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WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study
itwbennett writes "WikiLeaks has launched a new submissions platform, along with a study of the global trade in surveillance products. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told press conference attendees in London that all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users in the crowd were 'screwed.' 'The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right now to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all of those products,' Assange said."
for profit journalism has been corrupted so badly by the money and trying to make really rich people even richer that I no longer see them as journalists.
The one thing Assange is accomplishing that the EFF (from my perspective anyway) has failed to do is get people talking about these issues. Not geeks on slashdot, but your every day guy. To seriously fight back against erroding privacy, you need a huge mass of people to take a stand, and the problem has always been that most people just don't care.
He may be an attention seeking asshole, but I think we kinda need that.
From your first sentence I thought you were going to point out that the problem with privacy is that you have to be a computer security expert to achieve it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Funny how law enforcement officers were able to do their jobs before mass surveillance technologies became available. You know, back in the days where privacy was guaranteed by the technical limitations of law enforcement? Before wiretapping, before CALEA, before the crypto wars, back when privacy rights were actually respected in free societies, the police were still able to do their jobs.
Law enforcement agencies are more powerful today than at any other point in human history. Why are we not talking about reducing that power?
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