[liberationtech] Assange's claim about Tor losing US government support due to WikiLeaks

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 02/27/2012 01:52 AM, John Case wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, James S. Tyre wrote:
> 
>>
>> I didn't intend to speak badly of Julian.  If what I wrote came across
>> that way, it was inadvertent.  What irritated me was the flippant "who
>> cares what cryptome thinks?"  Julian has done a number of good things,
>> and some going back into the eighties.  But Julian didn't get into
>> publishing leaks until many years after John and his spouse started
>> doing it on cryptome (and associated sites).
>>
> 
> 
> If Julian were optimizing for leaks, Joe Six Pack would not know his name.
> 
> The fact that j6p *does* know his name shows that Julian is optimizing
> for something other than leaks.
> 
> There is much more to be said about this, but I don't want the primary
> point to be lost in the noise:  Julian is not doing this for you, or for
> us, or for the world, or anything like that.
> 
> 

I believe sincerely that he is doing it for betterment of the world. He
is well known because the media has often made him the star, rather than
focusing on the content of leaks, as it creates a different dialog.

In any case, I've talked at length with him about motivations and I'm
absolutely certain that his concerns are with the betterment of
humanity. You know his name because it's a matter of survival. If the
only people who knew were spooks, do you think Julian would be alive
today? I don't.

Try not to let cynicism win.

All the best,
Jacob