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zunguzungu
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zunguzungu is a personal blog at zunguzungu.wordpress.com about politics and culture. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why leaks are so toxic to secretive entities”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on Julian Assange's essays and views on secrecy, leaks and state conspiracies, often as a summary of his thinking behind WikiLeaks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why leaks are so toxic to secretive entities5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-12-01
- Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-12-02
What Hacker News says?
To really understand where Assange is coming from I always found this to be one of the most useful descriptions of his goal. "... ccording to his essay, Julian Assange is trying to do something else. Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will no…
Comment linking /2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/
on “Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society”Submitted Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth) as a story · 179 points
HN discussionAs I understand it the point of the leaks or not the documents per se but the actual leak of them. As stated elsewhere According to his essay, Julian Assange is trying to do something else. Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will not be, in a…
Comment linking /2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/
on “Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science”Submitted Why leaks are so toxic to secretive entities as a story · 8 points
HN discussionObviously Assange (et al.) didn't ask anyone if they could leak sensitive data -- and perhaps they should have (but how exactly would that have gone do you expect?) -- but I believe Assange is acting on this above principle. In fact, Assange has written down the principles he bases Wikileaks on: https://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-a... In summary, he treats government as a conspiracy (liberall…
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on “WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize ”Submitted The Grass Is Closed: What I Have Learned About Power from Police, Occupy Cal as a story · 5 points
HN discussion- nl · 2013-08-16
Assange's seldom mentioned manifesto[1] talks about the goal of making secrecy impossible by making the secret systems either completely disconnected from the real world, or so liable to leaking that they are no longer secret. It's difficult imagining that goal being completely achieved, but it is interesting how closely the Snowden story matched Assange's thoughts. Note that Assange's writing is pretty.. umm.. dens…
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on “Edward Snowden and Gen Y: a sign of leaks to come?” Submitted Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWikileaks is based on this insight. Here is a very interesting perspective on Assange thinking. "... according to his essay, Julian Assange is trying to do something else. Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will not be, in and of itself, a ne…
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on “Technology is making the world more unequal; only technology can fix this”Submitted Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: To destroy this invisible government as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Doing actions contrary to the welfare of a national state doesn't automatically amount to a benefit for anti-nationalists." I don't know if you've seen this already, but this summarizes Assange's views well: http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an... "I'm opposed to nationalism and don't see any short or long-term benefits for me, here." I see a lot of potential benefits for people currently be…
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on “In a weird sneaker-net way we have implemented a human DNS”Submitted Some Talking Points That Will Be Useful For the Coming Class War as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- nl · 2010-12-10
It's worth noting that this (reduction in the efficiency of internal communications) is exactly what Assange wanted: The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive “secrecy tax”) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline result…
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on “Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks” Submitted Julian Assange, graph theorist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a clear example of the communication system highlighted in Assange's own writings. : http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf : from : http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an... : _if the conspiracy must operate in secrecy, how is it to communicate, plan, make decisions, discipline itself, and transform itself to meet new challenges? The answer is: by controlling information flows._
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on “Sicko was not banned in Cuba, unlike leaked cables suggest”Submitted Wikilinks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy as a story · 1 points
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