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Maybe you guys can enlighten me. Who leaked the info on the international cables?
If the info was pirated then I will just laugh. Anyone "dumb" enough to try and use Windoze as a secure platform should not be disappointed with pirated information. Sadly to say our government uses microsoft. And this is a leaking bitch all by itself.
Roamy, what system you use doesnt matter since all systems will leak sooner or later.
Howver regarding the WL documents. They have not been retrieved via hacking/pirating but rather that soembody who had access to them have handed them over to WL.
read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
I listened to the last part of Democracy Now! and they seemed to say that Bradley Manning did so because a number of months ago he predicted that the diplomatic leaks that would eventually come out were going to be a huge embarrassment for the US and other countries.
And this is pretty much all the leaks are — embarrassing. Certainly not security-endangering. There is a lot of pomposity and paranoia that surrounds the keeping of classified/confidential information out of the public domain. Much of it has little to do with security and more to do with avoiding embarrassment.
Depending on who you listen to Wikileaks are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11861458
- psychological warfare against Iran[/*:m:2ssnb484]
- "reckless" and put the lives of diplomats at risk.[/*:m:2ssnb484]
- a threat to democratic authority[/*:m:2ssnb484]
- a terrorist organisation[/*:m:2ssnb484]
It also provides an insight to how much pressure is placed on one administration/government by another and how they are resisted, The Iranian Nuclear programme being a case in point... I commend the revelation that the USA has not bowed to pressure from some quarters to strike at Iran, despite the influence they yield.
A lot of what was published is the kind of stuff I would have thought went on anyway, this just confirms it... of course only a tiny fraction of the alleged 250,000 intercepted cables have been published.
The Wikileaks files were downloaded by a US enlisted soldier that either had access, or figured out how to get access to the data. He turned the data over to Wikileaks. The soldier has been arrested but has not been put on trial yet. I can easily see where some of these leaks could have rather severe implications, especially at the local or national levels. It is one thing to suspect that something is going on but it becomes an entirely different matter once confirmed in print.
Amongst other things, al-Qaeda will become larger, stronger, and more powerful once their potential recruits learn the big Arab names behind their financing and that certain governments won't crack down on them out of fear of reprisal.
It's not going to be good and it will have a terrible effect.
Did I miss something when looking through the documents? I don't remember seeing anything about how this rag tag organization is going to become larger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondo
Me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooper_S
Again, I very much agree. It doesn't take Wikileaks for us to know that Angela Merkel is 'risk-averse', for instance!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooper_S
Again, I'd say that they should be able to work this out for themselves without documents being leaked, no matter how secret.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondo