Is this the real threat ??
The past few weeks have witnessed a world where the word wiki is more likely to be followed by leaks than pedia. The US and other governments have come out full force against this cyber whistle blower. They have accused them of theft and of putting lives in danger (Having blood on their hands as US Military would like to call it). Yet I believe the threat the governments are facing is not Wikileaks but the fact that it was leakable. If a jewelery store is robbed then the fault lies with the thieves alone, but if someone steals from a military base, the fault lies with both the base, and the thieves.
Wikileaks in its entirety was done by just a group of journalists, and volunteers who may or may not have hidden connections. If those people were able to leak such documents which the countries have marked “highly confidential” then how is it that we believe that people with even greater resources for disposal including terrorists, and other nations, have no access to the same documents ? The people in whose hand this information might be a weapon would in all probability already have them. It just points that the information was never really safe, all these documents were probably already leaked to all those who might have needed it, and it is just that it wasn’t made public, by those sources.
