Quote:Wikileaks posts documents regarding corrupt politicians. 

 

Hilliary was a corrupt politician who wasn't very good at hiding it.

 

You're delusional if you think posting the abundance of evidence regarding her corruption is biased. 

 

Actually, in all fairness wikileaks posts information.  That's it.  There is no political bias involved.  They are actually doing what the press somewhat should be doing.  I say that because they publish actual facts and content rather than "an anonymous source told me" kind of stuff.

 

The problem with wikileaks is that they don't hesitate to publish documentation that is classified or personal.  Is that a crime?  There is a fine line regarding that, especially since the website and authors are foreign nationals.  Any reputable news organization would not publicly disclose known classified information.

 

As I said before though, the real story is how they got the information that they're posting right now.  Something like that can only be obtained from an inside source,  The real crime in this case is the person that leaked the information, not the information itself.  That's why Edward Snowden (the coward) won't set foot on U.S. soil.  What he did was wrong, even though I understand what he was trying to do.

 

People might be "shocked" or "appalled" that the government is using tools like this.  The fact of the matter is, it's been happening for decades.  The immediate reaction is that the government has this "power" to conduct surveillance or hack certain things.  People immediately equate that to a "big brother" scenario where a government uses these tools on their own people..  The truth is that these tools are used for operations that shouldn't be discussed.

 

I would recommend people research and understand exactly what the stuxnet virus was about.  That piece of code was targeted, direct and very careful about what it did.  What makes it even more interesting is the number of zero day exploits that it used.  Most typical "hacks" might exploit 1 zero day.  Stuxnet used several.

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