what an article for Pynchon's birthday......wikileaks: we fight Them

[Mark Kohut]

  Safe websites let you embarrass people in high places    
   08 May 2008   
   Paul Marks   
   Magazine issue 2655 
    Just how accurate are GPS-guided precision bombs, and what is most likely to send them off-target? Now you can find out by simply reading the smart bomb's tactical manual on the internet. No, the Pentagon didn't slip up and post the instructions online. Rather, a whistle-blower leaked the manual via Wikileaks, a website that uses anonymising technology to disguise the source of leaked information. 
  Launched online in early 2007, Wikileaks is run by an informal group of open government and anti-secrecy advocates who want to allow people living under oppressive regimes, or with something to say in the public interest, to anonymously leak documents that have been censored or are of ethical, political or diplomatic significance. 
  Wikileaks' fame has spread rapidly in recent weeks, thanks to the release of some headline-grabbing documents. These include the design for the Hiroshima atomic bomb, a report on how the UK acquired its nuclear ...

  The complete article is 1210 words long.

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