WikiLeaks

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This week, in lectures we talked about CyberPolitics and eDemocracy, and also about Wikileaks and the Julian Assange case. Before starting the New Communication Technology course, I did not know who Assange was. I had however heard of Wikileaks, but not enough. To be honest I thought it was related to Wikipeda. That is embarrassing. I understand now that Wikileaks is a non-for-profit organization that publishes secrets and classified information to the people, and that Assange now is being wanted because of it. (http://wikileaks.org/About.html)

So Wikileaks and Assange is what they call hacker-activists. Which I understand as hacking for good, not evil. When I have heard the term "hacking" I have always thought about evil people wanting to destroy or find information about innocent people, but I guess there are as much "good" hackers as there are "bad". They call them Whistleblowers, the ones that finds out big secrets that for example the government have been lying about - and tells it to everyone by posting it anonymously online

I am pleased with the new information I have learned so far, and hope to be even more educated in the CyberPolitics, and I will probably follow the case against Assagne more closely now.

References:

http://wikileaks.org/

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