[Noisebridge-discuss] Should NB mirror WikiLeaks?

[Christie Dudley]

More than that, it's important to realize the role Noisebridge still plays
amongst hacker circles.  With all the good PR Jake and Mitch have done for
us over the years, hackers and non-hackers alike look to us as an ideal for
what hackerspaces could be, if they just had the courage.

If the most idealistic amongst us won't embrace them, who will?

Christie
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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Christoph Maier <
cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > On 12/7/10 2:32 PM, Christoph Maier wrote:
> >> Ummm, stupid question:
> >> Isn't the question rather whether noisebridge should _announce_ that
> >> it's mirroring wikileaks?
> >
> > This doesn't seem like useful PR for wikileaks to me.  NB is a bunch of
> > countercultural hackers, so the fact that we support wikileaks is not
> > persuasive to others.  If you could get, say, Google or the NRA to
> > mirror wikileaks, *that* would turn heads.
>
> I wasn't thinking so much about PR in the sense of advertisement,
> but about deniable communications.
>
> References about it that show up in this forum or on twitter are noted
> and appreciated
> (keep them coming, Jake!),
> because they are excellent pointers, e.g. for software challenged
> hardware geeks, where to start looking,
> now that the importance of secure, deniable communication has become
> painfully obvious.
>
> The tradeoff for noisebridge is between being a forum for free speech,
> or becoming active _as_an_organization_,
> and possibly endangering its existence as a much needed forum
> and the place you can, more or less discreetly, find the folks to give
> you clues how to set up mirrors, etc.,
> in case you don't know already.
>
> Christoph
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