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"Hacker explains why he reported 'Wikileaks source'"

In the Wikileaks aftermath, the military has reportedly banned disks and USB drives and threw in the threat of a court martial for good measure. Should you do the same for your corporate network? Wired reported that the U.S. military is telling troops to ditch removable media. The problem is that these "sneaker networks"-actually combat boot networks-are an efficient way to get data from one point to another. The big question here is whether enterprises should also put some limits on removable drives. Let's face it, there are a lot of removable media that can tap into corporate networks. USB drives, iPods and phones are just some of the avenues where data can escape.

"A former Swiss banker has passed on data containing account details of 2,000 prominent people to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange."

"The US has defended its request for the personal details of three Twitter users, as part of its inquiry into Wikileaks."

Assange will be tagged electronically! that's something to discuss as it does raise a lot of issues.

Video documentary

As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: they were Googling themselves.