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Maybe they are not doing the right thing, but at least they are trying to do _something_. I will always respect that over just complaining (not aimed specifically at you).

I agree it's somewhat of a stretch, but not completely irrelevant. I don't mean on an individual level, but more the overall political climate. For instance George W. Bush might not have been re-elected if it wasn't for the wars. I think it pretty safe to say that the "war on terrorism" has effected America in more ways than the obvious ones, but it is of course very hard to say how or how much.

I can't help to think that if the US people, media and government hadn't been so busy "fighting terrorism", then events like hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession could, if not have been avoided, at least been handled a lot better.

I think it's fair from a hacker ethics perspective as long as it doesn't make it directly harder for others to do the same thing i.e. by being exclusive in some way.

I've always found your attitude strange for someone working in security. Especially in military intelligence the name of the game is protect yourself or you only have yourself to blame. The main reason we are seeing this leak is because too many and/or the wrong people had access to the data, which is also why it's mostly "raw data".

How is this not for hackers?

Pocoo have created an impressive "ecosystem" of reusable open source libraries and applications, which mostly are mature and well documented. As far as I know they are not a software company but "people from the Python community that are working under one umbrella", as stated on the page.

Google is mostly just "free as in beer".

In the outlandish scenario where copyright infringement would be theft, it can't be theft every time you copy something. If I give you something I stole, you are not also stealing it.

"you are guilty of 'Theft of Services'"

The legal definition is not the same as the literal or figurative meaning of a word, which also may differs from its connotation.

Edit: Also while it might be called "theft of service" and considered larceny in US, in Sweden the same act is called "fraudulent behavior" and is a lesser form of fraud.

Good question. The verdict actually states that you normally shouldn't be sentenced to prison for this type of crime. Instead the court motivates the prison sentences with upholding "law-abidingness" as file-sharing has become "a problem for society". Which is a bit scary if you ask me.

If you read Swedish, this conclusion is on the top of page 47 in the verdict @ http://fildelning.se/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TPB.pdf

Many of you have a US perspective on this, but it could be even more interesting for the rest of the world. I supposedly live in the most democratic country in the world, but that doesn't seem to prevent officials from breaking the law under US influence.

"Sweden investigating alleged U.S. spying" http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-06/world/sweden.us.investiga...

"New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...

"SWIFT breaks EU law to comply with US law" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/swift_us_privacy_vio...

"US government behind Pirate Bay raid" http://www.thelocal.se/3969/20060602/

This might be obvious, but maybe it will be helpful for someone:

Wikileaks: http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ Diary dig: http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/iraq/diarydig War logs: http://warlogs.owni.fr/

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq-war-logs Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/iraq_war_logs/ Bureau of Investigative Journalism: http://www.iraqwarlogs.com/ Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/secretiraqfiles/

Video - Bureau of Investigative Journalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDxADbXhuU Al Jazeera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU718vXkrwY

Do you seriously believe the whole "the leak is very serious, but at the same time trivial"-story? It's a classic defense mechanism or tactic, depending on who you ask, in crisis management. I don't know any good English sources for this off the top of my head, but I it's called "trivialization", "minimization" or "disavowal". You can also google "crisis communication", "crisis management" or "image restoration" and you'll probably find something interesting like http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/98A1/Benoit.htm