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Wikileaks: Little to stop leaks turning into a flood – Technology – NZ Herald News: “Even if the United States or Sweden succeeds in arresting and imprisoning Julian Assange, there is little his enemies can do to halt the world of online whistle-blowing that he has created.

Assange has spawned an idea, one which will now be copied by volunteers all over the world.

As a web entity, WikiLeaks is virtually impossible to destroy. It is staffed by volunteers who know as much about the methods used to take down a website as those who might be plotting to do just that.

The two ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks on WikiLeaks this week have given us an indication of how they prepare for pre-emptive strikes. As soon as the assaults began, administrators played a game of virtual cat and mouse, moving WikiLeaks on to previously secret backup servers.”

Has Wikileaks benefited from the Amazon controversy? Yes and this was intentional.

Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases.

LIVE COVERAGE: Julian Assange Holds Online Chat: “”

The party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: ” The party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich

Never have Republican values been so brazenly apparent than in holding the unemployed to ransom for the Bush tax cuts”

Hidden Room Love: Through the Armoire | Apartment Therapy Chicago: “Who doesn’t love a hidden room? The adult in us, even, is still drawn to this children’s play room that’s just a short step through an unassuming armoire:

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The home’s owner found the old armoire secondhand. He then hired a woodworker to take out the back and install it up against a doorway into his children’s play room. The result is a simple-enough-looking armoire that opens to a hidden room of magic and play. We love this idea because A. it would be so fun and B. it’s a great way to literally hide away playtime clutter. See more of this awesome project at Maple Seed Renovation.

MORE SECRET ROOMS FROM APARTMENT THERAPY:

* Creative Home Engineering: Hidden Passageways!

* Home Hack for Mystery Lovers: Secret Door

* Maybe our love for hidden rooms has something to do with a wish for a larger apartment? Check out Do You (Literally) Dream About a Bigger Apartment?

* Chicago * Regina Yunghans * March 29, 2010 05:45PM

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The Spontaneous Creation of New Information: An Interview with James Kent about his new book, Psychedelic Information Theory | h+ Magazine: “Psychedelic drugs hold a strange position within the enhancement community. Many swear by it — finding the alterations in perception induced by these drugs and plants valuable to their creative or scientific work or their explorations of philosophy or their enjoyment of life. Others see scrambled perceptions, irrationality, extreme suggestibility, and lack of focus among psychedelicists and steer clear.

One thing is for certain. If the psychedelics are going to be useful (or more useful) in the enhancement context, we’re going to need to know more about what they’re doing in the brain.”

Hackers publish fingerprints of biometrics-touting Minister // Current: ” Hackers in Germany have published thousands of copies of the fingerprints of German minister Wolfgang Schauble, a loud advocate of fingerprint biometrics. Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club lifted a fingerprint from the Interior Minister, printed it on plastic, and distributed it by the thousands with their magazine for anyone who wants to impersonate the Minister at a biometric checkpoint. Short of amputation, a biometric identifier can’t be revoked or changed. Schauble is a big proponent of the use of fingerprints in passports but is not the CCC’s only target. The group has called for help in obtaining the prints of other German officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. The CCC’s publication of the fingerprint coincides this week with the presentation of a security researcher who demonstrated a biometric keylogger that can capture digital fingerprints and other digital biometric data as it’s transmitted from a scanning device to the server where the information is processed. The hacker can then analyze and re-use the data to subvert biometric systems and gain entry to secured buildings. “