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Daily Archives: 23 December 2010

Leaks in a house where the pipes froze

Posted on 23 December 2010 by Geoff

Bruce Sterling has written a very engaging piece for Webstock about WikiLeaks. I particularly like his perspectives on Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. I’ve excerpted quite a lot of the passages focused on those two here, but it’s really worth reading in its entirety.

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