| Guys, wikileaks is basically fighting for survival against the US government, Seems unlikely; they could well be exploring legal and technical options - but due to where Wikileaks operates from the US government will have a hard time taking it apart. There could be a black bag operation in effect; but I have a feeling if that were the case we would soon be hearing about it from Assange. Seriously, do you have any doubt that anyone involved in this could end up secretly detained for years ? Yes, someone in Government would have to be insane to risk that. OR Wikileaks would have to release something extremely critical/damaging. Assange is pretty high profile and his disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed. We're not talking about your average (or even uniquely scalable) startup here. No, but as pointed out elsewhere there are a lot of highly evolved models for distributions already in use by illegal enterprises. These are efficient, relatively cheap and difficult to track. The problem is that Wikileaks would lose a lot of editorial control; which, I guess, they don't want. I have a number of ideas that I suggested to them (when they asked for help) to improve their infrastructure but never heard back... Assange is taking huge personal risks here, so yeah, it is about him, to a very large extent. I don't buy that - I think mostly he is a bit of an attention seeker and cries wolf at the slightest hint of a conspiracy :) There's not a lot wrong with that but you must bear it in mind when dealing with Wikileaks. I don't think Assange is taking a huge personal risk in terms of western governments. If they can nail him for something legally I am sure they will jump at it - but the political fall out from taking down a whistleblower is huge. Besides; Wikileaks doesn't actually leak all that much (well, any more)..... |