WIKILEAKS: THERE I FIXED IT
Jan. 7th, 2011 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: The Obama admin is taking steps to tighten security on classified documents in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks saga.
Which is worth relaying for a few reasons:
1. This is a good idea. The WikiLeaks thing has been silly and overblown in that the “secret” cables were authorized to be seen by so many people that the risk of a leak was always high. If you don’t want documents being made public, you need better security.
2. WikiLeaks is actually doing govts a favor by pointing this out to them, according to Steven Aftergood of FAS:
3. I just wanted to contrast this to House Rep (and new Homeland Security Commission chairman) Peter King (R-NY)’s solution to the WikiLeaks problem: have it declared a terrorist organization, and then indict the New York Times for espionage.
To be fair, he wasn’t specifically talking about Wikileaks – he’s just mad that the NYT made fun of his plan to investigate Muslims for not doing enough to help defeat Muslims and making it sound like some McCarthy thing, so I guess he would want to have the NYT arrested for treason, wouldn’t he?
Nobody’s safe,
This is dF
Which is worth relaying for a few reasons:
1. This is a good idea. The WikiLeaks thing has been silly and overblown in that the “secret” cables were authorized to be seen by so many people that the risk of a leak was always high. If you don’t want documents being made public, you need better security.
2. WikiLeaks is actually doing govts a favor by pointing this out to them, according to Steven Aftergood of FAS:
Within the U.S., the Wikileaks approach yields greater disclosure from those agencies where security is comparatively poor, such as the Army, than from agencies with more rigorous security practices, such as the CIA.
What this means is that Wikileaks is exercising a kind of evolutionary pressure on government agencies, and on the government as a whole, to ratchet up security in order to prevent wholesale compromises of classified information.
What this means is that Wikileaks is exercising a kind of evolutionary pressure on government agencies, and on the government as a whole, to ratchet up security in order to prevent wholesale compromises of classified information.
3. I just wanted to contrast this to House Rep (and new Homeland Security Commission chairman) Peter King (R-NY)’s solution to the WikiLeaks problem: have it declared a terrorist organization, and then indict the New York Times for espionage.
To be fair, he wasn’t specifically talking about Wikileaks – he’s just mad that the NYT made fun of his plan to investigate Muslims for not doing enough to help defeat Muslims and making it sound like some McCarthy thing, so I guess he would want to have the NYT arrested for treason, wouldn’t he?
Nobody’s safe,
This is dF
