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I assume your comment was not meant to come off as hostile, but please don't use the word 'rape' to refer to things other than sexual violence. Doing so creates a hostile environment and minimizes the experiences of rape victims.
These are my favorites, because they seem less likely to disappear in the future:
All language is a set of "arbitrary made-up conventions".
Despite the gendered headline, this applies to women working at Google, too.
The data doesn't erase itself. The phone, in its original state, erases its copy of the data, but that doesn't help if you're operating with (a) a copy of the data, or (b) a modified phone, which is likely given an adversary that doesn't find cracking 10,000 PIN combinations to be a significant hurdle.
In particular, tools automating (b) already exist: http://gizmodo.com/5896992/the-xry-cracking-tool-is-unimpres...
Regardless of whether you think WikiLeaks is engaged in "true journalism", the activities referred to in the article took place before the cable dump in November 2010.
If you register with Verisign, you can download the .com and .net zone files: http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domai...