FirstHopSystems

Yes, sending credentials in plain-text is bad. I would be more worried about your password being stored in plain text. That data is just sitting there...waiting. defended by super 1337 TrendMicro security!

The super bowl isn't going to code my start-up project for me!

Take my pants off? Why would I be wearing them in the first place..It's a release right?

I wonder when Groupon will become a verb for falling out of relevance due to one trick pony/smarter competition. I guess MySpace'ed or Yahoo'ed never caught on.

OMG Ponies!!!!1!!

I'm working on a start-up related to this. Are there any good ways on Hacker News to announce you are looking for a 3rd person to join the founding team? I'm pretty sure in this little thread is not the best place to ask......

With a multi-billion dollar valuation, I'm sure that the majority of Facebook's value is in all information it gathers about you. Is this any surprise to anyone? One way or another Facebook is trying to monetize your info. Maybe it's just me but there always seem to be some kind of news fading away about Facebook privacy. I'm my theory that's why they are worth so much. Don't think they are going to stop doing this anytime soon.

Opt-out..hahaha maybe opt-out of only the really obvious ways Facebook is selling your info.

DNS issues?. No 301 Redirect from the server.

Just type https://www.paypal.com to go straight to the web page.

Do it!

Looks like Paypal is down too. Well only the server that redirects you to the secure page.

Just use the full path "http://www.paypal.com or "https://www.paypal.com

We took down Chevron by spray painting over one of the signs at a gas Station. CHEVRON IS DOWN!!!!!

Mediocrity seems to carry a large center of gravity.It's so much easier to obscure evil ethics, than it is to change the core of what you stand for.

The noise will just have to be increased when it comes to hiding the facts. I can see many of these large institutions with skeletons in the closet might lobby for tighter censorship now. What was once isolated events now has a core. Keeping the illusion that they are aberrations stopped them from becoming more than that.

It could also be a way to spread the ideology of leaking information. I'm sure there is more than just a strategy to leak the information they have, but to add momentum to the whole idea. Undertaking such a controversial objective could be backed up by a belief. It seems giving the sensitive nature one would assume there are larger objectives involved than the attention created, or it could be as simple as that.

You can stop an organization, but an idea........

Killing would be a bit extreme, Discrediting would be another option. Leaking a bunch of fabricated information could harm Wikileaks.

Much of the information can't be verified.It's up to a single source(Wikileaks) to vouch for a proper source.

I'm sure somewhere Elvis is still alive in one of those documents. He's being kept in safe place guarded by Bigfoot.

Wikileaks is now creating a channel and noise surrounding the release of sensitive information. This can now start planting the meme of disclosing information. It once was a abstract thought, now it can hold onto the possibility of action.

if that server has collected information on it. It can be considered leaked. It's out of their control. I would think any interesting information could be considered all ready in the queue. If I wanted to do damage control the best option is to stop any addition of information to that server.

It was mentioned that Wikileaks redacts information.I'm sure it only a matter of time before that information "Leaks" as well.

Leaking US Government data could seen as a threat to US interests. Now leaking business information could be seen a threat to many interests.

Now It's easy to play the shift blame game if anything happened to the people behind Wikileaks. In the beginning it would have been easy to assume it was the US government taking convert action. Now who knows how many ways this could be twisted to hide the actions of any acting party.

Governments love secrets. Corporations love money.

If your going to play information warfare you might want to do a little bit of risk assessment.