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I agree with most of your first three paragraphs, but the second two dealing with the UAV photos I have to rebut.

Note the object sitting on both pipes. ... guess it's width. Now look at he edge of the item. Care to guess how thick it is? ... Under the dust layer it is clearly Yellow. Care to guess what it is and where it came from?

You're implying that it's part of the containment vessel. Let's look at a specific picture for comparison: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/pict10.jpg

My origin is at the upper left. The object you're describing is at X:20%, Y60%. Note the thickness of the cut off pipe at X:70%, Y:30%. This is thin walled stuff. In other photos you can see the twin pipes are at the same level as that raised section, and similarly supported. The containment vessel is very thick and heavy. If that was the dome or another section of the containment flung from #3, it would have destroyed or at least damaged the pipe. My analysis: It's just a chunk of wall, similar to the chunks laying in front of #4.

... look next to the reactor 3 building where the pile of plumbing is lying next to the building. All that plumbing is uniform is size. I'm thinking that is scattered fuel rods from the cooling pond.

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/pict6.jpg - Are you referring to the stuff to the lower-left of the steam, and similar-sized stuff strewn across the top of the turbine hall? I think it's too big to be fuel rods, and too small and mangled to be fuel assemblies. It looks like structural steel from the building.

Lastly, if the stuff flung up in the explosion was fuel rods or containment chunks, we'd be seeing much higher radiation levels in the vicinity of the #3 building. Instead the high levels are centered around #2, where there *was* an explosion inside containment that caused a breach.

There's a third set of pics, one of which shows boxes of batteries in the control room.

There's a third set of pics, one of which shows boxes of batteries in the control room.

France, UK, US and Canada have the right idea - just dont track it. Any issues are in the distant past and shrouded in national security, nation building, export deals, patriotism and commercial secrets.
If the press still keeps on digging, the patients privacy kicks in to stop any questions about epidemiology. Still having issues? Stop offering/teaching so much about epidemiology.
Back to simple industrial toxicology, long term old people get sick... any detectors that spike are faulty and get removed for servicing for a few weeks.
With no hard data its your expert vs nothing.
If your still interested read and watch http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tellurium-129-presence-proof-inadvertent-recriticality-fukushima
"Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1"
http://vimeo.com/21881702
The hard data is been released, the press is just not very good. http://cryptome.org/0003/fukushima-areva.zip
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/attempt-pour-concrete-fukushima-pit-crack-generating-1-sieverthour-fails-new-unmanned-drone-

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp2/daiichi-photos2.htm
includes lots of ground and non-aerial photos.

What I find most disturbing is the lack of information they are telling us.

Have you seen anything in the news about the reactor in #3 blowing the lid off the primary containment vessel?

The Hydrogen explosions at 1 and 4 were the same shape cloud. It was a gas explosion. Number 3 on the other hand was a tall cylinder explosion with a cap of debris that fell out of the top of the cloud. I have not said anything about it yet as I could not confirm my finding, but today they released the high resolution drone photos. Another item is buildings 1 & 4 blew because of a hydrogen explosion. The hydrogen exploded and the resulting pressure blew the buildings apart. Number 3 on the other hand had a hydrogen explosion after the building ruptured. The big flash of the hydrogen fire lit when the building blew. Listen to the explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ It is different.

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm#20%20March

Reactor 1 and 4 have a more traditional shape for a confined gas explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK0-scxGEak&NR=1

Take a very good look at the photos. Locate the primary containment dome in #4. It is bright yellow just like in the drawings. Note it is NOT in the center of the building. Note the roof truss of #4. The roof blew off, but most of the truss is intact. Now look at the elevation in #4 of the yellow containment dome.

Using that as a reference, now look at #3. Look for anything as high as the dome in #4. In the middle is a rubble pile. Note in the corner of the building in a mirror location to #4 look at the circular hole in the truss. It's where a plume of steam is rising. The fire and charred truss is at the other end of the rubble pile, or over the cooling pond. Where there is supposed to be a yellow dome is a steaming hole. Now look at the roof of the turbine hall next to it. Notice a hole in the roof about the right shape and size for that dome lid to have fallen in?

