A stretch? Literally everyone in Afghanistan found out that, if you cooperate with the Americans, some retarded PFC working with an Australian Albino might publish your name so that the Taliban can come looking for you and your family. How is it a stretch to suggest that locals might decide that the risk wasn't worth it? And what in the hell does it have to do with urination?

Yes, Dr. Technicallity, it's true that WikiLeaks didn't do the hacking themselves. They "only" encouraged and assisted others in doing so. In the same way that Charles Manson never actually killed anyone. That didn't stop us from locking him up though.

Stealing classified information has never been one of the freedoms of the press.

That's abject bullshit. He didn't testify that they hadn't found any specific examples; in fact he gave one specific example. That example was then disqualified when objected to by the defense. When asked if he had any other examples, he said no. That doesn't mean that "nobody died", it just means that he didn't have another specific example at that moment in time. He also testified that the release of information had damaged the relationship with the locals, leading to fewer Afghans being willing to work with coalition forces. This undoubtedly caused some deaths simply due to lack of information and resources which would otherwise have been available, though you obviously can't point to any specific death and say "yeah, Bradley caused that one there".

Nonsense. Nobody actually has a problem with "interventionist assholes"; they just want said assholes to interfere in their favour. If you're going to interfere, just make sure you win.

I never understood this idiotic insistence that deterrence doesn't work. Where do you get such ideas? Are you listening to some cult leader or something?

No, the punishment of prison is supposed to be the fact that you've lost your freedom. Being "separated from society" is utterly meaningless if you can just carry on doing whatever the fuck you want to do with a new group of friends. I've been "separated from society" many times when sent on deployments or posted to isolated stations; it was something I did willingly as part of my job. If you make prison no more of a "punishment" than that then you may as well not even bother.

"Let's start with that 25% figure. Why do you think we have so many prisoners?" Because, unlike most other "developed" countries, the USA doesn't typically play the catch-and-release game. If you commit a murder in Canada you could be out of jail in 5 years; in the US you'd be lucky to get out after 15. Longer sentences result in higher incarceration rates. Add to that the fact that the US has a porous border overrun by criminals from narco-states, as well as a large chunk of population which glorifies "gangsta" culture, and, well ... the end result shouldn't surprise anyone.

Email phishing is soooo 2000. The other guy was right; social media and messaging apps are where it's at. Welcome to 2023.

A quick check of Wikipedia shows that the Netherlands and Sweden both have more wealth inequality than the USA, so I'm not sure that your generalization is at all accurate.

Scroll up, Einstein.

No, the default behavior is for the intermediary server to connect and render the preview. If Skype did that, then all he would see is the IP of a Skype server. Try the same thing with Whatsapp or Signal and you'll see the difference.

Oh man. I can't believe someone actually invented a system that's guaranteed to make robocalls a million times worse.

I might not be able to hit you with a nuke, but I can certainly hit you with a Low Orbit Ion Cannon.

IPs are public; ownership of IPs is generally not. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult concept for you. My street address is also public, but I wouldn't want it available to some random Slashdot weirdo. If my comments here somehow leaked my street address, that would be a serious problem. Leaking my IP might be slightly less of a concern, but it's still something that should be avoided.