Re: Wikileaks, Afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers

[William Söderberg <william.soderberg () gmail com>]

How do you figure logs, as you call them, pose a threat to your
nation? All documents released to the public was several months old.
15 000 documents was withheld from release because they were deemed
too fresh and so they could cause harm to the soldiers.

And how would one go about in producing better cyber security laws do
you reckon? Absolute surveillance of all internet communication?
Prohibit all encrypted communication? Spyware, required by law, to be
installed on all computer systems? There's no good solution for this
problem. If you want stricter laws, peoples integrity and privacy will
have to suffer. Thus, the ideals of democracy will start to suffer as
well. I know what I'd choose between, if the choice was democracy and
stricter cyber crime laws.

The leak was a good thing. It shows us the true face of the war in
Afghanistan. Everyone should suffer consequences for their actions.
Including the US.

-- wh1sk3yj4ck

2010/7/29 Florian Rommel <frommel () gmail com>:
> blah blah blah... yes i would rather sit back in the times when all we heard was the propaganda of the war machine 
> and no real information EVER got to the people... ah the good old blissful times...
> this is a good start for one  heck of a flamewar.. so which flame should we start? american "national security" vs 
> the worlds interest to know or "leaking" real information that is in direct contrast to lies published by the 
> government?
>
> answer this: Who watches the watchers? :)
>
> <sits back and get  some popcorn>
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:18 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:
>
> > Julian Assange alleges it was a computer hacker who accessed databases via the
> > internet who gave him the Afghanistan war logs.
> >
> > This highlights the need for tighter cyber security laws, not only are
> > researchers such as Tavis Ormandy making irresponsible technical flaw
> > disclosures, anonymous hackers are leaking national security information  to
> > Wikileaks.
> >
> > We really need to get tougher cyber security laws in place to tackle what's
> > going on...
> >
> > http://n3td3v.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-afghanistan-war-logs-leaked.html
> >
> > Andrew Wallace
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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