…thereby increasing the difficulty of secret operations.

The goal is to affect the ability of conspiracies to function as effectively when members are much more hesitant to say something in the first place or to allow more people into the communication network. More secrecy is something wikileaks expects, and expects said secrecy to actually further its own ends.

Only time will tell if these theories pan out.

…thereby increasing the difficulty of secret operations.

How exactly does narrowing the number of people who have access to secret communications make it more difficult to carry out secret operations?

More importantly, how many people do you think it takes to carry out secret operations? Grand conspiracies with thousands of conspirators don’t exist except in the imagination of conspiracy theorists.

I think what Wikileaks is going for is an excellent idea. Shielding whistleblowers from repurcussions from big organizations that want to clamp down on leaks. Thats all Wikileaks really does.

It is becoming clearer to more and more people that there is a class war going on right now – that is, big business and government are collaborating in many cases making self-interested decisions that do not meet the ‘public good’ standard. (part of the way truth becomes possible is people start to have the recognition that the system is rigged! Then they pay attention.)

It does not take coordination or even active whispering to make this happen. It just takes greedy people to be greedy, and hide their greed in lies. This is when we need leaks most.

This is only one version of the cancer that Julian Assange is trying to do his chemotherapy treatment on. Other flavors involve internal business corruption (BoA?) and 3rd world dictator corruption (Kenya?), etc. Wikileaks is just trying to become a broker for truth – they will get your leaks out safely to reduce threats to your livelihood and life if they do their job well.

Wikileaks is also at working to get the media to do their jobs by brokering the leaks to the press. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brdA5dSqZo ~ around 40 seconds in.

Anyways, its better if you read his writings directly. Read this – it will get you in his headspace more quickly than my ramblings : http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

-Leaking documents will make governments work harder to keep secrets.
-Ergo, leaking documents is useless.

So, if the other side is going to fight you, you might as well not try? What are you, a Congressional Democrat?

This argument is capitulation and nothing else. If you never even try to find out what secrets the government is keeping from you, it doesn’t matter what degree of secrecy they have.

The whole goal of Wikileaks is to make wannabe conspirators afraid to conspire. If the chances increase that the organisation they need to use to get their little scam off and running has leaks, then the lack of trust will stop a lot of those conspiracies from ever taking off.

A whole press conference.

With Obama.

Not one question.

here’s the url: http://universalsubtitles.org/videos/cBkyEO5lbmZP/info/

Yemen getting hit by drones? Reported by the Washington Post a month ago. Besides we went into Pakistan with drones without their support, only someone lacking imagination would think we weren’t going into other countries?

Our money going to buy bad things? Duh. We send billions of dollars over to countries full of corruption. I expect that some of our money has been redirected to the terrorists themselves.

I don’t know. If Wikileaks had filtered out the meaningless gossip and confirmations of things we already knew, I would be championing them to no end. As it is, they’ve simply made diplomacy harder.