I'm not sure yet if the core blew off it's lid, but the primary containment did blow the top.

The above is my opinion based on my personal examination of the photos in the link above and the noted difference of the explosion of #3.

Due to the radiation levels, the torris may have ruptured resulting in the top blowing out of the primary containment building. This would explain the relatively low amount of radio active parts blown about the area.

Replying to my comment to note, in the pics link in TFS there's a second page of pics (I almost missed it): http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp2/daiichi-photos2.htm

According to Michael Reed, one of TOR's creators, TOR was actually made for US Gov open source intelligence gathering, with the 'public' user base providing cover noise.
Via cryptome:
"The original *QUESTION* posed that led to the
invention of Onion Routing was, "Can we build a system that allows for
bi-directional communications over the Internet where the source and
destination cannot be determined by a mid-point?" The *PURPOSE* was for
DoD / Intelligence usage (open source intelligence gathering, covering
of forward deployed assets, whatever). Not helping dissidents in
repressive countries. Not assisting criminals in covering their
electronic tracks. Not helping bit-torrent users avoid MPAA/RIAA
prosecution. Not giving a 10 year old a way to bypass an anti-porn
filter. Of course, we knew those would be other unavoidable uses for
the technology, but that was immaterial to the problem at hand we were
trying to solve (and if those uses were going to give us more cover
traffic to better hide what we wanted to use the network for, all the
better...I once told a flag officer that much to his chagrin)"

And there lies your choice.
You can follow Lessig's path. Fighting corruption by the rules, trying to create a framework where corruption is harder.
Or you can follow Assange's way and assume that corruption can't be solved but that "off the record" agreements must be made harder.

DigiCash had more promise as a distributed payment system, but Chaum blew the negotiations repeatedly.

The DigiCash patents should be close to expired by now. If it's so great, then go ahead and build it (or someone will in any case).

This might potentially be a solution for spam. To send an email, you need a bitcoin. Bitcoins are easy to get in small quantities, maybe even free, but hard to get in bulk.

As a payment system, I don't see it. DigiCash had more promise as a distributed payment system, but Chaum blew the negotiations repeatedly.

....the photos have been republished in several places, which the Piggipedia author, @3arabawy, has seen fit to broadcast on his Twitter feed. The URLs for these are as follows:

http://anonymiss.imgur.com/
http://ge.tt/4LaxiU0
http://cryptome.org/info/eg-ss/eg-ss-01.htm

The dude behind this is one of the main voiced of the Egyptian revolution. History will not look kindly upon Flickr for their cowardice here.

http://cryptome.org/0003/paypal-evil.htm
"They said they would not unrestrict our account unless we authorized PayPal to withdraw funds from our organization's checking account by default. Our accounting does not allow for this type of direct access by a third party, nor do I trust PayPal as a business entity with this responsibility given their punitive actions against WikiLeaks-an entity not charged with any crime by any government on Earth."

The Support Network repeatedly requested and was refused formal documentation from PayPal describing their policies in this matter.

PayPal is a private company and thus under no legal obligation to provide Courage to Resist, the Bradley Manning Support Network, or anyone else with services. This was something made very clear to the Support Network by PayPal representatives.

"They opted to apply an exceptional hurdle for us to clear in order to continue as a customer, whereas we have clearly provided the legally required information and verification. I think our dealings with PayPal should be a cautionary tale for any possibly controversial not-for-profit entity with a PayPal account," Paterson said, "While there may be no legal obligation to provide services, there is an ethical obligation. By shutting out legitimate nonprofit activity, PayPal shows itself to be morally bankrupt."

Err....I dunno.

I am not saying that America is Bahrain. I am merely using it as an example of how you may be shooting yourself in the foot with a law like that.

