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WikiLeaks published secret information about Icelandic meltdown (icelandweatherreport.com)
70 points by edw519 on Aug 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments




At 18:55 GMT Sat Aug 1, Iceland's national broadcaster, RÚV, had its 19:00 nightly newscast enjoyed to prevent reporting the document. Instead RÚV showed a link to this page.

That's a nice way to sort of get around the injunction and a nice f-u to the courts decision.


There are official designations for material classed as "Top Secret" - These are "merely" confidential minutes from the Board of Directors meeting.


Please remove the caps from the title, they really aren't necessary.


Kaputhing...


Witch hunting. This breaks confidentiality law. It's a list of Kaupthing's biggest clients with a short risk assessment for each one.


Isn't wikileaks sort of all about publishing technically illegal documents. It may be illegal in the letter of the law to publish, but if you expose illegal behavior that was actually causing harm to society then its ok. I'm not sure that I totally buy into it but I think thats the general idea.


I understand the idea of edgy journalism where the end justifies the means etc. etc.

However I'm struggling to see how this document exposes anything illegal or harmful.




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