikileaks and drawing attention to the site.

as a fellow engineer i'm sure you are familiar with root cause analysis. the crux of the problem here is people willing to leak confidential information. If you eliminate that, there is no more problem. Like you said earlier, charge the sources of the leaks with treason. Get serious about keeping government information secure and Wikileaks becomes a lame ass site that if it's lucky gets to post colonel sanders' secret herbs and spices. Going after 3rd parties who publish content is going to achieve almost nothing, because there are a zillion other ways to disseminate stolen information

The only way this can stopped solely at the source is to make the information unavailable. That makes the world a much more dangerous place.

The lesson learned from assange is to never put anything in writing -- a technique adopted by much of corporate America many years ago. As soon as you know you're dealing with a sensitive subject, the emails, vmails and letters have to stop and telephone conversations are exclusively used. The only problem with this approach is it makes corrupt and illegal activities much easier as well. When real disaster strikes, it's much harder to find the real villain. That's assange's ultimate contribution to the world -- making it more dangerous.

 

[PICK3]

One dutch bag to another:

Michael Moore Pledges $20,000 Towards Julian Assange's Bail - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

 

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Julian Assange, chosen as Time Magazine Person of the year by its readers. Mark Z, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish... but Julian had the biggest effect on the world this year. AND the world's best known feminist Naomi Wolf says with Sweden's horrible record on actual rapes, the case against him is clearly driven by politics. She's very offended that they're using "protecting women" as an excuse.

 

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BTW... thanks to WikiLeaks.... today we find out that BP's Gulf Oil spill was not their first blowout apparently caused by a bad cement job. They covered up the previous one in late 2008. Ain't gonna find THAT story on CNN yet...

 

[mrplunkey]

Julian Assange, chosen as Time Magazine Person of the year by its readers. Mark Z, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish... but Julian had the biggest effect on the world this year. AND the world's best known feminist Naomi Wolf says with Sweden's horrible record on actual rapes, the case against him is clearly driven by politics. She's very offended that they're using "protecting women" as an excuse.

Wow... You sound just like kanye!