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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by zitterbewegung on Sunday July 31, 2016 @01:59PM (#12197992)
This is really illustrative of the motivations of Snowden VS Wikileaks. Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their private data so that they become so paranoid that they can't function. Thats why they don't do any curation.

Snowden's motivation is to reform the Intelligence Organizations in the United States. Thats why he supports curation and attempted to make the information that he leaked only have the information to reform.

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by hota_mazi on Sunday July 31, 2016 @02:40PM (#12198216)
Regardless of where you stand, leaking the credit card numbers and personal information of innocent participants in these documents is not cool.

Same goes for undercover agents whose very life depends on such confidentiality.

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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by meira on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:51PM (#12199299)
DNC policies affects way more people in the world that they should (innocent people in Syria and Libia, for example), so I see the leak as a problem that DNC is responsible, not the "leaker".
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by kmiroslav on Sunday July 31, 2016 @08:50PM (#12199646)
This is like saying that if somebody leaves their door unlocked, it's their fault if they get robbed and the robber shouldn't be held responsible.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by meira on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @08:24AM (#12209377)
If what you hide there is a dead body and the robbers tell the cops anonymously, you're guilty of murder :) and then, I don't care if you got robbed.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by raverbashing on Sunday July 31, 2016 @02:38PM (#12198206)
Except Wikileaks is hurting people that have nothing to do with the leaked documents, like Democratic campaign donors (even those who donated $5)
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by cynix on Sunday July 31, 2016 @09:14PM (#12199697)
If Wikileaks believe an organisation is bad, they would of course also think that the supporters of this organisation (the donors in this case) are bad. We can argue whether their initial belief is appropriate or not, but their actions appear to be consistent.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by MichaelGG on Sunday July 31, 2016 @03:52PM (#12198532)
It's not nice, but if those people get harassed, then that'll put more pressure on the parties. So it still helps the goal of making it hard for government orgs to operate.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by tedunangst on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:13PM (#12198616)
Yeah, and if some Republican's daughter gets an abortion, we should totally publish her medical records to prove he's a hypocrite. Maybe next time she'll choose a better father.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by raverbashing on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:34PM (#12198695)
> making it hard for government orgs to operate

Sure, that will be lovely

Just remember what might happen if firefighters, police, CDC, FAA, FDA have trouble operating

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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by MichaelGG on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:46PM (#12198759)
Not agreeing just saying it clearly adds pressure to the org.
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Re:Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party ... by Grue3 on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:45AM (#12202297)
>Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their private data so that they become so paranoid that they can't function.

Except for Russia and China, for some reason (clearly not for the lack of leaks).

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