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On 02/26/2011 10:05 PM, Felix Stalder wrote: > >> Why does noone discuss whether it wouldn't be safer for >> whistleblowers to directly contact a news medium like The Guardian >> instead of using an intermediary? (Credits to Dmytri again.) > > Safer than what? And safer to whom? So far, WikiLeaks has been very > successful in protecting its sources. The fact that Manning was > arrested is most definitely not related to any security breach by > Wikileaks. Manning chatted with Adrian Lamo who called the FBI. In contrast, the Guardian has failed to protect sources in the past: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Guardian#Sarah_Tisdall Next: Wikileaks isn't fast and it wasn't watertight to begin with. ;-) - Rob. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org