WikiLeaks And National Security -- L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
We'll have to learn how to cope with technology we can't control.
In the old days, people who wanted to leak confidential national-security documents had to find an interested journalist and hope his publisher would go with the story. This often came after journalistic soul-searching on the balance between national security and the public's right to know.
How quaint. Now leakers can post documents directly and anonymously on a website called WikiLeaks, which brags that its system hasn't yet been traced. Based on recent WikiLeaks by a young, disaffected U.S. soldier, even those of us who cheer disclosure need to think twice about what technology now allows.
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My Comment: I have been writing for years .... in this blog and elsewhere .... that the internet will one day create a world with no secrets.
I suspect that in the opinion of some in the U.S. State Department .... that day has already arrived.