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The WikiLeaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia.

But it sure does.

Part of this dull, icy feeling, I think, must be the agonizing slowness with which this has happened. At last — at long last — the homemade nitroglycerin in the old cypherpunks blast shack has gone off. Those cypherpunks, of all people — via redwolf.newsvine.com

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named Man of the Year by France’s Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it has not found any breaches of Australian law by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Les échanges ont été tendus à l’Assemblée, mercredi soir, où l’atmosphère rappelait celle entourant l’adoption de la loi antipiratage Hadopi. Dans un hémicycle peu garni, quelques députés technophiles de tous bords se battaient contre une machine législative qui leur semble s’être quelque peu emballée. L’article 4 du projet de loi Loppsi 2, texte fourre-tout sur la sécurité intérieure, a finalement été adopté. Il permettra au gouvernement de filtrer Internet au moyen d’une liste noire établie par le ministère de l’Intérieur, sans intervention du pouvoir judiciaire. Une mesure que le gouvernement justifie par la nécessité de mieux lutter contre les sites pédophiles et la cybercriminalité en général.

via Google Translate: The exchanges were stretched to the Assembly on Wednesday night, where the atmosphere was reminiscent surrounding the adoption of anti-piracy law Hadopi. In a packed chamber just a few technophiles MPs from all sides were fighting against a legislative machine that seems to have somewhat excited. Section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2, text tote on Homeland Security, was finally adopted. It will allow the government to filter the Internet using a blacklist issued by the Ministry of Interior, without the intervention of the judiciary. A measure that the government justify the need to better fight against child pornography sites and cybercrime in general — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The UK Government is to combat the early sexualization of children by blocking internet pornography unless parents request it, it was revealed today.

The move is intended to ensure that children are not exposed to sex as a routine by-product of the internet. It follows warnings about the hidden damage being done to children by sex sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the website will stay strong and keep publishing diplomatic cables despite another funding blow — via redwolf.newsvine.com

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he fears the US is preparing to indict him, as he spends his first day on bail on an English country estate — via The Independent