The entire wikileaks story is intriguing to me and will set a major precedent in how similar future events are handled. After September 11th, an event now so ingrained in us that it needs no year, I was enthralled in the show 24 which had tense terrorist plots and torture techniques.

Now as the leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange is being held in prison on probably false charges, the US Republicans express their hate of him and the need of new freedom of speech restricting laws, one wonders what will come of this all. A good article about the insanity of it all is available at Times Colonist.

On a technical level, it is interesting to see how the 'cloud' is censoring his site, visa, mastercard are not supporting it, DoD attacks have tried to stop it, but it keeps multiplying into more and more mirrors. You can't censor data in our new technical world. You can't forget what has been exposed.