Former CIA intelligence analyst: ‘The Fourth Estate is dead’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/former-cia-inte...
I think most of us who've been fighting the battle to get critical information out to the public for years are a looking at this whole Wikileaks thing with a little skepticism. Revolutionary information, including government documents that prove they are lying, is not that hard to come by, so why does Wikileaks get this huge uproar of media attention and now all these hackers fighting on their behalf?
But I do understand that Wikileaks is releasing unseen and recent government information that is more "newsworthy" (and digestible) than most of the dated stuff we all promote. I'm all for it and I respect the need to separate certain efforts from others. I don't begrudge Assange what he said about 9/11 truth:
I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud
This "cyberwar" that's going on now is fascinating and it does apply to all of us who discuss and promote information that our governments aim to suppress. I don't necessarily see the outcome of the cyberwar going in our favor, because in the end, it is the governments and corporations who control our access to these channels of information. We don't own the fiber optic cables or the satellites and even if we can hack them temporarily, the corporations/governments have the means to shut them down completely and re-engineer the security.
Perhaps we are living in a liminal stage where the controlling factions are still getting a grip on the new technology and our window of opportunity to get out revolutionary information to the world is actually much shorter than we assume. Where are we left without the internet? I think most of us have become too dependent on it, in many different ways.
Whatever the outcome, these are historical times we're witnessing.
