wikileaks

Getting the hacker mentality badly wrong

This is the unedited ver­sion of a piece pub­lished on The Lowy Insti­tute for Inter­na­tional Policy’s Lowy Inter­preter blog. I have a great deal of respect for the Lowy Insti­tute. But when one of their staff writes a fun­da­men­tally flawed, badly mis­in­formed piece on hacker cul­ture, it really is time to scratch one’s head and […]

Wikileaks: Damage or democratic opportunity?

This is the unedited ver­sion of a piece pub­lished on The Lowy Insti­tute for Inter­na­tional Policy’s Lowy Inter­preter blog. “Con­cepts that have proven use­ful in order­ing things eas­ily achieve such author­ity over us that we for­get their earthly ori­gins and accept them as unal­ter­able givens… it is by no means an idle game if we […]