While I agree that stopping Wikileaks (the platform) is futile since 10 other clones will arise, do you really think that the trenchcoat guys don't know that Assange is just a figurehead?? Of course they chase him, but that is just for symbolic value. Unless they are really dumb, it is not like they are wasting all their resources on Assange.
What they're really after (I mean i would, and Im sure I am not as bright as some of these intel guys) is a list of names of the editors of wikileaks, and try to infiltrate and/or destoy. Since they are editing stuff, it must be closed group of people. Its not like Anonymous... and not all of these guys are as brave as Assange, I am sure a lot of the editors are scared shitless right now. Some of them (if not most) will be prone to blackmail. It will be just a matter of time (maybe its already happened) before the intel forces will know who the key figures in the Wikileaks organisation are.
Then some damage to some of these guys (Russians don't seem to have problems with that), and Wikileaks is finished. It is just a bunch of journalists, not hardened spies.
Maybe the platform will be cloned, but cloning the editors is not so easy. People will think twice to start something like Wikileaks, I mean it is not like you are meddling with the RIAA here.
Only solution would be to have a Wikileaks without editors, but that has its own disadvantages. And advantages of course.
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While I agree that stopping Wikileaks (the platform) is futile since 10 other clones will arise, do you really think that the trenchcoat guys don't know that Assange is just a figurehead?? Of course they chase him, but that is just for symbolic value. Unless they are really dumb, it is not like they are wasting all their resources on Assange. What they're really after (I mean i would, and Im sure I am not as bright as some of these intel guys) is a list of names of the editors of wikileaks, and try to infiltrate and/or destoy. Since they are editing stuff, it must be closed group of people. Its not like Anonymous... and not all of these guys are as brave as Assange, I am sure a lot of the editors are scared shitless right now. Some of them (if not most) will be prone to blackmail. It will be just a matter of time (maybe its already happened) before the intel forces will know who the key figures in the Wikileaks organisation are. Then some damage to some of these guys (Russians don't seem to have problems with that), and Wikileaks is finished. It is just a bunch of journalists, not hardened spies. Maybe the platform will be cloned, but cloning the editors is not so easy. People will think twice to start something like Wikileaks, I mean it is not like you are meddling with the RIAA here. Only solution would be to have a Wikileaks without editors, but that has its own disadvantages. And advantages of course.