A View from Inside the Wikileaks ‘Cyber War’
As major sites remove services to Wikileaks, and hackers retaliate by trying to bring those sites down, some say a cyber war is beginning, and are using the battle to make further arguments for internet freedom. Laurence “Loz” Kaye, head of the U.K. Pirate Party, has helped provide Wikileaks with “mirror sites,” when the organization was under attack from hackers. He joins us now to talk about the battle lines being drawn online.
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