Wikileaks

Want to stop private companies from sharing your personal information with Uncle Sam? Better hope that CISPA doesn't pass.

Bradley Manning is charged with one of the largest thefts of classified data ever, allegedly to oppose illegal killing, detention and torture of prisoners. Four Marines allegedly urinated on dead Taliban, for less noble reasons. Given the choice of just one, which would you prosecute?

Intelligence agencies listen in on conversations, texts, tap location data, Internet postings, mostly to warehouse in the hope of finding something interesting, sometimes using 'inaccurate' location data from them for missiles that drop the caller as well as the call.

Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.

WikiLeaks yesterday re-enacted the 9/11 terrorist attacks by re-posting in real time the pager text messages of Pentagon, FBI and FEMA responders that show the confusion, grief and horror as hardened military and emergency responders realize the scope of the tragedy.

The cadre of newspapers helping WikiLeaks vet and carefully publish secret State Dept. cables condemned its decision to post all 251,000 unedited after security screwup jointly owned by Julian Assange and The Guardian lets the cat out of the bag anyway.

You can park your Lexus next to that Linux over there.

How can you trust an organization dedicated to revealing the dirty secrets of others that makes elaborate threats to try to retain its own?

In a Forbes interview, a member of Anonymous describes herself as a 16-year-old girl and the point person for an attack on security firm HBGary Federal.

Anonymous may be taking over as the attack dog in WikiLeaks' constant battle against suppression, or may just be less patient than Julian Assange.

The CEO of HBGary quit after showing how you can build and lose a security consultancy without doing security or consulting well.