Certificates it's what's not for dinner. Especially on my rack
XP graduates to cloned, offline built, air-gap-ed-hood
7 graduates to cyber nanny infested, wrongful accused, business killing, ad network for anyone left with money much longer
NETBSD and LINUX users scratch their heads or asses wondering if consequences mean restrictions on data, speed, ports, commerce, content

Certificates as an idea, vision, and framework is another fiat terrorism (TM) "DHS/TSA" for small business, journalists, media, artists, bands, or people who just want to have a server and host things non profit.

The heck with working on the predictable tcp packet sequence problem
or ipv4 or ipv6 or ipv4/6(mix em and matchem) firewalling right?

You break a big rule in my book, you've make it not fun to be here.

You've made your "problem" into something which could quite literally backfire on everyone, including you and do even worse damage to the economy if it be maliciously foisted on an already hurting, paranoid from legal abuse, bankster, mortgage, bailiout, theft and vague false flag laws, unacceptable unconstitutional tos/aup and spied(1) on rotting unless part of the mix of Orwell 1984 + sky net infrastructure with rapidly worse choices of points of entry. You've also threatened everyone with "consequences" , do you think we are all your slaves. Are you really that insolent. Your likely one of those idiots who don't understand chain of custody and public oversight is the problem with internet voting, not which crypto is best(2). You probably think NFLX should be able to foist it's bandwidth problem on everyone else. But like crypto since the mid 90's not much have changed with all that dark fiber and this retarded-ness we call communications ran by a public hating fcc board who our financial and sometimes very physical life depends on. We are called customer, not US citizen(3). Everything is broken you better wake up. It's past time to start nipping these fascist framework visions in the bud.(4)

1. cryptome.org - Online Spying Guides
2. blackboxvoting.org - (USA) 1/11 - TOWARDS A MORE EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO FIGHTING INTERNET VOTING - by BEV HARRIS
3. I am Not a US Customer, I am a US Citizen

4. The Ben Burnank, Bill Gates, BLS, Corruption, CPI, Credit Crisis, Crude Oil, Federal Reserve, Fractional Reserve Banking, Hyperinflation, Meltdown, National Debt, Quantitative Easing, Recession, recovery, Reserve Currency, Unemployment, World Bank, The Sheeple

Yeah, I should've poked around a bit for a better link:

http://cryptome.org/0001/tm-31-210.htm

William

Yes read http://cryptome.org/0003/nyt-robs-wl.htm
The part about "Even goes so far as to brag the Times publishes documents too, not just editorial gloss of them. Then carefully preens shamelessly about how the Times met repeatedly with US government representatives to vet Wikileaks documents before publication." ie from
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
"Dean Baquet, our Washington bureau chief, gave the White House an early warning on Nov. 19. The following Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, Baquet and two colleagues were invited to a windowless room at the State Department, where they encountered an unsmiling crowd. "
"Before each discussion, our Washington bureau sent over a batch of specific cables that we intended to use in the coming days. They were circulated to regional specialists, who funneled their reactions to a small group at State, who came to our daily conversations with a list of priorities and arguments to back them up."

It is the U.S. Constitution which these officials (more specifically Senators) in the establishment swore an oath to regulate the monetary system. Instead they broke their oath and the banksters (including "the fed" which isn't federal) do it. There is no (D) vs (R) they both fucking did it

The markets (note that this is different than "monetary system" went to crap, because of the liar loans (loaning out $500k to dishwashers), fraudulent mortgage paperwork (wet ink), and the economy is fucked because of these bs free trade agreements, as soon as that started, our jobs went to china for $7 a day labor. There is no trust in the markets, until this is resolved MTM Mark to Market it's called do the math.

