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...to take cheater off his account simply because there is evidence of cheating. From @Stepto 's Twitter feed:

We confirmed there were cheated achievements and gave the parent the details. This wasnt a "he played too good" situation at all. https://twitter.com/stepto/status/30451173655838720

This is not the first time NYTimes goes against wikileaks: http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/30359666491920385 They didn't get the cablegate data because of some issues on Iraq data. So I don't think NYTimes is the wikileaks' preferred US outlet

Palin has on multiple occasions demonstrated that she has a profound misunderstanding of the First Amendment. I can respect someone I disagree with, but I can't respect someone who would swear to uphold the Constitution (had she been elected Vice President) yet gets such a critical part of it so fundamentally wrong.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/10/31/palin/index.html

If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/05/14/palin-backs-miss-calif-blasts-liberal-onslaught/

I applaud Donald Trump for standing with Carrie during this time. And I respect Carrie for standing strong and staying true to herself, and for not letting those who disagree with her deny her protection under the nation's First Amendment Rights,

https://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa/status/21534515854

Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")

In theory, only one end needs to authenticate the other.

In practice, the website depends on the client to do a good job of this. So if you're running MS Windows, the Tunisan government can put a trusted root certificate in your computer with the endorsement of Microsoft. So even running https everywhere will not save Facebook from Microsoft.

Try it yourself. If you have access to a Windows machine, visit http://bit.ly/eWYRbA in IE then check your personal cert store for Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique.

If you think this is a big deal, retweet it or spread the word in other ways. I'm at a loss to explain why people aren't realizing the magnitude of this.

Of course, what's even better is that it's a CODE SIGNING cert. ;-) Now that's what I call pwned!

[from what I can tell] ALL the U.S. media outlets skim over or completely ignore world issues (esp like what happened in Tunisia last week). This weekend, Wikileaks tweeted about the NYTimes being a shill for the US government (because NYT didn't ask pressing questions about Quantico treatment of prisoners), and my initial reaction was an eyeroll (there's a difference between incompetence and "shilling"), but I imagine that's how most of the world sees US press.

Problem w/ that is, Americans [voters] are being left somewhat unawares of how we're being represented and handling diplomatic issues (or even what the issues are!). We're being fed [alarmist] stories about the economy and politicians, celebrities, and other crap that the media outlets believe drive up ad revenues, but if we don't have some kind of real world news, so we can hold our reps accountable, the idea of representative democracy fails.

I have a higher opinion of Americans than the news outlets, and wish the mass media would toss in some mid-east stories throughout their "2012 will it be the end" reports. Not every viewer would be interested, sure, and I guess freedom of the press means the press doesn't have to report anything of real value, but the press OUGHT to feel it's somewhat their job to keep Americans informed of worldwide issues.

In addition, as Assange's lawyer earlier condemned the biographies, and no one has their lawyer condemn things that they'll be profiting from, we have it near enough confirmed that, like Wikileaks or Assange or not, no money from this is going anywhere near them.

While the article talks about an 'app' for the iPad, Hugh never wrote about an app. To be more precise he wrote "Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will be available on iPad beginning in March." http://twitter.com/#hughhefner/status/27551318994325504

In later tweets he refers to 'Playboy on iPad', again without the word 'app'.

Based on earlier rumors we will either see a new Magazine store for the iPad (with subscriptions and a different policy) or Hugh is just making headlines by announcing a plain old HTML version optimized for iPad.

I don't think that's what he's referring to.

And while I suspect the GP was merely referring to the technical limitations, the reality is that anyone wanting to roll a custom iOS would have more issues than simply the ability to modify it (without source code, without documentation, with technical measures imposed to make it hard to install, etc), they'd also have legal issues, especially if they wanted to redistribute the results.

I'm running CyanogenMod on my Slide. It's better than the stock ROM from HTC - more up to date and more reliable. I can do this because:

1. While the Slide does include technical measures to make it harder to install an unapproved update, in every other sense there are no technical limitations. HTC has published the source code to the device drivers needed to make the kernel work. The entire source code to the Android system is available to anyone who wants it. The code is relatively well documented, much of which having a heritage of two decades or more of open use.

2. All of the above is covered by one or more free software licenses, making it entirely legal to do these modifications.

3. The carrier genuinely has an open attitude towards such activities, including hosting a forum devoted to helping people root and update the operating systems of their phones. T-Mobile has a positive attitude towards those creating alternative Android distributions.

