Comments on: Wikileaks (2): on its aim to defeat ‘authoritarian conspiracies’ https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wikileaks-aim-to-defeat-authoritarian-conspiracies/2010/12/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wikileaks-aim-to-defeat-authoritarian-conspiracies/2010/12/02/comment-page-1#comment-451984 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:48:15 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=11992#comment-451984 The leak, in other words, is only the catalyst for the desired counter-overreaction; Wikileaks wants to provoke the conspiracy into turning off its own brain in response to the threat. As it tries to plug its own holes and find the leakers, he reasons, its component elements will de-synchronize from and turn against each other, de-link from the central processing network, and come undone. Even if all the elements of the conspiracy still exist, in this sense, depriving themselves of a vigorous flow of information to connect them all together as a conspiracy prevents them from acting as a conspiracy.

It seems to me that Assange’s strategy is successful. Here is an article I came across yesterday:

US cuts access to files after leak embarrassment

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-severs-access-diplomatic-messages.html

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