"I don't know all the people working on Mailpile. One of them though, Smari
McCarthy worked on the Collateral Murder video with Wikileaks and has been
subsequently investigated by the USG. Somewhere on his blog there is some
proof of this in the way of FOIA requests. This seems to give the project, in
my opinion, some good karma as far as I can tell."
That is, unfortunately, another thing that only adds to my suspicion...
Because, the "WikiLeaks" project, that must be the "alternative" media
organization that I have ever seen be most promoted by the corporate media,
is, in fact, a CIA project, that has already been denounced by a credible
author, that I've repeatedly mentioned in this thread - the former KGB agent,
who gives speeches in the European Parliament, Daniel Estulin.
"WikiLeaks" is all about: spreading the idea of "insecurity" on the Internet
(by allowing "classified" information to be easily spread), that will justify
more control (/censorship) over it (pay attention to the laws that will be
passed, in the near future, because of this); spreading disinformation, and
propaganda, from the part of the establishment (I can give arguments about
this, but don't think this is the place to do it); and, surely, to serve as a
trap for people who want to denounce (really) important stuff. Being the
"Collateral Murder video" leak, surely, just a cynical leak, made to promote
WikiLeaks, and one that doesn't really hurt the establishment, itself, since
that, it doesn't change people's opinion concerning the Invasion of Iraq.
You can read all about what Estulin has to say about WikiLeaks, in a book he
wrote about it:
http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/9781937584115-Deconstructing_Wikileaks/index.html
Concerning the Freedom Box project,
As I said earlier, in this thread, not everyone working for (or helping)
projects or institutions that may have bad intentions, is a bad person, aware
of such projects' or institutions' (possible) ultimate goals... I don't know
who Eben Moglen is, and I'll take a look at the speech you linked to. But, I
guess he's just someone who, like the FSF (who I, most definitely, don't
suspect of being ill-intentioned), just didn't (unlike me) see anything
suspicious in just another Free Software project.
After all, if it does stand up to its intentions - of building a truly secure
network for private communications - it seems like a good idea, doesn't it?
And, my problem with it, is not even the concept, in itself, but the
possibility that this particular implementation of it may not be as secure as
it promises - and that, therefore, its use may constitute a trap.
And, concerning the idea, itself... Remember that, what cannot be decrypted
today, will be so, in the Future. And that, the human being (in its way of
thinking) is (in its different subtypes, obviously) always basically the
same, no matter what nationality or time era s/he lives in. And, even if such
network truly encrypts its communications in a way that cannot be decrypted
by the powers-that-be today, they can simply archive such communications, to
be used for later study, in the Future.
Cheers.
