Broadband Tech > Security > Security > Wikileaks - Exposing Dark Side of Afghan War

said by Blackbird:

One of the greatest dangers to ungoverned release of genuine "raw intelligence" within less than 25 years or so of its creation is that some of the original foreign sources of certain of that intel will very often die as a result. And not merely if their names or titles appear openly in some report... more often because there's such an obvious circumstantial trail in the information details back to the source that he will be readily sniffed out by hostile parties. I've seen it happen before, and I have an extremely difficult time imagining that among 90,000 leaked reports (or especially the 15,000 'delayed' reports not yet released), there will not be significant deadly information to compromise human sources. I can only wonder if the 'greater good' of releasing this stuff will be worth the very real cost to lives that will result. And I have even greater hesitation that Assange or his souce(s) have the insight, experience, or perspective to make such serious judgements on those kinds of details within so many reports.

said by DarkSithPro:

I'm very surprised Wiki leaks hasn't suffered a huge DDOS, or some type of website comprise/shutdown.

said by SUMware:

• Wikileaks.com Hit by DDoS Attack and DNS Server Fire
• Wikileaks was down in part because of a DDOS attack

etc.

said by SUMware:

:)