The Wiki-Leaks Cold War.
Astounding information regarding the constant flow of classified information from the website Wiki-Leaks, has rendered the 21st century politicians terrified and the general public curious. It is true that the website and its chief editor Julian Assange is wreaking havoc on the privacy of government-information from countries such as Europe, United States, Taiwan, East Asia, Australia, and the list drones on in disbelief. The slogan of the non-profit orginization reads “We Open Governments”. Doing their business in an underground Cold War styled bunker, Wiki-Leaks has created a truly diabolical network of relationships to VIP’s with secret information all around the world.
What makes the diabolical even more of a debacle, is the powerlessness of the government in combating the huge strides made by Julian Assange in gathering new important information. Students at Columbia University looking for federal jobs advised not to “go talking about the WikiLeaks cables on the Web”. So just why can’t the political agenda of all the countries affected by the website focus in on taking Assange down? Noted on the website, Asange has installed is “Military-grade encryption” making it equally as hard for the most skilled computer hackers to infiltrate the web channels. Currently as the work progresses to decipher how to go about disarming Assange and the organization, it would almost seem that little is being done to crush the site at this very moment. This may be due to the little media coverage after the wake of Iran war documents gathered by the website. The political back-off in media incites nothing about the effort to counteract the organization. The U.S. has tried to contain the damage from Wiki-leaks after its release of 272 diplomatic cables from a plethora of many more. Sensitivity of these cables, interactions between countries on important political issues, is dire and has great effect on the war-torn countries the U.S. and other regions are involved with. After the cables were released, Islamabad Pakistan newspapers were flooded with Wiki-Leaks, and stayed that for weeks and months after the fact.
The government may not be “rendered powerless” at this moment in time. It can be said however, that the security wrapped around the enigma of Julian Assange and his crew of dastardly doers is of the same caliber as the U.S. military. I as a student of the 21st century can see how fathomable it is for there to be an online superpower. Knowing the power of the Internet for a long time, I’ve grown up in a family in which support comes from a father working with computers all day. For most people in the world, some of these advances made by Wiki-Leaks is not feasible. He is truly fighting fire with fire when gathering the information. By putting up a firewall as strong as the most powerful government in the world, you’ve gotta be doing something right. What has fascinated me greatly is the space he is working in too. A cold war bunker is so perfect for the online warfare being done. In reality the cold war was just the beginning of inter-web advances, an arms race in which we were never face to face with the enemy, but we knew through reconnaissance that they could be growing in strength. The problem that is faced now, is a question of whether or not the countries of the world affected by this online-disease come together and try to dismantle the establishment Julian Assange has made.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/inside_the_wiki_lair_ooUmR2B6nVRVRuoIDGHSMI
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/us-government-powerless-to-plug-wikileaks/article1825962/
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