Jill Stein: 'No question' Julian Assange is a hero

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31. Assange posted Social Security #'s and other identifying info of ordinary people

who donated to the Democrats.

This was in his recent email dump, and doing so was reprehensible. In his interview, Assange attempted to skirt the issue by only addressing the issue of credit card numbers.

And the Wikileaks leak of the personal info of almost all female Turkish voters was both reprehensible and could be dangerous to many.


http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-julian-assange-defend-dnc-email-hack-on-real-time-w433133

As for the non-redacted delivery of the leak – which exposed donors' personal information and social security numbers, Assange countered, "We did not publish the credit numbers of donors; it's the last four digits, just like your 7-Eleven receipt. It's very important for tracking money laundering,"

Wikileaks' DNC leak drew criticism from whistleblower Edward Snowden, who tweeted of the hack, "Democratizing information has never been more vital, and Wikileaks has helped. But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdogan-emails_b_11158792.html

WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason

Yes — this “leak” actually contains spreadsheets of private, sensitive information of what appears to be every female voter in 79 out of 81 provinces in Turkey, including their home addresses and other private information, sometimes including their cellphone numbers. If these women are members of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP), the dumped files also contain their Turkish citizenship ID, which increases the risk to them as the ID is used in practicing a range of basic rights and accessing services. The Istanbul file alone contains more than a million women’s private information, and there are 79 files, with most including information of many hundreds of thousands of women.

We are talking about millions of women whose private, personal information has been dumped into the world, with nary an outcry. Their addresses are out there for every stalker, ex-partner, disapproving relative or random crazy to peruse as they wish. And let’s remember that, every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are murdered, most often by current or ex-husbands or boyfriends, and thousands of women leave their homes or go into hiding, seeking safety.