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Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament?
An anonymous reader writes "Wired reports that the chat logs between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange that were used as evidence in Manning's trial have made it onto the web, at least briefly. One of those logs contained something very interesting on page 4, which was picked up on by the News of Iceland, which reports, '"Jesus Christ. I think that we have recordings of all phone calls to and from the Icelandic parliament during the past four months". This text can be found in documents that the US military published on its website and is said to be part of the conversations between Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. According to the documents, Assange claims to have phone call recordings from Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, but this is the first time that the existence of such data is mentioned publicly. ... According to Icelandic laws, it is required to inform the person you are speaking with if the phone call is being recorded. Given that the parliament is not violating laws it is clear that Assange or his associates would have to have installed recording devices or wiretaps in the parliament.' — What makes it even more interesting is that Wired also reports in this recent story: Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet."
Unfortunately I think most of us are bastards to him.
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much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Assange doesn't publish things that aren't critical of the USA, so we can conclude that it was probably someone else that did it and he didn't give a fuck.The whole organization went down the toilet when it stopped being a wiki. They should have dumped Assange when it became clear that he was an Kim Dotcom-grade attention whore and focused on the actual leaks. Then maybe they wouldn't just send gigabytes of raw leaks to bad journalists and trust that they'll be careful with the source's identity, and Manning wouldn't have had is life ruined.
That rant complete, this article is complete nonsense full of logical fallacies and leaps of faith. How did they get from "Wikileaks claims to have some logs of an event" to "Assange did it!"? I've seen better journalism in the tabloids that fill the racks in a grocery store check out line. I'll make a counter claim that God did it and a disillusioned angel sent the leak in.