{"id":357,"date":"2010-12-06T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T04:51:16","slug":"a-quick-guide-to-ineffectively-downplaying-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2010\/12\/a-quick-guide-to-ineffectively-downplaying-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Guide to Ineffectively Downplaying Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gibbs, US Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Press Secretary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe should nev\u00ader be afraid of one guy who plopped down $35 and bought a web address. \u2026 Let\u2019s not be scared of one guy with a laptop.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Julian Assange, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/blog\/2010\/dec\/03\/julian-assange-wikileaks\">Guardian Q&amp;A<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal from the US and oth\u00ader coun\u00adtries to over 100,000 peo\u00adple in encrypt\u00aded form. If some\u00adthing hap\u00adpens to us, the key parts will be released auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly. Fur\u00adther, the Cable Gate archives is in the hands of mul\u00adti\u00adple news organisations.&nbsp;[\u2026]&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The basic prob\u00adlem with Gib\u00adb\u2019s assess\u00adment, along with Lieber\u00adman\u2019s, is that they don\u2019t under\u00adstand the tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy or the infra\u00adstruc\u00adture involved in the Wik\u00adileaks effort. These are not dumb peo\u00adple eas\u00adi\u00adly swat\u00adted with a sin\u00adgle favour from a US host\u00ading ser\u00advice or polit\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adnec\u00adtion at ICANN. Any gov\u00adern\u00adment brava\u00addo in this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is at best pre\u00adtence. And as for under\u00adly\u00ading mes\u00adsage in Gib\u00adb\u2019s state\u00adment \u2014 that we have noth\u00ading to fear \u2014 who said we do in the first&nbsp;place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gibbs, US Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Press Sec\u00adre\u00adtary: We should nev\u00ader be afraid of one guy who plopped down $35 and bought a web address. \u2026 Let\u2019s not be scared of one guy with a lap\u00adtop.&nbsp; Julian Assange, in the Guardian Q&amp;A: The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal from the US&nbsp;and&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}