Hi, Yesterday I've spent some time research the latest developments of Wikileaks - it's fascinating, and could possibly give a lead on a possible background, or at least some elements to put in the gameplay.
For their latest "coup", they have got 250K cables, which are internal confidential messages from the US diplomatic services (ambassy, local agents...). To read on the subject, see for example this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=1 Also, because I try to "do" at least one thing every day (even if it's very small), I've also tried to plug something from wikileaks into an install of the hackit codebase. I've basically turned it into a search engine for the released cables - go try and lookup your country or your local politicians to get an idea of the kind of information we could exploit for the game this way: http://metaleaks.com/ I've also compiled a list of references and elements that we could use for missions: http://farsides.com/wiki/Missions_Ideas/WikiLeaks And last, I've mentioned it in the Reddit thread that I had used to find out how to search the cable database, and the guy who initiated the thread liked it - we have our first Reddit thread with 30+ upvotes ;p http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/efjbb/wikileaks_how_to_keyword_search_cablegate_using/ Xavier.
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