https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/emmanuel-macron-targeted-by-hackers-on-eve-of-french-election http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244 Is the only way to stop this sort of thing from affecting the voting population a proper education? The mixing of the real and the fabricated in these releases leaks means that separating the
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I guess it does matter whose ox is being gored.
Like the Clinton/DNC hacks, and the original Wikileaks, the only useful question is "are these genuine?" If the answer is "yes," then whatever is embarrassing is not the fault of Assange or Putin or Trump, it rests with the authors.
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And the poor lad has to try every trick in the book to wriggle out from his unfortunate situation. This has meant he and his organisation have just become an easy propaganda tool for clever and unscrupulous folk to take advantage of.
As it happens, the Macron leak didn't come only from Wikileaks; it was leaked via a number of conduits, as is now appropriate given the way wikileaks is now viewed. But then again, I suppose in the age of fake news mixed in with real news and deposited at the last minute to have an affect on the democratic process, my unfortunate and accidental accreditation of this to Assange will no doubt be corrected. Eventually.
As for your question are these genuine? Well, if only half of them are, and the other half is completely made up, and the election is tomorrow, how do you tell?
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how do you tell?
You use your intellect and your best judgment. I'm pretty sure that is how you should make all your decisions. Waiting to get some sort or imprimatur from an authority strikes me as infantile.
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Thankfully the French are a pretty well-educated nation.
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Eventually, you'll get your wish - someone will turn him over - but it won't stop anything. He isn't a hacker, he's the middleman - an easy position to fill.
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Brexit and Trump required decades of disinvestment in state education. It is as much our fault as Julian's. But if no means no, or even "not without a condom" means no if you don't have a condom, then poor old Julian appears to have let his libidinous moment get the better of him. Maybe the lass will be generous. But that should be her decision, and only hers; without any other pressure from the outside.
He is a middleman. A virtual Harry Lime selling dodgy out-of-date antibiotics fake info to the world. Shame he doesn't have the charisma of Orson Welles. A good speech about cuckoo clocks would go down a treat too.
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And it is being exposed, but that will make no difference.
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