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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."
Credibility with who? College Sophomore, standing at a lit table in the Student Center? Certainly!
Anybody else? Possibly.
Wikileaks doesn't compete with journalists. Wikileaks is a primary source, it's the long version. Journalism is what takes all that huge information and summarizes it into digestible bits that make it into news articles or on TV. The fact of the matter is that without journalists spreading the news for whatever tidbits journalists think are "sellable" no one in the general populace would have ever even heard of wikileaks.
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