This is a very different situation to iOS. To put the differences bluntly:

• While both systems contain technical measures preventing access to certain parts of the operating system, there are no technical constraints preventing you from installing your own apps under Android. iOS contains technical measures permitting you to only install apps approved by Apple.
• If you wish to modify the Android operating system, you can obtain complete source code via Google and your phone's manufacturer. iOS does not contain any user modifiable components
• If you wish to distribute your modifications to the Android operating system, you may freely do so. You may not redistribute modified copies of iOS and indeed can expect severe legal repercussions if you so much as try.

The Android world is a very different one from the iOS world, and Samsung's actions, ultimately, may be against the spirit of the system, but in any case are circumvented by the system. If Samsung can't step up to the plate, others will. That's the beauty of an open platform.

He seems to have been active on his twitter until the 20th of October:
http://twitter.com/danchodanchev
thus invalidating the September 9's menace hypothesis.

He may simply have found a new job, and lost interest in updating his blog, or he may be paranoid and is hiding himself, by stopping all his online activities.

Using Twitter is not really the best way to stay discreet and anonymous.

Sony themselves posted the key as part of an unsealed exhibit that is now part of the public record. They're equally incompetent at leagl stuff as they are at security systems.

The Samsung Intercept, at least the one distributed by Virgin Mobile, is going to the the Froyo update soon. So any insinuation that Samsung blocks all android updates is false.

http://twitter.com/virginmobileus/status/24854959556136961#

That is why minitube doesn't work for the moment , and it gives an mp4 file error
anyway i will wait the new release http://twitter.com/#!/flaviotordini/status/12924187333107712

Have you looked into the terms of service of twitter where the user agrees to be governed by US laws?

http://twitter.com/tos

Australian Federal Opposition Leader and extreme right-wing conservative Tony Abbott has been vocally opposed to the construction of Australia's National Broadband Network (a national fibre optic network), despite the fact that this position lost them the federal election last year.

Anyway, he is at it again.. using the floods to score cheap political points - http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/372807/floods_show_need_nbn_rethink_abbott/

And public opinion of this stunt isn't good! http://twitter.com/search#search?q=tony%20abbott%20nbn

From http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rg7W1a3ULmgJ:www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/+http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

Google reCAPTCHA cracked
Written by John P Mello JrgravatarcloseAuthor: John P Mello Jr Name: John P Mello
Email: jpmello@cox.net
Site: http://twitter.com/jpmello
About: John Mello is a freelance writer who has written about business and technical subjects for more than 25 years. He is frequent contributor to the ECT News Network and his work has appeared in a number of periodicals, including Byte magazine, PC World, Computerworld, CIO magazine and the Boston GlobeSee Authors Posts (68) on January 5, 2010

Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King’s reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers.

Researcher Jonathan Wilkins published a paper recently that included an analysis of reCAPTCHA’s security. In automated attacks he conducted against the system, he reported he had an alarming success rate of 17.5 percent.

CAPTCHA–which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart–is a method for foiling automated attacks by spammers on Web sites. Before a Net surfer can perform at a site a task, such as setting up an email account or adding comments to a blog posting, he or she is presented with the image of a word or phrase that has been distressed in some way. The warped image is intended to thwart scanners and optical recognition software programs used to automate the compromising of web sites by spammers. The idea is that humans can read the characters in the image and type them into a form while machines can’t.

Some simple math reveals just how alarming Wilkins’ findings are. The operator of even a modest botnet of 10,000 machines would be perfectly happy with a success rate of 0.01 percent. That would mean 10 new gmail accounts could be created every second or 864,000 new accounts a day from which spam could be launched.

Google counters that Wilkins test targeted an old form of reCAPTCHA from 2008 that’s been changed. “[T]his study does not reflect the effectiveness of reCAPTCHA’s current technology against machine solvers,” a Google spokesperson told The Register. “We’ve found reCAPTCHA to be far more resilient while also striking a good balance with human usability, and we’ve received very positive feedback from customers.”

Wilkins acknowledged that his initial tests were on an older version of reCAPTCHA, but since that time, he has conducted tests on the new images produced by the system and found them to be even weaker than the older ones. In one of his original tests on the system, his success rate was five in 200. When that test was run on the new reCAPTCHA, the rate was 23 in 100.

The major difference between the old and new versions of reCAPTCHA, according to Wilkins, is the use of horizontal lines to obscure the characters in the image. While the use of the lines makes it harder for machines to recognize a reCAPTCHA phrase–although Wilkins asserts the lines can be subverted easily by spammers–it also makes the phrase harder to read by humans, too. New reCAPTCHA images drop the lines but add distortion to the image. They’re easier to read for humans, but, alas, they’re also easier for machines to crack.

