Well, we're never getting away from anonymous-sourced-leaking now.
Wikileaks, meet OpenLeaks, BrusselsLeaks, BalkanLeaks, WikiSpooks, Cryptome, and IndoLeaks. You have a lot in common.
The link above is a breakdown of each of these sites based on security, by understandably-paranoid techie-types mildly obsessed about encryption. It doesn't have an awful lot to say on the implications of the Wikileaks model of primary source journalism, but I think those implications are rather important. So here's my take:
US government, good luck stopping something that has proven so bloody useful and sensational that it's scattered and decentralized. It would take an effort, both human and electronic, so massive and unwieldy that's impractical. It still probably wouldn't work. And it would out you as crazy-fascist, leaving you looking quite a lot like China, who you've been benefiting from a comparison of difference with for some time now.
More than the Wikileaks mirrors, or even the insurance file, this makes the practice of leaking confidential documents so decentralized it's basically unkillable.
Wheeeeeee!
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