December 9, 2010

Between Stadelhofen and the lake you find the opera. The lakeside was very beautiful today with the snow lying on the Uetliberg. I walked along the lake and then along the Limmat and I was surprised to see that someone seems to have been playing paintgun around the old buildings along the river as you can see on the last picture.

Julien Assange is really the man of the month, in charge of Wikileaks he is the man that the US authorities want to charge for high treason and the Swedish authorities want for rape charges. The latest publishing from Wikileaks was a large number classified documents on the communication between the US and their embassies. I don't really know what I think about leaking classified information but there is at least one very positive aspect of it. For a long time now we have been going in a direction of a surveillance society where big brother is constantly watching us. The authorities can demand information about our whereabouts on the web and telephone communications. Privacy seems to be a notion of the past but at least the Wikileaks shows that this is not only a one way thing, the authorities are watching us but we, the public, are also keeping an eye on them. They can't expect to get away with any kind of behavior which will probably in the long run force them to well consider their actions and keep them within moral and legal frames.