Unlike most CAPTCHA systems, Google’s uses images with two words. That’s because Google uses reCAPTCHA for two purposes. Like other CAPTCHA systems, it’s designed to frustrate spammers, bu

I, for one, would like to check out her voorwerp!

http://twitter.com/hannyvanarkel

http://www.hannysvoorwerp.com

That never happened you lying Liberal son of a bitch.

LOL. Sarah sez: You're the lying son of a bitch.

I'd agree were it not for the following http://twitter.com/wikileaks post yesterday: "WARNING all 637,000 @wikileaks followers are a target of US gov subpoena against Twitter, under section 2. B http://is.gd/koZIA" [redirect to PDF of the subpoena hosted on salon.com].

The linked document has no section 2. B

I'd agree were it not for the following http://twitter.com/wikileaks post yesterday: "WARNING all 637,000 @wikileaks followers are a target of US gov subpoena against Twitter, under section 2. B http://is.gd/koZIA" [redirect to PDF of the subpoena hosted on salon.com].

Even when exposed to truth you will still believe otherwise.

she's still got a twitter account, btw

http://twitter.com/eggplantemm

obit here

http://www.mariposagazette.com/news/2010-04-08/Obituaries/Emberly_Carisio.html

the rest can be easily googled

*ouch*

No, actually, it isn't.

People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right.

I think a lot of people buy that crap because they're too gutless to take a stand for what's right.

You have missed a great deal if you think the Left isn't full of violent rhetoric. Forget all the stuff leveled at Bush? Heck, a CBS show literally displayed a picture of Bush with "Snipers Wanted" imposed over it. Look at Bill Ayers, who has at least some relationship with the President of the United States, and is unrepentant of the violent actions of the Weather Underground group he helped found. He has event been quoted as wishing he did more. Look at the violence at G20 conventions or the death threats against people like Ann Coulter. I could go on and on. Check out this page for a large number of links to "Left-wing Eliminationist Rhetoric" http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=ELIMINATIONIST

Take some advice from Media Matters after the Discovery Channel incident. Should be applied to all similar incidents.. "Discovery Channel hostage-taker is the perpetrator of a crime-not liberal, conservative or a chance to score points " http://twitter.com/mmfa/status/22739013962

http://twitter.com/#!/morrildl/status/22845294886518785

http://gothamist.com/2011/01/08/democratic_congresswoman_gabrielle.php

http://twitter.com/Rep_Giffords/status/23785624238563331

Twitter has been ordered to produce

The following customer or subscriber account information for each account associated with Wikileaks; ...

Were I Twitter, I would send them thousands of account records -- Every user that has ever mentioned Wikileaks via Twitter and let them sort it out themselves.

The order said they must produce the information, but did not specify that the info must not be anonymized, or mixed in with thousands of other accounts.

Roger Ebert's response to this: I'd rather be called a Nigger than a Slave.

Nice job walking the line, Ebert! That's easily (improperly!) read as anti-censorship while supporting the move in phrasing; in comparing insults, one would 'rather' be called the less offensive term -- Ebert is saying that, ignoring the censorship issue, the book has more impact using the term slave.

I don't know what to think here. Proper perspective might be glimpsed if it were known what 'injun' will be transformed into. Based solely on nigger -> slave, I tend to support the idea since the former word is connoted with brotherhood in certain circumstances and its roots (brotherhood in bondage) might be mistaken for a measure of exclusivity. This interpretation would serve to reinforce racism rather than to highlight the lasting effects of slavery on this nation. Using the term 'slave' might therefore better address the original intent.

This kind of debate is really valuable in the classroom. If teachers could address this specific issue and then talk about it, the students might learn far more than the book had to offer. If changing the phrasing of the book sparks this kind of debate, it was worth doing.

(2) A partial but simple solution: Do comparisons on volatile variables only.

Hope this has been enlightening!

I'd rather be called a Nigger than a Slave.

Possibly the only profound tweet ever twittered.

Crap.. the link broke... https://twitter.com/#!/ebertchicago/status/22676387810779136

I'd rather be called a Nigger than a Slave.

http://twitter.com/fail0verflow Whoever originally wrote something about "overflowing the bootup NOR flash" needs to be shot (after watching the talk and paying attention)

Having followed the finest Slashdot tradition and only read TFA after posting, it appears that there was truth in my speculation. Fail0verflow, the group that found the keys, posted on twitter that "we only started looking at the ps3 after otheros was killed.". That means they did this in nine months.

When The New York Times ran an entirely appropriate and well reported profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — discussing his personality and his contentious leadership style — Greenwald railed against the newspaper, terming the reporters “Nixonian henchmen.”

