US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Ed Jewett]

Helen, I'm still at a loss in technical terms to understand much of the technology of what I do when I sit at my PC and post/blog to the world. (One web site notes an Internet user penetration rate of 0.00001%.) But your insight brings to mind what Vladimir Bukovsky, the veteran Soviet-era dissident wrote about in his book "To Build a Castle" when he depicted earlier days of samizdat, the typing of documents and notes in triplicate with carbon paper and the old "sneaker net" method of hand carrying them across town to meet a fellow for coffee who would go back home and make his own three copies in the same way. Today there are web sites and blogs which use that name. Copies of copies of copies even in the Internet age make for smudged reading and great imprecision as to source and veracity. We are still left alone with what wits, brains, intellect, logic and intuition we can bring to the issue. The great thing about networks like this one is that we can get a lot of minds in the same place to double-check ourselves. Now, with DPF and its satellite systems, we have hundreds of sources of knowledge, intellect, logic and intuition. And it's a lot easier and faster than typing three copies in triplicate.

An afterthought: There's video, now, too... so we have to be tube-literate as well.