The establishment broke their oaths. The establishment now made up of oath breakers, no longer following any oath went ahead and created the DHS which is in direct opposition of the U.S. Constitution. The establishment tried to hide the fact they were breaking their oaths and spying, and when caught, being oath breakers, simply change law. The reality is either the DHS can exist or the U.S.Constitution can, but not both at the same time

It's been on and on like this, and the problem with the slashdot crowd is they won't pop their noses up from "make config" long enough to realize this abuse of electronics and physics is a tool for the oath breaker to continue their tyranny. Electronic voting, electronic spying, tasers, microwave pain weapons. But that's not enough, they have to do it in the electronic financial system, HFT, Net Neutrality (fcc vs telco con game). And now we have false flags like stuxnet to do an "extra" man in the middle attack (nsa already has fios splitters) leading to new establishment agenda like, Internet ID, Internet License, Internet Killswitch, and a boatload of cyber(insert name) counter measure crap which is really to spy more on Americans who ain't done nothing wrong. The nsa has a direct fios tap and still it's not enough. Everyone wants to go down to the closest vault and tap in.

The training manuals coming out are in direct opposition of the US Constitution, with veterans, gun owners, libertarians, galdsten flags, cash instead of plastic as the signs of terrorism. We've seen example time after time all the way back from the unacceptable miac report to the wallmarts, to the bus stations. These are also used as a test to see if you go along with it, boom your hired. If your a soul-less creep who don't care about life or justice or right and wrong your their man (or woman.) You keep rationalizing this is all good, but look around things are going to shit because of it.

With such power from such vast sources and timing the establishment can setup anyone who becomes a problem.

TSA/DHS which is leaving Americans with an "intermittent U.S. Constitution" they are particularly disgusting to me. I even see it in the slashdot posts from some, "well if I have to store logs then they have to buy me a new server" , yeah you dumb shit, they'll get you your new server. you want. Not a problem they'll buy you right up if your the soul-less greedy freak who will assist them to spy.

Then we have corporate owned media. The FCC (remember them? hey get your damn nose out of that kernel driver I told you pay attention) As long as media tows the establishment agenda, they can say the day is night and won't fear the FCC. Wasn't it just last week I heard something about the FCC and expanding authority? Man, they've done such a wonderful job with power and frequency, and you laugh at me for saying, "Hey Wait a Minute." ? I got to tell you your kernel and kernel driver are becoming irrelevant really fast, when people are scared to speak out because of all this shit. The last guy that tried to help the DHS lock down security at an airport was harassed by this corrupt establishment. You idiots better start studying jury nullification and watching the vote be counted, instead of this bullshit left vs right paradigm group think.

If I could mod the original post up I would.

http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/facebook-spy.pdf

Though DHS probably has embedded assets.

but we have no proof the leak wouldn't have happened without Assange.

And we have no proof that the Invisible Pink Unicorn doesn't exist either.

But, I digress.

Assange is many things, but mostly a genius.

He/they created a system (go and check out the Wikileaks mailing list that John Young leaked on Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm) that allowed people to anonymously upload secret information.

Anonymously.

That is, no-one at Wikileaks has any first hand knowledge of who provided the leak.

So, the evidence is that no-one leaked information on this scale prior to Wikileaks.

And no-one has leaked information on this scale to anyone else since Wikileaks.

The only reasonable inference is that the information was leaked because of Wikileaks, and very unlikely that it would have been leaked without it.

USSR was very random. If they needed a few thousand to make up a death quota for an area, it was done.
Germany had the help of IBM tech to sort the population. Germany also had a very good system of letter writing from people who disliked/wanted your job ect.
What the USA is rolling out is fusion centres with the NSA as part of your telco network.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nsa-grsoc/nsa-grsoc.htm
If you fly and phone home, your fair game. Use a set of words ...
The US is also rolling out ""If You See Something, Say Something"" to suburbia, so really its back to random again
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1291648380371.shtm
So you have the Germany tech feel with Soviet like employees to keep an eye on you. Where the fed van will stop next ..

