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Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks
An anonymous reader writes "Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, explains why he feels it is right to encourage the leaking of secret information. He maintains that the more money an organisation spends on trying to conceal information, the more good it is likely to do if leaked. For Assange, leaked intelligence reveals the true state of governments, their human rights abuses, and their activities, it's what the 'history of journalism is.' On the media's role in making information available to the public, Assange maintains that 'the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information [classified documents] than the rest of the world press combined.'"
from the balls-of-steel dept.
Surely that should be 'balls of steal'.
HE should reveal the location of all US nukes and their launch codes... because those are kept secret and cost a lot of money.
Be quiet and get back to work, citizen. The government knows what's best for you.
I like you thinking! So by having more information we have a less complete picture. Then by having less information we have a more complete picture. Wow, you should go talk to those MPEG guys an explain your compression technique...
We'd rather vote on American Idol than in a presidential election.
I hate American Idol as much as the last slashdotter, but let's be fair to the couch potatoes here.
At least voting on Idol has some chance of actually accomplishing something.