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WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study

Posted by timothy on from the tools-for-racking-the-mud dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Whatever Julian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:EFF off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.