Have the cyberwars begun?
The Crux: We have always known that governments lie to us. Now we have proof. What’s shocking is how shocked we are.
Hackers Attack Those Seen as WikiLeaks Enemies
By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA
LONDON — In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a “cyberwar,” hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange.
Within 12 hours of a British judge’s decision on Tuesday to deny Mr. Assange bail in a Swedish extradition case, attacks on the Web sites of WikiLeaks’s “enemies,” as defined by the organization’s impassioned supporters around the world, caused several corporate Web sites to become inaccessible or slow down markedly. . .
Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It’s your choice. John Naughton in the Guardian.
The Guardian’s complete coverage of WikiLeaks
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government”. In zunguzungu.
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December 9th, 2010 at 19:37
It has. “We are Anonymous. We never forgive. We never forget. Expect us.” I wonder if the pro-government and pro-corporate hackers have their own battlecry.
December 9th, 2010 at 23:05
Reminds me of Lisbeth Salander.
December 9th, 2010 at 23:12
Two different takes on the Julian Assange/Wikileaks/Cyberwar saga. Past, present and future.
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/sandracuffe/5363
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-8-2010/julian-assange–to-catch-a-somewhat-pasty-predator
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/08/the-wikileaks-scandal-is-more-than-just-a-diplomatic-scuffle-its-a-war-for-the-future-of-the-internet/
December 9th, 2010 at 23:12
Correction: Three
December 9th, 2010 at 23:29
I can already see the movie, but why watch this on-screen when unfolding reality is so much more intriguing?
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/wikileaks.poison.pill/index.html?hpt=Mid
December 10th, 2010 at 00:06
Maybe I’m being a bit short-sighted and parochial, but thus far, I’ve found this whole affair rather boring and overstated.
And maybe I’m also becoming a bit of a Luddite, in that despite my current extensive use of email and blogging, I can’t help but wonder, in answer to the Guardian columnist’s challenge, if perhaps the world would in fact be simpler, and life more enjoyable and less stressful, if the internet were just shut down. I dare to imagine it, and it’s not too bad!
December 10th, 2010 at 15:24
I’m with gangster. The Afghan and Iraq war leaks were mildly interesting. These State Department leaks seem fairly mundane, though it looks like State’s got some pretty entertaining writers. Only people who think international diplomacy is conducted in some sort of fairytale candyland where right makes right would be shocked by these “revelations”.
My friend Ed on the State Department leaks:
“What I learned was all the good writers who want to have a good time end up in posts in Europe and all the serious business types end up in Asia.”