Wikileaks doesn't do the journalism; they provide the inaccessible raw data and worldwide reader attention that allow journalists to do their job in an environment where their employers would prefer to see more articles about celebrities.

You do own it, in that your representatives can change the NASA policies about patents.
NASA auctioning these patents means they put towards funding more R&D, which you will own and benefit from.

iDesign is trademarked, heavily.

Do you have any evidence that registrars are accepting soft hyphens in domain names?

soft hyphens supposed to be eliminated in the Name Preparation phase.

The soft hyphen is being used by spammers to obfuscate their URLs in order to get past anti-spam rules.

This slashdot story appears to be misinformation and a plug for Symantec.

If it was industrial sabotage, they would have intentionally used old published news stories to make it appear that one nation targeting another nation. Nothing influences government purchasing policies like national security.

As always, (anti-virus) protection companies have the most to gain from unprecedented attacks, so they get my vote. This attack gave them a whole new market begging for servitude. And the potentially infected installations are unlikely to publicly say that their billion dollar hardware was screwed up, if they can at all avoid it, and the payload sounds like it gives them a nice option: wear and tear.

If the source of the worm is a group or individual, they are either dead or set for life.

It is more like the difference between "I intend to kill you" and "Please kill yourself".

The difference is important given that this quote is being used to justify treating Iran as a sovereign nation run by a president capable of starting a nuclear war which would almost certainly result in its own annihilation.