[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: [CliffordPickover] Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?

[Stewart Dickson]

The time has come for progressive elements to call for the end of secrecy.
Our government, in its waging of war for profit, has become precisely 
the same
monarchy that we rebelled against 230 years ago.   End Government 
secrecy now.

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Subject: 	[CliffordPickover] Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack 
crosshairs?
Date: 	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:12:37 -0400
From: 	Rusty <rustyrusty at rogers.com>
Reply-To: 	CliffordPickover at yahoogroups.com
To: 	<CliffordPickover at yahoogroups.com


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20020835-38.html

Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable 
even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as 
the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack.

After the shadowy, document-leaking organization distributed nearly 
400,000 classified documents 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20020516-38.html> from the Iraq war 
on Friday, Washington officialdom responded with a torrent of 
denunciations alleging violations of national security and endangering 
U.S. military operations.

In a rare point of congruence, The Washington Post and The Washington 
Times both criticized the release, with the smaller paper arguing that 
WikiLeaks' offshore Web site should be attacked and rendered 
"inoperable" by the U.S. government. Some hawkish conservatives followed 
suit, including Christian Whiton <http://www.whiton.com/>, a State 
Department adviser under President George W. Bush, who wrote 
<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/10/25/christian-whiton-wiki-leaks-ignore-threat-obama-democrats-congress-iraq-war/> 
a column calling on the U.S. military to "electronically assault 
WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to 
this organization."

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