I follow the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei on Twitter and a recent retweet of his was marked as having sensitive media.
I got excited when I thought I was getting the latest leak of sensitive data, but alas all I got was the following picture of a couple of computer nerds. I kinda like the way Wikileaks (or was it Ai Wei Wei) used the sensitive media option in Twitter to make me click through to see the following image.
Then I got to wondering if all WikiLeaks links on Twitter are marked as sensitive media. After that I wondered what it must be like to be an international whistle blower that no one really seems to care too much about or even listen to at this point. Strange days.
> I wondered what it must be like to be an international whistle blower that no one really seems to care too much about or even listen to at this point.
I think a lot of people are still listening to him. Note well that the coverage outside the U.S. is very different from what you’re seeing.
The NSA is recording the internet. Why should it care about a couple of computer nerds? Perhaps because computer nerds built the internet.
I know how Stallman rolls. He won’t come within a million miles of anything illegal. But within 5 years there will be a privacy suite that your grandmother can use and the NSA can’t crack.
(Yes I know, the FSF makes geekware. There are literally a million people who can and will put a user friendly button, clicky interface on it. That’s why I said 5 years, not 3)
@Stephen,
That is good to hear, I was beginning to worry behind the great media firewall of consensus that is the US 🙂
@Granolageek,
I like that idea, and you must understand I use computer geek with the utmost respect. it is just the nature of the revolutionary seems quite a new beast in the era of the internet. But I guess that all makes sense, I was just hoping for more cigars and bandanas 😉