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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 945969" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/154320/wikileaks_2.0%3A_how_julian_assange's_partnership_with_anonymous_could_change_the_landscape_of_hacktivism/?page=entire" target="_blank">WikiLeaks 2.0: How Julian Assange's Partnership with Anonymous Could Change the Landscape of Hacktivism | Media | AlterNet</a></strong></p><p></p><p>WikiLeaks and Anonymous could prove to be powerful allies in their shared war against government and corporate corruption. WikiLeaks is desperately dependent on new leaks, and Anonymous is happy to oblige, with a <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-friday-attacks/" target="_blank">new commitment to regularly scheduled hacks</a>. A newly energized WikiLeaks is positioned to provide analytical resources to the leaks Anonymous uncovers so that they can be parsed in a thoughtful way for easy media consumption.</p><p></p><p>As much as Anonymous tries to present itself to the media as a legitimate source of leaked information, it’s always going to be doing so shoes untied, shirt untucked and fly down. Anonymous could just as easily dump 5GB of sensitive information onto a site like Pastebin, which hosts millions of anonymous text uploads, but in 2012, reporters are much less likely to find them, let alone trust them. For now, they need WikiLeaks as an intermediary, an older brother to tell Mom, “He’s telling the truth this time, I saw the whole thing — promise. ”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 945969, member: 1"] [B][URL="http://www.alternet.org/media/154320/wikileaks_2.0%3A_how_julian_assange's_partnership_with_anonymous_could_change_the_landscape_of_hacktivism/?page=entire"]WikiLeaks 2.0: How Julian Assange's Partnership with Anonymous Could Change the Landscape of Hacktivism | Media | AlterNet[/URL][/B] WikiLeaks and Anonymous could prove to be powerful allies in their shared war against government and corporate corruption. WikiLeaks is desperately dependent on new leaks, and Anonymous is happy to oblige, with a [URL="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-friday-attacks/"]new commitment to regularly scheduled hacks[/URL]. A newly energized WikiLeaks is positioned to provide analytical resources to the leaks Anonymous uncovers so that they can be parsed in a thoughtful way for easy media consumption. As much as Anonymous tries to present itself to the media as a legitimate source of leaked information, it’s always going to be doing so shoes untied, shirt untucked and fly down. Anonymous could just as easily dump 5GB of sensitive information onto a site like Pastebin, which hosts millions of anonymous text uploads, but in 2012, reporters are much less likely to find them, let alone trust them. For now, they need WikiLeaks as an intermediary, an older brother to tell Mom, “He’s telling the truth this time, I saw the whole thing — promise. ” [/QUOTE]
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