WikiLeaks, Assange, Fallujah, Afghanistan and all that..

While news-media seem to focus on silly things like the accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, did you know that the people in Fallujah are worse off than those around Hiroshima after the bombing there? Coincidentally, what former marine Matt Howard says might be more true than we would like to believe: A year ago I attended a festival for and by hackers, called Hacking At Random. Among many of the interesting people camping there were the WikiLeaks team. They were involved in some inspiring talks there, of which you can still download the videos. During my stay at HAR I even had a short conversation about gevulde koeken and some other superficial things related to the festival with mister Assange. I think of myself as being a…

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