Interestingly the article speaks of leaks but slips into accounting for the leaks as the work of hackers. Establishing 'the powers that be' vs. the 'hacker - the citizen's self appointed avenger' seems a strange collapse that denies the inherent instability (that the internet has been so useful for revealing) between authority/citizen.
Naming Wikileaks (or any other whistleblowing site) as hackers conveniently outlaws them (even if being championed Robin Hood-like), rather than leaving them in the murky legal status of leaker. Is that not a position we occupy to some degree while we consume and relay the same material? Colin # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
