The truth is out there, Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail (May 29)
Wikileaks - a wiki for whistleblowers of all sorts - claims to protect the identity of the person disclosing the sensitive information. I'ts been in the news for publishing high-level documents from the Church of Scientology, manuals from Guantanamo, stories about CIA. Many are trying to shut it down.
"It's one of the first truly postnational institutions that the Internet has produced – along with those in the hedonistic business of file-sharing. It wants to skip, Robin Hood-like, above the law's head, doing good as it perceives it, and it's willing to leverage every technological advantage the Internet provides to get there. Leak from the rich, give to the poor, and leave the clamouring sheriffs in the dust."
Posted by Gwen at June 4, 2008 03:07 PM