Re:Why I will not analyze the new WikiLeaks data
by jbooth on Sunday November 28, 2010 @11:58PM
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Yeah, that's a really insightful point actually. Open secrets become fair game once another organization has published them.. and importantly, wikileaks doesn't have any "access" to lose by doing so.
Government secrecy has always been weakened by potential leakers, etc., so I think the main difference here is that Wikileaks' technology has provided a buffer to allow journalists to write about things they had previously been afraid to write about.
As a corollary, an organization of a particular size can only obtain a finite amount of secrecy. When the organization's size is > 5 people, the amount of secrecy is quite low and has always been so.