Jacques your rhetoric on Wikileaks is quite frankly awful. Here are some specific pieces I take issue with:
The mere existence of information that more than just a very few people have access to almost guarantees a leak and eventual publication
Empirically not true. What percentage of classified information has been leaked in the course of history? It's infinitesimally small.
With every advance in telecommunications technology, computing and storage the amount of information explodes further and avenues through which it may leak out multiply. Cellphones with cameras are one nice example of this effect.
The government can control what technology they allow into secured facilities. Cellphones with cameras are irrelevant when they aren't allowed into secure locations.
what a banal list it is, is that the best they could do?.
Obviously not. Do you really think the list that was leaked is the only such list? More detailed lists would obviously be classified at TS.
It looks to me as though the big lesson of this leak (besides a bunch of important details in the cables themselves) is that this process is currently failing.
The stuff that's been leaked is relatively low level Secret stuff. To claim that recent events prove that the government's ability to protect classified information is failing is ridiculous.
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Why the standard of debate so low for this particular issue?
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Jacques your rhetoric on Wikileaks is quite frankly awful. Here are some specific pieces I take issue with:
The mere existence of information that more than just a very few people have access to almost guarantees a leak and eventual publication
Empirically not true. What percentage of classified information has been leaked in the course of history? It's infinitesimally small.
With every advance in telecommunications technology, computing and storage the amount of information explodes further and avenues through which it may leak out multiply. Cellphones with cameras are one nice example of this effect.
The government can control what technology they allow into secured facilities. Cellphones with cameras are irrelevant when they aren't allowed into secure locations.
what a banal list it is, is that the best they could do?.
Obviously not. Do you really think the list that was leaked is the only such list? More detailed lists would obviously be classified at TS.
It looks to me as though the big lesson of this leak (besides a bunch of important details in the cables themselves) is that this process is currently failing.
The stuff that's been leaked is relatively low level Secret stuff. To claim that recent events prove that the government's ability to protect classified information is failing is ridiculous.
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Why the standard of debate so low for this particular issue?