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

Huh - the cryptome stuff is consistant with the original "agenda" published on iq.org long before Wikileaks was formed - or do you have some sort of problem with making large scale conspiracies difficult? Is it the money angle? Are you suggesting Wikileaks should be self-funding? I read the ISSA forums and I'm too polite to try and guess which posts there are yours. As for your multiple posts about the subject on Slashdot... which pseudonym did you use for those?

I ask seriously because you point is unclear. I expect you can summarize it for me. Cheers (without sarcasm)

http://cryptome.org/0002/wired-crime.htm
I think http://cryptome.org/0002/cryptome-hack6/cryptome-hack6.htm
has all the previous parts listed.

http://cryptome.org/0002/wired-crime.htm
I think http://cryptome.org/0002/cryptome-hack6/cryptome-hack6.htm
has all the previous parts listed.

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

Adrian Lamo isnt a journalist, last time I checked.

Check Again
Adrian Lamo is a journalist, threat analyst, and former hacker. His intrusions included Microsoft, The New York Times Co., and Salon.com. He is reachable via e-mail at adrian[at]adrian.org.

Not really. Assange occasionally attempts to appear less radical than he actually is.

Read his paper on goverment as conspiracy. He doesn't really want any large organization to be able to have private communications. That WikiLeaks is largely opaque, authoritarian and secretive is ironic, but doesn't seem to bother him much.

I'm making no judgment as to whether Assange's world view is correct or not, but he's far more complicated than your typical muckraker or whistleblower. It's a bit like living in a William Gibson novel - the hackers are starting to strike back.

both are somehow linked to Project Vigilant - a group that tracks internet users and hands the data over to the Federal Government ("what they essentially are is some sort of vigilante group that collects vast amount of private data about the Internet activities of millions of citizens, processes that data into usable form, and then literally turns it over to the U.S. Government, claiming its motive is to help the Government detect Terrorists and other criminals..")

You correctly quoted from the link. Not your fault that information is incorrect, all though I have to ask myself why Mr Greenwald investigator and journalist is so quick to swallow and endorse their press release as an accurate description. A separate and larger "patriots" group does "collect" data, but mainly it "profiles" and "assesses" individuals and groups, Vigilant(e) is a smaller "active" group. I'd encourage people to form their own conclusions.

Warning:- these are muddied waters, the larger activities represented by this group are far from passive and reactive. At best their targets are the "perceived" enemies of a "stable" US economy, which rightly or wrongly involves the recruitment of players within government (cough DOJ cough) and private industry (cough ISPs cough) - often "coercively".

A couple of links to start:-

• Cryptome
• LaRouche

Now I'm worried that a tin-foil hat *might* be a sensible precaution... ;-p

Wait, who paid his bail? Did he pay it? I'm pretty sure Michael Moorer paid it.

I think point 3 is very pertinent. Your hero worship has clouded your judgment. Plus I'd like to see your apology for a few items where he isn't the choir boy with his money as you honor him to be.

It is going to suck for you when you have your "say it ain't so Joe" moment when you find out he's actually not the messiah and he's only out for himself.

Now that Mr Assange has his own income again wikileaks will release the money they collected for Private Bradley's defence. It's funny how Assange seems to have forgotten about this entirely. Apparently they'd just forgotten to be formal about it, but, assuming they've finally gotten around to it, it appears the money is less than half what was expected/promised.

Yes wikileaks is a good thing, however the focus on embarrassing the US and not anyone else these days does make one wonder about an agenda, and the focus on Assange rather than the work they're doing is starting to split the organisation. Maybe it's running a wiki that turns people messianic, after all Jimmy Wales has gone through the same thing with wikipedia money.

some more details from cryptome

You mean like the privacy of the people who are known as informants?

Do informants actually have a "right to privacy" for their activities? You're arguing that the Stasi informer list shouldn't have been published, because it violates an informants right to privacy?

Thanks for the interesting details of this tech.

