Wikileaks - Julian Assange gets an "insurance"

I'm no specialist in Law, or Human Rights. That's for someone else... ;)

Not withstanding that I came accross this news report and found it compelling enough to share it on this blog (despite no one reading it.... ;) ). Now, this website is not about conspiracy theories, or else I would never shut up about UFOs, but I do think that wikileaks is a fascinating, and may be, paradigm changing tool.

The relevant file can be found here at the bottom of the page (if you want to get AES Crypt, necessary to read the file once the encryption key is made available, it can be found here . It's open source material, so it is available to everyone, for free). If for some reason this does not work, please just type "wikileaks Julian Assange insurance" on Google and something along the lines of this will show up.

I encourage everyone to download it. I don't know what it is, but it's 1.4 Gb of something in the middle of files lower than 1Mb in size, so even if it's nothing it's got to be something...

... Hey for all I know it could be something about UFOs... ;D

Anyway, the whole concept of wikileaks is interesting, in that it substancially increases the amount of information available to the public. This is very good, because there's a point where too much information makes it difficult to find what is relevant for you. That is why websites like that one, wikipedia and google are important. Their search engines decrease the length of the sorting out process, thus facilitating the relevant information to the relevant people at the blink of an eye.

Less theoretically so, I guess there's a problem of accountability. "Whoever died and made wikileaks distributor of sensitive information?" you might ask... well this is the problem with the internet. A guy in Sweden can post sensitive material about the USA... Whoever put him in charge? No one. He is just a service provider. It is, however, fair to assume that there is or might come to be some internal panel within "wikileaks" corp that decides whether some files are too sensitive, or whether parts of some files are too sensitive to be made available (names, times, places) in order to protect innocent bystanders. If they don't have that yet, than they ought to come up with it on their own... before someone else does.