Apropos of WikiLeaks itself, does anyone remember "information wants to be free."
As years go by, the www is decreasingly capable of disseminating information without monopoly, government or some other official backing.
Basic web technologies are designed to make documents available. This should all should be trivially achievable using early 90s computers. Maintenance/sysadmin shouldn't be a major hurdle.
More originally, and with more context (as the ways and reasons in which information "wants" each of these things matters).
> On the one hand you have — the point you’re making Woz — is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable — the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other.
As years go by, the www is decreasingly capable of disseminating information without monopoly, government or some other official backing.
Basic web technologies are designed to make documents available. This should all should be trivially achievable using early 90s computers. Maintenance/sysadmin shouldn't be a major hurdle.
Yet... Here we are.