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Bigger question to me is why haven't the hackers just uploaded the details to like pastebin or some other neutral data upload site ? That seems to have been what was done in the past and in turn given the media free reign to share the info
Someone has to publish and put it into the public domain like Wikileaks did. Of course, at that point they will be liable and be charged with using stolen material and sued. But, hey, take one for the team.
so what's stopping "someone"? there are infinity minus one randos on the internet willing to host juicy hot leaks for whatever ulterior motives.
What happened to Julian Assange is what's stopping someone. And he wasn't even in the US.
Julian assange got off Scot free in the end
He spent over a decade imprisoned and pled guilty to something that's clearly first amendment protected activity, I wouldn't call that Scot free.
"First amendment"... ? So you think it's fine to release information you know will lead to murder of innocent people, are warned repeatedly, you do it anyway, and that's all fine.
And this is to say nothing of the women who credibly claim he raped them.
And this is where you're supposed to link to a specific instance of anyone who got murdered due to the leaks, because that didn't happen, he redacted the files to avoid this.
As for the ghosting charge, I agree he should've stood trial in Sweden for that.
Why are you so confident you know what happened? It's incalculable what exact consequences there were, but many people who worked with him testified in a documentary that he was warned many times innocent people would die and he emphatically did not care
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Steal_Secrets:_The_Story_of_WikiLeaks
Again, any example of a case of an innocent person dying, or even a CIA officer or anything like that. There's none.
An entire documentary is not good enough for you so this is a pointless conversation where you care nothing about truth
The wiki article doesn't mention anything like that, I'm not watching a whole documentary. If there's anything true to the claim you made, there would be a news article about it somewhere. Any innocent person being murdered because of something published by Wikileaks, shouldn't be hard to find if it existed, no?
I very obviously sent the article so you knew which documentary I meant. If you care about the truth you would watch it
I mean in the past hackers posted a lot of data online without getting caught...like the Ashley Madison hack for example. You don't have to use a middleman journalist to post it
So, like Assange in the early days and not the unkempt vagrant we see at the end.
There is a difference between a "leak" and a "hack"... I think in this case, they say "leak" because it was someone from Trump's team who released the info.. maybe they don't feel they can secure their anonymity if they post it directly online