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    Why Julian Assange Is a Crucial Historical Figure — New York Magazine
    ▻http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/julian-assange-2013-10

    The insight that Assange husbanded (and Snowden’s evidence confirmed) is that the sheer seduction of this trove—the possibility of secretly knowing everything about other people—would lead governments and companies to abandon their own laws and ethics. This is the paranoid worldview of a hacker, assembled from a lifetime of chasing information. But Assange proved that it was accurate, and the consequence of his discovery has been a strange political moment, when to see the world through the lens of conspiracies has not only made you paranoid. It’s also made you aware.

    #wikileaks #nsa #surveillance #portrait #confiance

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      But that’s not enough.” Assange has come to be seen, as a journalist at The Guardian put it, as nothing more than “a useful idiot.”

      the consequence of his discovery has been a strange political moment, when to see the world through the lens of conspiracies has not only made you paranoid. It’s also made you aware.

      > Assange, moins un #conspirationniste qu’un théoricien des conspirations.

      Why, if 480,000 people have Snowden’s security clearance and more than 1 million have Manning’s, have there been no other leaks?

      #whistleblowers

      If his work has proved the dangers of trusting too much, then his life has demonstrated the impossibility of living without any trust at all.

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      excellent - regarde « Mediastan », vraiment.

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