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good one. nice and good site

rogwilsmith — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:38:11 +0000

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good one. nice and good site

It's funny enough when Ron

Desideroo — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:20:01 +0000

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It's funny enough when Ron Paul manages to hit another one out of the park.

He's sometimes quite the nutcake, and sometimes spot on.

Better than these guys who always seem to be disappointing.

It's not just Assange & the

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:55:16 +0000

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It's not just Assange & the UK ramping things up:

On Monday, as Mr. Assange’s lawyers said he would meet with the British police about criminal charges involving sexual encounters in Sweden, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the Justice Department had “a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature” into the WikiLeaks matter.
“I authorized just last week a number of things to be done so that we can hopefully get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable,” he said at a news conference, declining to elaborate.
Mr. Holder’s statement followed Mr. Assange’s assertion that “over 100,000 people” had been given the entire archive of 251,287 cables “in encrypted form.”

from

Founder of WikiLeaks Threatens to Release More Secret Dispatches
By SCOTT SHANE, December 6, 2010
@ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/world/europe/07assange.html

Thanks! So my bad on

artappraiser — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:13:11 +0000

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Thanks! So my bad on Fox--they were not just making stuff up this time or even just beating an old horse.

So in your world, citing a

Donal — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:17:36 +0000

In reply to No, I'm taking you at your

So in your world, citing a source = "pretending to know." Not in my world, and not worth even this much discussion.

No, I'm taking you at your

DF — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:09:00 +0000

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No, I'm taking you at your word:

From what I've read, the zip file isn't large enough to be the BoA revelations.

As I explained above, you're basing this on a statement that Assange made a year ago about the (likely uncompressed) size of the information they have on BofA. The bottom line is that you don't know what's in the file, but you're pretending like you know enough to rule out that it contains information about BofA. There are some good reasons that it might not, but the file size has nothing to do with it.

To put a finer point on it, the best English text compression algorithms can compress text by nearly 90% without the aid of an external dictionary. So, hopefully this will put to bed your insistence that you can know that 5GB of data just can't be compressed to 1.4GB. It is entirely possible that the insurance file contains not only the entire BofA dump, but much more.

Also, the first commenter on the Zero Hedge link explains why their call to get the file decrypted is so stupid, which is that the insurance file is encrypted with AES256. No one is just going to break the encryption. Zero Hedge is clearly out of their depth on this story.

Fascinating. It's as if we

Oxy Mora — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:18:14 +0000

In reply to Assange certainly is not a

Fascinating. It's as if we may be spared years of rationing of "inside stories" by news machines, during which time dubious policies are enacted outside our purview, and brought around to real time observation of what actually is going on--hopefully in time to have a voice in things. A reordering of "news" and the fourth estate. I think that's a good thing.

Can anyone find a reference

kgb999 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:49:06 +0000

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Can anyone find a reference to Assange or Wikilieaks giving a "blackmail" or "insurance" type reason for that file?

I don't know if they had done so previously (I sort of think they said in general terms when the file was first released - not entirely sure though). Either way, Assange's lawyer made statements of this nature just today.

Assange sounds like the

Dan Kervick — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:58:47 +0000

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Assange sounds like the typical libertarian/anarchist adolescent nitwit with the usual contorted thinking about freedom and government.

You are pretending that I was

Donal — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:39:04 +0000

In reply to You and Zero Hedge are both

You are pretending that I was pretending.