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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2010, 06:10:01 AM »
Getting close to closing time.........

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2010, 11:59:33 AM »
Getting close to closing time.........
Oh sorry, it hasn't been closed yet? There are no grounds to close it...yet at least.

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #32 on: December 10, 2010, 12:01:47 PM »
Some people (no names, no pack drill) have a somewhat curious attitude to this topic, as if they think the Feds are going to come crashing through CH's front door if it is so much as discussed.


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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #33 on: December 10, 2010, 12:24:07 PM »

Why not let it come to it natural end, a bit like how the majority of topics end?

There are no grounds to close it...yet at least.
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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #34 on: December 10, 2010, 12:31:36 PM »
Why not let it come to it natural end, a bit like how the majority of topics end?

quite right , and then someone will revise it again in a few weeks

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #35 on: December 10, 2010, 12:36:34 PM »
quite right , and then someone will revise it again in a few weeks
Eh, that seldom happens.  Once a topic has received no new posts for a few days, it usually remains quietly in it's place down the list. 

If it's going to be allowed to "come to it natural end", I'd say it's time to let that process start.

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #36 on: December 10, 2010, 12:44:15 PM »
i agree with that but i also agree with kpac above

me signing of on this topic

EDIT: or am i  ;)

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #37 on: December 10, 2010, 12:47:51 PM »

If it's going to be allowed to "come to it natural end", I'd say it's time to let that process start.

Wiki-leaks is still in the news and may yet throw up more things to discuss, but i'm sure you'd prefer to 'sign off' from this topic yourself, instead of having it locked when you've got something to say!
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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #38 on: December 10, 2010, 12:49:21 PM »
True.

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2010, 12:49:35 PM »
I think there is plenty about this topic that has not been discussed - for example I read today that the editor of the New York Times has said that the readers comments on the web site were split (1) between the fact that Wikileaks published the classified emails, and (2) what the emails contained, and that more comments focussed on the leak than on the contents. I would guess that outside the US the ratio is reversed. It certainly is here in the UK. One thing is plain - the cat is now well and truly out of the bag, and things will never be the same again. For example, the British public now know just what official America thinks of our country, and also just how much certain British politicians and officials have been ready, nay, eager to bow the knee to Washington. These are uncomfortable facts, and it is no wonder that people over there in the USA feel touchy.

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Re: WikiLeaks
« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2010, 01:25:06 PM »
signed back in again

salmon i agree with you , i think that most people in Britain think the politicians and officials kowtowed to much to America over the years and also it was mainly tony blair and his clan and mainly over the issue of the war and what lead up to it and its all coming out in the wash now in wikileaks

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    Re: WikiLeaks
    « Reply #41 on: December 11, 2010, 11:15:20 AM »
    What do you think about it?

    Not much.

    What I would like to know is how a hacker dump site managed to get accepted by the mainstream in the first place? Evidently everyone thinks it's bad when a hacker steals a persons private information from their own computer since we all have sotware to try to prevent it. Why is it ok to steal from governments and not individual's? Some government somewhere has private information on each and every one of us. Everyone would get upset should a hacker get their private information from a government or corporate database & yet it's ok as long as it's someone elses? Doesn't make sense to me. Stealing is stealing and so is accepting stolen property.

    I don't visit WikiLeaks or any other hacker site that I know of and have no intentions of starting now. Wikileaks can try to portray themselves as a modern day Robin Hood all they want to but in reality they are just a bunch of theives and terroists who like to gossip. Anyone care to guess what these same hackers are doing with the personal financial information they are collecting along with what they publish? 

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    Re: WikiLeaks
    « Reply #42 on: December 11, 2010, 11:57:32 AM »
    i may be wrong and i will stand corrected , but if wikileaks hacked into any gov; web site , that would be known in minutes and the hacking would be stopped.

    the information was passed to wikileaks who then made all documents safe before they published

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      Re: WikiLeaks
      « Reply #43 on: December 11, 2010, 12:04:20 PM »
      49M. I do not know where it has come to your thinking that "Wikileaks" is or has been a "hacker". You are misinformed or are making an unfounded accusation as if it were a fact. A major part of the Wikileaks" defense against any forthcoming charges related to their release of material (by the way to the best of my knowledge as of this date no such charges have been laid ) will be that they DID NOT themselves go to the source of the data. They were provided it by another (now in prison)a person that did have the access and took it. That person then passed it on to Wikileaks. With all due respect if you intend to participate in the discussion with credibility it would serve you well to verify your assertions before making them. Certainly at this point enough has been writted and stated re this issue that the information to make credible statements does exist. truenorth

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      Re: WikiLeaks
      « Reply #44 on: December 11, 2010, 12:19:31 PM »
      I've got to agree with 49M.  WikiLeaks may not of done the hacking, but they knew the data was hacked.  That's almost like saying that someone that buys a list of credit card numbers from a hacker is innocent.