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Wikileaks: Yet another ‘enemy of the state’

dan tynan on Mar 16 2010 | Filed under: Crazyass cults, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, National insecurity, Privacy, Spy v spy, censorship

I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that’s pretty wild. It accuses the US government of deliberately trying to take the whistle-blower site down two years ago.
As proof, Wikileaks has posted a 32-page classified document [PDF] from the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis program, dated March 2008, which details "the [...]

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When worlds (and particles) collide

dan tynan on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Crazyass cults, Cringley, Infoworld

What happens when atoms collide at the speed of light? People get really stupid. Cringely takes on the Large Hadron Collider and its torch holding, pitchfork wielding critics.

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Is Scientology Attacking YouTube?

dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube

From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]

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