Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
by M_Grey on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:47PM
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Yeah, because people in power have always had so much trouble until e-mail. The most that can come from this is that people who might not have gotten the memo before, will have now: conspire in private, over drinks.
Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
by ThomPete on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:59AM
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They actually did and a lot was intercepted one way or the other. It required a lot of middle men to work.
Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
by M_Grey on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:08AM
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No need to take a cross-country train to meet your counterparts anymore; everyone ends up rubbing shoulders with everyone else far more frequently these days.
Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
by ThomPete on Thursday November 03, 2016 @11:36AM
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Because of the use of technology which is exactly what WikiLeaks is trying to obstruct.
Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
by M_Grey on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:00PM
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Wikileaks is obstructing airplanes and automobiles? I don't think so.
Their claim is that technology allows governments to conspire. Not in an Alex Jones kind of way but simply that technology allow governments and people in power to exchange information effectively enough to coordinate various plans.
Some of these are good some of them are bad, but ultimately the idea that the governments can conspire is bad and so Wikileaks want to make it so impractical to use technology to communicate that they are forced to use other less effective means.
You can't only understand wiki-leaks if you only understand them as a political organization. You have to understand them as an techno-activist organization using information to destroy the way information is used by those in power.