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US Congressman Announces Plans To Probe Wikileaks

Posted by kdawson on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

eldavojohn writes "Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is calling for a probe into Wikileaks with regard to the recent publication of half a million 9/11 pager messages. He has announced that he plans to have his Washington staff begin a preliminary investigation because Wikileaks' action 'raises security issues.' A word of caution: Congressman King has been known to make inflammatory and unpopular statements."

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  1. Re:"Raises security issues"? by Rogerborg · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Let me translate for you: the "interception" here was by the government. The "security issue" is that somebody in the government leaked that info, or (less likely) that it was swiped by someone outside the government. The real "issue" isn't that the info was leaked, its just that it revealed that the government has it.

    The problem isn't that the government is unaware that pager (and intartubes) communication is insecure, it's that the people are now aware of it.

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  2. Re:"Raises security issues"? by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know that Occam is cutting himself in his grave right now, don't you? Along the wrists.

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  3. Re:"Raises security issues"? by Kidbro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public.
    4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).

    So, that would be everybody? Any particular reason why you chose to explicitly mandate the same rule twice, for two equally large, arbitrarily chosen subsets of the population, or is it just some weird sexist tradition of yours?

    I like how you love my freedom by wanting to force me to carry a pound of metal around whenever I leave my home, by the way.

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  4. Re:"Raises security issues"? by coaxial · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It is true that anything can be used as a weapon, but we've had times where guns were pervasive, name Ye Olde West, and it simply wasn't that safe. People carried guns, because the law simply didn't exist there, and even then there was stringent gun laws in some towns, including no pistols allowed.

    A recent study that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun. I haven't read the article, and obviously there's some demographics issues that need to determined. For instance, how often do the shooting victims have a history of crime, and so on. (e.g. to control for bad drug deals and the like), so I'll put this up to a "maybe."

    But at the same time, I think some criminal I saw on Gangland or something that said, "If I think they have a gun, I'm going to shoot them first, then rob them."

    But violent crime is at an all time low, it's just not worth it.

    And this is coming from someone that grew up in the boondocks with the county sheriff being at least 30 minutes away. (No. We never owned a gun.)