Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers - Polidicks

If it can be used to cause direct physical harm to someone, like soldiers then for the purposes of their efforts and lives then it shouldn't be public knowledge, at least not until the war is over. But everything else has to be openly reported, not just recorded and sat in some room somewhere. True transparency in my eyes would be the government using dedicated channels to release information of all kinds on their actions to their public.

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;26548647]yawn some 13 year olds that think Assange is a gift from god and is their "hero"[/QUOTE] this.

[QUOTE=TH89;26555337]Neither is your email. If someone hacks your email and posts everything, that's okay because it's "freedom of speech?"[/QUOTE] Enjoy the spam. i keep sensitive information on the Internet to a minimum for a damn reason.

[QUOTE=Lick;26557059]It's not just a bunch of 4channers. In order to take something relatively large down like a bank you'd have to have quite a sizable botnet.[/QUOTE] Or a lot of 4channers...

Or alot of 4channers with smaller botnets... :colbert:

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;26548725]Silly children, doing this ain't going to change anything.[/QUOTE] It'll change more than what people like you are doing (nothing).

[QUOTE=bravehat;26562719] True transparency in my eyes would be the government using dedicated channels to release information of all kinds on their actions to their public.[/QUOTE] Information overload. There would be literally millions of government documents posted every day. Who's gonna look through all that? You'd have to spend 24 hours a day trawling through all this stuff in the vague hope that you find the conspiracy theory or war crime you're looking for.

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26563865]Information overload. There would be literally millions of government documents posted every day. Who's gonna look through all that? You'd have to spend 24 hours a day trawling through all this stuff for the vague hope that you find the conspiracy theory or war crime you're looking for.[/QUOTE] Well, good, because there are literally millions of people around the world who would be interested in seeing these documents.

[QUOTE=elbrian;26563913]Well, good, because there are literally millions of people around the world who would be interested in seeing these documents.[/QUOTE] And no one with the time or the luck to come across anything interesting. Unlucky. You'd probably get about as many interesting news stories out of it as we get with Wikileaks right now (and, as far as I see it, it's debatable as to whether that count has even reached 1 yet).

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26563957]And no one with the time or the luck to come across anything interesting. Unlucky. You'd probably get about as many interesting news stories out of it as we get with Wikileaks right now (and, as far as I see it, it's debatable as to whether that count has even reached 1 yet).[/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? You are trying to say that not one newsworthy piece of information has come out of Wikileaks? This is where our discussion ends; it's clear I'm dealing with a person who has no idea what he/she is talking about. I'll leave this with you, though: [url]http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/28/hillary-clinton-ordered-diplomats-to-steal-un-officials-credit-card-numbers/[/url]

[QUOTE=HeadshotDCS;26551331]It's not about methods, it's about results. Who cares if a fire is started by either gas and a match, or jet fuel? Point is, a building still burns. That's an analogy by the way, in case anyone is wondering. It's just showing that it doesn't matter if it's DDOS or something more complex. (I'm also not advocating anything either)[/QUOTE] The fire brigade cares.

[QUOTE=elbrian;26563981] I'll leave this with you, though: [url]http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/28/hillary-clinton-ordered-diplomats-to-steal-un-officials-credit-card-numbers/[/url][/QUOTE] Why is that interesting at all? Seems like pretty standard diplomatic dealing to me. It's exactly what you should expect from people like Clinton - she pretty much gets paid to pull shit like that. The only people who are remotely surprised by anything "leaked" by Wikileaks are naive people.