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Are you accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits? Did you feel socially awkward?Or are you foolish and clumsy?
Maybe, a carnival performer, which bites the heads off live chickens?
In that case, you are according to the Inner-geek website you're a geek.
So, do you hack phones and computers? & have you heard of Wikileaks?
Questions aside, according to Wikipedia, Wikileaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information and classified media from anonymous sources. They began setting up a website in 2006, in Iceland and claimed a database of 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch! Their basic idea is to allow information to be published that couldn't be published by journalists, however, is this really ethical, when it is not supposed to be available for public interest?
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They also aim to prevent journalists being jailed for emailing sensitive documents, the 'drop box' was created to "provide an anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists"."To bring important news and information to the public...one of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth". - Wikileaks website
They also aim to prevent journalists being jailed for emailing sensitive documents, the 'drop box' was created to "provide an anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists"
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There are many people against Wikileaks, for they have been accused hacking into many computers to find out information. However, Wikileaks have denied this believing it was "completely false".
BBC news reported two years ago that the site released almost 400,000 secret US military logs detailed Iraq operations. 90,000 military records gave insight into Afghanistan's strategies.
The biggest was soldier Bradley Manning who posted a video on the website of the US Air Force killing 12 people and two Reuters journalists in Iraq. He believed that the Americans had the right to know.
"True costs of war"
His point seems genuine, they do have the right to know what has happened however, he released information that may cause more trouble than it would if it was still covered.
Would you want to know everything that is going on? We do have the right to know about what is going on, however, there are reasons for keeping it hush hush. Amazon web services claimed "there have been reports that governments were prompted to not serve Wikileaks because of DDOS, which occurred but they were defended against, therefore these rumors were inaccurate.
After all the criticisms, it's a wonder why Wikileaks is still open. I suppose they just want the public to be aware, and known however, are they really doing it the right way?
Back to being a geek,.. could the Julian Assange be considered a geek with his supposed hacking skills? Are all the team?
Take the inner-geek test, here Geek test.
