In Case You Needed Another Reason to Look Askance at WikiLeaks

[Blue_Tires]

The organization today posted online what it describes as “an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, to and from more than 2,200 SPE email addresses.” That’s right. North Korea hacks Sony and steals lots of innocent people’s communications, and WikiLeaks goes ahead and makes them searchable. That’ll protect civil liberties.

Here’s how WikiLeaks explains the historic importance of this “archive”—for which it is willing to aid and abet and magnify a gross invasion of privacy against ordinary people by the North Korean state:


WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said: “This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation. It is newsworthy and at the centre of a geo-political conflict. It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there.”

Sony is a member of the MPAA and a strong lobbyist on issues around internet policy, piracy, trade agreements and copyright issues. The emails show the back and forth on lobbying and political efforts, not only with the MPAA but with politicians directly. In November 2013 WikiLeaks published a secret draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) IP Chapter. The Sony Archives show SPE’s internal reactions, including discussing the impact with Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative. It also references the case against Megaupload and the extradition of its founder Kim DotCom from New Zealand as part of SPE’s war on piracy.

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/04/in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-look-askance-at-wikileaks/

Assange is losing the plot, because this is TMZ-level bullshit...

If Assange wants to draw more mouse clicks with a big splash, fine...If he wants to stick it to SONY for the sake of sticking it to them, fine -- He should just come out and say so...But unless there is documented evidence of SONY breaking laws in those e-mails, don't insult our intelligence by pretending this has anything to do with the public interest...

[Blue_Tires]

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