Similarly, when Assange complained that journalists were violating his privacy by reporting the details of rape and molestation allegations against him in Sweden, Greenwald agreed, writing: “Simultaneously advocating government transparency and individual privacy isn’t hypocritical or inconsistent; it’s a key for basic liberty.”

With Manning, Greenwald adopts the polar opposite opinions. “Journalists should be about disclosing facts, not protecting anyone.” This dissonance in his views has only grown in the wake of reports that Manning might be offered a plea deal in exchange for testimony against Assange.

I don't know whether or not Wired is guilty or innocent here. But it seems they've got a fair point about Greenwald, and it seems fair to give them the benefit of the doubt.

When The New York Times ran an entirely appropriate and well reported profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — discussing his personality and his contentious leadership style — Greenwald railed against the newspaper, terming the reporters “Nixonian henchmen.”

Similarly, when Assange complained that journalists were violating his privacy by reporting the details of rape and molestation allegations against him in Sweden, Greenwald agreed, writing: “Simultaneously advocating government transparency and individual privacy isn’t hypocritical or inconsistent; it’s a key for basic liberty.”

With Manning, Greenwald adopts the polar opposite opinions. “Journalists should be about disclosing facts, not protecting anyone.” This dissonance in his views has only grown in the wake of reports that Manning might be offered a plea deal in exchange for testimony against Assange.

I don't know whether or not Wired is guilty or innocent here. But it seems they've got a fair point about Greenwald, and it seems fair to give them the benefit of the doubt.

NOOOOO!

"To handle the peak rates of Tweeting, 5000 per minute during the Obama Inauguration, Robey Pointer at Twitter has moved their main message queue from Ruby to Scala for improved performance. He explains the concepts behind the Twitter Kestrel project on his live journal and the more concise 1500 lines of Scala code can be seen as open source project here."

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1008

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/building-on-open-source.html

Starting December 19, 2010, http://dazzlepod.com/cable/ has started to revision control all the released WikiLeaks cables and upcoming cables.

http://wikileaks.ch/ shows only the updated cables. With revision control, you can see the previous revisions of a cable to track its changes, e.g. names being censored?, potentially controversial section removed?, etc.

http://dazzlepod.com/cable/ is a simple and easy to use WikiLeaks cable browser.

Features:
+ Absolutely FREE
+ Cables are revision controlled
+ Search for cables using your entered keywords
+ Access latest cables
+ Access updated cables
+ Access all revisions of a cable
+ In sync with cables from http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html
+ Follow http://twitter.com/dazzlepod to get instant update when new cables are available

The modern-fad "doomsday clock" would perhaps be inspired after the nuclear-war doomday clock, counting how close to implosion Wall St gets. In any case, it's neared midnight a number of times now. People like apocalypse clocks. doomsday clock, US Debt clock, ipv6 countdown clock. Impossible to tell how many fear and how many hope for a "Wall St Doomsday" -- but a clock just counts time.

Thankfully that idea is floating around. Apparently, the co-editor of mashable is interested: http://twitter.com/#!/benparr/status/15569949812592640

Or maybe crowd-fund it via kickstarter.

Reason is libertarian, not conservative or Republican.

From Weigel's twitter feed last night:

"@lovelyladypa I voted for Obama and would like him to be a successful president, actually..."

http://twitter.com/daveweigel

If he quacks like a duck and votes like a duck...

At least the US knows where to find the documents, one of our MP's is still trying to locate them.

Yeah, mate... put in this light, the US intelligence doesn't sound as an oxymoron anymore.

At least the US knows where to find the documents, one of our MP's is still trying to locate them.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/15085511060234240

Yep.

Simple concept yes, but simple to scale? no, simple to manage adding new features? no simple to manage adding 100M new accounts a year?, no Simple to do way over 50 million tweets a day? no In January of this year they were doing 50M tweets a day, but they have added 100M users since then. Just think of how many they are doing now, so yes they need a CEO http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html Plus they have to figure out how to make money on all of this.

Gee... great post!

I've seen the original email message, and to me, at first, seemed very suspicious.

I'm guessing Theo did the right thing in publishing the original email.

Too bad OpenBSD doesn't use a real VC system like GIT :P

BTW: twitter search is http://search.twitter.com/search?q=openbsdgate

Where we can find this: http://twitter.com/hdmoore/status/14923189570248704

Gee... great post!

I've seen the original email message, and to me, at first, seemed very suspicious.

I'm guessing Theo did the right thing in publishing the original email.

