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WikiLeaks: Is the Internet Creating a New World Disorder?

WikiLeaks has shaken up the US, its allies and its enemies by dumping hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Internet for anybody to see. Yesterday, because of what it called "massive cyber attacks," the company that provided its domain name cut off service.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

WikiLeaks has shaken up the US, its allies and its enemies by dumping hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Internet for anybody to see. Yesterday, because of what it called "massive cyber attacks," the company that provided its domain name cut off service. But WikiLeaks has already re-appeared using different addresses. Can it ever be stopped? We put that question to the computer scientist who sent the first Internet message. Is the WikiLeaks document-dump an act of journalism or something else? Are news consumers now on their own? Will WikiLeaks produce greater efforts at secrecy or greater transparency, both public and private?

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Christian Bordal

    Managing Producer, Greater LA

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    Leonard Kleinrock

    Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

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    Marc Cooper

    University of Southern California

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    Tom Rosenstiel

    Executive Director, American Press Institute

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