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How Did Wikileaks Do It?
grassy_knoll writes "Related to the Wikileaks video recently released and discussed here, the NY Times reports: 'Somehow — it will not say how — WikiLeaks found the necessary computer time to decrypt a graphic video, released Monday, of a United States Army assault in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters. The video has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube, and has been replayed hundreds of times in television news reports.'
The article is light on details; what encryption algorithm was used? Was this a brute force attack? Did someone pass the decryption keys to Wikileaks along with the video? Something else?"
How is this insightful? How is it patriotic to provide the video, and unpatriotic to provide the keys to let them view it? It doesn't make sense.
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Or is it something else? The NY Times,regardless of the hype of it being a "liberal" (you can stop LOLing now) paper, has always ever been tied to the ruling class whether in the U.S. or abroad. I'm sure of my opinion that if this had gone to them first, the Times would have contacted the Pentagon first and been only too glad to bury the story at their behest. Thank goodness for organizations like Wikileaks.
Way to try and justify the existence of a professional group of mass murderers. Seems to me we need to practice what we preach if we are ever to obtain lasting peace in this world.
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These guys are going to be tomorrow's homeless vets
The 'homeless vets' thing has been blown way out of proportion. Most of the 'vets' you see on the street are bums with an angle. The only thing they know about the service is what they've seen on the movies.
These guys - and tens of thousands of others - are going to be just what their peers were after coming back from Kuwait, Vietnam, Bosnia, Korea and the Pacific. Business leaders, professors, bus drivers, technicians. Quiet men who don't talk a lot about what they did but know their own value and get things done.
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep better at night.
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The legitimacy has been decided by the fact that no one cares anymore. We want it over. If you think he committed some kind of crime, go to the courts, not the forums.
Lt Watada is a true hero. You are not alone in your thinking, even if only army-junk has mod points right now.
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And being unarmed, as the pilot said they were, does make them a non-combatant. But hay we are team America, we kill who ever the fuck we like.
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