The Blast Shack
Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the unintended consequences of cypherpunk.
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Wikileaks is not about secret information; it’s about insiders versus outsiders | technosociology
Much like the Umberto Eco piece I linked to recently, Zeynep Tufecki describes how Wikileaks exposed what so many in the media already knew.
Not such wicked leaks | Presseurop – English
A great piece by Umberto Eco on the real effect of Wikileaks: not in exposing dangerous secrets, but in exposing what we already knew anyway.