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Comment Re:TMI (Score 1) 586

by gnurfed (#34449936) Attached to: WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort
First of all, as I'm writing this 667 out of 251,287 cables, or 0.27% of the total, have been released thus far. So we have a LONG time to go before we can summarize the leak and see "if it was worth it". They're doing the slow release so each piece is noticed, which I think is rather smart.

Second, I can't speak for all of the 667 released cables as I haven't had the time or patience to go through them, but one revealed the fact that CIA were still ferrying subjects of their "extraordinary renditions" over Sweden in 2006 without telling the Swedish government about it. The flights were tagged as private instead of official and was only discovered when the swedish secret service, dressed as flight staff, got into the plane and exposed them. This, of course, caused a serious diplomatic spat between Sweden and the US. Crimes against us poor swedes: 1, your argument that nothing has been found: 0.

I could be really mean and say one instance (concerning Sweden - again, I haven't had time to go through all the news from other countries) in 0,27% of the documents would indicate around 376 crimes against my country in the full batch, but that would be seriously absusing statistics.

Hopefully the remaining 250,620 documents will be as interesting as this first little teaser.
Government

Submission + - Wikileaks site hit with a DDoS before doc release (news.com.au)

Submitted by kaptink
kaptink writes: Wikileaks is reported to be in the midst of a DDoS by unknown purpotrators prior to its scheduled release of secret documents. “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” the whistleblowing website tweeted to its 200,000-plus followers. The site did not say or hazard a guess as to who was responsible for orchestrating the reported attack.

Submission + - Wikileaks is under cyber attack....

Submitted by
Brad1138
Brad1138 writes: "The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack, but even if it goes down, a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published Sunday night, it said via Twitter Sunday.The announcements come shortly after the United States warned WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange that publishing the papers would be illegal and endanger peoples' lives. Would the US Government openly sponsor an attack like this? Wikileaks is down as of this submission."

Submission + - DDoS Attack on Wikileaks (cnn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is down, the victim of a DDoS attack, according to CNN. Gee, who could possibly be behind something like that, as Wikileaks prepares to release millions of diplomatic cables embarrassing to the US government?

Submission + - Wikileaks under massive DDoS (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: BBC is reporting that wikileaks is under distributed denial of service attack. Speculation is that attack is attributable to announced release of embarrassing and damaging embassy communication. "The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country in the world," Mr Assange told reporters by video link on Sunday.

Submission + - WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: WikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The attack comes around the time of an expected release of classified State Department documents, which the Obama administration says will put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.

Submission + - WikiLeaks Hit By DDOS Attack 2

Submitted by Xelios
Xelios writes: Shortly before the release of the next big bombshell from WikiLeaks, the organization's Twitter feed has just announced that the site is being hit by "a mass distributed denial of service attack". Response from wikileaks.org is currently sporadic at best, however the Twitter feed also claims that "El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down".

Submission + - UK govt buries internet interception rule changes (techeye.net)

Submitted by tenori
tenori writes: Here's a good government guide: want to intercept internet traffic but have a pesky public consultation to get out of the way? Just bury it, keep the consultation period as short as you can get away with and exclude the people it affects. Job done!

Rights groups are questioning why the coalition government has only allowed a month for changes to the RIPA act. The Home Office continue to refuse to meet civil society groups saying: "We are focusing on those parties directly affected by the changes to the extent that those parties would be subject to the civil sanction or directly concerned with it, or are directly responsible, where lawful interception is taking place, for ensuring that consent has been obtained to the interception.". The ORG said: "In other words, the many thousands of people who have been adversely affected by illegal interception, and those who seek to stand up for their rights, are not “directly concerned” according to the Home Office."
Games

Heavy Rain Previews Show Promise 84

Posted by Soulskill from the blue-skies dept.
As the February release date for Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain nears, several publications have gotten a chance for some hands-on time with the game and seem to be intrigued by what they saw. Quoting the Opposable Thumbs blog: "The game grabs you during the quiet moments where nothing 'happens.' When you look at a picture your child drew. When you're questioning someone about a crime. When you're trying to figure out how to react to a violent situation. The preview we were sent put me in different situations as I played a small handful of characters, and each one provided a few tiny moments that were surprising in terms of storytelling or subtlety." Eurogamer's previewer had a similar reaction: "To my great delight as well — Heavy Rain isn't a mature game because it has unhappy families and moody lighting, it's a mature game because it anticipates an adult response from the player and is prepared to receive it."

Comment Re:Analysis of WIkiLeaks' action (Score 2, Interesting) 429

by gnurfed (#22765838) Attached to: Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram

When does "strong transparency" turn into treason, obstructing justice, or invasion of privacy?

That would depend on (1) the primary source of the information and (2) who publishes it. I don't think most 'patriotic' Chinese citizens would consider publishing the U.S. defence plans for Taiwan 'treason'. When it comes to classified material related to national security, the primary source is in most circumstances committing an illegal act. If it's treason... Well that probably depends on what is uncovered - if it shows that a government is breaking national laws it can be argued that NOT trying to make it known would amount to 'treason'.

Making an, relatively speaking, ancient design for an atomic bomb public is hardly something worth getting upset about, especially since any modern (and reasonably skilled) nuclear physicist could make a far better job.
Mozilla

Submission + - 3D inside browser without plugin

Submitted by
Hans Schmucker
Hans Schmucker writes: "The WHATWG is, as you probably know, right now forming the basis for the next generation of HTML. And I have to say, I love what they are doing and I especially love the browser makers (all except Microsoft, because from what I've seen so far I'd say that IE7 is simply the IE6 rendering engine with minor improvement and a new user interface, not a major update) for implementing the stuff that quickly.
Among other things, the WHATWG is standardizing Apple's Canvas element which is something web developers have wanted for years: A way to draw graphics inside the browser. Problem is that so far only the 2D part has been documented, even though both Mozilla and Opera are working on 3D support.
Well, to fill the gap I've put up a working software renderer here that uses the 2D commands to draw a simple (but real, not Doom-style 2.5D) 3D model from an OBJ file. It's not perfect and I'm taking a lot of shortcuts to speed up rendering, but it works pretty well. The code is available under GPL so you can take whatever you want and start your own program. The target for mine is to eventually become a racing game, and from what I've seen so far it seems possible to at least get VirtuaRacer style graphics.
Here's the link again: Canvas 3D Demo
Feel free to give feedback"
Announcements

Submission + - Nerd Apocalypse: Hardcore Gaming On the Decline

Submitted by
njkid1
njkid1 writes: "The numbers are out, and the verdict is in. The hardcore gamer audience is turning into a smaller and smaller piece of the pie. What will nerds do when the gaming industry starts to ignore them? The response to Next-Gen piece "THE GAMES PEOPLE BUY" has been pouring in. Ars-Technica Opposable Thumbs commented that demand for casual-style games is not necessarily reducing the number of hardcore gamers — it is making the percentage of Cheeto-eating, basement-dwelling gamers drop. http://www.gamedailyxl.com/2007/02/14/nerd-apocaly pse-hardcore-gaming-on-the-decline?&ncid=AOLGAM000 500000000014"

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