Too bad OpenBSD doesn't use a real VC system like GIT :P

BTW: twitter search is http://search.twitter.com/search?q=openbsdgate

Where we can find this: http://twitter.com/hdmoore/status/14923189570248704

It seems that link may have been /.ed. They are doing precisely as you say.

Here is a dump of the information, last I had it.

IRC: irc.freenode.net #openbsd
Twitter: OpenBSDGate

The etherpad (most detailed and up to date):
OPENBSD IPSEC STACK VERIFICATION

Original Email:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

The code:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/ipsec_input.c
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/ipsec_output.c

Misc:

What other software includes the OpenBSD IPSEC implementation?

Not Linux:
Triaging Linux; git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Initial commit 6c55c29fa, Oct 2002, Alexey Kuznetsov
Does not appear to be derived from the above? (checking strings from ipsec_input.c version 1.54.2.3, Oct 2002). Neither copyright information nor comment strings match. Linux's IPSec implementation looks original.
'git log -p --grep=IPSEC' on the above clone shows complete history for the period.

Communications:
IRC: irc.freenode.net #openbsd
Twitter: OpenBSDGate
PublicPad (this document); http://piratenpad.de/condition-beige

Press:

http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/12/14/fbi-accusedipsec-of-decade-old-cryptography-code-conspiracy/
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backd

We have never allowed US citizens or foreign citizens working in the US
to hack on crypto code (Niels Provos used to make trips to Canada to
develop OpenSSH for this reason), so direct interference in the crypto
code is unlikely. It would also be fairly obvious - the crypto code
works as pretty basic block transform API, and there aren't many places
where one could smuggle key bytes out. We always used arcrandom() for
generating random numbers when we needed them, so deliberate biases of
key material, etc would be quite visible.
oored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/elw0x/allegations_regarding_openbsd_ipsec_fbi_backdoors/
http://www.metafilter.com/98547/Subject-Allegations-regarding-OpenBSD-IPSEC

Docs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000621015208/www.netsec.net/gsa.html
https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS35F0040K/GS35F0040K_online.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980101000000-20040101235959*sh_re_sr_1nr_30/http://www.netsec.net/*
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816024729/www.netsec.net/ltr_doj.html

Source Contributors:
Jason: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwright

Possibility #1: (eldragon)
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvs

It seems that link may have been /.ed. They are doing precisely as you say.

Here is a dump of the information, last I had it.

IRC: irc.freenode.net #openbsd
Twitter: OpenBSDGate

The etherpad (most detailed and up to date):
OPENBSD IPSEC STACK VERIFICATION

Original Email:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

The code:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/ipsec_input.c
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/ipsec_output.c

Misc:

What other software includes the OpenBSD IPSEC implementation?

Not Linux:
Triaging Linux; git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Initial commit 6c55c29fa, Oct 2002, Alexey Kuznetsov
Does not appear to be derived from the above? (checking strings from ipsec_input.c version 1.54.2.3, Oct 2002). Neither copyright information nor comment strings match. Linux's IPSec implementation looks original.
'git log -p --grep=IPSEC' on the above clone shows complete history for the period.

Communications:
IRC: irc.freenode.net #openbsd
Twitter: OpenBSDGate
PublicPad (this document); http://piratenpad.de/condition-beige

Press:

http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/12/14/fbi-accusedipsec-of-decade-old-cryptography-code-conspiracy/
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backd

We have never allowed US citizens or foreign citizens working in the US
to hack on crypto code (Niels Provos used to make trips to Canada to
develop OpenSSH for this reason), so direct interference in the crypto
code is unlikely. It would also be fairly obvious - the crypto code
works as pretty basic block transform API, and there aren't many places
where one could smuggle key bytes out. We always used arcrandom() for
generating random numbers when we needed them, so deliberate biases of
key material, etc would be quite visible.
oored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/elw0x/allegations_regarding_openbsd_ipsec_fbi_backdoors/
http://www.metafilter.com/98547/Subject-Allegations-regarding-OpenBSD-IPSEC

Docs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000621015208/www.netsec.net/gsa.html
https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS35F0040K/GS35F0040K_online.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980101000000-20040101235959*sh_re_sr_1nr_30/http://www.netsec.net/*
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816024729/www.netsec.net/ltr_doj.html

Source Contributors:
Jason: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwright

Possibility #1: (eldragon)
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvs

http://twitter.com/julian_ass

Why attack twitter? http://www.twitter.com/wikileaks seems to be working fine, and the explanation at http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/06/why-wont-wikileaks-t.html#comment-958285 for why Wikileaks didn't appear in trending topics makes sense to me. Everyone seems to agree that #cablegate did trend. The issue of why Twitter should be attacked is not mentioned at all in the original article.