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The Zhan

WikiLeaks, a Ramayan tale - 1 views

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wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov

shared by The Zhan on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The traditional way of gathering news and reporting a story by finding out facts, interpreting them, asking others for corroboration, and organizing the story in a coherent way so that it would make sense and provide context to someone coming across the issue for the first time, were considered quaint
  • n the West, several newspapers had shrunk in size, literally, adopting the Berliner format, as The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal’s international editions did.
  • t was in that environment that WikiLeaks published the omnibus data dump of 92,000 pages of intelligence material about the war in Afghanistan, leaked from the US defence establishment. Finally the middleman was busted: Who needed reporters, those irrelevant intermediaries?
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  • WikiLeaks realized that the mountain of data was meaningless unless someone sifted through the data dispassionately to find out if there was a grand narrative.
  • Raw data alone is often inscrutable, and in the hands of conspiracy nuts, it is worse than useless.
  • Text without context is just words.
  • That explains why WikiLeaks turned to The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
  • WikiLeaks’s decontextualized data dump has created the illusion of advancing our understanding of the war, when it has done no such thing. It has made the coalition’s informants vulnerable— responsible reporters would not have made such an elementary error.
  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    An article referring to the extreme decontextualisation and reliability issues of sources presented in WikiLeaks.
The Zhan

NGO brands WikiLeaks whistleblowing unreliable - 2 views

www.swisster.ch/...whistleblowing-unreliable.html

1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity 2.6_pol_gov wikileaks

shared by The Zhan on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • the Swiss branch of Transparency International, an NGO campaigning for more openness and better governance, claims the site is not reliabl
  • "I know other platforms for transparency use it a lot . . . but it’s not based on fact," Anne Schwöbel, director of Transparency International Switzerland told Swisster. "WikiLeaks is not enough for us – we need other sources," said Schwöbel.
  • The Sunshine Press sees its site as a public tool to advance transparency beyond existing freedom of information legislation.
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  • Government officials, corporate whistleblowers and journalists seeking anonymity can upload documents that sit in a queue waiting for a team of professional journalists and anti-corruption analysts to decide whether they should be published. Schwöbel said she could not find out enough about selection criteria used by the editoral board of powerful decision makers.
  • The Zhan on 19 Nov 10
     
    Campaigning group Transparency International Switzerland claims WikiLeaks is not reliable.
Fiche Galinha

BBC News - WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq - 0 views

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shared by Fiche Galinha on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq
  • Fiche Galinha on 15 Nov 10
     
    "WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq"
The Zhan

Obama Turns Down Rumors On Afghanistan, Blasts WikiLeaks - 1 views

obama.net/n-afghanistan-blasts-wikileaks

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shared by The Zhan on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The President of the United States of America Barack Obama is expressing some of his unfavorable opinions on a website claiming to have secret information about American government policies that are kept from the masses.
  • Tuesday, Obama clearly stated that he is highly “concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information” having to do with the goals and policies of the United States in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks
  • according to Obama as well as anyone who has taken a look at the claims, there is very little new information being represented on the site.
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  • “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan.
  • In addition, the alleged secret information being leaked by site such as WikiLeaks is information that has already been made public to the men and women of the United States to read about at their discretion.
The Zhan

Wikileaks, causes for concern « Aletho News - 0 views

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wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 1.3_privacy_anonymity; 1.2_security; 1.11_people_machines

shared by The Zhan on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    Brief description of social and ethical concerns wikileaks raises.
Mr Brooke

WikiLeaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...wikileaks-documents

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shared by Mr Brooke on 26 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 26 Nov 10
     
    History of Wikileaks
Tranny Franny

Collateral Murder: WikiLeaks video from US helicopter gunship reveals glimpse of slaugh... - 1 views

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  • Tranny Franny on 15 Nov 10
     
    Wikileaks on Monday released a 17-minute video of footage from an Apache helicopter that was reportedly one of two helicopters involved in a fight against insurgents in the neighborhood of New Baghdad on July 12, 2007.
Mr Brooke

