Wikileaks with common sense
- 09
- Dec
Few months ago I posted about how Wikileaks was doing to survive. Today I need to update and review that post.
Since Wikileaks released the US embassy cables it has come under pressure on several fronts, from frozen bank accounts to DDoS attacks. US embassy cables leak was the third of three major leaks, the first two leaks were Afghanistan and Iraq war logs.
None of the lately attacks had happened when they released the first two leaks, which demonstrated details of extra-judicial imprisonment, torture or death of civilians, however they did happen now because some leaks putted people at risk?
People from Wikileaks is trying to do their best to beaten back the attacks, creating hundreds of mirror sites that will keep its content available. Wikileaks it´s not perfect, it needs to be improved, as it does any wiki.
Today I think it´s almost impossible block it, however they will do their best to cut its founds and to make difficult to follow its path, among of improving any security information system.
I do believe in freedom of information and in the power of Internet to open and transparent actions and governments. I understand that never before a world power has lost control of such vast amount of sensitive information and I know it´s not fare that mostly of the information leaked came from US, however none of those arguments are reasons enough to block information, and as I said before, we need to improve wikileaks not block it.
About Julian Assange, I want to share an interview that people from TED Talks did mid 2010.
Do you know what the fourth major leak is going to be about? Do you know how we can make wikileaks better?
The funny thing about cablegate of wikileaks is that it says and delivers the same message done by diplomatics and the US goverment in a raw perspective. It does not provide any new and controversial information that has not been previoulsy delivered in a politically correct way.
From my point of view, it is another way of the US gov to reinforce once agian their message and point of view of the outsiders. I have not seen not one cable that may compromise US gov beyond diplomatic issues with other countries.
Let’s talk again when they really open their internal files rather than their gossip cables with other ambassadors…