But even given the intended operation you have to admit there still might be a bit of unintended operations possible. If there is a preprogrammed code the management server can learn from the processor during the activation process you are not sure this code isn't already on some list before the CPU leaves the Intel factory. When the encrypted SMS arrives with the proper code the CPU has no way of knowing if the source was the management server or some government or hacker. And even when the agreed code is signed by the management server private key (which seems to be the case when I read your description) the CPU can just as well be programmed to also always accept an alternate master key...

And before you try to convince us the NSA would not pull tricks like this consider the fact that backdoors have been added to encryption technology for quite some time. Especially given the fact that you are tying this into the whole disk encryption screams 'exploitable by the government'. And not just able to kill at a distance but more along the lines of being able to retrieve disk encryption keys... full disk encryption is a headache for intelligence agencies and using the largest CPU manufacturer to sneak in a backdoor in would seem like a completely logical action from an intelligence perspective so they can decrypt the drive when they come upon a laptop with this kind of CPU. And what better way of hiding this than by claiming it's a corporate thing that keeps your data safe...

I'm not about to get all paranoid tinfoil hat here, but reasoning with some historic facts it doesn't seem so unlikely. From the intelligence perspective an addition like this would be too great an opportunity to assume they haven't jumped on this.

Is really just part of the feds useful toolkit.
They can look for extra CC's, books, address books, rolodex, business card, photos get noted, hobbies, signs of other crimes..
When they walk out they may have a pw and a whole new area area of inquiries.
But think back to the foreseeable past, most of what was sold on the commercial/telco and NATO market has been weakened in someway. Tempest leaks or design flaws allowed dreamy Enigma like plaintext decrypting or plaintext entry to be collected.
http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-sun.htm hints at the past where many codes would become trivial.
Clean home, clean laptop, clean networking in one life, get another life and be creative for the bursts of chatter back home.
Mix it up and the feds will find it :) The telco network is theirs, end to end, know anything to do with anonymity/codes is a honeypot, if your working with/around the US federal gov, they have the funding to watch.

The following is from Cryptome, link here: http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-amok.htm

Wikileaks Cables Amok

A sends:

In the last days I have been following the release of a bunch of US diplomatic cables from W-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s. All of them were initially released uncensored but as you might know some of them have been removed, others have been partially redacted (a.k.a. censored) without any kind of prior notice.

The people from WL said that they will redact some of the names in order to remove personal identifiable information but in fact they have removed full paragraphs that although they could be a little bit embarrassing for US diplomacy they do not put anybody at risk.

For example:

- There were 13 cables deleted from WL cablegate site (e.g.: #09LONDON1385).

- At least 11 cables were slightly redacted (e.g.: #07PARIS322).

- 138 cables published by Lebanese Al-Akhbar paper but not yet put into WL.

- 33 cables disclosed by the British paper The Guardian but not yet in WL.

I have not seen or read any news regarding this strange change of policy in any media so this is the reason I think you might be interested to know about it and maybe publish it in your site for public scrutiny.

You can check the differences with the uncensored cables at:

* http://leakager742hufco.onion/ (with tor as its a hidden service)

* http://www.mein-parteibuch.org.nyud.net/cablegate/

The NSA and GCHQ usually likes to get in on any new crypto or networking early. From embassy encryption, banking, mobile phone encryption, home computer OS to open source it seems.
Sort of like a 24/7 tempest leak/weak encryption to plain text for the NSA and GCHQ to enjoy.
The historic hint is http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-sun.htm
If they can get into the dev cycle via a patriot, blackmail, bribe, faith or a buy out they will.
The idea that open source/free code would be protected/missed/overlooked could point to the need for some long boring days and nights of older code review.

Not that this has ever happened before, mind you:

Zug, Switzerland. For four decades, the Swiss flag that flies in front of Crypto AG has lured customers from around the world to this company in the lake dis- [words missing] most sensitive diplomatic and military communications value Switzerland's reputation for business secrecy and political neutrality. Some 120 nations have bought their encryption machines here.

But behind that flag, America's National Security Agency hid what may be the intelligence sting of the century. For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents.

