When my friend says “get him,” he isn’t thinking of lawsuits, but of suppressed pistols

When my friend says “get him,” he isn’t thinking of lawsuits, but of suppressed pistols, car bombs

and such. But as heart-warming as it is to envision Assange surveying his breakfast cereal with a

Geiger counter, we shouldn’t deal with him and WikiLeaks that way.

At the risk of abusing the Bard, let’s “Cry havoc, and let slip the geeks of cyberwar.” We need to

have a WikiLeaks fire sale.

A “fire sale” (as those I saw Die Hard 4 will remember) is a cyber attack aimed at disabling — even

destroying — an adversary’s ability to function. Russia did this to Estonia in 2007 and Israel

apparently did this to Syrian radar systems when it attacked the Syrian nuclear site later that year.

The elegance of this is that if we can pull off a decisive cyber operation against WikiLeaks, it can

and should be done entirely in secret.

And then he ends with:

WikiLeaks should be hit with the cyber equivalent of napalm. Let’s have that fire sale. Burn, baby,

burn.