CISCO Telepresence and Wikileaks | ITGS Online - 6 views

itgsonline.com/?p=1977

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shared by Mr Brooke on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 18 Nov 10
     
    This is the page from the school presenting the "pros" of wikileaks. The basis of the presentation is sound and you should think about the issues talked about on the page. Please make contributions to our wiki.
El Mexicano Pastiche

WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ileaks-says-funding-is-blocked

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  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.
El Mexicano Pastiche

Pentagon demands WikiLeaks stuff genie back in bottle - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...wiki_pentagon

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  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    "Obnoxious Pentagon spokesperson issues formal threat against WikiLeaks: Destroy everything, or else." The US Defense Department has formally asked WikiLeaks to delete all copies of military documents it has received and return any documents not yet published. Founder Julian Assange has rejected offer
El Mexicano Pastiche

Wikileaks finds cash to continue - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...wikileaks_pledge_drive

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  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    Wikileaks began life in December 2006 with a promise to publish leaked sensitive government or corporate documents, after verifying their authenticity. It promises to protect the anonymity of its contributors. At the bottom of the article there is some information about Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo account and other documents released by wikileaks.
The Zhan

Are the WikiLeaks War Docs Overhyped Old News? | Danger Room | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ks-war-docs-overhyped-old-news

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shared by The Zhan on 17 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Longtime Afghanistan watchers are diving into Wikileaks’ huge trove of unearthed U.S. military reports about the war.
  • For one thing — and this supports Exum’s argument — many, if not most, of these documents are frontline reports.
  • That both clarifies the focus of individual reports and limits the degree to which any analyst can responsibly extrapolate them into clear trends.
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  • And some of the heavy-breathing accounts surrounding the documents don’t really match what the logs say. “Taliban sympathisers listening in to top-secret phone calls of US-led coalition,” pants the Guardian.
  • here’s a bias in journalism toward believing that what’s secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth. That operating principle animates reporters’ practice of breaking down governmental secrecy. But it can also create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations.
  • Whether they add up to more than the sum of their parts is a judgment.
  • The Zhan on 17 Nov 10
     
    There's a bias in journalism toward believing that what's secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth,which can create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations. When these don't manifest, it creates an expectation that the trove is neither useful nor significant. In this case, that would be a mistake.
The Zhan

YouTube - Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq - 0 views

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2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.9_policies wikileaks

shared by The Zhan on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Zhan on 15 Nov 10
     
    To what extent does media and governments distort information that is presented to the general audience, taking into consideration the concealing of an extremely sensitive piece of information such as this?\n\nWhat degree of obscurantism does the US army's "don't ask, don't tell" policy imply? How much misunderstanding can it provoke?\n\nHow reliable is the information provided to us by Wikileaks?
El Mexicano Pastiche

WikiLeaks drops 90 thousand classified military documents - 3 views

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2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property wikileaks

shared by El Mexicano Pastiche on 14 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 14 Nov 10
     
    ... How?!
  • Mr Brooke on 17 Nov 10
     
    From a combination of anonymous sources and leaks. Each one varies depending on the nature of material being "leaked"
Mr Brooke

Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks - 2 views

www.schneier.com/...wikileaks.html

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shared by Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10
     
    Some interesting links/comments here. One very good one poiting towards the nature of the leaks being analysis and therefore of dubious "truth"
Mr Brooke

The Secret's Behind Wikileaks | Julian Assange - 2 views

www.theage.com.au/...ian-assange-20100521-w1um.html

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shared by Mr Brooke on 26 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 26 Nov 10
     
    "'But then I didn't do anything with it.''"
Mr Brooke

Top U.S. Officer: WikiLeaks Might Have 'Blood on Its Hands' | Danger Room | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...kileaks-has-blood-on-its-hands

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shared by Mr Brooke on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 17 Nov 10
     
    You need to find more stories like this to show the case against.
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