Alla fin fine Wikileaks ha reso disponibili a tutti gli utenti di internet informazioni digitali che erano già disponibili ai 3 milioni di americani che hanno l'accesso alla rete Siprnet del ministero della Difesa. Dunque un grande bluff? No, because the radical novelty is not in the contents of the news but questioned due to the asymmetric information that has always characterized the relationship between state and citizens.
The power of the States has always been based on the ability to dominate others through the power monopoly of force and access to confidential information. The Leviathan and the arcana imperii can not be separated: the power dominates those brought before them not only with the imposition of force but also by subtraction of knowledge. Hobbes and Tacitus have identified the two lines within which state power has grown over the past 20 centuries: the science of politics after all of them is mostly directed alla costruzione di un apparato formale capace in prima battuta di giustificare e poi, più di recente, di rendere scrutinabile il fondo oscuro del potere.
Wikileaks dimostra nel modo più clamoroso la fragilità attuale degli Stati nel controllare e gestire i contenuti digitali. È scoppiata dunque la bomba informatica che presagiva già undici anni fa nel libro omonimo Paul Virilio, il quale prevedeva che avrebbe desertificato mente e vita degli umani. E invece la bomba scoppiata in faccia ai governanti USA, come bombaroli maldestri.
Ma se scompaiono gli arcana imperii si può continuare a governare il mondo come prima? Si può usare la rete con lo stesso approccio con cui 50 anni fa si usavano the safes? (And in fact we speak of codes, keys, etc.) What is the point of a coercive force paralyzed by too much information or information available to all? And if the opposite were a classic asymmetric information entropy of knowledge that leads to the insignificance?
The manhunt that is being waged against Julian Assange is a sign of weakness hysteria of a power that is found revealed in its inability to control the digital revolution. But it is said that individuals are able to do so. Indeed. We are all at the mercy of technology, which seems to offer us more power and knowledge. But compared to whom and for what? Or to have
more power and knowledge will be the only technology?
(in the countries covered by the distribution of documents held by Wikileaks)
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