Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks

An anonymous reader writes "Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, explains why he feels it is right to encourage the leaking of secret information. He maintains that the more money an organisation spends on trying to conceal information, the more good it is likely to do if leaked. For Assange, leaked intelligence reveals the true state of governments, their human rights abuses, and their activities, it's what the 'history of journalism is.' On the media's role in making information available to the public, Assange maintains that 'the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information [classified documents] than the rest of the world press combined.'"

Shirley

[Anonymous Coward]

from the balls-of-steel dept.
Surely that should be 'balls of steal'.

Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

HE should reveal the location of all US nukes and their launch codes... because those are kept secret and cost a lot of money.

Re:Shirley

[Pojut]

It should.

And don't call me Shirley.

Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar

[Korin43]

Be quiet and get back to work, citizen. The government knows what's best for you.

Re:There is a need for classified material.

[Anonymous Coward]

I like you thinking! So by having more information we have a less complete picture. Then by having less information we have a more complete picture. Wow, you should go talk to those MPEG guys an explain your compression technique...

Re:Blood on his hands

[geminidomino]

We'd rather vote on American Idol than in a presidential election.

I hate American Idol as much as the last slashdotter, but let's be fair to the couch potatoes here.

At least voting on Idol has some chance of actually accomplishing something.

Re:Team up with the Daily Show!

[Anonymous Coward]

First of all, those two stations aren't anything alike. Pacifica is straightforward in its left-wing bias, whereas NPR is about as balanced a news show as you'll find these days. They frequently interview government officials and ask them questions they'd rather not be asked. They did it when Republicans were in power, and they're doing it now.

First of all, those two shows aren't anything alike. Rush is straightforward in his right-wing bias, whereas Hannity is about as balanced a news show as you'll find these days. He frequently interviews government officials and ask them questions they'd rather not be asked. He did it when Republicans were in power, and He's doing it now.

See, I can do it too!