Oh, internet. I love you so much.
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the Pentagon that WikiLeaks “return” its entire cache of published and unpublished classified U.S. documents.
“The United States has the cyber capabilities to prevent WikiLeaks from disseminating those materials,” wrote Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen on Friday. “Will President Obama order the military to deploy those capabilities? … If Assange remains free and the documents he possesses are released, Obama will have no one to blame but himself.”
The U.S. government has other, less legal, options, of course — the “cyber” capabilities Thiessen alludes to. The Pentagon probably has the ability to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against WikiLeaks’ public-facing servers. If it doesn’t, the Army could rent a formidable botnet from Russian hackers for less than the cost of a Humvee.
"There have been unreasonable statements made in private by certain officials in the US administration," Assange replies. "How would you define 'unreasonable'?" "Statements which suggest that they may not follow the rule of law."
A 1.4-gigabyte encrypted file labelled "insurance" on WikiLeaks, prompting speculation that it contained the full, unedited War Diary, and that the pass code to access the files would be released if any action were taken against the site by US authorities.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/cyberwar-wikileaks/comment-page-1/#comments (hilariousness in comments/flame war section)
update: Oh Keith Olberman, I love you so much too. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38731398#38731398
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