The Baltimore Sun, About December 4, 1995, pp. 9-11.

as found in Cryptome

And moreover, he's unaware that for all his leaks, at least as far as government leaks are concerned, it's all for not. What's going to change? Security protocols and the methods by which they select who has access to data, where and when.

No, that is precisely his goal.

Ultimately wikileaks is not about leaking information. It's about fighting conspiracies. Back in 2006 Assange wrote some essays that explain the motivation for the creation of wikileaks. Assange's operational plan is a form of jiu-jitsu.

He has two core assumptions. First is that authoritarian organisations need secrecy to thrive. Second is that secrecy is a barrier to effective communication. He believes that demonstrating leaks to an authoritarian organisation will cause it to increase its secrecy. Pushed far enough, that secrecy makes the organisation cumbersome and inflexible, allowing opponents to easily get inside its OODA loop. The end result is that the organisation must choose between curbing its authoritarian tendencies or collapse.

You may not agree with his assessments but to say he's unaware of the kind of response wikileaks will provoke is just a total misread of the situation. Understandable since so little of the news coverage bothers to do any better, but still totally off the mark.

A spin off directly from wikileaks doesn't exactly seem to lead to the assumption that similar sites will "keep popping up like mushrooms." Talk to me when we have a third player from outside the wikileaks lineage.

Hell... there exists at least one and existed for quite some time cryptome...

Funny thing is: even the quite a long presence, I haven't heard of them until recently, and I only heard of them because of WikiLeaks and Assange (somebody named John Young was foaming a few days ago against Assange and Wikileaks)... I find this a bit (unintendedly) ironic... but, lucky me, cryptome also do have some interesting leaks.

Cryptome is carrying some of the Wikileaks material. You can donate to the site via PayPal - the same PayPal that regards the activities of WIkiLeaks as illegal. Pot - Kettle - Black?

Yes, I recall when Wikileaks was being touted how John Young wrote that the whole thing must be a scam.

Everything John Young has ever said about Wikileaks, he's changed his mind the next thing he writes. It's a concentric series of retcons and "I didn't say that."

http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-wikiing.htm

Many old pics of other http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nytel/nytel-eyeball.htm NY telco hubs ect.
As for Project Express and High Frequency Trading http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/first-nyclondon-cable-in-a-decade-promises-sub-60ms-latency.ars the map shows a 111 8th avenue hibernia network connection.
Somone can do a lot in the 5ms before the closest competitor gets to see the same data :)
Add in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A like splitters and you have a wonderful place to set up in with old friends.

http://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm

And there are the rape charges.

The hypocrisy is immediately evident in how every facet of Wikileaks is secret, as an organization dedicated to transparency.

Aside from the accusations in Sweden, and the fact that endanger the lives of civlians by refuse to redact names, and his behavior on crypto-mailing lists.

http://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm

Cryptome has been up and running since -96 and if anything having Wikileaks show up in -06 has only made them more relevant. This should be a good development, the more targets the harder they will be to take down.

Correct link: MI6 operatives list.

The news reached me just after I finished reading an enlightening (for me) essay on the motivation behind WikiLeaks. In short, it explains, quoting from Assange's previous writings (pdf), that his goal is no less than creating a worldwide environment in which the costs of securing information exchange in a conspiracy, governmental, corporational or any other, are driven so high as to render it uncompetitive as an information processing entity. The increased transparency will have the effect of raising the government accountability and lowering the competitiveness of unethical companies (by raising the reputational costs, see also this Forbes interview). And, as the author of the essay writes: if the diplomats quoted by Le Monde are right that “we will never again be able to practice diplomacy like before,” he's already succeeding.

John Young of Cyprome has claimed for some time that Wikileaks is a CIA front, almost right from the start.

Sure, everyone's paranoid when it comes to the world of intelligence, but still, it is an interesting thought. Selective "leaking" to Wikileaks, which disseminates it to key media outlets ... that would be a fantastic propaganda tool.