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Anonymous Transparency: The Wikileaks Paradox
WikiLeaks made international news this week with 91,000 Pentagon documents, released to the Internet to implement website's founding mission, which it calls "radical transparency." But WikiLeaks claims it doesn't know the source of the leak and that nobody else can find out either. "Is radical transparency compatible with total anonymity?"
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readWikiLeaks made international news this week with 91,000 Pentagon documents, released to the Internet to implement website's founding mission, which it calls "radical transparency." But WikiLeaks claims it doesn't know the source of the leak and that nobody else can find out either. "Is radical transparency compatible with total anonymity?" That's a question raised by Farhad Manjoo at Slate.com.
