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So where does WikiLeaks get its leaks from? Are they breaking into government computers, or just intercepting communications? Is there an insider giving them access to confidential documents, or have they actively torturing government officials until they give up their state secrets?

What's up with WikiLeaks?

>> No.2128726

Whistleblowers.

Proof that there are still morally integral people in this world.

People who supply documents to Wikileaks: The unsung heroes of the world, the ones we owe our no-longer-Huxlerian future to.

>> No.2128730

>pic related, it's the real Acid Burn

>> No.2128731
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IS SHE IN CHARGE OF HIGH CYBORG COMMAND.......

>> No.2128725

some dude in the military just burned it all onto CDs and sent it to them

>> No.2128734

There are people in government who give it to them. There are over a million people with a "secret" clearance so it isn't a huge leak.

Except in really hardcore places the computers are pretty badly locked down. The iraq war leak was done by a guy who brought a CDrw to work everyday and burned documents to it every day.

>> No.2128740

Normally when british politicians lose their laptops on trains, or walk out of buidlings with documents face up on the outside of their whatever it is they carry.

>> No.2128745

>>2128726
Morally integral is not a word, but having moral integrity is....

>> No.2128764

>>2128745
What is the antiderivative of morality?

>> No.2128769

>>2128764
Nihilism?

>> No.2128784

>implying wilikileaks isn't being fed information by intelligence agencies

You haven't asked yourself why all the supposed "leaks" have basically backed up government claims that were made long before wikileaks released the information?

The US has claimed all along that Iran was providing weapons to people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the wikileaks docs say the same.

The US claims that Pakistans security agencies are harboring and helping the taliban, and the wikileaks docs from before also back up this claim.

The list goes on and on.

>> No.2128804

Too bad they didn't get any Top Secret classified documents. I find it hard to imagine why some people object to wikileaks on principle. I think they have an interesting role to play, to check and balance in this increasingly undemocratic world. However, it might have been wise to be more discriminating on which documents to reveal. I hope there won't be too much trouble in Yemen.

>> No.2128824

>>2128764
the area under the morality curve is called justice

>> No.2128832

>>2128784
>the video of the helicopter guys shooting iraqis

>> No.2128836

Moslty insiders leaking information. Hence the name.

>> No.2128844

>>2128832


I knew about that accident before wikileaks released the video.

It was reported by the military itself a few weeks after it happened.

>> No.2128860

>>2128804

Some people seem to think that wikileaks is run by the CIA

>> No.2128857

>>2128832
Who gives a fuck about them? Killing them is fun

>> No.2128895

>>2128844
accident lol

but did you see vid? no, just knew about it

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>>2128857
Killing you would be fun too, actually no it wouldn't. You just make me sad.

>> No.2128911

>>2128857
torturing the sand niggers and their children to death would have been more fun. but that wasn't my point. vid was first in public domain through wikileaks

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>>2128895

The incident was reported by the military. And it was widely reported on by the New York times long before wikileaks even received the video.

>accident lol

What else would you call it? oh let me guess, you're another internet keyboard warrior who will claim that the apache pilot received direct orders to find reporters and kill them.

So wtf am i arguing you for.

pic related.

>> No.2128919

>>2128895
Only added value brought by the video was that it looked scandalous to untrained eye (especially the clip that was originally advertised) as it gave people false idea what was going on.

>> No.2128930

>>2128916
but did you see vid? no, just knew about it.

>> No.2128934

>>2128919
You mean they weren't killing people? Everyone who participates in war, on both sides are in the wrong.

>> No.2128943

>>2128919
>scandalous to those with a functioning conscience

ftfy

and why are you bothering to argue?

>> No.2128944

>>2128916
>i'm ashamed to show my face in this thread

>> No.2128949

>>2128934
there are just wars, and there are unjust actions during just wars

and then there are unjust actions in unjust wars

>> No.2128967

>>2128949
Whatever, it would just be nice if we never had the gall to make the problems in society such as slavery or genocides(which more often then not get ignored), or a whole host of other problems that lead up to an actual war.

>> No.2128971

Hey, we already have a thread about this non-/sci/ topic.

>> No.2128972

>>2128967
cool story bro

>> No.2128988

>>2128784
So your point is the following:

>OMG THESE LEAKS CAN'T BE REAL, THEY PROVE THAT SOMETHINGS THAT WERE WIDELY KNOWN BEFOREHAND ARE TRUE

That doesn't make any sense.

>> No.2128997

>>2128967
>I wish people didn't do bad things to each other.
So do I.