Two formative events for WikiLeaks

The german Chaos Computer Club is one of the oldest and most influential "hacker" organisations on this planet. Their annual conference "Chaos Communication Congress" in Berlin will go into its 27th year in December 2010.

2008 and 2009, the guys from WikiLeaks were there and gave an insight into what they are doing. Both years, a focus of their highly acclaimed lectures was to recruit people to help them. Many of the people who voluntarily work for the organization were in this room.

In light of the apparent easiness with which the alphabet soup disinformation machine seems to be able to convince people in the "conspiracy" community that WikiLeaks is a "CIA front" or whatever, i advice you to watch those two lectures and judge for yourself what those people are up to.

What we have seen from WikiLeaks in 2010 so far is exactly the strategy they've outlined in those lectures, successful to the impressive extent that every redneck dimwit now hates Julian Assange, who isn't the founder of WikiLeaks at all.

From the 2008 description:

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We will also talk about conclusions we can derive from these experiences and will present strategies on how investigative journalism, and therefore the fourth estate as the only truly independent control over the state and our future might be resurrected.