Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

I don't think we'll be seeing people with "Free Julian Assange" signatures in tech forums like Usenet users did during Kevin Mitnick's case two decades ago.

No?
http://images.theage.com.au/2010/12/12/2091504/protestmain-300x340.jpg

Free Assange is so fucking gauche.

Those were called "Julian Assange masks" on some news site (possibly bbcnews). They either don't know they're V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks or Assange has started growing face hair in jail.

It was bbc, but they've corrected it already: it was the photo caption here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977406

The whole v for vendetta/anonymous /b/tards thing is cringeworthy, tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GulEPb-z8&feature=player_embedded

I know this makes me a BAD person but, erm... Link to the Tumblr pls?

Because I have been calling Rule 34 on Julian Assange Prison Slash for several days now and LiveJournal has not come up with the goods.

::slinks off guiltily at the poor taste::

lol

'un chant d'assange'

lol kdt

Was this posted yet?

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/HarryHarrison

last online dec 31, 2006 so you know it aint a fake

throw away the key tbh

LOL

The Slut Test 87% Slut

cia black ops hit new low

The Are you Dominant or submissive Test 87% - The Master

The do you understand women Test 73 sensitivity

The Alignment Test Chaotic Neutral

Interesting you can see his profile even not logged into okc. Cant anyone else's i know.

yes you can

i do it all the time

Interesting you can see his profile even not logged into okc. Cant anyone else's i know.

It's a conspiracy from the CIA!!!! OMGz

Gotta admit, soon after lolzing at Harry Harrison I scrambled to okcupid to make sure I'd deleted that profile that I stopped using 5 years ago.

Oh ok maybe you can set it in yr settings then cos mine isnt viewable logged out.

hey www.amazon.co.uk is down

haha they took it down while everyone was watching x factor.

DAMNIT i had some stuff - xmas presents - in my basket that i was gonna check out after x factor had finished!

http://i.imgur.com/quPvL.jpg

there is some classic videogame baddie i'm reminded of but i can't quite remember it

I was thinking:

http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2010/01/06/who_wideweb__470x314,0.jpg

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/patrick-moore.jpg

http://help.transifex.net/_images/magneto2.jpg

what is that patrick moore thing from?

http://www.kotaku.com/assets/2006/06/shodan.jpg

xp gamesmaster!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster

jesus, return of the repressed childhood gaming memories

system shock 2 was scary as fuck

http://www.amiright.com/album-cover-themes/images/album-Aphex-Twin-Richard-D-James-Album.jpg

hey www.amazon.co.uk is down

probably just holiday shopping traffic... don't believe the CIA cyber-terrorist disinfo.

its fine

Someone I know is responsible for the software there so I'll ask them what happened.

We need Alex updates!

or xfactor single traffic

xxxp

OK, it's been long enough that I'm starting to lose the thread a little. So this recent cache of cables - they all came from the same source, right? The Brad Manning moron? Did he leak the "collateral murder" thing, too? But someone else leaked the (unpublished) bank stuff, right? Just wondering, because it seems like all this Wikileaks stuff has originated from just one or two sources, and it is probably safe to assume not too many people are lining up to leak more, especially now that security has been tightened. Short of outright illegal hacking/spying on Wikileaks' part, does this mean the whole organization is bound to wither and die, absent complicit conspirators with access to good stuff, both of which must be in relatively short supply?

I'm not actually sure that manning is definitively responsible for the cables, actually. the video, yes, and I think that's why he's in jail right now. but I can't check, ON IPHONE.

brad manning, more like BAD manning

that moron

"absent complicit conspirators with access to good stuff, both of which must be in relatively short supply"

Not sure why you would assume that either of these things are true.

yeah. even if the military is tightening down (no thumb drives, etc), there's still loads of "interesting" and relatively insecure data out there for WL to publish. like, u know, the gawker database (heyo!)

I think it's logical to assume at this point there is a relatively finite amount of a) readily accessible juicy US government stuff that b) more than a handful of people are willing to go to jail to leak. Even if the US remains lax and less than vigilant, which is possible/likely, who is so righteous they'd happily suffer the US's wrath? Now, sure, there's tons of non-gov't stuff to leak around the globe, and in some ways that's more interesting to me (the bank stuff sounds tantalizing). But the government stuff is what gets the headlines. So far.

While I can definitely see your point, I also see the potential for this case to inspire a lot of people who now see the gov't as a free-speech-suppressing tyrannical empire and create a culture of thirst for transparency.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0905/4.jpg

xp I think that except in rare circumstances people who see the government as a free-speech-suppressing tyrannical empire aren't the same people who get access to classified material

I think all the diplomatic cables and the Iraq stuff came from Manning. They've been pretty slowly releasing it and they can probably stretch it out for a while longer. Manning isnt the only leaker, just the most famous one.

hoo boy, tariq ali, yvonne ridley, john pilger... real a-list bros to have in your corner

Better them than Jonah Goldberg, Sarah Palin and Bill Kristol.

So, you're Julian Assange, released on bail: are you happy or sad to go free to discover SNL's arch, evil Bond-villain parody?