Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked

An anonymous reader writes "Three information security consultancies with links to US spy agencies cooked up a dirty tricks campaign late last year to destroy Wikileaks by exploiting its perceived weaknesses, reads a presentation released by the whistleblowers' (pdf) organization that it claimed to be from the conspirators. Consultants at US defense contractors Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGary proposed to lawyers for a desperate Bank of America an alliance that would work to discredit the whistleblowers' website using a divide and conquer approach. Since the plan was hatched, disgruntled volunteers mentioned in the PDF broke away from Wikileaks, financial institutions withdrew services, [Jacob ] Appelbaum was harassed by the US government, and Amazon denied service to Wikileaks' website."

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Re:Gandhi

[east coast]

As much as I respect Gandhi, I wouldn't take this bit of wisdom as an absolute.

His fight was a much different cause in the nature of defined sides, lines and goals. A war of information can not be as easily defined and the goals in this case are so numerous and with so many different outcomes that I really can't see anyone claiming victory conclusively. I guess that means all involved will claim some kind of victory but even in that case most of them will be wrong.